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.[…]
(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[…]
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[…]
The way 2020 unfolded, it seemed to offer a musical choice akin to “fight or flight”: Either you 1) embraced pandemic-inspired music and/or music reflecting the turbulent social upheaval all around us; or, 2) you embraced[…]
For me, the last few months haven’t been conducive to new posts. But the break I took from fresh entries here on Ear Traffic, I’m telling myself, was warranted because the less that’s written about 2020,[…]
In this “Take what you can get” year, where that phrase applies to just about anything related to fun or general fulfillment, Love & Light gave us something. A sweltering, tasty, festive something that —[…]
