Paul Stinson – Austin band Carl Sagan’s Skate Shoes blur the lines between feedback and melody, masterfully vaulting back and forth between the two like a pysch-ward patient skipping their meds, tearing the Cosmos a new one at every turn.
Paul Stinson – Skilled wall-of-sound architects Mirror Travel are as swirling, fuzzy and hypnotic as ever, exiting their New Mexico adobe dwellings just long enough to remind Austin SXSW-goers they can swoop in and prove themselves among the nation’s best spell-casters whenever they damn well please.
Paul Stinson – After eight years, three albums, countless shows, multiple residencies and a handful of drummers, Austin’s loveable punk malcontents A Giant Dog are finally beginning to get their due.
Paul Stinson – Somewhere between compulsively groovy and convulsively pointed, the shows turned in by Austin’s US Weekly amount to 40-minutes of head-bobbing fire-breathing punk rock that is both punk and rock without being cliché.
Paul Stinson – Austin’s Moving Panoramas are the first legitimate heir to the mantel of Galaxie 500 since Luna. The Austin trio takes something familiar and makes it new again, enthralling in the many uses of subtle shoegaze and drifting grooves.
