ACL Festival 2016 Lineup
It’s the happiest day of the year: the official Austin City Limits Festival 2016 lineup announcement! I called Radiohead, like, 2 days ago, people. I have my finger on the pulse in this city [...]
Festivals
The must-see shows of SXSW 2016
It’s SXSW Music time. There’s too much to see, too many bands, too little time, too many people, not enough drinks, too much good music to pass up. Let’s whittle it down a bit. Big [...]
Welcome to SXSW 2016!
Anyone who knows me knows SXSW isn’t my jam (am I the only music journalist who really doesn’t get excited about big festivals?). It’s mostly because it makes downtown nearly [...]
The ACL Roundup 2015
I went to the Austin City Limits Festival this year, despite the fact that I am not at all a festival person. But it was my first chance to go to ACL so I wasn’t going to pass that up, and in the [...]
Surviving Festivals: The Austin City Limits Edition
I like music, but not music festivals. THERE I SAID IT; IT’S TRUE. I turned 30 and all of a sudden I was like, “I no longer desire to stand around in the rain all day with 5000 other people to [...]
McDonald’s comes to SXSW and acts like a corporation (UPDATED)
A couple of days ago I wrote about the love/hate relationship musicians and Austinites have with SXSW, touching on the fact that while the conference has become more commercialized and grown in [...]
The ritual exhaustion of SXSW
Austin is known for its music festivals and the top one is still no doubt South by Southwest. For those cave-dwellers among us, SXSW is a huge music/film/interactive festival and conference that runs [...]
Sometimes it’s pretty cool to write about music
I both love and hate music festivals. Like everyone. This should sum it up. And when you’re working at a music festival, it’s a mixed bag. On one hand, you totally get in free and with a [...]
JUE Music + Art 2013
Spring festival is FINALLY over and if I never hear another firecracker for the rest of my life I reckon that’ll be about right. Or at least until next year. JUE Music + Art is happening again [...]
Upcoming Events: BooshKaBaash 2012
One of the reasons Shanghai music is growing and (maybe someday?) thriving is because of some home-grown music festivals like BooshkaBaash. This is multi-event, multi-venue, multi-genre mini-fest [...]
Smack Madness 