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Dope Producer Showcase III featuring TA-KU, Elaquent, BoomBaptist, & more
This Thursday, May 16 at 10:00pm EDT / 7PM PDT, Dope Producer Showcase III begins on Turntable.fm. The social media/music sharing site often works with personal room mods for special events, so this event
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Austin City Limits Festival Line-up announced.
Performances by Depeche Mode, The Cure, & D’ Angelo are among the top planned performers at this year ACL Festival in Austin, TX. Also planned are Muse, Wilco, Atoms for Peace, and Lionel Richie.
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Datahowler performing at Exploded Drawing, Homegrown Fest, co-album release party with Sealion.
Dallas’s own Ross Edman aka Datahowler has several special appearances this May. He’ll be a special guest performer on Friday, May 10 at Exploded Drawing XX, the latest installment of the popular electronic series
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TuneCrush: OB1 “Thrift Store Beats Vol. 1″
In this 27+ minute sound collage by Aaron Oberlin aka OB1, relive familiar rhythm passages from hip-hop and rock past. Aaron traveled to various thrift stores to buy budget cassette tapes and “Thrift Store
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The Austin Waldorf School announces Musicfest 2013
The Austin Waldorf School announces Musicfest 2013 on Saturday, May 4, 2013 at the Nutty Brown Cafe featuring Bob Schneider, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Cotton Mather (with Austin Waldorf’s Robert Harrison), What Made Milwaukee Famous,
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TuneCrush: Corduroi “Dream Lemur / Low Tides”
Austin-based producer Cody Wilson aka Corduroi brings 8-bit, hip-hop, and house together on his new six-song EP, Jangala, available at Bandcamp. While his first two EPs relied more on samples, more of the multi-instrumentalist
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Reaganometry & Butcher Bear – R&B (LP)
Reagan Van Matre and Butch Webster were involved in the Austin-area band/collective, Attack Formation, and have making music together and separate going 12 years now. Since the band’s suspension, Van Matre has released music
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New unreleased track from Reaganometry
New from the (iN)Sect Records family in Austin, Texas, check out the new visual for the previously unreleased track, “Endangered Love Suite” by Reaganometry. Be sure to pick the 12′ split with Reaganometry and
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Foe Destroyer – (self titled)
With members formerly involved in the Denton-based group known as Oso Closo, multi-instrumentalists Daniel Garcia, Chris McQueen, & Cade Sadler bring a mixed bag of noisy pop rock tracks as the new group, Foe
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Exploded Drawing teams with Pugilista Trading Company & Okayfuture.com for SXSW 2013
Austin-based electronic event Exploded Drawing is teaming up with Pugilista Trading Co., Okayfuture.com (a new extenstion of the Okayplayer.com brand), as well as Groove Loves Melody and other sponsors for this special SXSW 2013
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New electronic solo set from OB1 (Aaron Oberlin of Wave Hands Like Clouds)
One half on the Austin-based duo Wave Hands Like Clouds provides a solo electronic excursion inspired the darker, colder winter of life. Under the moniker OB1, Aaron Oberlin’s Call It What You Will takes
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Interview with Taye Cannon of Austin-based soul outfit, Roxy Roca
Roxy Roca is a nine-piece original soul/R&B band based in Austin, Texas. The band is fronted by Taye Cannon, a “soul-shouter” who definitely connects with the audience. In my interview with Taye, you’ll learn
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Makin’ Beats Q&A with BoomBaptist
Musician and producer, Andrew Thaggard AKA BoomBaptist has a gained a reputation as one of the lead figures throughout Texas beat scene. His style ranges from broken-beat to glitch hop to 8 bit. Austinites
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Venue booking acts during SXSW 2013
What’s great (and dizzying at times) is the sheer number of musical acts playing during South by South West (SXSW) festival in Austin, Texas. Together with the official SXSW events and venues, there are
Read More »Reaganometry & Butcher Bear release split LP
After late last year’s announcement of the “death” of Butcher Bear, the plush alter ego of Austin-based artist and Insect Records label boss, Butch Webster makes a ghostly return and is taking pre-orders for
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