Music:
“It might get a bit loud,” Álvaro del Norte tells me, as I proceed to sit in the middle of Piñata Protest’s 8 x 10 rehearsal space at a secret...
By Enrique Lopetegui
5/22/2013
Music:
Ask Alex Maas to define “psychedelic,” and he’s got an answer ready. “Eighteen grandmothers in a yellow polka-dot bikini, playing banjo...
By Jeremy Martin
5/22/2013
Aural Pleasure Review:
Fresh off shattering Spotify streaming records, Daft Punk return with their dance music history lesson, Random Access Memories. Rooted in the...
By M. R. Brown
5/21/2013
Aural Pleasure Review:
When some trendy new atrocity/has brought you to your knees/come with us/we'll sail the Seas of Cheese,” promises Les Claypool in the introductory track...
By Jeremy Martin
5/21/2013
Music:
It's no secret that the Texas metal scene of the ’80s kicked all sorts of New York, SoCal and Bay Area’s ass. But for whatever reason, bands like Anthrax...
By Gonzalo E. Pozo
5/22/2013
Music:
Five new hall of famers will be inducted into the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Conjunto Music Hall of Fame during the festival, bringing the...
By Jeffrey Wright
5/16/2013
Music:
If San Antonio is the mecca of conjunto, then the Tejano Conjunto Festival serves as the genre’s hajj — a chance to pay homage to accomplished...
By Jeffrey Wright
5/15/2013
Music:
As booking agent for Twin Productions, Erica Vigliante can really only keep her eye on the national scene. To her surprise, it took an...
By J.D. Swerzenski
5/15/2013
Aural Pleasure Review:
With the exception of Dirty Projectors, there’s really no more distinct-sounding band out today than Vampire Weekend. No matter your level of...
By J.D. Swerzenski
5/10/2013
Aural Pleasure Review:
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...
By James Courtney
5/7/2013
Music:
Christine Rebel always liked dogs, but her love of pit bulls became an obsession after she met Farrah Fawcett. Not the Charlie’s Angel, but Rebel’s...
By Enrique Lopetegui
5/8/2013
Aural Pleasure Review:
After three decades and more than 20 albums, Buzz Osborne and Co. return to melt faces with their latest effort, a collaborative album of covers that spans...
By M. R. Brown
5/7/2013
Aural Pleasure Review:
The dark songs come at you like a bulldozer and embrace you like a black octopus. Singer Jehnny Beth is a Patti Smith-meets-P.J. Harvey wailer...
By Enrique Lopetegui
5/7/2013
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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...
By James Courtney
5/8/2013
Aural Pleasure Review:
Chicago piano man Lucas Jack recently moved to San Antonio, and we can thank him for that. More Billy than Elton, he shares with both a penchant for...
By Enrique Lopetegui
5/8/2013
Aural Pleasure Review:
Should Iggy Pop be allowed to make another Stooges record? I mean, technically he has the right, but after sullying the Stooges perfect ’69-’73 trilogy with...
By J.D. Swerzenski
5/8/2013
Aural Pleasure Review:
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...
By James Courtney
5/1/2013
Music:
Due to an act of parental deception (more on that later), Texas rock god Alejandro Escovedo got his start in one of the least Lone Star-like...
By Jeremy Martin
5/1/2013
Aural Pleasure Review:
If you’re going to put out an EP, make sure it’s as good as La Santa Cecilia’s latest. Eight freaking singles, each one stronger than the next, by the...
By Enrique Lopetegui
4/24/2013
Music:
“I really want our art guy to win,” Metric singer-keyboardist-songwriter Emily Haines told the Current on April 16 from the Honolulu airport on her way...
By Enrique Lopetegui
4/24/2013
