When you’re going to Weekend 2 of ACL– and knowing you’ll largely be seeing an encore of what many of your friends and neighbors already got last week — it helps to lean into the[…]
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Shows: Mikky & the Doom, Midnight Daughter and Killer Kaya @ Far Out Lounge
(All photos by Nicole Berlin Photography) If anyone walked into the July 28 show at Far Out Lounge unfamiliar with the nascent work of top-billed Mikky & the Doom, they got a strongly representative taste of[…]
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Shows: DIIV @ Emo’s offers a surprising — and effective — conceptual flair
(All photos by Nicole Berlin Photography) Goes without saying, for probably about anyone reading this, that indie rock + midsize venue doesn’t typically = “show with a conceptual bent.” See an artist of the persuasion[…]
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Reviews galore: Catching up on a 2024 first half full of albums by heavy hitters, part 1
Well before the announcement that Billie Eilish’s next record would be titled Hit Me Hard and Soft, the phrase “heavy hitters” had been on my mind this entire year when it comes to a category[…]
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Show preview: Internally battle-tested DIIV hits Emo’s Friday
(Photo by Louie Kovatch) Somewhat quietly — which is a bit ironic, given its stormy history — DIIV has emerged as one of the best indie rock bands around, and certainly a standard-setter for[…]
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Austin Blues Festival recap: Brittany Howard catches up with ATX; damn right Buddy Guy’s still got it; Dumpstaphunk mourns a major loss
(All photos by Steve Levine) Nearly five years have passed since Brittany Howard last graced an Austin stage. Her appearance closing the Austin Blues Festival on Sunday night revealed an artist in a much different[…]
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