Monthly Archive: January 2014

Hip Hop Hooray (Leah)

January is always such a hopeful time in music.  We have an entire year ahead of us to dissect new releases, make expectations and demands of artists, and not care about the Grammy’s.  I’m looking...

Stream This

From the depths of the SOTO inbox, I present to you your weekly serving of the latest and greatest album streams and videos.  Enjoy. FULL ALBUM STREAMS ALBUM OF THE WEEK ➡ Robert Ellis –...

The Suffers (Video Premiere)

I could ramble all day about the various new bands that Austin’s Free Week delivered this year, but instead of doing that I’ll just tell you the one that stood out the most – The...

Burnt Ones (Noah)

As much of a fan as I was of Burnt Ones first album, the amazing Black Tongues & Golden Tongues, I sort of just stopped listening to them after a while. I don’t know if it was...

The Villas, Young Girls (Jennifer)

Austin quartet The Villas are kicking off the new year with another upbeat, catchy guitar pop tune, Natural Selection.  It has jangly yet crunchy guitar riffs combined with soaring, falsetto harmonies tinged with a bit...

Genuine Leather (Single Premiere)

If you’ve been paying even just a minimal amount of attention to me over the last few months, then you’ve probably noticed that I really like Genuine Leather.  The band, which is fronted by Chris...

Weekly Movie News Rundown

Time for your weekly movie news update!  Below you’ll find a slew of sentences meant to provide a brief glimpse of what’s been going on over the past week in movieland.  If something leaves you...

Sad Bastard Music: Jaded January (John Gross)

“Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands, of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened...