Pretty much as soon as Vandoliers began playing Thursday night, I thought about when the last time was that I’d heard anything that could be described as “cowpunk,” or even heard the term. Even in[…]
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Category: concert review
Shows: Y’all Out Boy’s Far Out party makes pop-punk feel like the perfect genre it definitely isn’t
If I wanted to detail my complicated personal relationship with pop-punk, I could probably go on for awhile. I might even bore the ever-loving crap out of you in the process. For concision — because I really[…]
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Shows: Snail Mail @ Moody Theater
“You guys wanna know something crazy? We’ve never played a bad show in Austin,” Lindsey Jordan — aka Snail Mail — told fans early in her show at the Moody Theater on May 2. “I[…]
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Old Settler’s recap: “Hippie festival” offers four days of people and performers being themselves
A riddle: If you’re watching a Tejano band play Jimi Hendrix’s “Foxy Lady” at an Americana music festival, where are you? It’s got to be the 2022 Old Settler’s Music Festival, the Austin area’s longest[…]
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Shows: girl in red, Holly Humberstone @ Emo’s
During ACL last fall, I noted that Marie Ulven isn’t literally a girl in red. But – and this can’t be overemphasized enough in understanding Ulven’s appeal as a live performer – she’s not a figurative[…]
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SXSW Friday: Wet Leg, Best Coast, Ritt Momney
On Thursday, just as my South by Southwest 2022 music experience was getting started, I got notice from Spotify that I was a piece of pioneering music history. It seemed Cardi B and Megan Thee[…]
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