Ashley Simpson has been replaced. Gone is the pop craze that swept the MySpace concert series world (at least temporarily anyway) as San Antonio’s own Girl In a Coma and Pinata Protest take over. Plus, they don’t lipsync or need plastic surgery to rock. Yes, the Latin music movement is taking over & gaining [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘music’
February 18, 2009
a musical journey w/ Lester Bangs: writing a record review
Lester Bangs, music journalist, author & musician (penning record reviews for Creem and Rolling Stone magazines) is even more famous for his notorious tendency to insult and confront his interviewees…
”Well basically I just started out to lead [an interview] with the most insulting question I could think of. Because it seemed to me that the [...]
February 18, 2009
songs of the doomed: Lux Interior
The Cramps founders Lux Interior-sexually ambiguous crowd-teasing front man & his partner in crime Poison Ivy-super-hot psychobilly guitar goddess set out to conquer the New York music scene with their ultra hip brand of leather & mayhem poured out in psychedelia, surf, rockabilly and punk (they recruited drummer Nick Knox in 1977), but in the [...]
January 4, 2009
easy like Sunday morning
what a bummer. i know that’s what you’re thinking. nope, this isn’t one of those top 40 albums of 2008 (ahem, Spin) or even a top ten list. if Spin, Rolling Stone and countless Internet whores are going to say TV On the Radio is the top album of 2008 or Lil Wayne’s Lollipop is [...]
January 1, 2009
christmas on mars
picture an avant-garde art film where A Space Odyssey meets the birth of a Christmas baby (not Jesus) on Mars and everybody’s doomed. now, replace the actors with Oklahoma psychedelic alternative rock bandmembers, The Flamming Lips. there is no real plot to speak of….
December 29, 2008
made it through December
i will not argue when it comes to Christmas music. i simply prefer the mundane & sad rather then the happy & jolly. (oddly, i prefer only comedic Christmas movies like A Christmas Vacation & A Christmas Story.) i despise the junk musak in every department store & god-forsaken Starbucks which would, of course, come [...]
December 24, 2008
crash space
Occupation: traveling musician
Band moniker: fill in the blank
Mission: to conquer the world one city at a time without spending a dime (and get paid in the process)
sure, a hotel room is a luxury most bands can’t afford and even if you could, roll-out beds are first come, first serve.
…so someone is sleeping on [...]
October 28, 2008
honky-tonks of old, JEB style
it’s all about the hair. first it was a Buddy Holly moptop, now it’s a slicked up mohawk. dead give away for what to expect next from the once king of hot rod country, now vigilante punk god. that’s right, John Evans Band is reved up & riled up with a new CD in [...]
October 22, 2008
SXSW or bust
this is it. your last chance to get noticed. your last chance to land that big record contract. became a famous filmaker. you want to be famous right? wanna be a rockstar? the next White Demin? the next Scorsese or Stone? you know you want to. do you cry to mommy at night asking WHY, WHY, [...]
October 22, 2008
Curb Records can go straight to hell
it has truly been a labor of defiancy this time around as Curb Records finally releases Hank III’s Damn Right, Rebel Proud after a two-year hiatus since his last record, Strait To Hell (released February 2006). true followers know Hank is no stranger to fighting his own record label, and he still acts like he [...]
October 8, 2008
hear me crying?
that what this band does to me. they hail from San Antonio & they’re called Hacienda. brothers Abraham, Rene and Jamie Villanueva, along with their cousin Dante Schwebel play this mesmerizing, retro, lo-fi sound reminiscent of the early raw Beatles with the upbeat and uptempo harmonies only the Beach Boys could love. add to that the infamous organ-grinding and guitar [...]
October 3, 2008
Sandoz…boys not allowed!
when it comes to all-girl bands, the question has always been, “but can they play?”
well, if vintage gear like Fender Mustangs and Orange speaker cabinets are any indication as to the potential of this all-girl rock band, then Sandoz, just might head the next big wave of girlie rock to take over the Alamo City. [...]
September 30, 2008
FARM this
grow your own food & make a record? that’s exactly what Matt Ahern has in mind. he is the owner/purveyor of FARM, Central Texas’ best venue to taste/create/grow-your-own delicious organic goodies this side of the Mississippi. (well, maybe not the best, but he’s trying & he gets kudos for that.) yes, taco town is getting [...]
September 27, 2008
the loved ones
Philly’s the loved ones came into town last night & i played the good girl and missed ‘em. see, at work Thursday night, Jonathan and i decided that one of us should call in so at least SOMEONE would get to see them on Friday. i passed on the opportunity and said it should definitely be him. after work, i met the boys [...]
September 18, 2008
prototypal Mould, as only he could tell it
in 1979, three Minneapolis teens formed a punk band and named it for a Swedish board game no one would have heard of sans Husker Du. and although they never made heaps of money, their influence far outlasted their musical lifespan…
September 9, 2008
sweet Jenny
when Rilo Kiley maven Jenny Lewis, one of indie-pop’s most endearing female marauders, came out with her solo album, 2006’s Rabbit Fur Coat, (with the Watson Twins,) i thought be still my beating heart. you see, Lewis is a little bit country, a little bit rock n’ roll. (my favorite) she’s like the love child [...]
September 9, 2008
killing yourself to live
i’m in a rambling kind of mood, so if you don’t mind, i’m just going to ramble on… i was re-reading Chuck Klosterman’s “Killing Yourself to Live,” when something struck a chord with me. Klosterman goes on about the relevance (err, unimportance) of being a rock journalist and questions “how important this job really is?” [...]
August 27, 2008
gypsy punks v. surf czars
if you don’t know about the crazed gypsy punk movement sweeping the nation, then let me be the one to inform you. a thirst for unquenchable wanderlust, aimless erotic dancing & a beating to their own tune on exotic instruments has spawned a new breed of theatrical punk bands. meet Gogol Bordello…
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August 24, 2008
snake wrangler, tornado chaser & rock star
Hank Schyma spent his nights singing with his band the Southern Backtones & he spent his days as a cameraman for FOX 26 in Houston. but never did i know he was a snake-wrangling tornado chaser….
August 20, 2008
TEXAS field guide to Elvis shrines
i bought this book called “The Field Guide To Elvis Shrines, ” by Bill Yenne, at a Half-Price Books and was disappointed with the Texas entries. i thought it would be the ultimate travel guide for all Elvis-shaped pilgrimages for some reason, and i mistakenly thought there would be hundreds of entries for Texas, or [...]
August 16, 2008
BioWillie’s new diggs
everything’s bigger in Texas thanks to Biodiesel barrons Willie Nelson and Carl Cornelius who have expanded their operation, Carl’s Corner, home to BioWillie, located off exit 374 on Interstate 35, with 12 master-satellite-high-flow diesel pumps-designed to fill up both an 18-wheeler’s fuel tanks at once. background info here. but, not only can Nelson fill up [...]
August 12, 2008
go ahead. punk. make my day.
one of the key idealogical points behind punk rock is the freedom to speak for yourself by questioning authority, but the problem with musicians in politics is that most musicians are content to let you know how they see it & they feel the need to know you see it the same way. there is [...]
