Metallizing Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon resulted in sold-out pressings and a one-off concert last August at Emo’s that landed three-quarters of Austin’s the Sword on the recent Austin Music Awards ballot for best cover band. The show’s encore – “Have a Cigar,” “Pigs (Three Different Ones),” and “Wish You Were Here” – here receives studio treatment begging for a dual pairing with the LP. Alex Marrero’s David Gilmour vocal inhabitation imbues music biz indictment “Cigar” with the gravity of The Wall.

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This article appears in February 2 • 2018.

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San Francisco native Raoul Hernandez crossed the border into Texas on July 2, 1992, and began writing about music for the Chronicle that fall, debuting with an album review of Keith Richards’ Main Offender. By virtue of local show previews – first “Recommendeds,” now calendar picks – his writing’s appeared in almost every issue since 1993.