Before Heartless Bastards took the stage on May 30, the first thing to do was just to turn around and take it all in. We were at the front of the Mohawk outdoor stage for[…]
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Local reviews: Dayglow, Harmony House; Kendra Sells, All in Your Head. Not local: girl in red, if i could make it go quiet
My last piece, on the ACL lineup the day after its release, ended with an acknowledgment that “my own verdict on Dayglow is incomplete and evolving,” nodding to Sloan Struble’s inclusion on the ACL bill[…]
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Quick reaction to ACL: Austin, we have a lineup
Assuming it’ll be safe in October, Austin City Limits Musical Festival will get an A for existence. No doubt Weekend 1 sold out the same day the lineup was released, in part, for this very[…]
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Album review: Sasha and the Valentines, So You Think You Found Love?
Ever listen to something that makes you think about your evolution as a music lover? So You Think You Found Love?, the first full-length from Austin-via-Massachusetts dream-pop fivesome Sasha and the Valentines, just did that for me.[…]
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The Day Live Music Died, one year later; Riders Against the Storm album review; St. Vincent track review
(Photo by Nicole Berlin Photography) Nostalgia is often a trap, when you think about it — one free of crucial perspective. Over-romanticizing the past is something we all do from time to time. You might remember[…]
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How a winter apocalypse and a book about New York rock made me feel a new kinship with Austin musicians
I went just under 60 hours without electricity or heat last week. Judging from what I’ve heard and read about the largest winter disaster in Texas — and Austin — in recent memory, that seems[…]
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