Lupe Fiasco @ The Belmont 11/30
Chicago born rapper Lupe Fiasco has come a long way since the nerdy, glasses wearing persona he once encapsulated early in his career. Straying from the traditional hip hop standards of the time,...
View ArticleEmarosa @ Dirty Dog Bar 11/12
Emarosa seems to be a band locked in a perpetual progression, not only sonically, but physically as well. Despite having undergone a bevy of line up variations since their inception in 2006, the...
View ArticleFossil Youth @ Shirley’s Temple 11/21
Fresh off the release of their full-length album A Glimpse of Self Joy, Fossil Youth will be heading to Texas to conclude their West Coast 2016 tour, which started earlier this month in Salina, Kansas....
View ArticleNothing @ The Sidewinder 12/1
Formed from the ashes of hardcore punk, dreamy shoegaze band Nothing is collaborating with fellow shoegazers True Widow, for a special, two-day Texas tour in Dallas and Austin. The dramatic history of...
View ArticleThe Mystery Lights @ The Sidewinder 12/1
New York garage rock band The Mystery Lights pride themselves in a 60s/70s, proto-punk, psych rock aesthetic, conveying the instrumentation of pioneers of the genres, such as The Velvet Underground,...
View Articletogether PANGEA @ The Sidewinder 11/25
West coast rock outfit together PANGEA hate being labeled, in the musical sense that is, so I will not label them as a garage punk band, Instead, I’ll simply say that they are a rock band that displays...
View ArticleGood Vibrations III: NOBUNNY @ Barracuda 12/2
As one of the headliners for the upcoming Good Vibrations festival, you can count on an over the top, outlandish, and possibly exposed rock & roll performance from Justin Champlin, better known by...
View ArticleGood Vibrations III: Reigning Sound @ Hotel Vegas 12/3
Since 2001, Greg “Oblivion” Cartwright has been at the helm of the rock & roll band Reigning Sound, despite several variations in line up. Influenced by his father’s love of British invasion and...
View ArticleHoly Wave @ Barracuda 11/26
Holy Wave, taken from the last names of their friends John Holy and Ted Wave, is a hazy, psychedelic, reverb ridden, rock band based out Austin, Texas. Initially from El Paso, the psych rock outfit...
View ArticleBroncho @ The Sidewinder 12/3
Four-piece indie rock band Broncho are riding the high of the newly released third LP, Double Vanity, which has taken a slower and denser approach than the fast, pop fueled melodies of previous...
View ArticleGiraffage @ Kingdom 12/9
While attending The University of California Berkeley, Charlie Yin began producing music under the moniker Giraffage, and while his music technically falls under the category of EDM, he along with many...
View ArticleThe Oh Hello’s @ Emo’s 12/6
Texas natives Maggie and Tyler Heath are a musical sibling duo that formed the indie folk band The Oh Hello’s back in 2011. Fascinated by the process of making music together, the Heath siblings turned...
View ArticleSad13 @ Mohawk 12/7
Sad13 is the relatively new pop project from Speedy Ortiz’s self-proclaimed “frontdemon,” – see her recent Reddit AMA – Sadie Dupuis. During the recording of Speedy Ortiz’s 2015 album Foil Deer, Sadie...
View ArticleLee Fields & The Expressions @ Lamberts 12/31
With a sonic resemblance to James brown, Lee Fields has had an active and incredibly busy career spanning over 43 years; his uncanny similarities to James Brown have even earned him the nickname...
View ArticleStreet Sects @ The Sidewinder 12/7
Austin natives Street Sects will be playing a very appropriate show to prepare you for the holiday season– their abrasive, eroding brand of heavily sampled industrial punk, is enough to get anyone into...
View ArticleMSTRKRFT @ Empire 12/10
Toronto duo Jesse F. Keeler and AL-P (MSTRKRFT), have a keen love for electro, dance-punk music that would make any Daft Punk fan feel right at home. The two are most famous for remixing singles from...
View ArticleSeratones @ Stubbs (Indoors) 1/21
Fans of garage rock, soul, and rock n roll will delight in the stylistic approach Seratones take to their music. Earlier this year, the four pieces released their debut album Get Gone on Fat Possum...
View ArticleHomesafe @ The Sidewinder 1/24
Chicago based rock band Homesafe are kicking off the year with their 2017 North American Winter Tour; joining them will be Life Lessons and Chase Huglin. Although they dislike the term “pop punk,” it’s...
View ArticleMarching Church @ Mohawk 1/24
Named after the opening line in Iceage’s New Brigade, Elias Bender Rønnenfelt’s would be side project Marching Church, would later become the full-fledged band we know today. Rønnenfelt began his...
View ArticleSamantha Crain @ Mohawk 1/26
The quivering, Americana infused vocal styling of Samantha Crain– along with backing, indie folk instrumentation –has proven to be quite a successful combination for the talented, 30-year old Oklahoman...
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