Review by: SlackerLee Kevin Parker, the mastermind behind Tame Impala, is a music studio genius who has created what might be the best album of 2015 with his recently released Currents. Parker has described himself as a clown while playing live shows, but admits that he is deathly serious when recording in a music…
On Wednesday night legendary heavy rockers Tesla hit Austin for the first time in years with a show at Emo’s. Sledd and NoMara opened. Review by Lee Ackerley. As I walked into Emo’s on Wednesday night, mixed emotions swirled with excitement and skepticism flowed though me. The headliner, Tesla, a band that had formed in 1982…
Yet another high profile electronic act came through Austin this Saturday on a seemingly random stop-off from their current state of affairs. No, it is wasn’t a corporate event or a massive music festival that brought European electronic dance wizards Delorean all the way to Austin from their native Barcelona. It was the creative genius of Jeramy Neugent’s…
Monday night at the Mohawk offered an eclectic smattering of Indie rock that culminated with Philadelphia-based quartet, A Sunny Day in Glasgow, offering up their dreamy yet abstruse signature pop sound for a more obscure-indie inclined Austin audience. While the headliners were clearly the draw for much of the crowd, local openers, Wildfires and even more so an…