In a town where you can throw a guitar pick in a random direction and hit an Americana singer-songwriter trying to break through, those musicians need something to make themselves stand out. Mandy Rowden’s done[…]
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ETACLRS? Ranking the days at ACL 2018 Weekend Two
We’ve got days. We’ve got times. We’ve got it all! Now, it’s time to apply ETACLRS. Austin City Limits schedules are set, and we’ll be at Weekend Two this year. As such, I decided to[…]
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Shows: James McMurtry @ the Continental Club Gallery
After seeing James McMurtry perform live for the first time, I came away wondering if there’s ever been a better time to see him than right now. Politically inclined entertainers – whether we’re talking obnoxious[…]
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Shows: Erika Wennerstrom in-store @ Waterloo Records
Last year, I saw Erika Wennerstrom at the Continental Club and wrote about how criminally under-famous she and her longtime band, Heartless Bastards, are. There’s no real indication the needle is going to move on[…]
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Shows: Jackie Venson @ Unplugged at the Grove
The first thing you notice about Jackie Venson performing live is that she’s full of life. Pogo’ing up and down onstage, slipping huge smiles through her curled hair again and again, getting visibly overtaken by whatever her[…]
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Kady Rain’s “R.A.D. Moves” makes NPR Songs of Summer list
In an inspiring development for anyone doggedly working to jumpstart a music career through the interwebs, Austin popster and color enthusiast Kady Rain staggeringly cracked a superstar-filled list of the songs of summer for NPR’s “Pop Culture Happy Hour”[…]
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