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Album review: A. Sinclair, South Padre

June 20, 2022 Joeyalbum review

The last 30 seconds or so of “Lean Into It,” the opening offering on A. Sinclair’s new album, are an awakening, gravel-coated cannon shot of noise-rock tacked onto a standard-issue, slow-burn acoustic tune. It emerges[…]

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Interview: Deezie Brown on internal “malice,” his hip-hop fairytale and NFTs

June 11, 2022 Joeyartist feature

(Top photo by Justin Cook)   For awhile, I’ve been fascinated by the idea of how our makeup as humans — whether genetics or nurture — might have left us just a DNA strand, a[…]

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Shows: Snail Mail @ Moody Theater

May 16, 2022May 16, 2022 Joeyconcert review

“You guys wanna know something crazy? We’ve never played a bad show in Austin,” Lindsey Jordan — aka Snail Mail — told fans early in her show at the Moody Theater on May 2. “I[…]

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Interview: MISSIO finds autonomous course and a healthy outlet for “anger and aggression”

April 22, 2022April 22, 2022 Joeyartist feature

(Photo by Blake Nelson. Instagram: @blakenelson__)   Maybe just a shot in the dark here – but at any point in the last couple of years, have world events and shifts in society ever made you,[…]

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Shows: girl in red, Holly Humberstone @ Emo’s

April 13, 2022April 14, 2022 Joeyconcert review

During ACL last fall, I noted that Marie Ulven isn’t literally a girl in red. But – and this can’t be overemphasized enough in understanding Ulven’s appeal as a live performer – she’s not a figurative[…]

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SXSW Friday: Wet Leg, Best Coast, Ritt Momney

March 22, 2022April 24, 2022 Joeyconcert review

On Thursday, just as my South by Southwest 2022 music experience was getting started, I got notice from Spotify that I was a piece of pioneering music history. It seemed Cardi B and Megan Thee[…]

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