When now Austin-based indie pop band Letting Up Despite Great Faults first released their self-titled debut back in 2009, the music scene was completely different. Spotify was nonexistent, and the place where bands got discovered ...
Did any band at SXSW have more fun at the fest than Ragamuffs? During their set at Las Perlas, Ragamuffs bandleader Haley Finesse and her band ran through a quick set of hits off of ...
In a way, Kainalu (Trent Prall)’s music sounds timeless. Even back when he released his first Bloom Lagoon EP (2017) and its pulsing retro-psychedelic debut album Lotus Gate (2019), Kainalu’s music already established itself as ...
Get to your nearest mall and head to Hot Topic because it’s 2022 and pop punk has returned in force. Among the influx of bands rejuvenating the scene, there’s Orlando based Ivypaint. Fronted by lead ...
The walls of Captain Quackenbush’s Coffeehouse were shaking as indie rock veterans +/- (Plus Minus) threw their entire weight into the venue miles away from Austin’s downtown. Although the crowd was small, it was fiercely ...
On I Just Want to Be Wild For You, the sophomore album of Portland-based indie-rocker MAITA (Maria Maita-Keppler), there’s a buzzy energy that lends itself to both introspection as well as liberating rock-out jams. Songs ...
Appropriately, the slate of films at SXSW 2022 featured many intimate stories about music. Among them was Alice Gu’s sonically soothing documentary Really Good Rejects. Really Good Rejects focuses on Reuben Cox, a luthier (guitar ...
In the hot and strobing elevated cocktail bar of Higher Ground, you could hear Kiana V bringing mellow and danceable tracks to the streets of Austin. If you had been in the crowd, you would ...
Atlanta fans were forced to be patient for nearly four years. We last left Earn, “Paper Boi,” Darius, and Van coming to terms with shifting careers and responsibilities in 2018. So after almost a complete ...
When it comes to video game-to-screen adaptations, the following result of such a venture usually falls under two camps – either it’s okay, or it becomes the internet’s punching bag for the next few weeks. ...