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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
Shmu: 'Discipline/Communication'new
He has no mouth and must whisper. This is the impression one might get from hearing Discipline/Communication, the debut LP from Sam Chown, one half of the eccentric Austin rock duo Zorch.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
06-19-2012 |
Reviews
Pep Squad: 'Get Outrageous'new
Overdosed on retro-futurism? Pep Squad is not for you.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
05-17-2012 |
Reviews
The Texas Weather: 'The Fall, The Winter'new
Nick Mery may have a rep for being his own biggest fan, but The Fall, The Winter (the album title was changed from the original Pluck) demonstrates his willingness to let someone else take the reins.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
05-17-2012 |
Reviews
Mex Step and MNOLO: 'Machine People'new
Machine People marks the first of at least two 2012 releases from Mexican Stepgrandfather (here credited as Mex Step, Marco Cervantes in real life).
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
05-11-2012 |
Reviews
LaJIT: 'Black Sun'new
LaJIT is John Isaac Torres, a 21-year-old SA resident who spent his high school years on fixed income living with with an alcoholic uncle after his parents divorced.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
05-02-2012 |
Reviews
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
Nedry: 'In a Dim Light'new
It's expected that any new electro-pop group is going to produce Portishead comparisons (no one wants to be compared to Moby or The Supreme Beings of Leisure), but Beach House?
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
03-14-2012 |
Reviews
Mrs. Howl: 'Lovie & a Yellow Lamp'new
It’s not difficult to see why Girl in a Coma’s Nina Díaz might take an interest in producing Dallas-to-SA transplants Mrs. Howl.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
02-16-2012 |
Reviews
Piñata Protest: Plethora 'Reloaded'new
In January 2010, Piñata Protest went through the last of five years of lineup changes: bassist Omar Nambo departed for L.A. to pursue other musical interests, and guitarist Manuel García left for reasons only García and songwriter/vocalist/box-squeezer Álvaro Del Norte know.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
02-16-2012 |
Reviews
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
San Antonio Artists Will Deliver 2012new
San Antonio artists to deliver blizzard of tunes in the first quarter of 2012.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
01-19-2012 |
Music
Tags: San Antonio Music
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
Common: The Dreamer, The Believernew
Common has always walked a tightrope. His "I Used to Love H.E.R." is a love song (a rap rarity in '94) that charted his love's spiritual and moral decline (his betrothed being the genre, not a woman).
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
01-11-2012 |
Reviews
