The first course is here, two months ahead of what can probably be safely characterized as the most widely anticipated main that Austin music has produced in some time. “First course” feels like a more apt[…]
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Tag: Black Pumas
ACL Weekend One overview and day three recap
It’s no surprise that activism and anger took on a prominent role at Austin City Limits Weekend One — especially in light of a certain Texas law that recently went into effect and got an implicit,[…]
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Black Pumas vs. Megan Thee Stallion: Picking a winner in the heavyweight scheduling conflict of ACL Weekend 1
(Photo by Nicole Berlin Photography) Barring a cancellation, I’ll be at Weekend 1 of Austin City Limits, my fifth consecutive year at the festival (as you’ll recall, there was no 2020 edition) and my third straight as[…]
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Quick reaction to ACL: Austin, we have a lineup
Assuming it’ll be safe in October, Austin City Limits Musical Festival will get an A for existence. No doubt Weekend 1 sold out the same day the lineup was released, in part, for this very[…]
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Ear Traffic’s top local tracks of 2019
(Photo by Nicole Berlin Photography) Always arguable, but always fun: Year-end lists are a jam of mine. Here are my 15 favorite tracks by local artists in 2019, with a few honorable mentions to kick us[…]
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Traffic Jam: Holiday cheer from Molly Burch, the Black Pumas’ land speed record, Torino Black
It’s rare that anything ever stands between me and listening to music. (Between listening to music and I? Eh, I’m not going to bother checking. ) But every now and then, life stands between me[…]
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