Bag Raiders were given a heroes welcome as they assumed the stage at the Parish on Friday night. It was their first time playing in Austin, which is hard to believe given their popularity with their first and only self-titled release, Bag Raiders, in 2010. The electro-dance duo oscillated between their established hits from…
Sabina Sciubba wants you to know that she is no ordinary front woman – but an artiste. The lead singer of the samba-inspired dance electronica group Brazilian Girls is renowned for her avant-garde style and sensual lyrics, which are seductively sung in English, Spanish, French, and German. While the allure of the chilled, ambient, tropicalia…
Morrison has risen- This is a natural thought progression upon hearing Ken Frost, lead singer of the Austin 60’s psych trio The Cuckoos, sing for the first time. Frost has a dead-on Lizard King baritone but, rather than run from comparisons to the Doors, the Cuckoos embrace it, own it, and then make it…
Grunge from Nashville? It’s analogous to eating guacamole from Alaska, drinking beer from Iran, or reading a counter-culture nudist magazine from North Korea. Yet here Bully is; a female fronted quartet of punkers who struck gold with their dirty-pleasure debut album, Feels Like. Drawing a heavy influence from Brooks & Dunn, Keith Urban, and Reba,…