(Photo by Ismael Quintanilla III, www.iq3photo.com) Audrey Campbell won’t offer a lot of specifics about the harrowing personal experiences that have helped make her spiky, four-piece punk animal, Pleasure Venom, the snarling force it[…]
Usually, when you interview local musicians at Austin City Limits Music Festival whom you know to be playing their first ACL — like longtime local Jonathan Horstmann — it’s an easy, early warmup question soon after[…]
Running around for my final day at ACL Weekend Two on Sunday, I realized just how little overt politics I had seen from any performers. With a midterm election coming, post-Roe America just a few months[…]
This will sound like a strange premise, but I can be strange, so stay with me for a second: Imagine that you’re blind, you fall asleep on a blanket at ACL, and you wake up[…]
Anybody who does all three days of ACL — really does it, as oppose to just camping in one convenient spot all day — knows what it does to your feet. Specifically, it murders them.[…]
If this lineup for the Bad Lovers’ single release party was “all like 2014,” as Lindsey Mackin of Annabelle Chairlegs said near the start of her solo opening set, well … take me back? Simpler[…]
