Austin then & now
I’m in love with this post from do512 that compares Austin from back in the day to the modern city. Here are some of my favorites: The University of Texas at Austin Tower Congress Avenue I-35 [...]
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More sad songs to break your heart
As previously stated, I am a lover of misery. Sweet, sweet misery. For me, a sad song has to hit all the right notes (heh). So a poppy song about a traumatic breakup? Doesn’t do it for me. But put [...]
Review: Inside Sufjan Stevens (a tiny little seahorse)
Sufjan Stevens’ new album Carrie & Lowell is his best album yet, unequivocally. Yes, better than Illinois (I KNOW! I’m talking crazy here). It’s just a super good album is all, and perhaps [...]
10 Things I learned at SXSW 2015
Was it your first SXSW? Yeah, me too. Here’s what we learned: Please note I did not attend any actual “workshops” or “panels” or “educational opportunities.” These are lessons from the [...]
Googly eyes on heavy metal albums
I don’t know who started this; I don’t know where it came from; I don’t know what any this means. All I know is that a friend told me to search “googly eyes on heavy metal [...]
Awesome Music Tattoos
I am seriously considering turning this into a completely music tattoo-based blog. For realz. It was slightly harder to find good band tattoos than bad ones. Who would’ve thought? The Clash Van [...]
Questionable Music Tattoos
Music tattoos aren’t always terrible. I mean, usually they are, but sometimes there are tattoos that for certain reasons — maybe their subject matter, their composition, their art — [...]
Terrible Music Tattoos
If I got every tattoo I wanted to get, I’d be covered in nothing but Morrissey lyrics from head to toe. Either that, or every member of New Kids on the Block, because that was the age at which [...]
Songs to break your heart
God, I love to wallow. Mostly in misery and the realization that the world is void of affection and nothing is fair and no one will ever love me. Or whatever. And sometimes, when I’m wallowing, [...]
Goodbye, Shanghai. It’s been real.
Today I’m leaving Shanghai. FOREVER! I’ve been saying it’s my last year in Shanghai every year since I got here — 5 years ago — but when it came to ACTUALLY doing it; to [...]
How to Promote Your Indie Band — Part 2
Part 2 — Develop a Relationship With the Blogger Blogs are awesome, because they’re usually authored by just one person. So it’s not hard to go to their “About” page, figure out who [...]
How to Promote Your Indie Band — Part 1
Okay, so you have a band. Awesome! That’s the easy part. Now you want to get people to come see your band and buy your music. That’s a bit more difficult. Obviously you don’t have a publicist, [...]
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Review: Neutral Milk Hotel played live and then I died (updated)
I saw Neutral Milk Hotel almost a month ago, twice, in fact, but it took me a while to get to this point to actually write a show review for two reasons: 1) Real job got in the way, 2) Seeing the [...]
Review: A ripper of a show from YYT
The “Goodbye Shanghai” show at Yuyintang was a good one: an all-day love affair with Shanghai music and the people who make it (and those who will be missed). There were just too many [...]
Review: Blah blah blah, More Rainbow Danger Club stuff
I go on and on about Rainbow Danger Club, but that will soon be coming to an end. They released their second (and last) LP Saturday night at Yuyintang. Best show I’ve seen of theirs yet. The [...]
Review: Acoustic copulation
390 Panyu Lu hosted a stellar acoustic show Friday night that saw two local bands — Rainbow Danger Club and The Horde — pairing up and performing. First of all, if you’re in a band [...]
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 [...]
Review: Frank Turner makes us all sit on the floor and we still like him
Grimes was probably the big booking of the JUE Festival, but there was no one I was more excited to see than Frank Turner. Frank Turner is an English folk and punk musician, with serious Celtic rock [...]
The Led Zeppelin reunion
I am a fairly massive Led Zeppelin fan. In fact, the title of this site comes from a somewhat mediocre Led Zeppelin song, but come on — they can’t all be winners (besides, titles like [...]
Interview – Friendly Fires
Sometimes you don’t need music that changes your life, you just need something that makes you feel good. Friendly Fires is that. Not that Friendly Fires can’t be deep; I’m sure [...]
Interview – Glasvegas
Glasvegas is a band from Glasgow who creates this lovely, big, wall-of-sound rock thing. Lots of big guitar noise with a floor tom and some do-woppyish rhythms and other cool stuff like that. They [...]
Smack Madness 