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On Wednesday night legendary heavy rockers Tesla hit Austin for the first time in years with a show at Emo’s. Sledd and NoMara opened. Review by Lee Ackerley. As I walked into Emo’s on Wednesday night, mixed emotions swirled with excitement and skepticism flowed though me. The headliner, Tesla, a band that had formed in 1982…
CLOUD NOTHINGS KEEP IT POLISHED ON ‘LIFE WITHOUT SOUND’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
Six years since their debut album, the Cloud Nothings are back with Life Without Sound, their most polished album to date. Frontman Dylan Baldi has historically had a lead foot on the songwriting accelerator, releasing albums in rapid succession, that is ,until he began writing Life Without Sound. Baldi took his time perfecting the album’s…
CRYSTAL CASTLES – ACL AFTERSHOW – (SHOW REVIEW)
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…
Cee Lo @ Super Bowl LI
Gave a shoutout to the dungeon family while talking with Cee Lo. Him and every other Atlanta rapper were in Houston to watch the Falcons make history by blowing the biggest lead in SB history. Andre 3000 more like Andre 300 in this pic…AMIRIGHT! TI
SUNFLOWER BEAN FALLS SHORT ON DEBUT LP ‘HUMAN CEREMONY’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
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Lee’s 22nd Marathon in Austin for 2015
Lee’s body isn’t what we’d call chiseled in stone, but at least I didn’t cramp in the Austin Marathon like my previous three attempts:)