6 AUSTIN SXSW BANDS TO CHECK OUT
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6 AUSTIN SXSW BANDS TO CHECK OUT

  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…

HOLY WAVE UPHOLD AUSTIN’S PSYCH ROCK ROOTS ON ‘FREAKS OF NURTURE’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
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HOLY WAVE UPHOLD AUSTIN’S PSYCH ROCK ROOTS ON ‘FREAKS OF NURTURE’ (ALBUM REVIEW)

  The languorous ripples in Lady Bird Lake hide an undetectable lysergic compound that has turned the Violet Crown city into a lush and fertile culture for psychedelic music to flourish. Roky Erickson, The 13th Floor Elevators, Shiva’s Headband, and other 60’s psych bands germinated Austin’s psychedelic seeds decades ago. While many other analagous bands…

Genre-benders, Purple, Release New Single “Bliss”

Genre-benders, Purple, Release New Single “Bliss”

Boisterous, versatile, and bursting with energy, Purple is a fun-loving trio of mischievous musical adventurers that steps over genre boundaries with grace and ease. Having issued their debut album (409) to a more than receptive audience last year, Purple’s upcoming April release Bodacious should shine even brighter with enhanced production from label Play It Again Sam. The…

Moving Panoramas Brings Melancholy and Melody on “Radar”

Moving Panoramas Brings Melancholy and Melody on “Radar”

Moving Panoramas is an all-girl Austin trio that explores dreamy soundscapes with fuzzed guitars and pained and emotive lyrics, and they have have continued to impress since their debut LP  One released last October. We’ve got the second single off One for you today, a bittersweet track called “Radar” that initially appears pleasantly uplifting, but the…