Bluegrass acts in Austin can’t help but veer into the unexpected. While Sour Bridges features a banjo, violin, and other tell-tale Bluegrass harbingers, they don’t stay inside the traditional lines. With non-traditional themed songs like “Cocaine Lorraine” and “Midwife Crisis”, Sour Bridges projects their ‘Browngrass’ which, which in their own words, “Is a little bit…
Aptly described as ‘Austin’s answer to the Roots’, Magna Carda refuses to back down from their lyrical conviction and inventive beats. MC/producer duo, Megz Kelli and Dougie Do, have a knack for Southern-styled ambient beats in which they drop effortless flows that are equally provocative as they are amusing. Sprung from the campus of St….
A surprise sell-out crowd at the Mohawk on Monday night meant that 90’s nostalgia and Swedish dream pop hasn’t lost its luster. The Radio Dept. is a Swedish indie cult band that would prefer to operate out of the studio than be caught banging around on tour. Alas, having only released three albums since their…
Surfer Blood’s fourth album, Snowdonia, features an airy pop aesthetic that while playful and innocuous, has a dark, melancholic undercurrent rife with tragedy. You might say that the band’s frontman, John Paul Pitts, mirrors his music’s anatomy quite well. Pitts was charged with domestic violence in 2012 against his then girlfriend, revealing an unhinged savagery…