Austin music veterans Night Beats, and dynamic new comers The UFO Club released a 10″ split on The Reverberation Appreciation Society record label. For those of you unfamiliar with a “split” record it simply means …

Lydia Loveless – Indestructible Machine (2011)
Blessed with a commanding, blast-it-to-the-back-of-the-room voice, the 21-year-old Lydia Loveless was raised on a family farm in Coshocton, Ohio, a small weird town with nothing to do but make music. …

Review of the Darden Smith album Marathon.
Marathon opens with the sound of a passing train, the shuffle of wind and brakes and steel on steel as the whistle cedes to a plaintive piano. What stands …

Pink Nasty – Pink Nasty
Self Released, 2010
On 2006′s Mold the Gold, Sara Beck asserted herself as the awkward girl with the big voice. She had a sense of humor but also knew how to write …

Review of White Denim – D
by C Gallagher
White Denim was unlike anything I’d ever heard before: they were young and modern and hip, yet presented the skill and musicianship of a seasoned vet; their songs …

Review of Joe Satriani – Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards

Operating on the mellow fringe of Austin’s always healthy psychedelic scene, Cavedweller has quietly put together some of the most fascinating work in town, including our newest choice for CD of the …

Tune-Yards
Whokill (4AD)
The spirit of Nina Simone is alive and well on Merrill Garbus’ second album. Chances are hers isn’t a conscious revival, but the Oakland, Calif., multi-instrumentalist has the lioness in her soulful …

If George’s career had ended in 1979, he would still be regarded as one of the greatest singers in country music history. But 1980′s award winning ‘He Stopped Loving Her Today’ became …

Honey Claws is a Texas quartet that have recently released their self-titled debut album.  The record is their own unique concoction of electronica, hip hop, indie rock and post rock.
The beats on …

Review of The Black Angels album “Phosphene Dream”
By M. Toland
When applied to music, the word psychedelia immediately brings to mind not only the 60s, but a certain sound represented by pioneering albums like the Beatles’ …

Susy Thomas – In the Morning
Season Records – EAN – 5060112370021
6 out of 10
‘In the Morning’ the 2006 debut album English singer-songwriter Susy Thomas finds the young performer turning in an enthusiastic and confident set …

If the Black and White Years’ eponymous 2008 debut was expertly indebted to its producer, Talking Heads guitarist Jerry Harrison, then the local quartet unveils its own signature with follow-up Patterns. From the heavy, electro …

Words like “accomplished” and “discipline” seem opposed to the very ideals on which punk was founded. But L.A. dream-punks No Age seek to straighten up and fly a little straighter on Everything in …

Review of Kenny Rogers The Gambler
by Charles Dauphin III
Originally released in November 1978,this was the album that more than any other helped to make Kenny Rogers a household name. The cover of the CD inspired …

Review of Purple Rain by Prince and the Revolution
Music from the Motion Picture “Purple Rain” 1984
By M. Starr
I was in seventh grade the year Purple Rain came out. It was a time of making out …

I knew about and liked Alice Cooper for a long time before I found the album Thrash. When something is really fun, I remember everything about it. That’s the way my memory works. I bought …

Free Audio Downloads – Billy Collins
Six of the tracks from The Best Cigarette are available for FREE DOWNLOAD from, well, Download.com.
To go to the DOWNLOAD page (here)
These poems along with 26 other tracks are available …

There’s one version of the narrative behind these recordings that’s romantic but also basically true: that they represent an incredible victory of the artist’s spirit. Daniel Johnston was a young man in …

Lyle Lovett, Fans Bid Paolo Soleri Farewell
by Adam Perry
“I will always remember this night,” Texas-born singer-songwriter Lyle Lovett said from the Paolo Soleri Amphitheatre stage in Santa Fe late Thursday evening. “God bless you folks, …

Review of 4 old albums.
by travis catsull
There are three things Austin cab drivers have taught me:
1. If they say they’ll be there in 15 minutes, they really mean 30-45 minutes.
2.If you throw up in …

Wild Moccasins “Skin Collision Past”
On their previous EP, Microscopic Metronomes, Wild Moccasins sounded like a piercing rush of the new when set against the repetitive hip-hop that controls Houston’s music scene and …

Review of Woven Bones – In and Out and Back Again (HoZac)
by marc perlman
Shocking news: on their debut album In And Out And Back Again, Woven Bones sound like they are listening to a …

Review of 7 albums.
by travis catsull
Some day I’m going to figure out how many new albums I listen to each week. Then I’ll probably realize how much money I’m spending w/ iTunes and how much …

Charles Bukowski: Underwater Poetry Festival CD

A new CD of a vintage reading (1974) by world famous twentieth century American poet Charles Bukowski (1922-1993) is one you’ll have to stuff in your CD player …