Music:
The 31st annual TCF has attractions for all tastes: the young, the old, and the fusion-minded. But none of those attractions shine more than the potential for three, five, 10, 15 minutes, or whatever...
By Enrique Lopetegui
5/16/2012
Music:
Fun Fact: Carlos Herrera, sonic architect of smartypants dance outfit PepSquad, is greatly inspired by the professional lives of his sisters.
By Adam Villela Coronado
5/16/2012
Aural Pleasure Review:
Overdosed on retro-futurism? Pep Squad is not for you. But that’s what makes this debut so interesting.
By Adam Villela Coronado
5/16/2012
Aural Pleasure Review:
Santana’s first release on his newly formed Starfaith label is a mostly instrumental tour-de-force that pays homage to the indigenous peoples of...
By Enrique Lopetegui
5/16/2012
Aural Pleasure Review:
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...
By Adam Villela Coronado
5/16/2012
Aural Pleasure Review:
Unlike too many artists his age, Willie Nelson (who turned 79 in April) gets cooler and edgier with time. His latest album is a collection of country classics from...
By Enrique Lopetegui
5/16/2012
Music:
The word "supergroup" gets applied so readily and so reflexively, especially in the world of hard rock and heavy metal, that it's pretty easy to distrust instinctively.
By Leonard Pierce
5/16/2012
Music:
Next time anyone tells you conjunto is dead or just a regional thing, just say two words: Dwayne Verheyden.
By Enrique Lopetegui
5/16/2012
Music:
$35 (three-day Rosedale pass for Guadalupe members)
$40 (three-day Rosedale pass for non-members)
By Enrique Lopetegui
5/16/2012
Music:
"The band LOVES San Antonio," writes Grammy-winning producer Sebastian Krys about La Santa Cecilia, the first band he signed for his label...
By Enrique Lopetegui
5/16/2012
Music:
At age 68, Santiago Jiménez Jr. still tours and records, presses, designs, and releases his albums through his own label, Chief Records. Album number 75 will be...
By Enrique Lopetegui
5/16/2012
Aural Pleasure Review:
Everything you need to know about Kat Edmonson is encapsulated on track four of Way Down Low: a reading of the Beach Boys' “I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times.”
By J.D. Swerzenski
5/9/2012
Music:
French-Chilean rapper Ana Tijoux likes surprises. When she left Makiza, her first group, in 2001, she didn't write any music until 2004. Her solo debut Kaos (2007), however...
By Enrique Lopetegui
5/9/2012
Aural Pleasure Review:
Machine People marks the first of at least two 2012 releases from Mexican Stepgrandfather (here credited as Mex Step, Marco Cervantes in real life).
By Adam Villela Coronado
5/9/2012
Aural Pleasure Review:
Who the hell is "Karloz"? This is the type of album that sits for weeks and weeks on a music critic's desk as the writer works to shake their fears of yet another cheesy...
By Enrique Lopetegui
5/9/2012
Aural Pleasure Review:
Torche's newest brings their mastery of incredibly catchy, poppy, heavy rock into new realms of melody and tight songwriting. In a perfect world, this is the kind of stuff that...
By James Woodard
5/9/2012
Live & Local:
Though the line-up was all-around swell for the Rock Your Socks Off Festival at The Korova last Friday night...
By James Courtney
5/9/2012
Music:
The May 2 meeting of the city's Historic and Design Review Commission was supposed to be a routine green light for the plans to reopen Taco Land. But the legendary bar...
By Enrique Lopetegui
5/9/2012
Aural Pleasure Review:
By all logical accounts, the Dandy Warhols shouldn't still exist. The band miraculously survived '90s major-label alt-rock buzz and somehow avoided a...
By Marcus Rubio
5/2/2012
Aural Pleasure Review:
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...
By Adam Villela Coronado
5/2/2012
