Tedious chores moonlight as signifiers for a young adult’s coming of age. Paying taxes, doing your own laundry, learning how to cook. During my college days, I often winced and skimped as much as I ...
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 ...
It’s no exaggeration to say that music and film have always been connected. Their unity has always been integral to each other’s success and an audience’s understanding of characters, places, and stories, real or otherwise. ...
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 ...