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Live & Local: Cinderleaf (first set)

By Steven Gilmore

Published: 11/11/2009

Types: Music

[Note: Our reviewer tapped out at intermission, but please post your own comments on the show’s second half at sacurrent.com.] Twenty-five songs are just too many for one night. Most bands don’t even have 25 decent songs to play live, forget about trying to run through them all in a row. Cinder...[MORE]

Live & Local: Starluck @ The White Rabbit

By Steven Gilmore

Published: 10/21/2009

Types: Music

The tweens are out in full-on prepubescent rage Saturday night at the White Rabbit. Locals Starluck headline a bill packed with 20 other bands for the Come and Take It compilation release. Awash in a sea of faux-hawks, I drift to the stage and find a clear observation spot. Let me tell you, this is ...[MORE]

Live & Local

By Steven Gilmore

Published: 10/14/2009

Types: Cover Story, Second Story

According to the flyer, Saturday night was the “Rockin’ for Racks” breast-cancer benefit show at the Ten Eleven. The only possible indication in the room was propped up behind the bar — a presumably empty breast self-exam kit that appeared to be a leftover from the 1970s. I didn’t see anyone lining ...[MORE]

Live & Local: Local Music

By Steven Gilmore

Published: 9/23/2009

Types: Cover Story, Second Story

If there’s one thing I love in this world, it’s a good circle pit. They’re hard to come by in San Antonio, but Prevail Within, who’ve been playing hard and fast in this town for several years, are looking to revive this nearly forgotten token of fan appreciation. Hoping for the opportunity to indulg...[MORE]

LIVE & LOCAL

By Steven Gilmore

Published: 9/9/2009

Types: Music

(Note: On Friday, September 4, the White Rabbit hosted the third annual Rick Sciaraffa birthday scholarship show. Sciaraffa, before his death in 2007, owned the club and played an instrumental role in establishing the local metal scene as we know it today. It is fitting that a collection of San Anto...[MORE]

LIVE & LOCAL

By Steven Gilmore

Published: 8/19/2009

Types: Music

Sometimes it’s just hard to pin a band down. Our Sleeping Giant, for instance, whose songs fly all over the genre radar. Singer Danny Gibbons opens the night with four solo acoustic tracks in rapid succession, journeying through the Dashboard Confessional-esque “Lost Art of the Mid-Range Jump-Shot,”...[MORE]

LIVE & LOCAL

By Steven Gilmore

Published: 7/29/2009

Types: Music, Rock/Pop

The Gatsby is a strange spot for a rock show. Paintings of jazz trumpeters and the high-class clientele cast a top-hat-and-monocle-shaped shadow over the jean-clad rockers set to perform. Access to the show is limited to adults 21 and older, which makes July’s presence in the room somewhat awkward, ...[MORE]

LIVE & LOCAL

By Steven Gilmore

Published: 7/1/2009

Types: Cover Story, Section Cover

We’ve all heard the maxim: “If the music is too loud, you’re too old.” In the case of the Grasshopper Lies Heavy, “loud” defines the music while the old are left bleeding from the ears. Now, I haven’t witnessed many three-pieces able to achieve such astounding heights of amplification outside of an ...[MORE]

The Blend?: Friday, April 24, Jack’s Patio Bar

By Steven Gilmore

Published: 4/29/2009

Types: Cover Story, Section Cover

As the Blend? set up to take the stage for their fourth-to-last show, guitarist Travis Simpson checked his mic with the words, “Hey, hey, my, my, rock and roll can never die.” If that were any indication how this set could go, the crowd and I were either about to begin a long night of Neil Young-ins...[MORE]