The Loblolly Boy (Jennifer)
Austin quintet The Loblolly Boy are celebrating the release of their new 7″ single on Punctum Records with shows on May 15 and May 22 at Studium. The single is a melancholy tale about “songs...
Monthly Archive: May 2015
We Jam By Condos (Dan)
Monofonus Press has put together a comp of Austin bands called We Jam By Condos and it has just been made available for sale. The title is a play on We Jam Econo, the documentary...
Albert Hammond Jr.
If you explored the ACL lineup that was announced last week, then you may have noticed that both The Strokes and Albert Hammond Jr. are set to play. I kind of figured it was a...
Quickdraw: Tame Impala, Eternal Summers, M.I.A., Part Time, Sharon Van Etten
Music! Enjoy. :Tame Impala – Eventually: Tame Impala seem to be rolling like Modest Mouse recently did and just continuously leaking songs from their new album. I dig it. This fourth “single” may be my...
Movie Breakdown: Hot Pursuit (Noah)
People are doing traditional-style reviews all over the web, so we decided to try something different. In each “breakdown” we’ll take a look at what a film’s marketing led us to believe, how the movie...
Sad Bastard Music: This May – Heaven Adores You (John Gross)
In honor the upcoming documentary Heaven Adores You, about the late and tragically great Elliott Smith, I’ve chosen to highlight some of the best tracks from his catalog for this month’s sad music column. Is...
Ducktails
If you asked me to give you a list of Ducktails songs that I love, I don’t think I could do it. Over the years my appreciation for the project has been inconsistent, and for...
Movie Breakdown: The D Train
People are doing traditional-style reviews all over the web, so we decided to try something different. In each “breakdown” we’ll take a look at what a film’s marketing led us to believe, how the movie...
Texas Never Whispers (Jennifer)
On Texas Never Whispers self titled debut, lead songwriter Tim Regan (ex-Oh No Oh My) paints portraits of nostalgic memories and regrets on tunes like Midnight Companion, with its winsome slide guitar and bluesy organ...
L’Orange And Jeremiah Jae (Noah)
I used to be all about rap. I went through an unfortunate period where I thought ska and power-punk were just swell, and in the aftermath, three chord progressions still churning in my mind, I...
