Music

We always appreciate it when visual artists and musicians collaborate, whether it’s by putting on a big event, holding a concert in a gallery or museum, or complementing live music with interesting visuals. But we don’t want to overlook the smaller ways in which visual artists and musicians work together,…

In this week’s print edition, you’ll find Jesse Hughey’s review of Beauxregard’s new When Balloons Were Sleeves release–and a heckuva a positive one at that. Writes Jesse: “It’s a good introduction to a band that knows how to craft a great song.” So, on that note, here’s one of those…

He walks onto the stage, smiles kindly, waves sheepishly and, simply enough, dives right into his music. Aside from a few awkward PA squeals, there’s nothing remarkable about the start to Willie Nelson’s set on this Fourth of July eve—well, nothing except the fact that this is yet another beginning…

If Delmore Pilcrow frontman Chris Garver wanted to avoid stultifying genre tags like “freak folk” or “new weird America,” he might have considered picking a less freaky, folky or weird cover for the band’s new record, Worn to the Weft. It’s a collage depicting, among other things, medieval souls in…

Lil Wayne is not batshit insane. Let’s be clear about that. Despite the fact that he regularly refers to himself as an extraterrestrial, seems to have an utter disregard for the rule of law and for his health, and kisses his surrogate father on the mouth—despite the objections of the…

Tilly and the Wall’s members have always mined childhood and adolescence for inspiration, as evidenced by the youthful exuberance of the band’s live shows and the hormonal, emotional turbulence documented in its lyrics. In fact, Tilly’s 2004 debut LP was fittingly titled Wild Like Children, and the band even takes…

The passing years can be unkind to rebels. You survive booze, bad marriages and car crashes, only to have the march of time leave its muddy bootprint on your shining legacy. One day, you’re Marlon Brando in The Wild One, a quintessential leather boy. A few decades later, you’re being…

In 1981, Vince Clarke left Depeche Mode after Speak & Spell (he wrote most of the album, which included DM’s first hit, “I Just Can’t Get Enough “) to team with singer Alison Moyet. As Yaz (or Yazoo), they put out two albums that would sweep dance clubs and provide…

On paper, it reads like another dismissible synth-wielding ’80s rehash. Dallas already has plenty of bands like that. There’s a slight variation in this case, as dapper frontman J. Quincy Romine is channeling David Bowie rather than Ian Curtis, and it’s not as if there was a dearth of Bowie…

If you’re unfamiliar with Hillgrass Bluebilly Entertainment, it’s the Austin-based booking agency whose clients make generous use of the stomp box—a small wooden box with a microphone pickup inside that, when struck with the foot, makes a tremendous racket; release albums with names like Log Bomb, Dirty Old One Man…

He’s about to turn 51, and Peter Murphy, the godfather of goth, still has that maniacal look to him, that flamboyant edge that set him and his band, Bauhaus, apart from the crowd back in the ’80s. Forever remembered for “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” (and his appearance in the David Bowie…

Buffalo’s Cute Is What We Aim For is likely the perfect 21st-century pop band. Almost purpose-built for short-attention-span marketing campaigns, CIWWAF focuses so heavily on pop sheen, hooks and scenester touchstones that it’s often difficult to figure out just what the sum of the parts is. But, for a generation…