The Flaming Lips have been with us now for 26 years. In that time, they’ve evolved from the Fearless Freaks of Oklahoma City — a [...]

Get ready to update your list of promising West Coast phenoms. Since their debut EP Tigers in the Fire, Love Grenades have been pulling their weight [...]

Playful, sexy, and eminently danceable, Love Grenades are a new, unifying force in independent music – in its most literal interpretation. The brainchild of 25-year-old [...]

“People never expect me to be able to sing the way that I sing.” What? “That’s what I love about doing the music that I [...]

Which is the saddest six-word short story ever written? Compare and contrast: “For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn” – Ernest Hemingway “And Now We Can [...]

It’s always so exciting when you’re attending an outdoor musical event and you can hear the bands sound checking on the other side of the [...]

What began as a PBS music feature in 1976 is now the longest running concert music series in American television history. Austin City Limits began and continues as a PBS mainstay, but since 2002 also exists as an annual outdoor music festival, flooding the Austin Zilker Park for at least three days each year with music, fans, artists, and humane causes.

You love music, that’s just a fact. But let’s not pretend that music doesn’t come with a host of problems. For starters, there’s just too [...]

Even in the complicated music scene of New York City, the birth of AwShockKiss still is a relatively simple story. Looking for an uninhibited take [...]

Upon the first pass through Keegan DeWitt’s latest offering, Islands, I began setting various tracks to my unfinished soliloquy-ridden screenplay about an off-beat writer trying [...]

I’m not even sure that the messed-up mind of Phil Spector could envision this. Violet Vector and the Lovely Lovelies take the best of the [...]

Originally published in Boston Heights issue #1 Hang On Mike — you have a hit on your hands. I have to admit I was skeptical [...]