At this moment, David Shaw boasts rock’s most impressive man-bun. I don’t anticipate a lot of wrangling or pushback over this opinion. When Shaw elects to bun up, it’s a colossus of bunmanship- in its own[…]
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Shows: Fourth of July with Moving Panoramas and Mean Jolene @ Hotel Vegas
Look at the joy at the photo above. Kind of infectious, isn’t it? That’s what it looked like during the finale of Hotel Vegas’ American Girl show on the Fourth of July, when Jolie Cota[…]
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Shows: Tameca Jones @ Far Out Lounge
Photo by Nicole Berlin Photography) A South Austin kind of show, is what it was. The sprawling Far Out Lounge patio, where you could fit roughly four to five structures the size of the physical[…]
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Single review: Jackie Venson, “‘Til This Pain Goes Away”
(Photo by Nicole Berlin Photography) “This world don’t cherish truth, my spirit’s been mad for days,” sings Jackie Venson in the first verse of her newest single. From there, “‘Til This Pain Goes away” carries a[…]
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Shows: A Giant Dog, Pleasure Venom and Dregs @ Hotel Vegas
As a return to live normalcy, Heartless Bastards at the Mohawk was fantastic in its own way. Saturday at Hotel Vegas was a different animal. Specifically, a dog. A giant one. Finally catching A Giant[…]
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Heartless Bastards @ Mohawk: The return to an intoxicating familiarity
Before Heartless Bastards took the stage on May 30, the first thing to do was just to turn around and take it all in. We were at the front of the Mohawk outdoor stage for[…]
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