(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[…]
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Interview: Urban Heat’s Jonathan Horstmann spins neurodivergence into gold
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[…]
ACL Day 2 quick recap: Pink, War on Drugs and Death Cab are musical sundials; Sloppy Jane commits to the method
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[…]
Interview: Deezie Brown on internal “malice,” his hip-hop fairytale and NFTs
(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[…]
Interview: MISSIO finds autonomous course and a healthy outlet for “anger and aggression”
(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,[…]
Interview: Primo the Alien and her ambition-filled galaxy
(Photo by Hubert Ryan Vestil @hrv_images) Laura Lee Bishop — aka Primo the Alien — is full of plans: Short-term and long-term, grand and small, musical and nonmusical. Sitting with her for an interview at[…]