Musician Panels, a Band of Horses Live Set, and More Reviews From Wednesday of SXSW

John Fogerty, Tom Morello, and Andrew McMahon get chatty

"...first hooked me on Dutch Interior. Live, the contrast between these elements was crisply interwoven and leaned into a..."

March 13, 2025 Music Post by Carys Anderson

Belle and Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch on Chronic Fatigue, Austin, and His Debut Novel, Nobody’s Empire

Musician’s book tour lands at the State Theatre Feb. 14

"...on this cruise, and it was the most delightfully twee four days of my life.) “We had a gap..."

Feb. 3, 2025 Music Post by Leila Sales

Allie X, the Bill Ball, and Oodles of Locals in This Week’s Crucial Concerts

Lots of reasons to get out of the house and break out the earplugs

"...(longtime garage favorites Sailor Poon, newbies Specific Thing, and twee trio Gummy Fang). Grab your tickets online for $20..."

Nov. 22, 2024 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Album Review: Female Gallery, Best Friends Together Forever

First EP from Austin post-punk fourpiece is a promising start

"...Despite the twee cover, the EP tilts brooding and expansive. Each of..."

Nov. 15, 2024 Music Feature by Abby Johnston

How Memoir of a Snail Came Out of Its Shell

Adam Elliot on his speedy (for stop-motion animation) production

"...“But also, it was getting a bit cutesy and twee.”..."

Nov. 4, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

“Almost Shoegaze” Favorites Swirlies Talk Genre Tags and Their Lineup-Changing Collective

Five-piece’s Levitation show lands at Parish Nov. 1

"...Call them noise-pop then, or even twee; either way, the Boston-launched band, which in the Nineties..."

Oct. 29, 2024 Music Post by Carys Anderson

Jess Williamson, Stay Black & Live, Babestock, and More Crucial Concerts

Recommended shows for the week in Austin

"...Singer Tracyanne Campbell sat on the cover, nailing energetic twee under light country/electro influence and consistent observational humor. Unfortunately,..."

June 14, 2024 Music Feature by Cy White

Zoé Tong Is Making Dinner Fun

Modern Chinese restaurant brings to Zilker big flavors, sincere hospitality, and a ballsy refusal to be boxed in

"...Soundsystem. The overall effect is charming, if a little twee and more than a little millennial...."

April 5, 2024 Food Feature by Taylor Tobin

Faye Webster, Swamp Dogg, and More Reviews From Friday of SXSW

Memorable performances to close out the week

"...a bubble bath – remains indie-sized only in its twee and sardonic spirit. She now resides at a fame..."

March 16, 2024 Music Post by Julian Towers

The Austin Music Awards, a Black Rock Maverick, and More Crucial Concerts

Our recommended shows for the week ahead

"...guitar-heavy antics, dorothy’s jangle-pop ambience, and Gummy Fang’s static twee melodies.   – Miranda Garza Alex Maas, Christian Bland..."

Feb. 23, 2024 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Terry Allen, ericdoa, and More Crucial Concerts

Essential Austin gigs in the coming week

"...vocal drone. Dreamy rockers Proun feed the lineup’s unofficial twee narrative, while Houston act A Mourning in Heaven flicks..."

Feb. 2, 2024 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Review: Large Brush Collection, Off Center

Nora Predey’s complex lyrical considerations extend to stratified sonics

"...she ponders on "Tell Me Again." A web of twee-pop spins throughout the record, invoking syrupy vocal progressions ("Better..."

Feb. 2, 2024 Music Feature by Laiken Neumann

AFF Review: Grapefruit

Rosanna Arquette is tenderly flawed in this addiction dramedy

"...– who interprets the script and translates the distance between camera and person into magic – taking those lessons..."

Nov. 1, 2023 Screens Post by Matthew Monagle

alexalone’s Insistent Soundscape and Five More Songs From Austin Artists

Next music picks from Large Brush Collection, Will Johnson, and more

"...A five-song soundscape that alternates between brief spurts of uncomfortable quiet and meandering, soothing lullabies,..."

Oct. 13, 2023 Music Column by Carys Anderson

SXSW Film Review: The Arc of Oblivion

Documentary explores the beautiful effort of human record-keeping

"...In self-effacing narration and twee animation for the South By Southwest Film and Television..."

March 11, 2023 Screens Post by Lina Fisher

Your Field Guide to 80 Essential Acts at SXSW Music

Highlighting the best and buzziest at this year's Festival

"...the 13th Floor Balthvs illuminated the unknown sweet spot between surf tones, deep house, and Turkish delight, all of..."

March 10, 2023 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Voxtrot: The (Re)start of Something

12 years after disbanding, the forerunners of modern indie-pop call on the "mystical, inexplicable force" that flowed through their Early Music

"...explaining his band's trajectory: "instantaneous decay." That's the difference between 39 and 27, I suppose. You've learned that nobody..."

Sept. 23, 2022 Music Feature by Julian Towers

What We're Listening to This Week

A cross-border collaboration, Good Looks, Adrian Quesada, Skloss, and Letting Up Despite Great Faults

"...Dream-pop is a loaded term – the implied twee aspects function as much as a warning to the..."

April 8, 2022 Music Column by Chad Swiatecki

Dispatches From a New Decade of SXSW

Our favorite musical moments from the fest

"...parts, emphasizing the leading force of Teasdale's vocal charisma between the fuzz. A synth player/third guitarist in the quintet..."

March 25, 2022 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

The Best Music We Saw at SXSW on Wednesday

The buzzy, the brave, the thrash-able twee-pop

"...oboe), a saenghwang (a droning, keyed mouth organ somewhere between the oboe and a chromatic harmonica), and a xylophone..."

March 17, 2022 Music Post by Michael Toland

Jim Gaffigan's Happy to Bring Linoleum to Earth

The suburban spaceman comes to SXSW

"...side of Gaffigan as a performer. Beginning as an indie-twee premise of amateur scientist Cameron Edwin finding a rocket..."

March 11, 2022 Screens Feature by Matthew Monagle

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week

Sterling Morrison Birthday Tribute, Being Dead, Rod Wave, Shinyribs, Jason Eady, and Natalie Jane Hill with Julian Neel

"...home. His petri dish of musical production, four albums between 1967 and 1970, went on to fertilize generations of..."

Aug. 27, 2021 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Mixtape of Austin Bevs for a Virtual SXSW

Songs with suds

"...Sellers). “Finish Line” is a self-reflective charmer that dithers between sour-hearted themes and love-bittered verse, but is ultimately cured..."

March 12, 2021 Food Feature by Eric Puga

The Luv Doc: Poo

Is not a rose nor does it smell like one

"...that "Don't poo where you eat" has a nauseating twee adorability, the meaning is essentially the same. Don't defecate..."

Jan. 22, 2021 Column

Wild Mountain Thyme

Twee Irish romance takes forever to end happily ever after

"...The soggy romance between lifelong pastoral neighbors Rosemary Muldoon (Blunt) and Anthony Reilly..."

Dec. 11, 2020 Movie Review by Steve Davis

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...remembrance of a lost relative in swaths of dream-pop, twee, and post-punk. Ali Wagner of ATX indie outfit Hex..."

Sept. 11, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

The Infinites

The Infinites (First Humans)

"...the sun," leaning into the work's gloomy underbelly. Teetering between surf rock and bedroom pop, the music supports lyrics..."

May 10, 2019 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

The Best of Asia at SXSW Music

"...Theater, 10:30pm Dressed in what looks like a cross between a hazmat suit and a disco ball, behind-the-scenes K-pop..."

March 15, 2019 Music Feature by Dan Gentile

Nine Must-See Indie Rockers at SXSW

"...the 18-year-old New Jersey native's powerfully soulful wail switching between English and Spanish. The lovesick "Eyes" skews atmospheric, brass..."

March 15, 2019 Music Feature by Libby Webster

Go South of the Border With These 15 Latinx Acts

"...9pm; Fri. 15, Las Perlas, 9:35pm A dream-thump collaboration between Portland guitarist/vocalist Fabi Reyna and Los Angeles producer Sumohair..."

March 15, 2019 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

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