- Skrillex, the Avett Brothers and more to play Whitewater Amphitheater
Kevin Fowler, Reckless Kelly, Skrillex, Robert Earl Keen, the Avett Brothers and Ghostland Observatory are among the acts scheduled to play Whitewater Amphitheater in New Braunfels this spring and summer. The 5,600-person venue is entering its sixth season. The full schedule is below. Tickets and more info at whitewaterrocks.com. May 25 Kevin Fowler & Re […]
- Video: Arcade Fire performs at UT lecture
Win Butler, Regine Chassagne, Will Butler, and Marika Anthony-Shaw of Arcade Fire, who showed up to sing “This Land is Your Land” last Thursday with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, gave a lecture last night at UT about the ongoing crisis in Haiti. During the lecture they also performed acoustic versions of two of their songs, “Hait […]
- Review: Glen Campbell at Rodeo Austin
Glen Campbell brought his “Goodbye Tour” to Rodeo Austin on Sunday for a genuinely moving performance. As has been widely reported, Campbell is in the early stages of Alzheimer’s and has announced that this will be his last tour. Additionally, his latest album, “Ghost On the Canvas,” will be his last of new material. “I […]
- 'Big Easy Express' rolls into UT
Who knew the LBJ lawn at the University of Texas was the perfect setting for a mini-festival? The camaraderie between Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, and Old Crow Medicine Show was captured in the documentary that followed their train tour last year. That friendly, hippie musical vibe spilled out from the screen through the 8,000 pe […]
- Transmission Entertainment on the A$AP Rocky "brawl" and "mayhem" Saturday
After hearing reports of “mayhem” and a “brawl” involving buzzy Harlem rapper A$AP Rocky’s crew Saturday at the Vice Party at Tops Warehouse, reporter Chad Swiatecki checked in with Transmission Entertainment’s James Moody for a few more details about what went down. Moody, who was not on site at the time but received a fu […]
- SXSW review - Matthew Dear, Penguin Prison and more at ND
You have to like it when a venue and a SXSW lineup come together and fit just about perfectly. Since its ambitious launch in early 2010 The ND at 501 Studios has seemed like the perfect haven for dance-y rock acts and DJs, being that it’s a big, tall concrete square box with a great sound system that lets beats roll around and reverberate makes it pret […]
- Scene report - Fader Fort and the cult of FOMO
Right around the time superstar rapper Rick Ross was taking the stage to perform for a wholly underwhelmed crowd of several thousand both thoughtfully and dismissively dressed fans at the Fader Fort, a sort of messenger angel appeared out of the back of the crowd. Looking pensive and all of maybe 25, he wore shorts, boat shoes and a shirt that tried to act a […]
- SXSW review: Nas performs 'Illmatic'
(Ricardo B. Brazziell AMERICAN-STATESMAN) A few minutes before Nas’ set time, the perfect stranger of an audience member seated next to me handed me his iPhone so that I could read a text message: “Hurry to ACL Live…rumor has it special guests Ye, Jay Z and Weezy will be there. “ While none of those special, special guests showed, Nas […]
- SXSW review: Sleigh Bells
It’s a good thing much of Saturday evening’s ACL Live audience arrived early to ensure entrance to see hip hop legend Nas, because opening act Sleigh Bells started their set about 30 minutes earlier than the set time listed on the SXSW schedule. Using the grimy bombast of hip hop beats pushed to their voluminous digital breaking point, ‘80s […]
- SXSW review: Something Fierce, Mean Jeans and Bad Sports
Something Fierce, Mean Jeans and Bad Sports at the Dirtnap Showcase From: Houston, Portland, Austin How was it? Fantastic. On a week when music superstars sucked up a lot of the attention, a lot of stories were, and usually are, about who showed up at the Fader Fort, what special guests were going to join Nas at ACL Live, etc. People don’t show up at a […]
- SXSW scene report: The Red Bull Party with all the fence jumping
By Saturday night of SXSW, everyone is a little fried. A lot of music, a lot of parties, a lot of networking, a lot of drinking and a lot of walking add up to folks who are rallying themselves for one final push to the finish line. Add St. Patrick’s Day to that and you have a lot of folks who are rallying themselves for one final push to the finish lin […]
- SXSW scene report: Saturday night
(Pictured: Moog. Erich Schlegel FOR AMERICAN-STATESMAN As SXSW wound down, East Austin seemed to be just heating up, with bikes and pedicabs zipping all over and pedestrians trotting or loping or shambling all along East Sixth Street at least as far as Chicon, while cars just crawled dejectedly along. At the Hotel Vegas Patio, New Orleans’ Stooges Bras […]
- SXSW review: Los Po-Boy-Citos
The Palm Door is an especially pleasant but slightly out-of-the-way venue, and New Orleans salsa band Los Po-Boy-Citos had the misfortune of playing there in a time slot directly opposite Austin salsa powerhouse Grupo Fantasma. There were only a few dozen people in the audience — but Los Po-Boy-Citos had all of them dancing. Eventually, even a SXSW sta […]
- SXSW review: Justin Townes Earle
Justin Townes Earle was an edgy, riveting performer when I saw him at a Yard Dog day party two years ago, so I was glad there wasn’t too long a line to catch the last part of his set at Stubb’s Saturday. However, once I got in, I started to wonder if maybe a number of people had been and gone. Earle and his current band manifested no detectable c […]
- SXSW review: Norah Jones
While shuffling through the long line trying to leave Zona Rosa by its narrow exit Saturday, I overheard one guy say Norah Jones was really the kind of artist you want to listen to while sitting down. The fellow next to him added: “With a table. With a little candle on it. She’s always been more of a cabaret artist, to me.” Nobody was reall […]
- SXSW review: GZA featuring Grupo Fantasma and Brownout
A funky new hybrid act may have been born Saturday night when Wu-Tang legend GZA teamed up with Austin’s own Grupo Fantasma and Brownout to tear through some of the Staten Island rapper’s greatest hits. By the end of the show, which closed out SXSW for the year at the Warehouse District club Haven, GZA told the crowd: “The chemistry is love […]
- SXSW review: Latin Alternative Showcase at Beale Street Tavern
This is not your mother’s Latin music. That’s what the term Latin alternative basically means— it’s taking those nostalgic traditional Latin rhythms heard by an older generation and turning it on its head to create a new sound for new ears. Sala de Espera, an online Latin alternative music program, hosted some of the genre’s big […]
- SXSW scene report: America's Got Talent inadvertently crashes SXSW
“Who’s idea was it to do this during South By Southwest?” Howard Stern asked backstage at “America’s Got Talent,” the NBC show which taped auditions at the Long Center Saturday and Sunday. The Sirius/ XM radio personality, moonlighting as a judge on the show’s 7th season, said what he heard from his hotel room Friday […]
- SXSW review: Norah Jones
(Jack Plunkett ASSOCIATED PRESS) On Saturday, Norah Jones pulled off one of the rarest of SXSW tricks: She lured longtime fans to her showcase with an overt, up-front declaration that she would be playing—and playing only—material from her new forthcoming, unheard, album, Little Broken Hearts. No “Come Away With Me” or “Chasing […]
- SXSW scene: Maria's Taco Express and Yard Dog Art
Alejandro Escovedo’s Annual Taco Party on the patio of Maria’s Taco Express Saturday afternoon offered a terrific lineup in about the most relaxed setting you could likely find in Austin during SXSW, with an audience that appeared to include a lot of people from the neighborhood, as well as musicians milling around before or after their sets. I m […]
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