The Sound & the Fury:
It's hard to keep up with so many local bands releasing new (and good) albums. This week you can't miss The Rafiki Project's CD release party for...
By Enrique Lopetegui
2/1/2012
Aural Pleasure Review:
Consisting of tracks compiled from 7-inches, splits, compilations, and live bootlegs, this reissue presents a cross-section of early- to mid-career Harvey Milk; and while some of the...
By James Woodard
2/1/2012
Aural Pleasure Review:
The latest record from this legendary San Antonio expatriate collects four haunting piano pieces that are largely characterized by the dichotomy between space and sound. Gene has always...
By Marcus Rubio
2/1/2012
Aural Pleasure Review:
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...
By James Courtney
2/1/2012
Music:
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?"
By Adam Villela Coronado
2/1/2012
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Music:
When I first saw Marcus Rubio perform, he was a skinny, beardless teen whose one-boy orchestra blew me away at Blue Star in 2004. He was 16, and there was no Gospel Choir of Pillows then...
By Enrique Lopetegui
2/1/2012
Aural Pleasure Review:
Folk queen (and Queen of the Independents) Ani DiFranco returns with a delectable treatise of protest anthems and feminist discourse. In "Which Side Are You On Now?"
By Veronica Anne Salinas
1/27/2012
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Music:
If people are judged by the company they keep, then Dallas-based multi-instrumentalist Daniel Hart has "next big thing" written all over him. Hart has worked with indie icons...
By Chuck Kerr
1/25/2012
Aural Pleasure Review:
It's hard to argue that Uruguayan Francis Andreu is the best modern tango vocalist since the advent of Argentina's Adriana Varela and Cristóbal Repetto. Unlike the early 20th century, high-pitched, nasal tone of Repetto, Andreu belongs to the Roberto Goyene
By Enrique Lopetegui
1/25/2012
Aural Pleasure Review:
No one can ever accuse Prurient's Dominick Fernow of being a slacker. Last year, he released two "proper" albums, toured with Cold Cave, and cryptically...
By Marcus Rubio
1/25/2012
Aural Pleasure Review:
Chimes, Amnesty International's bake-sale, gives 75 insanely varied artists the chance to play Dylan for a day. Name a musician and they're probably on here: Johnny Cash?
By Jeremy Martin
1/25/2012
Aural Pleasure Review:
In 1970, Alex Chilton was about to maneuver a truly remarkable rock 'n' roll reinvention: from voice of blue-eyed soul act the Box Tops to mastermind of...
By J.D. Swerzenski
1/25/2012
Live & Local:
How do you make headphone music into an interesting live experience? Ernest Gonzales (aka Mexicans with Guns) seems to have considered this at length before...
By J.D. Swerzenski
1/25/2012
Music:
You know you're in a venue that takes its commitment to music seriously when you see Jack Saenz, winner of a Grammy and a Latin Grammy for his work with...
By Enrique Lopetegui
1/25/2012
Sound & the Fury:
The all-ages event is this Saturday at the White Rabbit (2410 N St. Mary's) and goes from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. As in the previous five years, Artslam! 6 is...
By Enrique Lopetegui
1/25/2012
Music:
Shelby Lynne doesn't care about image or marketing. She will drop an emphatic F-bomb while making a point, or perhaps note her feature in High Times. Of course, after a life marked by tragedy...
By Chris Parker
1/24/2012
