February 11, 2013 5:13 am by: Paul Carrubba

Photo by Terry Nguyen
Next Tuesday, February 19, Beach Fossils release their third full-length Clash the Truth....
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On Saturday February 9, the great Joe Ely turns 66.... » read more
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Boise, Idaho-native Trevor Powers is an anxious kid. At 22, he’s a long-time sufferer of debilitating panic attacks and chronic anxiety. He’s also a creative kid. Powers crafts delicate, dreamy pop songs under the name of
Youth...
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In 1997 Californian organist Ethan Holtzman took a trip to Cambodia. On that trip Holtzman discovered the sounds of 60s Cambodian rock, a strange brew of fuzzy guitars and eastern melodies. Holtzman was hooked. When he got back to the states he teamed up with his brother, guitarist Zac Holtzman,...
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Gaby Moreno is originally from Guatamala City, Guatamala, but some distinctly American music is what inspired her to become a songwriter and record her own songs.
When she was a little girl, she was mesmerized by an African-American...
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Mario Matteoli has been a fixture in the Austin music scene since he was nineteen. For years, you could see him around town (or at a number of clubs around the country) as the frontman for
the Weary Boys, a cow-punk quintet known...
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Real Estate are among a crop of bands that craft music that's lo-fi and largely low-stakes. But the New Jersey group has always seemed destined for bigger things, thanks to the strong pop songwriting of lead singer
Martin Courtney....
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A few years back,
Kathryn Calder found herself in an enviable--if not daunting--position. The young Canadian musician was asked to fill in for
Neko Case on a tour with the
New Pornographers, but "filling in"...
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Jon Langford's solo career demonstrates his unique ability to combine the earnestness of punk with honest, soul-bearing folk and Americana....
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It ain’t rock and roll unless someone’s angry. Atlanta-based garage-rockers
The Black Lips have caused their share of rage. From horrified club owners that’ve banned them to the Indian law enforcement that chased them out of the...
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Austin’s very own
Black Joe Lewis is a dangerous man. He’s bluesman with a punk rock heart, and a soul-shouter unafraid to let wring his heart out on every track. With his band the Honeybears, Lewis brings back the immediacy and the...
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There are many hyphenated iterations of the label “pop” used to describe the band
Ra Ra Riot. Indie-pop, chamber-pop, baroque-pop are just a few. At the end of the day, though, they are simply a great pop band in all of its un-hyphenated...
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Garage, pop, R&B, blues, and country: on any given night in Austin you'll find a number of bands playing these genres in hundreds of clubs. But for the
Strange Boys, all of these sounds fit into their own brand of music. The local group...
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hy do we put the prefix “alt” in “alt-country”? What’s more country, top-forty with a twang or a band that writes heartfelt songs and slogs it out on van tours? Because a group of hard-working, ever-touring yankees from Providence, Rhode Island called
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Possessed By Paul James's raucous, stomping, punk-inflected folk may, at first glance, bear little resemblance to polite church music, but it burns with the same intensity and honesty as faith....
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Liam Finn has been lauded as a musical heir to his father Neil Finn (of Split Enz and Crowded House fame), but his own songwriting stands completely on its own merits. He first achieved press for his 2007 solo debut
I'll Be Lightning,...
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