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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Ear Traffic’s top tracks of 2021: The Local 20 and the HI-35
(Photo of James McMurtry by Nicole Berlin Photography) In my ranking of my 10 favorite albums of 2021 (for historians, Ear Traffic’s first year-end album ranking), I mentioned how difficult it was to narrow[…]
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Ear Traffic ATX’s top 10 albums of 2021
Maybe it’s overly typical to remember a year glowingly in year-end review material. Still, I’ll say it without devolving into broad fawning: I really enjoyed the music of 2021. Picking my 10 favorite albums of[…]
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Tameca Jones says goodbye with music; when’s the right time to “call it a year” for year-end lists?
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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