AltWeeklies Wire
Third Root duo connects mixed race with mixed sounds in new LPnew
Music calling for the unification of minorities is not new, but few projects manage the sublime marriage of scholarly research and...
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
06-25-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Zammuto's second act pays homage to his pastnew
Nick Zammuto has been many things in his life: an entry-level grunt at an L.A.-based pharmaceutical company, an Appalachian Trail hiker (literally, not figuratively), and for six years a devoted homesteader on a Vermont mountaintop where he and his family built a house and grew most of their food. But the 2011 breakup of the sonic scrap-heap pop group the Books — which Zammuto occupied opposite cellist Paul de Jong through a decade of critical acclaim — resulted in two new jobs: serving as public relations and front man for his new project, which bears his surname.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
04-20-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
AquaJones press on despite tech problems and paramoursnew
Last July, Austin-based funk-rock quartet AquaJones had a brush with fame, and the failure of the endeavor can be traced back to a bassist who took of with a girl.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
03-18-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Jesse Beaman gaining international audience without traditional album-makingnew
In 2009, Sufjan Stevens told Paste Magazine, "I no longer have faith in the album anymore. … Can't an album be eternity, or can't it be five minutes?"
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
02-01-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: My Empty Phantom, Jesse Beaman
Why your local folk singer could become your folk heronew
I imagine interviewing Nick Mery is something like dealing with national acts. He schedules me on a Sunday just before his #goodjobtexas radio program, held at Studio 14 Hundred on West Avenue and broadcast on KROV 91.7 HD2.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
01-19-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Houston's Chamillionaire Rides Freenew
Everything that's great about Houston rapper Chamillionaire can be found in a single video he posted to Ustream last January.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
01-04-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Bryan Hamilton's Trials with Modernitynew
Producer Bryan Hamilton sleeps on the floor. He has no job and only a few months left in his unemployment benefits. But he's optimistic.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
11-10-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
The New Terrordome: Why Public Enemy Still Mattersnew
Things have cooled somewhat for Public Enemy, the self-proclaimed “Prophets of Rage.” They made five albums post-2000, all of which failed to match the impact of their first turn-of-the-’90s dynasty.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
11-03-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Pillow Talk Embraces the Suck with an Easy Country Temponew
Generally, musicians and music fans fall into two camps: those who believe that creativity has a shelf life and those who don’t. In the case of Pillow Talk’s Jerid Morris, 29, losing one’s creative edge is just part of growing up.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
10-20-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Portugal. The Man Tumble in the Texas Roughnew
Back in 2010, Portugal. The Man (intentionally punctuated) got roughed up by Texas and were better for the wear. Sort of.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
10-06-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Founding Father of H-Town Rap Keeps Pluggin’ in ‘Wicked’ Industrynew
Learning about K-Rino (born Eric Kaiser) involves re-evaluating what it means to be hardcore. All Music Guide attributes 24 releases to him in 16 years.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
09-28-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Chemistry and chaos help lift the Ground’s art-rocknew
If the Ground were known by any other name, one might consider Points of Contention.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
09-08-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Ground
Mega Man Celebrate 8-Bit While Calling it Quitsnew
Here’s something you may not expect from the members of synth-rock video-game cover outfit Mega Man.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
07-29-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
RX Bandits Guitarist Steve Choi Reflects on 16 Yearsnew
To hear Steve Choi of RX Bandits tell it, there was never a proper sit-down about changing the sound of the SoCal third-wave ska group formed in 1995.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
06-29-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: RX Bandits, Steve Choi
