January 29, 2013 7:35 am by: Laurie Gallardo
Time once again to sing the praises of the triple bill. It’s practically an Austin Music Minute staple – this is when there’s a show coming up with not one, n…...
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Seth Gibbs and Sabrina Ellis of local band Bobby Jealousy had a chat with Texas Music Matters host David Brown to discuss their latest album, The Importance…... » read more
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When
Sara House entered the picture,
The Couch frontman and songwriter Taylor Wilkins knew it was the right move. The man will tell you himself.
"She's the best thing that's happened to this band," Wilkins says. "She's...
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I often regale music fans with tales of my experiences watching
Shakey Graves perform. There's always one common factor: The audience reaction.
The first time I saw
Alejandro Rose-Garcia...
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Here I go, on another rave about some pretty cool triple bill business. This time around, it's sort of a psychedelic dance party on a more electronic plane. Here’s the line-up, and it’s all local artists, of course:
DIY electronic duo
End...
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Hope you're enjoying a nice, long Memorial Day weekend! The Austin Music Minute would like to suggest a killer live show to make it even better, featuring an AMM favorite,
Megafauna.
There are two sides to the story behind the...
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I'm rather excited for this band. Each time I see them, they're sounding better than ever.
The Preservation is an Austin-based quartet that specializes in what they like to call “cosmic-American” music, a description...
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Back in the mid-nineties, when “alternative” was used to describe underground or independent music scenes,
The Dandy Warhols got together in Portland, OR, founded by guitarist/vocalist
Courtney Taylor-Taylor and...
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Dang, but it's hard work making an album.
Now, any self-respecting musician would read that statement and probably have a blunt response: "Really? And it must be Obvious Day at Camp Stupid." (Or something like that. Random
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Mercy, but those harmonies are the
bomb. Yes, I said it.
The Carper Family is an
Austin Music Minute favorite.
Bassist
Melissa Carper, guitarist
Jenn Miori and fiddle...
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It's okay to say it. They know it's true.
T Bird and The Breaks has got to be the ultimate party band - if you're having a funk/soul party, that is. And I love how our very own
Rick McNulty once described them: “Think...
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Without question,
tUnE-yArDs delivers unconventional beauty. Words fail to appropriately capture something so captivating and so bizarre.
"Experimental" is too dismissive a description for this musical project of New England native...
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There's no mincing of words with local quartet
The Sweet Nuthin’. Up front, they'll let you know there's no B.S. Just sweet, sweet rock 'n' roll, made quite evident by their new self-titled five-track EP. It gets right to...
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It’s been four years since Toronto-based band
Great Lake Swimmers released
Lost Channels (2009), an album widely regarded as one of their best and most evocative. Critics and fans marveled at the vocal...
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There is something addictive about seeing
The Dalles perform. It was evident the first time I saw them live, and I also couldn't stop raving about their
unplugged "renegade...
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When public schools suffer budget cuts, the first things usually affected are art programs. Oftentimes, they're completely eliminated. Fortunately for some communities, there are local organizations that step up to fill in the gap and provide students with outlets in a variety of creative fields....
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