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Old Settler’s recap: “Hippie festival” offers four days of people and performers being themselves

May 7, 2022May 8, 2022 Steve Levineconcert review

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

April 13, 2022April 14, 2022 Joeyconcert review

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

March 22, 2022April 24, 2022 Joeyconcert review

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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SXSW Thursday: Yard Act and We Were Promised Jetpacks give Brooklyn Vegan some British variety

March 20, 2022March 20, 2022 Joeyconcert review

It was a heavy internal dilemma for, oh, perhaps 72 hours — where was my return to South by Southwest going to occur this year? On Thursday afternoon, I finally decided to cheer myself up[…]

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Shows: KVN, Lena Luca @ Mohawk

January 27, 2022 Joeyconcert review

(Photos by Nicole Berlin Photography) Supergroups are historically a hit-or-miss proposition, if we’re being honest. The indie ones, generally featuring musicians who’ve had more modest career success, tend to turn out better than the ones[…]

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Tameca Jones says goodbye with music; when’s the right time to “call it a year” for year-end lists?

December 17, 2021December 18, 2021 Joeyconcert review

It was loud and raucous enough inside the sold-out Continental Club for what was billed as Tameca Jones’ final Austin show that I can’t say with 100% certainty that she didn’t explicitly say goodbye in[…]

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