Anderson East is skilled, confident, and exudes passion. He’s got a full – and huge – backing band that shares those attributes, too. On top of that, East works in a genre that, perhaps as[…]

Just one album into their catalogue, Austin’s Lexi and the Bleached Roses have already figured out something other bands might struggle to pull off – that is, a marriage between easy acoustic indie rock/pop and[…]

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When the light hit Katie Crutchfield right, she looked like an apparition. And that fits well enough for Crutchfield, now touring her fourth album as Waxahatchee. A white outfit plus the occasional white light made[…]

Out of all the talented victims of rock ‘n’ roll and roots becoming second-class-citizen music genres in today’s popular culture, Heartless Bastards are among the most talented and under-famous. Formed in Cincinnati before singer Erika[…]

For my second South By Southwest Music Festival, I again remained a cheapskate — no badges, no wristbands — and I didn’t come out of it with regrets. SXSW is a festival where “free” goes[…]