[rating=9.00] Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros have always seemed most comfortable exploiting their innate eccentricity, a sprawling hippie ensemble whose members seem to come and go, leaving frontman and
[rating=9.00] Melody and muscle aren’t always mutually compatible, given the fact that many times one precludes the other. Nevertheless, there are instances one trait can actually enhance to the other,
[rating=7.00] Athens, Georgia band New Madrid is an unorthodox bunch to say the least, a group whose emphasis on chants, rhythms and squalling guitars places them more in the category
[rating=6.00] Credit to where credit is due: Stephen Stills, Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Barry Goldberg refused to allow their cross-generational super-grouping of 2013 to remain a one-shot collaboration. But it’s
[rating=7.00] On the surface, you could characterize A Giant Dog’s Merge debut, Pile (get it?), as anthemic garage rock and call it a day. But what makes this Austin band so
In the newest installment of Wannabe, artist Chris Prunckle reviews the new album from Texas singer-songwriter Daniel Markham, Disintegrator, in his signature six-panel comic strip form. Click on the image for full resolution:
[rating=8.00] Spanning a career over half a century, one of the most memorable guitar tones and vocal deliveries ever to grace Nashville, and a Lightnin’ Hopkins obsession that may rival
[rating=8.00] Greyhounds are that rare act that with foot in the past and one foot in the future and plenty of style to boot. For 15 years the Austin duo
[rating=8.00] An all star collective comprised of Will Kimbrough (vocals, guitar, banjo, mandolin, Harmonica), Anthony Crawford (vocals, guitar, piano, violin), Grayson Capps (vocals, guitar, harmonica), Corky Hughes (guitar, pedal steel,
[rating=7.00] Montreal-based Plants and Animals have been together in some form or another for the past fifteen years. The indie-pop trio is comprised of guitarist-vocalists Warren Spicer, multi-instrumentalist-vocalist Nic Basque
