Cyndi Lauper, Pleasure P, Luxury Television, and More Crucial Concerts

Live music to drown out the week's news

"...clang and bang digital rhythms, goth/noir synths, and industrial vox into a 21st century DIY frenzy. Pile on San..."

Nov. 8, 2024 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Bob Dylan’s Devil Complex and Mysterious Stage Pose

Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour satisfies at Austin stop

"...– what ideas he’s trying to slip across the table. And early in the Austin performance of his R&RW..."

March 17, 2022 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...electronics in the sidelong "Concrete Walls." Andrew Nogay's cacophonous vox add a disjointed unease atop Ethan Billips' unyielding table..."

Jan. 15, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Faster Than Sound: Ukeme Maps the Music Genome

Multidisciplinarian Jason Ikpatt ponders community across arts and sciences

"...Wu. Prior, the submerged, fuzzy-edged "Softie" ventured droopy bedroom vox over an intoxicatingly lackadaisical soundscape. Ikpatt imagined a collaboration..."

Oct. 23, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...When Suzanne Vega sat down at my dark, empty table at the Austin Music Awards last year, our look..."

Oct. 2, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Faster Than Sound: Clarence James Finds Clarity Post-Breakup on Debut

Following high school breakout, 20-year-old Georgetown crooner sticks a jazzy bedroom pop debut

"...California visit during which he contributed perfectly droopy pop vox to Houston rapper Fat Tony's "Omaha."..."

June 26, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Recommended Live Music for the Weekend

Garage rock, indie-pop, funk, and more

"...A 2017 EP showed off Hannah Joy’s forcefully earnest vox, matched by hyper, tumultuous rock backing. Latest Lost Friends..."

June 22, 2018 Events Post by The Music Staff

Levitation Review: Om, True Widow, Dallas Acid

Urban doom, drone, enchantment

"...rhythm section of wide-eyed Al Cisneros on bass and vox and Emil Amos on drums were joined by Rob..."

April 29, 2018 Music Post by Christina Garcia

SXSW Music: Radio Day Stage

Convention Center lineup brought out the sun inside

"...set. Trading center-stage dance moves for time behind the table with her bandmates, frontwoman Lauren Mayberry let her vocals,..."

March 19, 2016 SXSW Post

SXSW Showcases

All the SXSW showcases that fit

"...revivalists/punk innovators sit at the head of the picnic table with the closing slot. But oh, what a family!..."

March 19, 2010 Music Feature

Off the Record

Casting the annual ballot for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and paying tribute to poster artist extraordinaire Bill Narum

"...as he lived, sitting in front of his art table at his Thorndale home studio, the Acorn, of a..."

Nov. 27, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

girlie action

girlie action

"...her "banshee shenanigans." Songwriter James Mays shares more ethereal vox with very provocative results ("Together"). Among those local artists..."

March 13, 2009 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Joie de Vivre

The City of Light – Paris – shines at SXSW 2006

"...Cello, gossamer female vox, enigmatic presentation, flute, and nylon-strung guitars make up Women..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Music Feature by David Lynch

Moya Brennan; Lisa Gerrard & Patrick Cassidy

Record Reviews

"...more elegant or striking than an accomplished Celtic female vox. It soothes like a mother's love, while simultaneously exuding..."

Feb. 13, 2004 Music Review by David Lynch

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...late, which makes her SXSW slot all the more notable. Slippery, phat grooves as delicious as this don't come..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

Caught 'em in Autumn

Earthpig & Fire

"...Brown Hornet Like any respectable citizen, I love songs about doo-doo. Brown Hornet's under-recognized..."

Sept. 22, 1995 Music Feature

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