Looking at the skies upon waking this morning, it’s easy to see that high pressure and cloudless skies will be the order of business here in ATX for the next few days. It reached the low 80s and what better …
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First off, the skyline of Austin looked striking last night. There’s something about tall buildings with colored lights and Austin with a mix of old and new scrapers sparkles at night with the figurehead the Capitol building. It’s all a …
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The celluloid shindig continued on an early note, at least for a Sunday morning, by checking out one of three “shorts†programs in this year’s SXSW lineup. Personally, I dig the shorts as much as anything and always make it …
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 I dig pulp, celluloid, and music. Cool posters out the ying-yang hanging everywhere, postcards plugging music and films, lo and high budget periodicals laying on record stores floors for the taking, what better place to overstimulate the senses in …
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I dig pulp, celluloid, and music. Cool posters out the ying-yang hanging everywhere, postcards plugging music and films, lo and high budget periodicals laying on record stores floors for the taking, what better place to overstimulate the senses in all …
Continue Reading “South by Southwest ’09 Boudin Barndance Chronicles for 3/13 & 3/14”
Compact Capsulesby Dan Ferguson Heartless BastardsThe MountainFat Possum It’s all over her voice, the letdown, the yearning. You can’t fake it. Listen to Erika Wennerstrom sing the songs embodying Heartless Bastards’ potential breakthrough The Mountain and it feels like it’s …
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Compact Capsulesby Dan Ferguson It’s a Ben thing this week, Kweller, who you may be aware of for his pop-centricities, and Nichols who if you dig the band Lucero he’s the scruffy-voiced, packs-a-day lead singer. Let’s go! Ben KwellerChanging HorsesATO …
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Compact Capsulesby Dan Ferguson Guy DavisSweetheart Like YouRed House Records RHR-CD-211 Since debuting in 1995, bluesman Guy Davis has been all about consistency, consistently good records, that is. A highly personal affair, Sweetheart Like You is no exception, but at …
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Compact Capsules for February 2009by Dan Ferguson Andy Friedman & the Other FailuresWeary ThingsCity Salvage Records CSR17 Dubbed by one writer as the “Hillbilly Leonard Cohen,” RISD grad and sometimes New Yorker cartoonist Andy Friedman plays country music, Brooklyn-style. Friedman …
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Compact Capsulesby Dan Ferguson Jamey JohnsonThat Lonesome SongMercury Nashville Records The curiosity was piqued when Jamey Johnson’s That Lonesome Song appeared on multiple Best-of-2008 lists from New York Times pop music scribes. “Somewhere between Jennings and Jones” he sings on …
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