Surreal= Seeing a guy wearing a straw hat, knee-high Christmas socks, and talking in a thick Georgia accent on 5th and West on my way home for work, and then realizing its Andre 3000. I just wish i was better at selfies.
Moonlandingz – Best Use of Peanut Butter On The Face/ Best Song About Donald Trump Iggy Pop – Best Transformative Experience Since Birth Astronauts – Best Band To Literally Space Out Too Moving Panoramas – Best Local All-Female Shoegaze PWR BTTM – Best Punk Duo Dressed In Drag Singing About Love & Sodomy
These past five years have been fruitful for punk rock fans whom appreciate a lo-fi garage and surf sound. Groups like King Tuff, The Orwells, FIDLAR, and a wave of others have found large audiences eager to get rowdy and dance to their millenial interpretation of punk. Two bands that have found themselves at the…
SXSW Artist Interview: Poolside Jeff Paradise, Filip Nikolic, Michael Gold, and Jason Pipkin are Poolside. These Californian lounge lizards create ‘Daytime Disco” that is the perfect score to an afternoon lounging by the pool. Their new album, Pacific Standard Time, was one of my favorite albums of 2012 and it was a blast getting to…
Modest Mouse – I’ve listened/worshipped this band for more than half of my life, but have never seen them live because you have a better chance of Rick Perry splitting an atom than procuring a ticket to a Modest Mouse show in Austin. Isaac Brock and his merry band of mischievous revelers did not disappoint, mixing…
Want to go to Brooklyn without spending money on airfare? Go to East Austin. Sixth street, east of I-35, has earned the moniker ‘Little Williamsburg’, mainly because its plethora of bars are chock full of patrons with facial hair, skinny jeans, obscure music interests, and particular diet preferences. So when a Brooklyn band like Tanlines…
Nobody quite sparks the imagination like Alice Glass and Ethan Kath. The members of the electro-noise group Crystal Castles have deftly created a shroud of macabre mystery to surround their dark and diabolical personas. Through gothic imagery, epic seizure-inducing light shows, and Alice’s banshee-like stage antics, Crystal Castles has gathered a following that is as…