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Going guerilla at South By Southwest
Music Stories Comments Mar 20, 2013 6:04pmAUSTIN, TEXAS — While hundreds, if not thousands, of suckers wait in line to watch The Flaming Lips from a hilltop at what might as well be driving distance, I’m miles away, cooking hamburgers at a...
Caravels conquer SXSW
Music Stories Comments Mar 20, 2013 5:53pmWhile the SXSW presence of Las Vegas bands was slim, we’re glad it included Caravels.The hardcore-influenced band’s Top Shelf Records showcase on March 14, at a DIY co-op house courtyard, was thick...
Three visiting bands to catch at Neon Reverb
Music Stories Comments Mar 20, 2013 5:51pmLas ArdillasThursday, 11:20 p.m., The Bunkhouse, $10The Slovenly Records Showcase will be a garage punk fan’s wet dream: two stages featuring unadulterated dive-rawk bands from all over the world....
Someone Sent Us These: Coastwest Unrest and Mercy Music
Music Stories Comments Mar 20, 2013 5:48pmCoastwest UnrestHigh Times on Lowly Streets (Reclaim Records)Bands tend to evolve slowly. But the difference between Coastwest Unrest’s second album, Old Weird America, and this new longplayer is...
Justin Tim-blah-lake
Music Stories Comments Mar 20, 2013 5:12pmJust because Justin Timberlake can make you giggle with his box-wrapped dick and is seemingly inhabited by the ghost of James Brown does not give him the goddamned right to hijack both the news...
Charity EP marks return of The Replacements
Music Stories Comments Mar 20, 2013 5:05pmBands of glory returning after years apart rarely equal the power they brought before. The more important the band, the truer that aphorism. Few bands were, and are, more important than The...
With a new EP and a new energy, The Clydesdale are rarin’ to go
Music Stories Comments Updated: Mar 27, 2013 3:36pmPaige Overton has sinus issues. Today, on her day off, every vowel has an accompanying -ng, every laugh morphs into a cough, every answer is shorter and rougher than the last. She sounds nothing like...
Two new Fremont venues bring an alternative to the alternative
Music Stories Comments Updated: Mar 20, 2013 4:16pmThe Griffin didn’t open with a red carpet. Insert Coins didn’t invite celebrity impersonators or Mini Me to its opening. And Beauty Bar likely didn’t introduce itself with a Vegas lounge band.But...
Someone Sent Us This: Various Artists, Cash For Clay
Music Stories Comments Mar 13, 2013 6:30pmVarious ArtistsCash For Clay (self-released)Cancer sucks. And so do the medical bills that go with it. Clay Heximer, drummer for The Mapes and local culture/history advocate, got hit hard when a...
Opening act worth shelling for: Miguel
Music Stories Comments Mar 13, 2013 6:06pmIf you’re like us, you find much of Alicia Keys’ catalog boring. But here’s one incentive to attend her show this week: slow-jam opener Miguel. Like Frank Ocean and Solange Knowles, Miguel paints his...
