AltWeeklies Wire
The Big Spill: The people's answer to SXSWnew
Backbeat's publisher Angel Castorena is no stranger to mammoth multi-day fests. Last April, he closed Local Music Week with a three-day festival featuring 45 bands.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
03-07-2012 |
Concerts
Tags: Best Coast, SXSW 2012
Austin’s Other Music Fest Celebrates its 10th Anniversarynew
After 10 years of Austin City Limits, you should know this by now: Get your tickets early. At press time, there are still a few individual tickets for Sunday, and if you look at the lineup (see ticket info box), you’ll realize the $90 tag is actually a bargain. Too late? Too bad.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas, Ashley Feinberg, Chuck Kerr and and Enrique Lopetegui |
09-15-2011 |
Concerts
Sarah & Octopusnew
Sarah & Octopus have jazz chops and tons of ambition, and their complex pieces can wear you out with their car-crash meter shifts and wild leaps across the harmonic spectrum.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
02-04-2009 |
Concerts
Tags: indie rock, Sarah & Octopus
Nobunny Loves Us: Punk Matters (shorter. faster. louder.)new
Nobunny plays what amounts to the mutant child of the Ramones, the New York Dolls, and Jay Reatard, burned at the stake and raised from the dead to declare war on the living.
San Antonio Current |
Mitch Clem |
01-21-2009 |
Concerts
A-list Indie Tours are Once Again Dissing San Antonionew
For a brief shining moment, San Antonio was the hotspot for indie music in Texas. It was a glorious time, when local alt-rock fans didn't have to drive at least an hour to see their favorite bands.
San Antonio Current |
Johnston Farrow |
09-17-2008 |
Concerts
Tejano Conjunto Festival Offers a History Lessonnew
When Juan Tejeda launched the festival in 1982, he was consciously battling negative stereotypes about conjunto, and eager to prove that this music deserved to be regarded as art.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
05-07-2008 |
Concerts
Staying Awake in Austinnew
You already know which of your favorite new bands are playing South By Southwest, but that leaves about 7,000 others. With that in mind, some stray SXSW thoughts and highlights.
San Antonio Current |
John DeFore |
03-12-2008 |
Concerts
Tags: concerts
Absolutely No Ideanew
The avant-garde No Idea Festival's early editions focused primarily on Texas artists, but founder Chris Cogburn has broadened the geographic and cultural range of the festival considerably this year.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
02-13-2008 |
Concerts
Tags: No Idea Festival, concerts
Police Statenew
The legendary trio mucks things up at San Antonio show, but also offers hints of old greatness.
San Antonio Current |
John DeFore |
11-28-2007 |
Concerts
International Accordion Festival Squeezes San Antonionew
The accordion is like a rare flower that only grows in a very specific climate. Wherever the accordion thrives, you find the same conditions: an unlikely mix of wildly disparate cultures that somehow landed in the same spot, and restless, innovative musicians.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
10-10-2007 |
Concerts
Seven-Day Weekend: SA Indie Fest vs. SXSWnew
It says something about the festival's obstacles that the possibility of getting sued by the Austin giant doesn't even rank among their biggest worries.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
03-07-2007 |
Concerts
Tags: concerts
