A salute to Sheer Mag — and specifically lead vocalist Tina Halladay — for powering through for Austin. Halladay was still recovering from a recent illness last weekend, but took the stage anyway for a[…]
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Category: concert review
SXSW recap: Marshall Funhouse with Black Angels, Farmer’s Wife, Kiwi Jr. and more
Thursday and Friday day shows at South by Southwest have been my standard intake each year for about nine years now. Some year, I’ll finally plunge all the way into the SXSW experience off the[…]
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Shows: Hovvdy, Cold War Kids @ Stubb’s
Last Friday, a day before I was set to go see Hovvdy at Stubb’s, I heard MGMT’s recent single “Mother Nature,” and it occurred to me how much it reminded me of the ascendant Austin[…]
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Shows: Chance Peña, Hayd @ Antone’s
Should it have been surprising to see what appeared to be nearly all of Chance Peña’s sold-out crowd already filled in at 8 p.m., in place at Antone’s one hour before he was scheduled to go on? Perhaps it[…]
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Shows: Toadies, Local H @ Emo’s
Without benefit of a time machine, the throwback materialized pretty remarkably: it was 1996, maybe ’97, all over again at Emo’s. Unfortunately, there was just a hint of Woodstock ’99 thrown in there, too — but[…]
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ACL Weekend 2 Wrapup: Three days of a needed dis-disillusioning; best sets, song performances and quotes
Opinions on something like the ACL Musical Festival will never be unanimous. Every year, if you take more than about three temperatures on the lineup upon its release, you’ll find a wet blanket — no[…]
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