Löwin

"...for You" implodes into a skuzzed-out wall of sound, grunge colliding with keys beneath Michael Sanders' nervy guitar lines,..."

March 22, 2019 Music Review by Libby Webster

SXSW Music Featured Session: Laura Jane Grace, Our Lady of Punk, Devours SXSW

Against Me! founder on the “demonstrable power of punk”

"...very first taste of the hard rock sound and grunge as Nirvana was “blowing up.” South Florida wasn’t a..."

March 15, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Beth Sullivan

The Best of Asia at SXSW Music

"...1am Ever heard hardcore haegeum? Metal piri? How about grunge geomungo? Jambinai uses these traditional Korean instruments (fiddle, bamboo..."

March 15, 2019 Music Feature by Dan Gentile

Nine Must-See Indie Rockers at SXSW

"...throwback sound. The 22-year-old's earlier demos build a mellowed grunge, but with a threepiece backing band, her new EP..."

March 15, 2019 Music Feature by Libby Webster

Expand Your Mind With These 13 Psychedelic Bands at SXSW

"...new music and catalog reissues. The group's 2015 glittered grunge single "Hit It" b/w "Dexfield Park" indicates a return..."

March 15, 2019 Music Feature by Michael Toland

SXSW Film Review: I'm Just F*cking With You

A race to the bottom in different flavors of toxic masculinity

"...their signature TV franchise, and his upcoming movie for grunge's metal overlords turned rock institution Alice in Chains, Mason..."

March 12, 2019 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Elisabeth Moss Might Just Be Her Own Character

The actor headlines SXSW in opening night film Us, and probes the cost of fame in Her Smell

"...to make a documentary about that time period, about grunge or riot grrrls or that kind of thing. There..."

March 8, 2019 Screens Feature by Danielle White

Grivo / Single Lash / Future Museums

"...Austin trio Grivo takes as much inspiration from Northwest grunge as from British guitar. Melodies float on the sweet-n-dreamy..."

Nov. 9, 2018 Music Review by Michael Toland

Exhalants

"..."Public Display of Failure" takes a moody plunge, downtempo grunge growing into a doom metal onslaught, and "If Only"..."

Aug. 24, 2018 Music Review by Rachel Rascoe

Bridge Farmers' Superior Acid Metal

Hawkwind and Sabbath didn't spawn the Austin trio, but they should have

"...aficionados of heavy: Seattle titan Tad Doyle, late of grunge pioneers Tad...."

Aug. 10, 2018 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Evil Triplet

"...hews to the local power trio's modus operandi: acid grunge, space-tripping lyrics, and a general aura of extradimensional haze...."

July 27, 2018 Music Review by Michael Toland

40 Songs to Make You Feel Better (or Worse) About Drinking

A sampling of drinking songs local, south of the border, and global

"...A grunge-punk Motörhead, this earthshaking Australian trio plowed its most fertile..."

July 13, 2018 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Terror Fest Picks

"...Denver currently throttles metal extremity on par with Seattle's grunge Nineties. On sophomore LP for Canadian doom gods Profound..."

June 15, 2018 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

The Breeders Endure

Saturday’s sold-out reunion at Emo’s unites all

"...the Breeders’ catalogue into one enormous tangle of cerebral grunge at Emo’s offered a study of all the ways..."

April 22, 2018 Music Post by Libby Webster

Live Music Soundtrack for Your Weekend

Austin Reggae Festival, and more if you're not too high

"...Breeders in ideal form: the same lineup as 1993 grunge-pop essential Last Splash. The Ohio foursome’s new All Nerve,..."

April 20, 2018 Music Post by The Music Staff

Playback: SXSW Again Pivots on Rap

Hip-hop sustains the Festival's star power

"...You have trap, you have intellectual rap, you have grunge rap – all different aspects of rap popular at..."

March 16, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Music Review: Bully, Wye Oak, Superchunk

Nineties grit sandwiches a quieter reprieve

"...pop encased in the sludge and grit of Nineties grunge, a clamor conjuring up everything from the dissonance of..."

March 13, 2018 Music Post by Libby Webster

SXSW Music: Ruled by Women

10 from indie rock’s new fem-led gen

"...a re-release on Matador. Her Courtney Barnett-esque lyrics and grunge-meets-country sound continue on upcoming sophomore album Historian. La Luz..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

99 Austin Acts at SXSW Music

Support the home team!

"...Wolf stirs up visceral drum fills. Punk jolts and grunge leanings animate debut Man, Woman, Beast (2014) and sophomore..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

SXSW’s Sixth Artist List

Bully, White Reaper, Wye Oak, and 99 more luftballons

"...focus incrementally. Today’s announcement adds another 102 artists, including grunge-pop favorites Bully and Baltimore indie duo Wye Oak...."

Feb. 1, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Five Can't-Miss Free Week Shows

American Sharks, Sailor Poon, and Peelander-Z headline a packed slate

"...with Sire Records majordomo Seymour Stein’s fave U-18 millennial grunge act Residual Kid at 10:30pm. That grants you time..."

Dec. 29, 2017 Events Post by Mark Fagan

Sound on Sound Review: Citizen

Plus the Hotelier, Sorority Noise, and Alex Napping

"...different level. Instrumentally, they’re akin to the harsh, booming grunge of the Nineties, disheveled and gritty. Hailing from Toledo,..."

Nov. 11, 2017 Music Post by Libby Webster

ACL Review: Middle Kids

Rookie Aussies debut alt-rock potential

"...with a backup swap, disharmony infected the group’s louder grunge moments, mostly reserved for the set’s initial half. At..."

Oct. 16, 2017 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Saturday ACL Fest Record Reviews

The Witch (Fiction/Caroline)

"...electronica, post-Bad Seeds melodrama) and discarding what they don't (grunge, hip-hop). James Neville's guitar shimmers as Henry Brown and..."

Oct. 6, 2017 Music Feature by Michael Toland

My Obsession: Therapy With Nineties Supermodels

Escape via the long gay tradition of diva worship

"...Linda got a pageboy and made an attempt at grunge. Nothing ever stays the same with fashion. It gradually..."

Sept. 15, 2017 Screens Column by Brandon Watson

Drums & Tuba Reunite in Austin

Homegrown breakouts’ prep first local show in over a decade

"...devil-may-care attitude of the live music capital during the grunge era played a paramount role in the band’s development...."

Sept. 5, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Jenny Parrott

"...Down weaves a dreamy menagerie of ragtime, alt.country, doo-wop, grunge rock, and piano ballads exploring the effects of violence..."

Sept. 1, 2017 Music Review by Lauren Modery

Solid Goat

"...transmits through noisy hard rock, gnarly cowpunk, and idiosyncratic grunge, a musclebound approach that covers a lack of hooks..."

Sept. 1, 2017 Music Review by Michael Toland

Live Music This Weekend, Aug. 11-13

Elvis tribute to Japanoise, take your pick

"...to the Beat II. Garbage updated Blondie for the grunge age, Shirley Manson acting as Debbie Harry’s edgy offspring...."

Aug. 11, 2017 Music Post by Victoria Mycue

Transit Method

"...remarkable instrumental facility with alt-rock loud/soft dynamics, like a grunge band that got its colors mixed up: King Crimson..."

Aug. 11, 2017 Music Review by Michael Toland

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