AltWeeklies Wire
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
Echocentrics: Echoland EPnew
Consider for a moment the task of releasing a Brian Eno retrospective, one that celebrates not his solo recordings, but the artists he has produced since 1974.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
01-04-2012 |
Reviews
The Pinker Tones: Singles 2001-2011 + Amigos & Friendsnew
Greatest hits/singles albums are rapidly losing worth in our iTunes world. By the time the Rihannas and Pitbulls release one, listeners have already built their own — .99 click by .99 click.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
01-02-2012 |
Reviews
The best San Antonio albums of 2011new
Any local musician I spoke with in 2011 had to endure my persistent inquiring as to when their next LP would be delivered. Even when it was an EP about to drop, I'd ask, ask, and then ask their mothers.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
01-02-2012 |
Music
Tags: blowing trees, bryan hamilton
The Roots: Undunnew
The Roots have delivered increasingly poignant and thematically focused records on life's trials. undun, their 13th album, is their most emotive, urgent, and (at less than 40 minutes) brief work.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
12-22-2011 |
Reviews
Getting Dragged into Tourist Row? San Antonio's Hidden Drinking Spots to Ease the Painnew
As San Antonio denizens, we all live in fear of it. It usually happens around the holidays, or in the dastardly drought that is summer. We avoid it. But it’s always there, waiting: the Alamo.
San Antonio Current |
Ron Bechtol, Scott Andrews, Chuck Kerr, Bryan Rindfuss, Adam Villela Coronado and Veronica Salinas |
12-15-2011 |
Food+Drink
What SA’s Bartenders (Slash Therapists, BFFs, Secret Crushes) Wish You Knewnew
Four Aggie fans are sitting in a bar, sipping beers, and spending an afternoon being ornery over a football game against their most bitter rivals, the Longhorns.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
12-15-2011 |
Food+Drink
Trip the Light: Fantastic EPnew
This album is further proof that we live in a time when all genres bleed, where the experimental indie rock of Panda Bear heavily borrows the music theory of '90s trance, two styles once thought to be in different hemispheres.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
12-08-2011 |
Reviews
Mickey Moonlight: And The Time Axis Manipulation Corporationnew
This album is branded as the score for your favorite college parties.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
12-08-2011 |
Reviews
Pillow Talk: Faux Furnew
There's no shortage of country/Americana acts coming out of Saytown, with a few trying to appropriate the indie label to cut away from the pack.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
12-02-2011 |
Reviews
Bryan Hamilton: Welcome to Dreamlandnew
Local producer Bryan Hamilton has described Welcome to Dreamland as a "bunch of angels talking to each other.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
11-28-2011 |
Reviews
Record shops will need to up their game to weather the substanceless future of musicnew
When San Antonio vinyl enthusiast Gene Hopstetter plays me Frank Sinatra’s Songs for Swingin’ Lovers!, he pulls three pressings from his collection of roughly 700 albums, indicating the differences in each.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
11-28-2011 |
Culture
Tags: vinyl, record stores
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
Music-astute Northside Club Aspires to be More Than Just Another Strip Venuenew
You’ve probably heard about Endless Music’s recent format change. In September, the club (formerly Scout Bar at Hwy 281 and Redland) was acquired by Sugar’s/Perfect 10 Clubs.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
11-10-2011 |
Recreation
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
