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Mish Way makes a compelling frontwoman. Bleach blonde and clad in black, she cuts a striking figure, commanding attention with every minor hand gesture. And that’s before she sings a note. Like Penelope Houston and Kathleen Hanna before her, Way distills jagged punk rage with a nuanced emotive backdrop to create a singular vocal presence.

9:28AM Sun. Nov. 10, 2013, Greg Beets Read More | Comment »

ACL Interview: Dynamites feat. Charles Walker

The Sixties run deep on Love is Only Everything, the Dynamites feat. Charles Walker’s third album. Steeped in Southern soul, the album’s delineating factor is its incorporation of dynamics more akin to Chicago and New York. Between Walker’s intuitive vocal finesse and the Dynamites’ crack arrangements, anything’s possible.

11:00AM Fri. Oct. 11, 2013, Greg Beets Read More | Comment »

Austin Psych Fest Live (Saturday): Kaleidoscope (UK)

Prior to Saturday’s show, Kaleidoscope vocalist Peter Daltrey hadn’t played an outdoor music festival since an ill-fated appearance at Isle of Wight in 1970. “I can tell you this,” Daltrey said. “The vibe here is way better.”

2:29PM Sun. Apr. 28, 2013, Greg Beets Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

On Story Premiere Party & Live Taping

KLRU

The Prom
at ZACH Theatre

Gay Science: The Book Tour at BookWoman

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

Austin Psych Fest Live (Saturday): Wall of Death

Texans love to hear complaints about the heat from European bands playing our music festivals. It swells our sun-scorched bosoms with a fleeting sense of heartiness. When Wall of Death keyboardist Brice Borredon innocently asked, “Is anybody hot?” on an altogether mild-by-local-standards April afternoon, one could only chuckle.

12:27PM Sun. Apr. 28, 2013, Greg Beets Read More | Comment »

Austin Psych Fest: Rain Parade

Between the Three O’Clock’s Coachella appearance earlier this month and Rain Parade’s Austin Psych Fest show tonight at Red 7 – 12:15am – it’s springtime all over again for the Paisley Underground.

10:47AM Thu. Apr. 25, 2013, Greg Beets Read More | Comment »

20 Questions With David Kilgour

I first heard the Clean early one spring morning in 1989 while working a 5-8am graveyard shift at KTSB, the student-run cable radio station at UT that preceded KVRX.

10:25AM Wed. May 30, 2012, Greg Beets Read More | Comment »

Jonathan Toubin Returns to Austin

Less than six months after incurring life-threatening injuries when a taxicab ran over him as he slept in a Portland, Ore., hotel room, New York Night Train proprietor Jonathan Toubin is back at the turntables.

4:35PM Wed. May 16, 2012, Greg Beets Read More | Comment »

Gloria Gaynor Will Survive

Gloria Gaynor is coming to South by Southwest, but she won’t be performing “I Will Survive.” Instead, the New Jersey-based disco diva will be discussing changes in the Copyright Act at a Music panel. I couldn’t help throwing in a few questions about her glory days.

5:38PM Mon. Mar. 5, 2012, Greg Beets Read More | Comment »

Beetsolonely’s Top 40 of 2011

Following in the footsteps of Jim Caligiuri, I decided to make a Best-of-2011 Spotify mix some weeks ago. Then a nightmarish DIY plumbing disaster intervened.

9:47AM Thu. Jan. 26, 2012, Greg Beets Read More | Comment »

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