Real quick, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it yet again: The year doesn’t end on Nov. 30. It drives me up … not a wall, but perhaps an easily scalable chain-link fence …[…]
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Interview: Pleasure Venom defines “letting it out” as mental health fuels first full-length
(Photo by Ismael Quintanilla III, www.iq3photo.com) Audrey Campbell won’t offer a lot of specifics about the harrowing personal experiences that have helped make her spiky, four-piece punk animal, Pleasure Venom, the snarling force it[…]
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Interview: Urban Heat’s Jonathan Horstmann spins neurodivergence into gold
Usually, when you interview local musicians at Austin City Limits Music Festival whom you know to be playing their first ACL — like longtime local Jonathan Horstmann — it’s an easy, early warmup question soon after[…]
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ACL overview and Day 3 recap: Avoiding politics without even trying, and the best sets and songs of the weekend
Running around for my final day at ACL Weekend Two on Sunday, I realized just how little overt politics I had seen from any performers. With a midterm election coming, post-Roe America just a few months[…]
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ACL Day 1 quick recap: Wet Leg becomes an artistic double threat; Phoenix est très bien; and my feet get a reprieve
Anybody who does all three days of ACL — really does it, as oppose to just camping in one convenient spot all day — knows what it does to your feet. Specifically, it murders them.[…]
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Shows: The Bad Lovers, Rattlesnake Milk, the Crack Pipes and Lindsey Mackin of Annabelle Chairlegs @ Hotel Vegas
If this lineup for the Bad Lovers’ single release party was “all like 2014,” as Lindsey Mackin of Annabelle Chairlegs said near the start of her solo opening set, well … take me back? Simpler[…]
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