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ACL Live Shot: Icona Pop

Icona Pop made its ACL debut perhaps nine months too late. The Swedish duo’s absolute banger by Charli XCX, “I Love It,” appeared a one-hit wonder from the start, but the women’s sub-Azalea, sub-Zedd draw in the late afternoon on Saturday served as a solemn confirmation. Their Zilker Park introduction sifted through dying embers.

11:41AM Sun. Oct. 12, 2014, Luke Winkie Read More | Comment »

ACL Live Shot: Chvrches

Chvrches could get really big. Like monumentally famous in the same way Radiohead sells out stadiums while making albums entirely out of amniotic fluid. There’s a bright future for these three twentysomething Scots to become the next New Order – and we must do everything we can to ensure that.

11:11AM Sat. Oct. 11, 2014, Luke Winkie Read More | Comment »

ACL Live Shot: Zedd

Music like Zedd’s feels like broader commentary on a generation resigned to the end of the world. A mixture of legitimate crisis and an overabundance of information can make this sad world too much to bear sometimes.

1:00PM Mon. Oct. 6, 2014, Luke Winkie Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

Sweet Pill, Zeta, Equipment

Parish

Concert in the Dark: Full Moon edition w/ Will Taylor & Ryan Murphy (the Beatles tribute) at ATX Unplugged

Friends Trivia
at Waterloo Ice House

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ACL Live Shot: Major Lazer

There was a time not long ago when the electro-reggae of Major Lazer came with massive live production value. Dozens of backup dancers, stunts, and the physical presence of founding member Switch. I have a vibrant memory of seeing a man climb a ladder, leap off, and land directly on a woman’s crotch as part of the Major Lazer stage show.

12:05PM Sun. Oct. 5, 2014, Luke Winkie Read More | Comment »

ACL Live Shot: Sam Smith

Sam Smith had the biggest crowd I’ve ever seen at ACL Fest. Not the biggest crowd in ACL’s dozen years, or even the biggest ACL crowd I’ve been a part of. And yet, as I walked toward the Bud Light stage under a balmy late-afternoon sun, the ocean of organic matter blocking my path was absolutely astounding.

10:26AM Sat. Oct. 4, 2014, Luke Winkie Read More | Comment »

Wish List: Kiss & Def Leppard

I wish I was in Def Leppard. I also wish I wasn’t caught up in the useless pontificating that causes people to look down their nose at a Def Leppard and Kiss double bill at a racetrack – the one Saturday night at the Circuit of the Americas.

1:00PM Mon. Jul. 14, 2014, Luke Winkie Read More | Comment »

Austin Psych Fest Live (Sunday): Panda Bear

Three years have passed since Tomboy, and seven since his masterwork Person Pitch. Later this year, Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper swings a scythe. If you don’t know what that means, then you just don’t know Panda Bear.

3:57PM Mon. May 5, 2014, Luke Winkie Read More | Comment »

Austin Psych Fest Live (Saturday): Avey Tare

Avey Tare spends most of his time singing in Brooklyn’s Animal Collective, so his solo career notches only a brief run of two LPs that sound like a sweatier, more directly psychedelic version of his band’s campfire sing-a-longs. Simply put, you could argue he didn’t deserve the packed Levitation Tent Saturday night, but reputation goes a long way.

3:07PM Sun. May 4, 2014, Luke Winkie Read More | Comment »

Austin Psych Fest Live (Saturday): Mark McGuire

Mark McGuire was blessed with an infamous name. Disgraced Major League baseball slugger or a slight Ohioan making sparkling, purified New Age music? They’re only a few letters and solar systems apart. As for the latter, you always trust a man whose optimism is such that his Twitter account lists his location as “Earth, B.A. (Before Aquarius).”

11:59AM Sun. May 4, 2014, Luke Winkie Read More | Comment »

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