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The Panic Division: 'Eternalism'new
The Panic Division's first album since the Sleepwalker EP (2009) feels like a second Colton Holliday solo album in its continuation of a mix he's grown comfortable with: synth-rock, layers and layers of guitars, strong hooks and melodies, and that type of sweet darkness Interpol is — or used to be — good at.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
02-27-2012 |
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Sleigh Bells: 'Reign of Terror'new
Several of the bands that grabbed critical attention with the sugary-pop-through-blown-speakers aesthetic popular a few years back (Wavves, Dum Dum Girls) managed to remain relevant by totally not doing that shit anymore.
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Martin |
02-27-2012 |
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Ana Tijoux: 'La Bala'new
French-Chilean MC Ana Tijoux's second solo album (and third overall) isn't an album, it's a Molotov cocktail assembled by a girl who doesn't rap, but spits fire.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
02-27-2012 |
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Saturday Night Satellites: 'Drop City'new
This local trio explores similar territory as Austin’s Black Angels, mining sweltering neo-psych with raw garage presence.
San Antonio Current |
Chris Parker |
02-23-2012 |
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Move Over, Tool — Secret Secure is Herenew
Before taking over the world and the BBC's Top of the Pops, the early Beatles leaned on John Lennon to cheer them out of depressed bouts in shitty dressing rooms.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
02-16-2012 |
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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 |
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We Leave at Midnightnew
If you took Crosby, Stills & Nash and overdubbed them the way the Beatles recorded "Because," added the Band, Pet Sounds-era Beach Boys, and a pinch of doo-wop and blended it all with the most pop-friendly yet artsy sounds you can find from the '70s through the '90s, you're only scratching the surface of We Leave at Midnight's sound
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopeteguin |
02-16-2012 |
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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 |
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Howlin Rain: 'Russian Wilds'new
Coming from the ashes of the wildly noisy Comets of Fire, Howlin Rain's music bears little resemblance to that group's cathartic psychedelic sound, mining instead traditional classic rock and soul for inspiration.
San Antonio Current |
Marcus Rubio |
02-16-2012 |
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Van Halen: 'A Different Kind of Truth'new
We can hardly expect A Different Kind of Truth — the first Van Halen album since brothers Eddie and Alex reunited with frontman David Lee Roth, released 40 years after the band's formation and 28 years after its last great record.
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Martin |
02-15-2012 |
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Air revisits Georges Méliès' 'Le Voyage Dans la Lune'new
Sixty-seven years before Americans set foot on the moon, French filmmaker/magician George Méliès imagined the final frontier in 1902 with the premier of Le Voyage Dans la Lune.
San Antonio Current |
Veronica Salinas |
02-08-2012 |
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Anvil frontman Steve 'Lips' Kudlow talks shopnew
The Canadian band Anvil has enjoyed renewed interest since the release of the documentary Anvil! The Story of Anvil in 2009.
San Antonio Current |
Gonzalo Pozo |
02-08-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Of Montreal: 'Paralytic Stalks'new
On Of Montreal's last full length (2010's False Priest) there was a moment when the oversexed funk let up for an emotionally arresting (and dissonant) piano-and-strings ballad.
San Antonio Current |
Marcus Rubio |
02-08-2012 |
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Machine Head swarm drummer's hometownnew
Machine Head drummer and native San Antonian Dave McClain often contemplates his band's endurance. "The writing and touring cycle for our last album took over five years," he says. "That's longer than most careers."
San Antonio Current |
Gonzalo Pozo |
02-08-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Leonard Cohen: 'Old Ideas'new
It's a wonderful thing when artists you love surprise you with just how good they can still be, and that's exactly how I felt upon first hearing Leonard Cohen's Old Ideas.
San Antonio Current |
Marcus Rubio |
02-08-2012 |
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