AltWeeklies Wire
Texas is Funny Showcase meets Mombazonew
Decisions, decisions… There are at least two great local multi-band concerts this Saturday, and they're appealing for different reasons.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopeteguin |
01-19-2012 |
Music
The Little Willies: For the Good Timesnew
The second album by Norah Jones' twangy side project formed in 2003 bears all the markings of a full-time artist playing around with part-time sounds.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Gallucci |
01-19-2012 |
Reviews
Hank Jones and Charlie Haden: Come Sundaynew
When Hank Jones passed in May of 2010, he left behind a truly stunning legacy secured over seven decades as one of jazz's premier pianists playing alongside the likes of Charlie Parker, Benny Goodman, and Ella Fitzgerald.
San Antonio Current |
J.D. Swerzenski |
01-19-2012 |
Reviews
The Big Pink: Future Thisnew
Expectations are tricky things. Follow too closely and you're boring, not at all and you'll alienate your audience.
San Antonio Current |
Nicholas Hall |
01-19-2012 |
Reviews
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
Gauchistenew
Well, ain't this a great way to get the new year started?
San Antonio Current |
Gonzalo E. Pozo |
01-19-2012 |
Reviews
Reserve Space in Your Playlist Now for These Anticipated Albumsnew
The music industry showed signs of life in 2011: Adele sold 14.5 million copies of 21, and Apple, Spotify, Google, and others launched music cloud services in what may prove to be the biggest turning point for music since iTunes dropped in 2001.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
01-13-2012 |
Music
Tags: new music in 2012
Third Root’s ‘Winter in America’new
Though the year is just getting started, one of the most ambitious and original local collaborations of 2012 is bound to be Third Root, a project by Mojoe's Easy Lee (poet, author, and emcee) and Mexican Stepgrandfather (Marco Cervantes, an emcee who also teaches Mexican-American and Afro-Chicano history at UTSA).
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopeteguin |
01-13-2012 |
Music
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
Guided By Voices: Let’s Go Eat the Factorynew
2011 was a tough year for alt-rock nostalgics: R.E.M.'s break-up, Sonic Youth's expected split, even Pavement's reunion tour turned bittersweet on news that there would be no formal reunion or forthcoming release.
San Antonio Current |
J.D. Swerzenski |
01-11-2012 |
Reviews
House of Low Culture: Poisoned Soilnew
The latest release from former ISIS member Aaron Turner's new project begins with a piercing drone that segues into gorgeous analog synth and chant-like vocals before moving into Spaghetti Western guitar territory that is destroyed by a smattering of static and distorted vocals.
San Antonio Current |
Marcus Rubio |
01-11-2012 |
Reviews
Steven R. Smith: Old Sketenew
Multi-instrumentalist, musician, and printmaker Steven R. Smith's fifteenth solo album (from a staggeringly extensive discography of almost 40 releases) presents the artist at his most raw and vital
San Antonio Current |
James Woodard |
01-11-2012 |
Reviews
Granddaddy Beethoven Getting Comprehensive Treatmentnew
Why Beethoven? Jack Fishman, president and CEO of the San Antonio Symphony, tells it like this: "I've often heard that the periods of music are: Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Beethoven, Romantic, and Contemporary.
San Antonio Current |
Scott Andrews |
01-05-2012 |
Music
Los Tigres del Norte: Tr3s Presents MTV Unpluggednew
"We're more American than all the gringos," sing Jorge Hernández and guest Zach de la Rocha (Rage Against the Machine) in the first MTV unplugged album by the most socially conscious norteña band ever.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
01-05-2012 |
Reviews
Elvis Presley: Elvis Countrynew
In 1971, Elvis was suddenly hot again. His triumphant 1968 comeback, Las Vegas success, and return to touring had set the stage for Elvis Country, the rare case of an Elvis "concept" album.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
01-04-2012 |
Reviews
