By Christian Wallace When the brain is asked to communicate “Southern rock” to the mind’s eye, it’s a safe bet that those first neural signals …
SHAD BLAIR Sawdust www.shadblair.com Gifted but obscure, Shad Blair has been knocking around the Austin-area country-folk talent pool for at least a decade, honing a …
By Michael Corcoran After parting ways with Columbia Records in 2013, Band of Horses, whose last alternative chart hit was “Laredo” in 2010, decided to …
MICHAEL MURPHEY Geronimo’s Cadillac A&M Records One of the greatest legends of Texas music isn’t a specific artist or band so much as it is …
By Chris Mosser Record Store Day! If you dig vinyl, or music of any kind, Record Store Day sounds like a good thing — and …
By Richard Skanse Country music has done right by Monte Warden, and for most of his life, the Austin singer-songwriter and band leader has been …
NEW MYSTERY GIRL Crawl Through Your Hair! Gutsy Dame/www.NewMysteryGirl.com Fourteen years ago, I wrote a review of Chrissy Flatt’s Wings of a Butterfly in which …
By Scott Schinder Welsh-born, Chicago-based renaissance man Jon Langford recently wrapped a typically action-packed SXSW, during which he performed multiple sets with four different bands …
By Nichole Wagner When their “Use Your Voice” tour supporting the League of Women Voters stopped at Bass Concert Hall on Tuesday, it was clear …
By Adam Dawson As Austin’s Guns of Navarone were winding down their run on the regional alt-country scene, guitarist/songwriter Cory Reinisch and bass player Dustin …
