• Carlton Zeus "Padre 12" A single about South Padre in the dead of winter? Not a bad idea to Carlton Zeus. Both a personal aural doc of last summer and a preview of the forthcoming... | 1/16/2013
• Daddy Yankee: 'Prestige' At this point, he’s bigger than God. Reggaetón galvanizer Daddy Yankee co-releases his sixth studio LP alongside his Cartel tequila, joining a line of Azad watches... | 9/26/2012
• Trip the Light: 'Galactic' Less than a year after his debut EP, Anthony Burchell — aka Trip the Light — returns with Galactic. Where 2011's Fantastic painted TTL as intelligent dance... | 8/8/2012
• Buho: 'Beggar's Teeth' EP Beggar's Teeth, Búho's second EP since their 2011 reunion, is surprisingly straight-forward and brief (this is the latest of several upcoming EP releases by... | 7/25/2012
• Third Root duo connects mixed race with mixed sounds in new LP Music calling for the unification of minorities is not new, but few projects manage the sublime marriage of scholarly research and Afro-Latino musicality that Third Root... | 6/20/2012
• Shmu: 'Discipline/Communication' He has no mouth and must whisper. This is the impression one might get from hearing Discipline/Communication, the debut LP from Sam Chown, one half of... | 6/13/2012
• Trey's House's unique low-budget outpost for brain-injured residents pursues its own recovery In 2000, Jose Guillen, Jr. decided that his father had hit him for the last time. Since the age of 7, the Uvalde-born Guillen — one of nine children — worked... | 6/6/2012
• El-P: 'Cancer for Cure' For 10 years, El-P has kept tabs on the background radiation of the post-9/11 U.S., not by writing blatantly political rap, but by alluding to the state of the... | 6/6/2012
• Pep Squad on the genre's merits Fun Fact: Carlos Herrera, sonic architect of smartypants dance outfit PepSquad, is greatly inspired by the professional lives of his sisters. | 5/16/2012
• Pep Squad: 'Get Outrageous' Overdosed on retro-futurism? Pep Squad is not for you. But that’s what makes this debut so interesting. | 5/16/2012
• The Texas Weather: 'The Fall, The Winter' Nick Mery may have a rep for being his own biggest fan, but The Fall, The Winter (the album title was changed from the original Pluck) demonstrates his... | 5/16/2012
• Mex Step and MNOLO: 'Machine People' Machine People marks the first of at least two 2012 releases from Mexican Stepgrandfather (here credited as Mex Step, Marco Cervantes in real life). | 5/9/2012
• LaJIT: 'Black Sun' LaJIT is John Isaac Torres, a 21-year-old SA resident who spent his high school years on fixed income living with with an alcoholic uncle after... | 5/2/2012
• Zammuto's second act pays homage to his past Nick Zammuto has been many things in his life: an entry-level grunt at an L.A.-based pharmaceutical company, an Appalachian Trail hiker (literally, not figuratively), and... | 4/18/2012
• Yoshimoto: 'Lemmings to the Sea' The press release for Yoshimoto's debut Lemmings to the Sea describes the album as a "portentous loadstone." Releases seldom get it so right... | 4/4/2012
• 2012 Best Hip-Hop Band: Chisme Chisme vocalist R.E.L. (real name Ariel Faz, owner of Acquired Taste Preferred Records, established 1999) describe the sound of Chisme as "that sad shit." | 3/28/2012
• 2012 Best Hardcore Band: Sohns According to drummer Lawrence Mercado, Sohns isn't necessarily "looking for it" when it comes to accolades from press and academics. Last year, we learned their fans will demand it for them... | 3/28/2012
• Nedry: 'In a Dim Light' It's expected that any new electro-pop group is going to produce Portishead comparisons (no one wants to be compared to Moby or The Supreme Beings... | 3/14/2012
• AquaJones press on despite tech problems and paramours Last July, Austin-based funk-rock quartet AquaJones had a brush with fame, and the failure of the endeavor can be traced back to a bassist who took of with a girl. | 3/14/2012
• Mrs. Howl: 'Lovie & a Yellow Lamp' It’s not difficult to see why Girl in a Coma’s Nina Díaz might take an interest in producing Dallas-to-SA transplants Mrs. Howl. The Elastica and Blondie comparisons aren’t unwarranted, but the debu... | 2/15/2012
• Piñata Protest: "Plethora 'Reloaded'" In January 2010, Piñata Protest went through the last of five years of lineup changes: bassist Omar Nambo departed for L.A. to pursue other musical interests... | 2/11/2012
• Jesse Beaman gaining international audience without traditional album-making In 2009, Sufjan Stevens told Paste Magazine, "I no longer have faith in the album anymore. … Can't an album be eternity, or can't it be five minutes?" | 2/1/2012
• SA artists to deliver blizzard of tunes in the first quarter of 2012 Local music forever | 1/18/2012
• Live & Local: The Phantomatics The Phantomatics, Fri, Jan 13, The Thirsty Camel | 1/18/2012
• Why your local folk singer could become your folk hero I imagine interviewing Nick Mery is something like dealing with national acts. He schedules me on a Sunday just before his #goodjobtexas radio program, held at Studio 14 Hundred... | 1/16/2012
• Common: The Dreamer, The Believer Common has always walked a tightrope. His "I Used to Love H.E.R." is a love song (a rap rarity in '94) that charted his love's spiritual and moral decline... | 1/11/2012
• Live & local: Sons of Sancho Sons of Sancho had a topical moment at the fourth annual Official First Saturday Art Show at Rebar last weekend. Before launching into the reggae-tinged slow-burner... | 1/11/2012
• Houston's Chamillionaire rides free Everything that's great about Houston rapper Chamillionaire can be found in a single video he posted to Ustream last January. On the streaming service... | 1/2/2012
• Echocentrics: Echoland EP Consider for a moment the task of releasing a Brian Eno retrospective, one that celebrates not his solo recordings, but the artists he has produced since 1974. | 1/4/2012
• The Pinker Tones: Singles 2001-2011 + Amigos & Friends Greatest hits/singles albums are rapidly losing worth in our iTunes world. By the time the Rihannas and Pitbulls release one, listeners have already built their own — .99 click by .99 click. | 12/28/2011
• The best local albums of 2011 The blood-letting, tear-jerking, and aural ancestral communions that still demand attentionThe blood-letting, tear-jerking, and aural ancestral communions that still demand attention | 12/25/2011
• Live & local: Muldoon "We're here to remember a time before text messaging, before skinny jeans, when it was OK to be a local band ripping off Cursive," Jerid Reed Morris, guitarist/vocalist for Muldoon and... | 12/21/2011
• The Roots: undun The Roots have delivered increasingly poignant and thematically focused records on life's trials. | 12/21/2011
• What SA’s bartenders (slash therapists, slash BFFs, slash secret crushes) wish you knew Four Aggie fans are sitting in a bar, sipping beers, and spending an afternoon being ornery over a football game against their most bitter rivals, the Longhorns. | 12/14/2011
• Getting dragged into tourist row? Here’s some perfect hidden drinking spots to ease the pain As San Antonio denizens, we all live in fear of it. It usually happens around the holidays, or in the dastardly drought that is summer. We avoid it. | 12/14/2011
• Winners, losers, and unanswered questions in smoke-free SA When the city rolled out its sweeping smoking ban this summer, eager to make the Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights list of smoke-free cities, the winners and losers were obvious. | 12/14/2011
• Mickey Moonlight: And The Time Axis Manipulation Corporation This album is branded as the score for your favorite college parties. While EDM pitches are seldom more generic, Moonlight's debut fits the description quite well. | 12/7/2011
• Trip the Light: Fantastic EP This album is further proof that we live in a time when all genres bleed, where the experimental indie rock of Panda Bear heavily borrows the music theory of '90s trance, two styles once thought to be in different hemispheres. | 12/5/2011
• Pillow Talk: Faux Fur EP There's no shortage of country/Americana acts coming out of Saytown, with a few trying to appropriate the indie label to cut away from the pack. | 11/30/2011
• Local record shops will need to up their game to weather the substanceless future of music When local vinyl enthusiast Gene Hopstetter plays me Frank Sinatra’s Songs for Swingin’ Lovers!, he pulls three pressings from his collection of roughly 700 albums, indicating the differences in each. | 11/22/2011
• Bryan Hamilton: Welcome to Dreamland Local producer Bryan Hamilton has described Welcome to Dreamland as a "bunch of angels talking to each other." The ethereal quality of the description gets at the heart of Dreamland. | 11/22/2011
• BeerFace and Pointing Fingers: (7'' Split Single) Songs about gettin' trashed are hardly original, but BeerFace's "Number One" is a slick late '80s party rap retread. Anchored with a mean funk bass line, slow drum break, and a wealth of booze-themed foley, BeerFace (operating as Louie Dollars in other proj | 11/16/2011
• Music-astute Northside club aspires to be more than just another strip venue You’ve probably heard about Endless Music’s recent format change. In September, the club (formerly Scout Bar at Hwy 281 and Redland) was acquired by Sugar’s/Perfect 10 Clubs. | 11/9/2011
• Bryan Hamilton's trials with modernity Producer Bryan Hamilton sleeps on the floor. He has no job and only a few months left in his unemployment benefits. But he's optimistic. "Money's really not that big of a deal to me," he said in a recent phone interview. "It comes when I need it to come." | 11/9/2011
• Live & Local: Pokell and Dooley at Creeps and Ghosts Oh, rap shows. Why are you so strange? Do we just live in a world that belongs to rock ‘n’ roll or have I been brainwashed into believing that a show must feature guitars and drums in order to be evocative? | 11/2/2011
• Justice: Audio, Video, Disco Like the Strokes in 2001, Justice's 2007 arrival signified a paradigm shift in their genre. | 11/2/2011
• The new Terrordome: Why Public Enemy still matters Things have cooled somewhat for Public Enemy, the self-proclaimed “Prophets of Rage.” They made five albums post-2000, all of which failed to match the impact of their first turn-of-the-’90s dynasty. | 11/2/2011
• Daniel "Tatita" Márquez: Haribol Márquez's Haribol (a Hare Krishna greeting roughly translated as "chant the name of God") | 10/26/2011
• Live & Local: Blackbird Sing at Boneshakers Boneshakers, that claustrophobic bicycle bar with scattered lighting and thin crowds, felt like “Anybar, USA” last Friday night. | 10/12/2011
• Live & Local: Morris Orchids at LoneStar Studios Leonard Rader — guitarist, vocalist, and one half of the creative nucleus of Morris Orchids — describes his band as more “album-” than “stage-” oriented. | 10/19/2011
• Gun Selectah: Gun Selectah EP This EP is misleading for a number of reasons. First, it's a heavy EP, weighing in at nine tracks and a hair shy of 40 minutes. | 10/19/2011
• Pillow Talk embraces the suck with an easy country tempo Generally, musicians and music fans fall into two camps: those who believe that creativity has a shelf life and those who don’t. | 10/19/2011
• Songstress Choffel heading east The national promise. It’s something entertainment journalists with local/regional beats get caught up in sometimes | 10/12/2011
• Local review of Say Revenge!: Rough Night, Sugar? The debut album by Say Revenge! walks a fine line. | 9/28/2011
• Live & Local: Sexto’s sendoff? It hurts when a great band plays past their expiration date. | 10/5/2011
• Das Racist: Relax | 10/5/2011
• Portugal. The Man tumble in the Texas rough Back in 2010, Portugal. The Man (intentionally punctuated) got roughed up by Texas and were better for the wear. | 10/5/2011
• DJ Shadow: The Less You Know, the Better DJ Shadow's last outing, 2006's The Outsider, was a schizophrenic mixtape split between Bay Area crunk and laborious retreads. | 9/28/2011
• Live & Local: Mission Complete! at Indie Fest 2011 Mission Complete!'s performance last Friday at Indie Fest 2011 was summed up in the set's final number "Metroplex." | 9/28/2011
• Founding father of H-Town rap keeps pluggin’ in ‘wicked’ industry Learning about K-Rino (born Eric Kaiser) involves re-evaluating what it means to be hardcore. | 9/28/2011
• Live & Local: Sight 4 Sore Eyes at The Mix The band’s press release claimed they would “destroy” the club. | 9/14/2011
• Chemistry and chaos help lift the Ground’s art-rock If the Ground were known by any other name, one might consider Points of Contention. Or maybe Points of Polite Disagreement. | 9/7/2011
• Rene Lopez: E.L.S. | 8/31/2011
• Aperture is unclassifiable but no sludge factory Aperture are playing their first headlining show at Jack’s Bar this Saturday. | 8/24/2011
• Local Review of Egshan: 111 | 8/24/2011
• Power up Gamers are typically no sufferers of hardship. | 8/17/2011
• Beats, Rhymes & Life doc plumbs the tortured creativity of A Tribe Called Quest Haters, brace yourselves. | 8/10/2011
• Local Review of Glambilly: White BBQ Sauce | 8/17/2011
• Jay-Z and Kanye West: Watch the Throne | 8/17/2011
• Noxious Foxes: Légs Some sub-styles of rock are just limited by their own conventions. | 8/10/2011
• DJ Raff: Latino & Proud DJ Raff's U.S. debut is a strange bird | 8/3/2011
• Live & Local: Jai Roots and the Herb-n-Café at España Bar de Tapas Jai Roots played España with his Herb-n-Café Project | 7/27/2011
• Grieves: Together/Apart Grieves will catch flack for sounding like emo-hip-hop duo Atmosphere | 7/27/2011
• Mega Man celebrate 8-bit while calling it quits Here’s something you may not expect from the members of synth-rock video-game cover outfit Mega Man. | 7/27/2011
• Local review of Bad Breaks: KRTU Plugged In Session There is no escaping the specter that looms over Bad Breaks, the recently re-invigorated project helmed by drummer/songwriter Chuck Kerr | 7/20/2011
• Hyperbubble: Drastic Cinematic Hyperbubble's fourth release is a creative U-turn from 2010's Candy Apple Daydreams. | 7/20/2011
• Various Artists: Blow Your Head Vol. 2: Dave Nada Presents Moombahton | 7/13/2011
• The origins and evolution of DMP’s Monkeyfest Both Drunken Monkey Promotions and Monkeyfest were conceived like most big ideas. in a bar with a pound (or probably a liter) of courage. | 7/6/2011
• Atari Teenage Riot: Is This Hyperreal? Atari Teenage Riot’s first album in 11 years. | 7/6/2011
• RX Bandits guitarist Steve Choi reflects on 16 years and one final tour To hear Steve Choi of RX Bandits tell it, there was never a proper sit-down about changing the sound of the SoCal third-wave ska group formed in 1995. There was no mission statement, no formal realization, no heady, late-night conversation over a bowl and brews. | 6/29/2011
• Yes, Inferno: Yes, Inferno | 6/29/2011
• Live & Local: Yes, Inferno at Limelight “Something just died, no clue,” said Richard Garcia, one of two guitarists for heavy math rockers Yes, Inferno, after their album release set on Friday, June 17, at Limelight. Richard, always one to banter since his earliest days as solo artist Romeo Gol | 6/22/2011

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