Queen of Austin rock, Sabrina Ellis, elicits more shock and awe with her coquettish and racy lyrics than a Vietnam bombing campaign could ever hope for. Sabrina fronts the power pop band Sweet Spirit, who just dropped their sophomore album, St. Mojo, earlier this month and while their local momentum is at a fever pitch, a…
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…
John Valley is on a roll. The local videographer and producer recently made two stellar videos for Sweet Spirit with “Baby Doll” and “Baby When I Close My Eyes,” and John’s kept the momentum rolling with his work on another equally captivating video, this time “Sex & Drugs” just released by A Giant Dog. The video portrays the band…
“Baby When I Close My Eyes” – Sweet Spirit It is no surprise that the best music video of 2016 so far, belongs to the local garage melody makers, Sweet Spirit, and their perfectly paired video director, John Valley. Puppets haven’t been used this dramatically and morbidly in a music video since Interpol’s 2004 “Evil” music…