Well before the announcement that Billie Eilish’s next record would be titled Hit Me Hard and Soft, the phrase “heavy hitters” had been on my mind this entire year when it comes to a category[…]
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Tag: Billie Eilish
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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ACL Weekend One overview and day three recap
It’s no surprise that activism and anger took on a prominent role at Austin City Limits Weekend One — especially in light of a certain Texas law that recently went into effect and got an implicit,[…]
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Black Pumas vs. Megan Thee Stallion: Picking a winner in the heavyweight scheduling conflict of ACL Weekend 1
(Photo by Nicole Berlin Photography) Barring a cancellation, I’ll be at Weekend 1 of Austin City Limits, my fifth consecutive year at the festival (as you’ll recall, there was no 2020 edition) and my third straight as[…]
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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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ACL Weekend 2 overview: Most memorable moments, top performances and a few other “bests”
Friday was the cold day that turned out fine. Saturday was the day an artist went AWOL. Sunday was the day everything was perfect. Force me to reduce Austin City Limits Weekend 2 in 2019[…]
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