The “Fail of Fianna Fáil” and the Triumph of Fontaines D.C.’s Post-Punk Imaginings
NEW YORK, NY- They hurl jokes about the IRA, tauntingly call him “Paddy,” and tell him to go home. Grian Chatten, the frontman of Fontaines D.C., is an Irishman living in London. Though the UK of 2022 is not the landscape of The Troubles,…
Tori Amos Lays Her Soul Bare At ACL Live
AUSTIN, TX-Tori Amos is a treasure. The singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist played her final Texas show in Austin on May 1st. Accompanied by a phenomenal percussionist Ash Soan and bassist Jon Evans, Amos performed a great selection of her extensive material. Tori is touring behind…
Fan Girl Cafe Celebrates Women In Music With Stellar Lineup At The Troubadour
LOS ANGELES, CA- It’s a well-known fact that many industries in entertainment tend to be male-dominated. Women and female-identifying individuals have had to withstand the music, recording, and film industries with a chip on their shoulder, knowing they had to prove their worth and play…
Coconut Spaceship Stokes The Independent Fire With Lunar Bloom Festival
LOS ANGELES, CA- The indie music scene is important. So important. In fact, I’d say that its relevance in the grand scope of things means more to culture and the direction of the future of the arts than any millions a corporate machine could throw…
Mastodon Gives ACL Live A World-Class Shredding
LOS ANGELES, CA- Swedish Progressive metal band Opeth and Atlanta-based metal band Mastodon Co-headlined a long-awaited show at ACL Live on Friday, November 26th as part of their 2021 tour with support from Zeal & Ardor, an avant-garde Swiss/American metal project. My first introduction…
Black Lives Matter calls for month-long boycott of ‘white companies’
The Black Lives Matter movement’s national arm is leading a boycott of “white companies” until New Year’s Day, encouraging supporters to help “end white-supremacist-capitalism” by visiting only Black-owned businesses during the holiday shopping season. “White-supremacist-capitalism uses policing to protect profits and steal Black life,” reads…
LEVITATION 2021 Brings Music and Community To Austin
HOME PAGE | THURSDAY | FRIDAY | SATURDAY | SUNDAY AUSTIN, TX- Since starting as Austin Psych Fest in 2008, the Levitation Festival has continued as a full weekend event across multiple venues in downtown Austin from 2015 onwards, the name culled from the city’s psychedelic rock…
Check Out Photos and Found Video of The Hives, Sweet Spirit, Sasami and More at Levitation!
HOME PAGE | THURSDAY | FRIDAY | SATURDAY | SUNDAY AUSTIN, TX- On our last day of Levitation, we were able to catch some more great bands. Pussy Gillette, a Texas punk trio composed by a female vocalist and bass player Masani Negloria, Guitarist Nathan Calhoun…
Check Out Photos and Found Video of Kikagaku Moyo, Black Midi, A Place To Bury Strangers and George Clanton at Levitation
HOME PAGE | THURSDAY | FRIDAY | SATURDAY | SUNDAY AUSTIN, TX- My Friday at Levitation was kind of an international affair. I was able to catch Kikagaku Moyo (a five-piece Japanese psychedelic band from Tokyo), Black Midi (a progressive noise rock band from London that…
88rising’s Head In The Clouds Goes Big Brookside At The Rose Bowl
MAIN PAGE | SATURDAY | SUNDAY LOS ANGELES, CA- On November 5th, 2021, the first night of Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival 2021, a “crowd crush” resulted in the deaths of, as of November 17th, 2021, 10 people. Hundreds more were treated for injuries. As first-hand…
