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If anyone deserves an award for juggling two careers, it’s Rhett Miller. When he’s not busy touring with his alt-country outfit Old 97’s, Rhett Miller spends his downtime promoting and recording for his solo act. In the gaps where many would normally stop for a breath, Miller is out playing shows all over the States. [...]
Chairlift’s second LP release, Something, which came out in January, proved itself a definite Moulder-pop-polished followup to 2008’s Does You Inspire You. But the followup was long-awaited, and the new tour and the new hype and the drive of it all were turning my head around – ‘lifting,’ if you will, the band up the [...]
The first time I saw Squeeze, it was at a small bar called Club 57 on St. Mark’s Place in downtown Manhattan. It’s probably because of this, even though I’ve seen them at larger theaters and stadiums, they will always be my favorite bar band. Although they became a legendary, radio-friendly band, Squeeze never lost [...]
A mixture of nostalgia and intrigue brought me to see The Lemonheads. Twenty years on from the initial release of It’s A Shame About Ray, I was interested in: How the music would hold after such a long time How Evan Dando’s voice would sound after such a long time Whether they would play ‘Mrs. [...]
Sonen is a three-piece band in Atlanta that creates simple, heavy beats and laces them with synths in such a way that they end up constructing the solid platform on which they can play with instrumental and vocal melodies. They’re one the coolest musical experiments happening in this town. I feel like Sonen’s been a [...]
The Dickies / Filter showcase at Lustre Pearl on Friday, March 16 put Exitmusic and The Big Pink in the mix of a fabulous bill. The set started with Exitmusic. Unfortunately, their electronic source turned into a ‘sad mac’ four or five songs in, and they had to pull the plug on the rest of [...]
My final night at SXSW 2012 began with me watching Atlanta’s Board of Whores perform. The band consists of two guys who are the real deal when it comes to rockers. Willis Corley plays crunchy, thick punk rock guitar licks live, over an underbelly of programmed beats and sequences that he brings to the stage. [...]
I spent the beginning of my Saturday in Austin awake extremely early and playing a showcase at East Avenue Lounge at noon. Manager of the house, Mandy, made me feel like an old friend. Couple this with the fact that I had gear and was operating on sore feet, I spent much of Saturday day [...]
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