The last 30 seconds or so of “Lean Into It,” the opening offering on A. Sinclair’s new album, are an awakening, gravel-coated cannon shot of noise-rock tacked onto a standard-issue, slow-burn acoustic tune. It emerges[…]
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Interview: Deezie Brown on internal “malice,” his hip-hop fairytale and NFTs
(Top photo by Justin Cook) For awhile, I’ve been fascinated by the idea of how our makeup as humans — whether genetics or nurture — might have left us just a DNA strand, a[…]
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Shows: Snail Mail @ Moody Theater
“You guys wanna know something crazy? We’ve never played a bad show in Austin,” Lindsey Jordan — aka Snail Mail — told fans early in her show at the Moody Theater on May 2. “I[…]
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Old Settler’s recap: “Hippie festival” offers four days of people and performers being themselves
A riddle: If you’re watching a Tejano band play Jimi Hendrix’s “Foxy Lady” at an Americana music festival, where are you? It’s got to be the 2022 Old Settler’s Music Festival, the Austin area’s longest[…]
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Old Settler’s Music Festival day 1, after dark: When the music stops … it doesn’t
(CAMP BANJO, TILMON, TEXAS) – New Orleans-based chanteuse Maggie Belle crooned her last note close to midnight on the opening day of the 2022 Old Settler’s Music Festival. The lights went down, her five-piece band[…]
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Interview: MISSIO finds autonomous course and a healthy outlet for “anger and aggression”
(Photo by Blake Nelson. Instagram: @blakenelson__) Maybe just a shot in the dark here – but at any point in the last couple of years, have world events and shifts in society ever made you,[…]
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