With each venue stacked and crammed throughout Austin on this heated Friday night, we know the one and only place to be. That friends, is at our preferred venue, Mohawk, to see the likes of a talented goth-folk queen in the flesh – Miss Chelsea Wolfe. The L.A. singer-songstress embodies the heart of atmospheric wasteland
Ty Segall At Austin’s Mohawk
The late evening hours are beckoning hours in Austin. They call for the strange, the enthusiastic, the music-lovin’ Texans and company to come out of hiding from the heat to enjoy the bountiful tunes in the city that is the live music capital of the world. Last Tuesday night was no exception – Austin’s Mohawk
PAPA Shines At Stubb’s In Austin
It’s late August and it’s hot in Austin. Not even a few, cold Lonestars have enough cooling powers to combat the 100-degree weather. It’s the presence of PAPA, the Los Angeles brainchild of drummer/lead vocalist Darren Weiss and bassist Daniel Presant, backed by guitarist Evan Weiss and keys player Ben Usen, that bring the
Live Review: Balmorhea At Austin’s Mohawk
When I meet the six members who make up Balmorhea at Austin’s Mohawk, I am immediately struck by their kind spirit. It is perhaps, that very nature, full of nurture and unadulterated calmness, that fuels the singularly instrumental music they construct. It is a breezy August night and this is a venue made for this
Ellie Goulding Lights Up Austin
It is a slow night in Austin. I-35 is not as busy as usual and the buzz that normally carries the city along is oddly quiet. As you move closer to Frank Erwin Center, the official venue of The University of Texas at Austin located on the cities iconic Red River Street; there is something
Featured Artist: William Tyler
Nashville is iconic for the American guitarist it breeds – after decades of pumping out golden icons it appears it is in the city’s blood to put forth the talents of celebrated musicians. Musicians we know and often celebrate – Johnny Cash, The Black Keys, the likes of Waylon Jennings and Patsy Cline… the names
Featured Artist: Night Moves
It is the year 2009 and the Americana rock group known as Night Moves enters into existence. Joined together by guitarist and vocalist John Pelant, multi-instrumentalist Mark Ritsema and bassist Micky Alfano, this glittering trio who first met at Southwest High School in Minneapolis, struck indie-gold with their debut album Colored Emotions. Between early musical
Shakey Graves Makes His Debut at Austin’s Blues on the Green
Shakey Graves, aka Alejandro Rose-Garcia, the Austin based one-man traveling band, made his debut at Zilker Park in Austin during the cities’ Blues on the Green summer series. Every other Wednesday during the heat wave months in Austin, bands join together to perform a free concert series in the very lawn that Austin City Limits
Album Review: Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros
This year sees Alexander Ebert and his merry troupe of indie folkies welcoming third album Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros. The ten-deep team has packed endless instrumental variations, bearded psychedelic men and anthem bedded harmonies to the heavily declared topics of this third effort. This time around, the Californians have really struck a cord
Night Moves On The Go in Austin
Let us ask… 1. What would happen if Bob Dylan met MGMT? 2. Would we like this union or it is just too shocking to dream up? 3. Will we ever be prepared for the precarious alliance? Folks, it has happened. And we dig it. The result henceforth comes – the blessed odyssey of Night