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Checking In: D-Madness Calls Getting Cut-off ‘Pure Hell’

Imagine supporting yourself as a performing musician and watching your industry cease wholesale. Now imagine that same scenario only you’re blind. “We don’t have to be sentimental about it,” D-Madness told Kahron Spearman in a 2017 Chronicle piece. “It’s fine. I take no offense. I am blind. That’s pure and simple.” Nothing’s pure and simple anymore.

2:22PM Mon. Aug. 24, 2020, Raoul Hernandez Read More | Comment »

Checking In: Zyclops Cooks Up Some Post-Doom Ps-EYE-Chosis

Overseen locally by Chico Jones at Estuary Studios, last month’s Inheritance of Ash super collides Skycrawler doom duo Ryan Pankratz and Ed Davis with post-rock and metal mercenaries Cory Brim (Glassing) and Matt Moulis (Unmothered). As Zyclops, their four-song debut EP spasms noise psychosis. Lead doomsayer Pankratz checked in.

10:10AM Wed. Aug. 19, 2020, Raoul Hernandez Read More | Comment »

Checking In: Guitar Heater Sue Foley Works on Her PhD

As a bandleader slanging Austin blues, Sue Foley remains a triple threat belter/shredder/performer. As a sidewoman, she also rocks: “Pic of me and Mike [Flanigin] attached from our West Texas trek to promote Mike’s album West Texas Blues, which we recorded during quarantine. Check it out here.”

11:11AM Tue. Aug. 18, 2020, Raoul Hernandez Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

The Tortured Poets Department Listening and Smoke Sesh

MaryJae

Georgetown Spring Art Stroll at Downtown Georgetown

Blank Hellscape, Water Damage (album release), More Eaze, Fire Boys at Hotel Vegas

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

Checking In: TC Superstar Creates a Micro Scene at Home

TC Superstar’s 2018 sophomore LP Heat Death conceptualized environmental end times that found the human race “coming to terms with death on a global scale,” wrote the Chronicle. As the Austin octet breaks from its infectious booty-shaking indie pop and rock, its dance instructor/bandleader Connor McCampbell plots the group’s next choreographed move.

11:11AM Mon. Aug. 17, 2020, Raoul Hernandez Read More | Comment »

Checking In: Como Las Movies Cumbias Despite Performance Shutdown

Como Las Movies projectionist Nelson Valente Aguilar minds your children. “I teach 5th grade,” emails the bandleader. “Bilingual. And no, I'm not always smarter than a 5th grader.” Who is anymore, frankly? Maybe his local electro-cumbia quartet, which cranks up a new 7-inch (see tomorrow’s issue) in the face of C-19 clamping down hard on the group.

10:10AM Wed. Aug. 12, 2020, Raoul Hernandez Read More | Comment »

Checking In: Seela Side Hustles

About Cool, the sixth full-length by three-decade Austin song medium Seela (Misra), Doug Freeman writes in Thursday’s upcoming Chronicle: “Cool rests on [her] mesmerizing lyricism – often unexpected phrases turned casually with a searing insight.” Add in an adult voice, one of timeworn experience and clear-eyed realism, for maximum effect.

10:10AM Tue. Aug. 11, 2020, Raoul Hernandez Read More | Comment »

Checking In: Guitar Hauler Bill Kirchen Pulls Into the Truck Stop at the End of the World

Despite aid from Paul Carrack, Elvis Costello, Maria Muldaur, and Butch Hancock, not only can Telecaster tamer and longtime local Bill Kirchen carry a tune, he’s penned as good as he’s picked on new 3-LP compendium The Proper Years. “Bump Wood”: “Then I wake up in the morning, and I know it’s going to be good/ When I stick out my elbows and they don’t bump wood.”

10:10AM Mon. Aug. 10, 2020, Raoul Hernandez Read More | Comment »

Checking In: Welcome to The Kat Edmonson Show

Austin-launched lioness Kat Edmonson notched a birthday to start the week. Fierce Leo determination matches her jazz-era purr, most recently on February’s fifth LP Dreamer’s Do. Hunt it down Sunday nights on the singer’s Facebook variety show from her digs in New York, 7pm EST.

10:10AM Fri. Aug. 7, 2020, Raoul Hernandez Read More | Comment »

Checking In: Latina Rapper Ayo Tamz Adapted Quickly

Tammy Ramirez fulfills the first role of rhymesayers with every sultry, empowered, Spanish-language rap: provocateur. On a growing count of dreamscape declarations, including “Violenta,” “Dinero,” “Ponmelo,” y “Soy Perra,” the Austin MC known as Ayo Tamz converts another 21st century beat pilgrim.

10:10AM Wed. Aug. 5, 2020, Raoul Hernandez Read More | Comment »

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