When I first moved to Austin 7 years ago, one of my roommates introduced me to a close-knit DIY community that encouraged, promoted and supported each other in their endeavors. Music, art and print were all a part of this wonderful clique that hosted parties and events in the form of house shows that littered…
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New bands can be difficult for me to write about because I don’t have a sizable catalog of music to elaborate on; many bands take a while to record a full-length or several EPs, so many great up-and-coming bands only have an EP of 3-4 songs to sell you with. That’s not really a problem…
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‘Gesamtkunstwerk’ is a concept borne of the composer Richard Wagner meaning ‘all-embracing art form’, or in laymen’s terms, the combination of multiple art forms; music, theater, sculpture, dance, literature, poetry and comedy are combined to create an epic that defies medium and is thus a medium unto itself. ‘Der Ring des Nibelungen’ is not just…
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Cut from the same cloth as The Mars Volta/At the Drive-In, Trail of Dead, and Hella, Southpaw Sonata is Prog-Punk with two capital Ps. They’re an inimitable niche in Austin’s emo/pop-punk scene that amplifies the best of their influences and contemporaries and augments the aspects that make them so great. Most songs are totally unrestrained in execution…
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Hikes is a band from Austin TX that blends math-rock, prog, folk and jazz into a truly unique and bracing sound. Their songs are inspired by the outdoors, and each one is a soundscape on which they reflect their surroundings through pitter-patters of cascading guitar figures, rain-drop pick strokes, riverbed bass lines and the rushing…
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