Skylar Spence promised he wouldn’t “Suck so bad next time he comes to Austin”, when he was actually the highlight of the night. Madeon got college kids and people with their brains melted by ecstasy to jump up and down to his electronic button-pushing;)
These local experimental pioneers introduced me to Deafheaven.
Morrison has risen- This is a natural thought progression upon hearing Ken Frost, lead singer of the Austin 60’s psych trio The Cuckoos, sing for the first time. Frost has a dead-on Lizard King baritone but, rather than run from comparisons to the Doors, the Cuckoos embrace it, own it, and then make it…
I ran into Bushwhack Bill of the Geto Boys while leading a running tour past Kung Fu Saloon. I idiotically asked if he was Bushwick Bill even though I saw the eye patch and knew there weren’t too may African-American midgets wearing eye patches and leading an entourage of fine women. I gave him some…
It was only last November when terrorist gunmen opened fire at the Bataclan rock club in Paris where the Eagles of Death Metal were playing. Nearly one hundred people lost their lives in the club that night, and members of the band, like many other survivors, were deeply traumatized by the events. It was therefore…
