Paul Stinson – Not every Austin band earns their SXSW and Austin City Limits stripes in the same year – or in a lifetime – but that’s exactly what folk-psych rock outfit Good Looks is doing after winning a dedicated following over the last year.
Paul Stinson – Unvarnished, unfettered and decidedly up-in-your-grill, Los Angeles all-womxn power outfit Egg Drop Soup (EDS) captivated SXSW audiences in March, casting their punk-tinged sludge-rock spell over unsuspecting lanyard-wearers, leaving the packed-out venues chanting their name and calling for encores.
Paul Stinson – In a city overpopulated by bars and bands, Austin five-piece Magic Rockers of Texas (MROT) are keeping the endangered bar band species (Lone Star Beerus Maximus) from the brink of extinction.
Paul Stinson – Capturing the human experience in all its melodic and vulnerable glory, Austin four-piece Van Mary fire up a fuzzy-indie-grunge spiral of nourishing guitar-drenched songs, a foot on the distortion pedal and the occasional finger in the eye of gender inequality and the patriarchy.
Paul Stinson – Austin band Big Bill asks a simple question: do semaphore flags exist to signal the arrival of a rodeo punk hurricane? If they aren’t yet a thing they should be, if only in the name of public safety.
