Dec
15
2010
This year I made the big move from Lubbock to Austin, and the transformation has done wonders for my live music fix. I should have been writing down all the awesome bands I saw this year (and the years before, for that matter) but alas, hindsight, she is 20/20 once again. I think this post covers the highlights more or less, however. There’s plenty of great live music I saw this year that I’m leaving out, but after the jump, in no particular order, are twelve of the best shows I witnessed in 2010, eleven of them right here in the Live Music Capital of the World.
And for the record, I wanted to put the Sleigh Bells show on here, as fun as it was once they finally started playing, but everyone who attended knows Beauty Bar is at fault for that show’s omission. What a disaster.
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no comments | tags: A-Trak, Andrew WK, Antone's, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Austin, Austin Music Hall, Besnard Lakes, Best Coast, Big Boi, Big Freedia, Cults, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Dam-Funk, Dead Confederate, Deftones, Dirty Projectors, Dominique Young Unique, Dwight Yoakam, East Side Drive In, Free Energy, Fun Fun Fun Fest, Green Day, Hanson, Hold Steady, Japandroids, Jeff the Brotherhood, Josh Ritter, Local Natives, Man Man, Mohawk, No Age, Nutty Brown Cafe, OFF!, Peelander Z, Pixies, Red 7, RJD2, Slick Rick, Small Black, Stubb's, Superpages.com Center, Surfer Blood, SXSW, The New Pornographers, The Thermals, Toadies, Toro y Moi, Washed Out, Waterloo Park, Waterloo Records, Wavves, Weird Al Yankovic | posted in Analysis, Best of 2010, Music, Opinion
Aug
13
2010
Seven Years As a Freelance Writer Or How to Make Vitamin Soup
-Is this my future?
Austin: Live Music Capital of Cover Songs?
-Sure, we’ve all walked 6th Street and heard the live bar bands playing Journey endlessly, but the Spazmatics have taken it to a whole new, marketable, and sad level. A great diatribe on the way bands ruin the great name of Austin.
Your Guide to the 11th Annual Gathering of the Juggalos
-Read and weep.
What’s It Like to Sing With Green Day?
-Surreal.
How Sports and Indie Rock Finally Fell In Love
-Inevitable.
no comments | tags: Austin, Green Day, Insane Clown Posse, Juggalos, Lollapalooza | posted in Analysis, Opinion, Recommended Reading
Jul
18
2010
no comments | tags: Apple, Austin, Depeche Mode, Mel Gibson, Nintendo, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Paste Magazine, The Hood Internet, The Social Network, Twitter, Willie Nelson | posted in Books, Film, Humor, List, Music, Random, Television
Jul
11
2010
Seriously….there’s a lot:
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no comments | tags: All That, Altered Zones, Austin, Beach Fossils, Big Boi, Brooklyn Vegan, Candwich, CitID Project, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Frank Chimero, Hipsters, HitRECord.Org, Huffington Post, IMPOSE Magazine, Jeff Mills, Johnny Cash, Ke$ha, Larry King, LeBron James, Legos, Mick Boogie, Muziic DJ, NPR, Outkast, Paste Magazine, Patton Oswalt, Pitchfork, Star Trek, The States Project, Tumblrs, Twitter, Wine Enthusiast Magazine, World Cup, YouTube | posted in Film, Humor, List, Music, Random, Television, Video
