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;)
London-based duo HONNE and Izzy Bizu unveiled a collaborative new single ‘Someone That Loves You’, out now via Atlantic Records. This follows HONNE’s recent EP ‘Gone Are The Days’, which saw the band sell-out their first-ever US headline tour – including NY’s Bowery Ballroom and LA’s The Troubadour – alongside prestigious South by Southwest…
Deftones @ Lady Bird Lake – Stepping up after Ray LaMontagne had to cancel, this may have been the best example of SXSW magic, as hundreds of Deftone’s fans poured in to see the free show with only around a day of notice. Chino Moreno doesn’t hesitate to mix it up with the crowd, and…
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…
A line snaked around the corner of Red River and 10th St. last Tuesday night, teeming with an eclectic mix of Austinites, all gathered in anticipation of the most unique acts in recent memory. Newcomers, futuristic, pop duo, Purity Ring, were due to make their headliner Austin debut later that night,and hype was not in…
Art Alexakis may not be a paradigm of business savvy as far managing his own personal finances. In 2005, the lead singer of Everclear owed over two million dollars in unpaid taxes to the IRS, had maxed out all of his credit lines, and declared bankruptcy, forcing him to sell all of the rights to the entire Everclear catalogue….