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Artist interview: Charlie Faye uses her classic sound to become a purveyor and proponent of kid-friendly music

July 15, 2023July 16, 2023 Joeyartist feature

(Top photo by Eryn Brooke)   Upheaval, self-reflection and redirection were hallmarks of the pandemic. Some people — seemingly thousands — converted their isolation into sourdough-making class. Others realized their needed professional and spiritual direction and their actual[…]

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Interview: Pleasure Venom defines “letting it out” as mental health fuels first full-length

December 22, 2022December 22, 2022 Joeyartist feature

(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

November 23, 2022November 23, 2022 Joeyartist feature

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[…]

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ACL Day 2 quick recap: Pink, War on Drugs and Death Cab are musical sundials; Sloppy Jane commits to the method

October 16, 2022October 16, 2022 Joeyartist feature

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[…]

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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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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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