DITCH Your Plans | Austin City Limits Music Festival is Here
So, you've just gotten to work. You've poured your coffee and you're wondering why the drive to work was, on a Friday, slightly easier this morning. And, as you check into your social media feed,...
Jon Pardi’s Lucky Tonight Tour | Stubb’s Outdoors October 20
Jon Pardi/Midland/Runaway June play Stubb's Friday, October 20, 2017 • Show at 7:00 p.m. • Get Tickets Here Jon Pardi's current single "Heartache on the Dance Floor" is top 5-and-climbing on the Billboard Country Airplay charts and marks...
Depeche Mode | Sexy Relevance
Depeche Mode, Austin360 Amphitheater, September 20, 2017. All photography Amy Lemen & Sparta Komissarova I first saw Depeche Mode in 1990 on the World Violation Tour to support the release of Violator. Alt rock band...
Surviving Austin City Limits Music Festival 2017 | A Quick Guide
So, you’ve gotten or are getting your ACL one-day or three-day wristband. You’ve got the weekend planned and your crew is prepping for a fantastic time in Zilker Park. Fingers crossed, the mercury on the...
Listen. You Can Hear It Coming. | Austin City Limits Music Festival
You can almost hear it, if you listen closely. Carrying in on the breeze, there’s a song in the air. Maybe it’s haunting, saying “I cannot remember anything you said…” It could be whispering, “You...
A Texas Legend Lengthens His Shadow – Lyle Lovett at ACL Live at the Moody Theater
[Author's note: This show was on the eve of Hurricane Harvey hitting the Houston and Gulf Coast areas. It seemed poor timing to release the review while so many of our neighbors were in peril....
A (New) Lone Star on the Rise
If you don’t consider Texan Aaron Watson a household name, on par with the likes of Willie Nelson and Lyle Lovett, give it a little time. He didn’t sign to a Nashville label when he...
Foreigner at 40: Still Feels like the First Time
What kind of birthday party starts with “Rock and Roll” involves the “Dream Police” and ends feeling “Hot Blooded?” Check it and see, that would be the blistering event that unfolded at the Austin360 Amphitheater...
The Rage and the Rapture of Rock and Roll
Wind-blown shock red hair, fishnets and a snarl that still remembers mid-90s rage or maybe calls on it anew - how has Shirley Manson not aged a day? We know that Butch Vig hasn't....