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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SXSW Thursday: Yard Act and We Were Promised Jetpacks give Brooklyn Vegan some British variety
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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Austin Music Awards 2022: The return of the Dive Bar Grammys
Yes, I did miss this. Two years away from the ragtag, buttons-loose, buzzing, not-even-faux-formal feel of the Austin Music Awards made the heart grow fonder. The AMAs, which I’m christening the Dive Bar Grammys as[…]
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Album review: Spoon, Lucifer on the Sofa
Britt Daniel is 50 now, about to be 51 pretty soon. And it’s hard not to look at that age, for an indie rock legend/general rock should-be-legend, and wonder how much he and his otherworldly[…]
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Shows: KVN, Lena Luca @ Mohawk
(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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