After 2008’s dance-punk album Antidotes and 2010’s relaxed Total Life Forever, Foals could have gone in any direction imaginable, but with Holy Fire it matures into a guitar-driven rock band.
Following...
A live recap of what happened at Sunday night's Grammys. Here is everything you missed, and some things you really didn't.
10:30 LL Cool J "does a lil' rapping"...
In a cozy apartment complex just east of the iconic stretch of South Congress Avenue, all seven of local pop-rock heroes Driver Friendly are packed into the living room of one of the units, laughing, joking,...
In the halls of the Butler School of Music, muffled melodies barely escape the soundproofed practice rooms as students diligently rehearse on an array of instruments. But it is not only students working...
Music will probably not save the human race or bring about world peace, but according to current psychological research, it does possess certain healing powers.
From the prehistoric chanting of primitive...
The Bronx has proved itself in polar opposite genres. After three self-titled punk albums, The Bronx I, II and III, the band turned heads in 2009 when it announced a transition to classical mariachi music...
The new My Bloody Valentine record, “m b v,” doesn’t sound like I expected it to. I couldn’t have dreamed up anything like this.
It explodes with creative, noisy energy. With...
Somewhere deep in the expanses of the Austin music scene, between the shaggy-haired garage rockers and the hushed voices of indie pop is a band whose sugary tales of youth are as swoon-inducing as its...
Tegan and Sara’s latest album, Heartthrob, sees the identtical twin sisters in pop overdrive, trading guitar chord progressions for synthesizer melodies. In the follow-up to 2009’s Sainthood,...
Fresh out of the studio after recording its first full-length album, punk/hardcore act Fingers Crossed is anticipating a busy year. The quintet, originally from Houston, has relocated to Austin since its...
When Waterloo Records first opened in 1982, CDs were just coming of age, digital formats were nothing but a futuristic myth and vinyl albums and cassettes reigned supreme when it came to music sales. Now,...
Like many 17-year-old boys, Eric Dingus tends to spend a lot of his time tucked away in his South Austin bedroom. Instead of toiling away in front of a gaming device, Dingus sits behind his laptop producing...
