Hard Proof Rockwood Music Hall September 28, 2014 Featuring members of Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears, The Calm Blue Sea, Ocote Soul Sounds, Spanish Gold, the Echocentrics, and several other acts, Hard Proof is a critically applauded and award-winning Austin, TX-based ten member […]
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Featuring members of Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears, The Calm Blue Sea, Ocote Soul Sounds, Spanish Gold, the Echocentrics, and several other acts, Hard Proof is a critically applauded and award-winning Austin, TX-based ten member collective known as the first […]
Chief Scout is the musical project of the 20 year old, Suwanee, GA-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Trey Rosenkampff. Rosenkampff has been writing and performing music for almost all of his life; in fact, in high school, he […]
As the story goes, two years ago, Selana Garcia quit her day job, sold her belongings, left Los Angeles and hit the road. Over a period of nine months, Garcia drove across the country and […]
With the Joy of Violent Movement, I’ve experimented with things here and there. I recently started an audio-based interview segment, which started with an interview with the Austin, TX-based anarchy-electro punk trio BLXPLTN, right before […]
Growing up, Arum Rae’s family frequently moved, and she found shelter and a sense of belonging in her various schools’ music programs. While attending her third high school, her choir teacher heard her sing, and believed in […]
BLXPLTN (pronounced Blaxploitation) is an Austin, TX-based trio comprised of TaSziin Muerte (electro drums and vocals), Javelin Hortsmann (bass, synth and vocals) and Lil K Big Q (guitar and vocals) have developed a reputation for […]
Elephant Stone, led by Rishi Dihr, a renowned sitar player, released their self-titled, sophomore effort through Hidden Pony Records last year, and the material on the album used elements of traditional Eastern instrumentation with Western songwriting and instrumentation […]
The Austin, TX-based quartet, The Young have publicly claimed that the power chord heavy sounds of Thin Lizzy, Crazy Horse and others have influenced them – and in fact, they’ve won over bloggers, critics and fans […]
The UK-based pop act THUMPERS have received quite a bit of love on both sides of the Atlantic after the release of “Unkinder (A Tougher Love),” the first single of their debut full-length Galore. And once you […]
When DJ Felix Pacheco and saxophonist/flutist Joe Woullard (of Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears and Hardproof) started the Austin, TX-based Cilantro Boombox, it was originally a studio-based collaboration between the two; however, in the […]
A Q&A with Hillary Capps
Born in Vermont and now based in New York, singer/songwriter Hillary Capps comes from a very musical family as her father is part of a jazz ensemble that tours around New England and the Northeast. […]
The Ugly Facade is the brainchild of Jeremiah Johnson, an Austin, TX-based vocalist, keyboardist, songwriter and producer. “Scend,” the second single off the Ugly Facade’s recently released album, Sinking Anthems manages to show an obvious Nine Inch […]
A Q&A with Qiet’s James Maddox
Originally, the artistic vision of a very young Christopher Vincent, Qiet came to live when James Maddox, Alasha Al-Qudwah, Lacey Hazel, Russell Snyder, Max Venoy and Raphael Godfrey all joined the band and helped turned […]
The members of the Austin, TX-based band Ghetto Ghouls have been writing, recording and playing together in various bands since they were 14, and over the years they’ve become one of Austin’s best known punk […]