After seeing James McMurtry perform live for the first time, I came away wondering if there’s ever been a better time to see him than right now. Politically inclined entertainers – whether we’re talking obnoxious[…]
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Category: concert review
Shows: Erika Wennerstrom in-store @ Waterloo Records
Last year, I saw Erika Wennerstrom at the Continental Club and wrote about how criminally under-famous she and her longtime band, Heartless Bastards, are. There’s no real indication the needle is going to move on[…]
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Shows: Jackie Venson @ Unplugged at the Grove
The first thing you notice about Jackie Venson performing live is that she’s full of life. Pogo’ing up and down onstage, slipping huge smiles through her curled hair again and again, getting visibly overtaken by whatever her[…]
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Shows: Anderson East at ACL Live, Moody Theater
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[…]
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Shows: Lexi and the Bleached Roses @ Radio Coffee & Beer
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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Shows: Julian Acosta, She Sir at the ABGB, SXSW HAAM Benefit Day
If somebody asks you to form an image of the typical Austin musician, that’d probably be an impossible task. There’s so much music and so much musical diversity within these city limits … (see what[…]
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