• Wild Party: 'All Nighter EP' San Antonio quartet Wild Party’s sound may fall slightly short of their name, but on their debut EP they prove themselves to be experts at crafting a bouncy... | 5/7/2013
• The Whirlybirds: 'KRTU Plugged In Session' San Antonio’s Whirlybirds are the bubbling liquid of garage pop filtered through the snotty mesh of punk — masters of a tin and rev sound occasionally... | 5/8/2013
• Nick Mery: 'Gentlemen Streets' The first official release by Merykid under his own name is a slick neo-R&B affair replete with electro skittishness and auto-tuned croons. And though this... | 5/1/2013
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs: 'Mosquito' Alternative, art-punk darlings Yeah Yeah Yeahs are one of the most revered outfits in the indie-sphere. Capable of reinventing their sound... | 4/16/2013
• Tyler, the Creator: 'Wolf' On his third release, Tyler, the Creator blends almost innocent confessionals about his awkward attempts at love, his absent father, his deceased... | 4/3/2013
• Tyler, the Creator brings 'Wolf' to the Rabbit It’s been an insane four years for rapper, producer, video director, graphic artist, fashion designer, and gadfly Tyler Okonma — better known as Tyler... | 4/3/2013
• Wavves: 'Afraid of Heights' From his days making shit-caked beach-gaze virtually by himself, Wavves’ Nathan Williams — who now records and tours with Jacob Cooper and Stephen Pope... | 3/27/2013
• Justin Timberlake: 'The 20/20 Experience' Whatever the reasons for and results of his seven-year musical hiatus, Justin Timberlake’s return is an exultant record that delivers on the promise of... | 3/27/2013
• Lonely Horse celebrates EP release San Antonio's Lonely Horse is a two-piece tribe comprised of Nick Long and Travis Hild. They make dark folk-rock which crackles with bluesy riffs... | 3/20/2013
• David Bowie: 'The Next Day ' In the 10 years since David Bowie’s last release, 2003’s Reality, he has faced some documented and rumored health issues that left many of us... | 3/13/2013
• The Offbeats: 'F' (EP) The San Antonio four-piece The Offbeats — comprised of brothers Bryan, Colin, and Sean Foster along with guitarist Eric Romasanta — play a... | 3/13/2013
• Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell: 'Old Yellow Moon' Old Yellow Moon is an album that can be said to have been gestating for nearly 40 years, since Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell first... | 3/6/2013
• Local collective Ghostpizza drops its first compilation On any given day, if you ask Ghostpizza founder and leader Miguel Nelson just what exactly this awesomely named entity is, you get some variant of... | 2/20/2013
• The March Divide: 'Music for Film' Music for Films, the debut album from San Antonio's Jared Putnam (formerly of The Conversation) and company, leaves the listener lost in the anticipation of... | 2/13/2013
• Something Fiction: 'Mycology (EP)' Young Saytown head-trippers Something Fiction are back with an EP of new songs and remixes from 2011's patient and contemplative Botany EP. While each song... | 2/6/2013
• Alt Hip-hop hero MURS comes to The Korova Know him: Ever wish you could satisfy your lust for hip-hop without overlooking messages that degrade women, glamorize gun and... | 2/6/2013
• Aly Tadros: 'The Fits' "No time to waste," Aly Tadros repeatedly coos at the end of "Silence and the Truth" —  and she means it. The Fits, Tadros' deliberate and... | 2/4/2013
• Ill Prospekt: enigmatic SA band presents EP San Antonio outfit Ill Prospekt — a shape-shifting collective of purportedly up to 30 or... | 1/30/2013
• Yo La Tengo -Fade (Matador) Group's 14th studio album still sounds fresh after 20 years | 1/30/2013
• Blake Cormier and the Awkward Situation: 'Blake Cormier and the Awkward Situation' Recorded by the San Antonio expatriate Cormier with minimal help and released on Christmas day, this album is a welcome surprise. Following right along with... | 1/30/2013
• Yo La Tengo: 'Fade' | 1/23/2013
• Taddy Porter and Filligar play SA Known for occasionally bringing in some killer national and regional talent, Jack's Bar is kicking off 2013 right — on January 20 the venue will... | 1/16/2013
• Local music preview 2013 With 2013 now upon us and the foretold apocalypse averted for now, we set our energies toward realizing and lifting high our hefty hopes for... | 1/2/2013
• Two of the Current's top critics agree on the local artist of the year … but not on the album LOCAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Marcus Rubio's Hello Dallas (EP). Put out in a rush job just days before his departure to grad school and... | 12/26/2012
• War Room (fka Limelight) bunkers down on North St. Mary's The North St. Mary's strip has been a go-to spot for generations of live music aficionados, weeknight dance addicts, cheap drink revelers, and local... | 12/19/2012
• Pop Pistol: 'Animal Prisms' Animal Prisms — Pop Pistol's sophomore LP — manages to transcend influences, technical roadblocks, and the contemporary music milieu to find its own... | 11/7/2012
• Jackson Albracht takes Cartographers off the the map. For now For the last five years, Cartographers have been one of the most creative, engaging, irreverent, and technically talented forces in San Antonio music. | 11/7/2012
• The Rosedale Highs: 'Go Down' Rosedale Highs sound as if your favorite '90s pop-punk band and your favorite '60s garage-pop group had a child who spent far too much time with Elvis Costello. On... | 10/31/2012
• Cold-Blooded: Murder by Death Descend on The Korova Murder by Death is an enigmatic and largely unsung folk-rock outfit hailing from Bloomington, Indiana. For over 10 years they have been cranking... | 10/25/2012
• Pink: 'The Truth About Love' Pink gets credit here for sticking to her guns — after all, she's always been a chameleon in style and a damaged postmodern romantic in content. But it is worth... | 9/26/2012
• Matchbox 20: 'North' I'll make this as quick and painless as possible. First of all, Matchbox 20 still exists (yes, the “push you around” guys). Secondly, they have a new record and... | 9/12/2012
• Blackbird Sing previews upcoming debut album San Antonio's Blackbird Sing — winner of Shiner Music's Rising Star competition in 2011 — play a hybrid best described as crunchy country or fuck-yeah folk... | 9/12/2012
• Animal Collective: 'Centipede Hz' Fierce and fiery, alien and nostalgic in one gasp, Animal Collective's ninth album is an amalgamation of the most gratifying idiosyncrasies and musical themes from... | 9/12/2012
• Whiskey Ships set sail with Soft Enterprise Diverse elements collide peacefully and quite pleasantly on Soft Enterprise, the latest effort from San Antonio songwriter Mike Chapa's Whiskey... | 9/5/2012
• Yeasayer: 'Fragrant World' With their third album, Brooklyn's Yeasayer prove once again that they have no interest in artistic stillness. Picking up — in part — where 2010's Odd Blood... | 8/29/2012
• Andrew Espinola: 'Into the Drink' EP Newly transplanted from Austin to San Antonio, singer-songwriter Andrew Espinola makes direct and refreshing songs that are best classified as alt-country or... | 8/29/2012
• Local band to watch: Last Nighters A remarkably cohesive whole with parts born in disparate locales, Last Nighters is a San Antonio band with a far more fully realized sound that you'd expect from a... | 8/22/2012
• Last Nighters: 'Animal Room' Animal Room, the debut LP by San Antonio’s Last Nighters, plays like something of a concise history of modern Southern indie music. From blues to pop to country... | 8/15/2012
• The Very Best: 'MTMTMK' The marriage of London-based production/DJ duo Radioclit and Malawian singer Esau Mwamwaya, The Very Best has yielded both deeply soulful and... | 7/25/2012
• Bad Breaks: 'Bad Breaks' Bad Breaks really captures my attention at the moment of transition into "Seppuku," the album's second (and best) song. It's a jarring transition that reminds me to... | 8/1/2012
• Nas: 'Life is Good' Though universally considered one of the greats, Nas has worked, to some extent, in the shadow of Biggie and 2Pac since his rapturous emergence in 1994. | 7/25/2012
• Marcus Rubio: 'None of the Birds: Songs 2009-2011' Even as local music gadfly Marcus Rubio's latest album satisfies my longing for pre-2000s Bright Eyes, it ranges across a breathtakingly broad spectrum of musical flavors. Neurotic songs about... | 7/18/2012
• Dirty Projectors: 'Swing Lo Magellan' As subtly disorienting an experience as Swing Lo Magellan is, it represents a move to center by indie rock’s most unflinchingly avant-garde outfit. | 7/18/2012
• Chris Maddin: 'The Tiago Splitters' Chris Maddin's backing band on this album, for whom it is named, is something of a Saytown super-group. The most important thing we get, however, from... | 7/11/2012
• Fiona Apple: 'The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do' In the fourth coming of Fiona Apple, with its darkly philosophical title that sounds as though Emily Dickinson could have written it, the listener is — at once — therapist... | 6/20/2012
• Something Fiction: 'Botany' EP Thanks to their amorphous explorations of genre and musical color, Something Fiction is a difficult group to pin down, placing themselves willfully and... | 6/13/2012
• Dent May: 'Do Things' In a recent complaint from his twitter account (@dentmay), Dent May unwittingly summed up his new album’s character: “Call me chillwave one more time and... | 6/13/2012
• Dent May will Do Things to you Born in Mississippi and now back to bloom where he was planted, Dent May’s aesthetics and attitude are carefree and colorful in a uniquely southern way. | 6/13/2012
• Marissa Nadler: 'The Sister' Very few contemporary artists, or listeners for that matter, have the patience for music like Marissa Nadler's languid and heartbreaking folk. The music seems... | 6/6/2012
• Live & Local: Vincent Vega Though the line-up was all-around swell for the Rock Your Socks Off Festival at The Korova last Friday night... | 5/9/2012
• Jack White: 'Blunderbuss' For those who think of Jack White as a rock god turned eccentric music mogul peddling odd (and awful) one-off collaborative singles from a gaudy yellow... | 5/2/2012
• The Mars Volta: 'Noctourniquet' The Mars Volta is back. Back from a three-year hiatus, back from the bad Ouija trip of two albums too full of concept, and back to where they left off with... | 4/4/2012
• The Decemberists: 'We All Raise Our Voices to the Air (Live Songs 04.11-08.11)' Musically and commercially the Decemberists are in an ideal position to take full advantage of the live album's ability to showcase (prove?) unique talent and... | 3/21/2012
• Cloud Nothings: Attack on Memory In Attack on Memory, Dylan Baldi (recording as Cloud Nothings) has made his most refreshing — even prescient — work. From blistering yet beautifully trance-inducing opener... | 2/1/2012
• Atlas Sound: Parallax There is an eye of the storm quality that attends this album, like other Atlas Sound outings before it... | 11/16/2011

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