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Day 4 Dilly Dally – Best Voice Affectation/ Best Grunge Revival Slothrust – Best Band that I saw Twice (Rain Out) Bands I Missed because of the Rain: Boulevards Pastel Ghost Mr. Kitty Day 5 Car Seat Headrest – Best Nerd/College Rock Band Diet Cig – Best Kathleen Hanna Impression/ Best Sparkplug Lead Singer Gwenno…
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Boan No stranger to Austin audiences, Boan is the most promising of locally-based Holodeck Record’s offering during SXSW 2016. A super-duo born out of the dark wave bands //Tense// and Ssleeperhold, Jose Cota and Mariana Saldance are proficient in pleasing audiences with their infectious synth lines and aggressive analog beats. Morbid and menacing, the…
OVRLD’s Top 10 Albums from Austin of 2014
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SLACKERLEE SXSW 2016 ‘Top 10 Performances’
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