(All photos by Nicole Berlin Photography) If anyone walked into the July 28 show at Far Out Lounge unfamiliar with the nascent work of top-billed Mikky & the Doom, they got a strongly representative taste of[…]
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Shows: DIIV @ Emo’s offers a surprising — and effective — conceptual flair
(All photos by Nicole Berlin Photography) Goes without saying, for probably about anyone reading this, that indie rock + midsize venue doesn’t typically = “show with a conceptual bent.” See an artist of the persuasion[…]
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Reviews galore: Catching up on a 2024 first half full of albums by heavy hitters, part 1
Well before the announcement that Billie Eilish’s next record would be titled Hit Me Hard and Soft, the phrase “heavy hitters” had been on my mind this entire year when it comes to a category[…]
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Show preview: Internally battle-tested DIIV hits Emo’s Friday
(Photo by Louie Kovatch) Somewhat quietly — which is a bit ironic, given its stormy history — DIIV has emerged as one of the best indie rock bands around, and certainly a standard-setter for[…]
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Shows: Sheer Mag @ Far Out Lounge & Stage
A salute to Sheer Mag — and specifically lead vocalist Tina Halladay — for powering through for Austin. Halladay was still recovering from a recent illness last weekend, but took the stage anyway for a[…]
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Artist interview: The love and reverence of We Don’t Ride Llamas, and the rage that dug the “(2-inch) Grave”
(Courtesy photo: We Don’t Ride Llamas) Everyone who lived through Winter Storm Uri — more commonly known to Texans as “Snowpocalypse,” Ted Cruz’s infamous dereliction of duty, or simply the 2021 storm that broke Texas’[…]
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