Aural Pleasure Review:
The Panic Division's first album since the Sleepwalker EP (2009) feels like a second Colton Holliday solo album in its continuation of a mix he's grown comfortable with...
By Enrique Lopetegui
2/22/2012
![Saturday Night Satellites: \](/polopoly_fs/1.1273864.1329685052!/image/1278433481.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_100/1278433481.jpg "Saturday Night Satellites: \")
Aural Pleasure:
This local trio explores similar territory as Austin’s Black Angels,
mining sweltering neo-psych with raw garage presence.
By Chris Parker
2/19/2012
Live & Local:
The two-piece rock band format didn’t start with the White Stripes or The Black Keys. Back in the late ’80s, the Flat Duo Jets were already experimenting with the guitar-drums formula...
By Enrique Lopetegui
2/15/2012
![Piñata Protest: "Plethora \](/polopoly_fs/1.1270526.1328999963!/image/4281223381.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_100/4281223381.jpg "Piñata Protest: \"Plethora \")
Aural Pleasure:
In January 2010, Piñata Protest went through the last of five years of lineup changes: bassist Omar Nambo departed for L.A. to pursue other musical interests...
By Adam Villela Coronado
2/11/2012
![We Leave at Midnight: \](/polopoly_fs/1.1271758.1329257206!/image/1161614707.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_100/1161614707.jpg "We Leave at Midnight: \")
Aural Pleasure Review:
If you took Crosby, Stills & Nash and overdubbed them the way the Beatles recorded "Because," added the Band, Pet Sounds-era Beach Boys, and a pinch of doo-wop and blended it all with...
By Enrique Lopetegui
2/15/2012
![Live & Local: The Rafiki Project at Jack\](/polopoly_fs/1.1268524.1328643347!/image/2353108454.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_100/2353108454.jpg "Live & Local: The Rafiki Project at Jack\")
Live & Local:
If Matisyahu were a stoner into Sublime (minus the ska and ragamuffin stuff), he would sound like the Rafiki Project.
By Enrique Lopetegui
2/8/2012
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
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
