Mainstream, indie, and even the indie-mainstream have been bereft of good, major releases this year. When the best that outlets like Paste ...

When I tell people how much I like music, I don’t think they really get an idea of how much music I actually acquire and consume in a given ...

Bands come and bands go, and it seems that the closer you get to the local level the greater that churn becomes. Making a livable career o...

Earworms , we've all had experience with them at one point or another whether desirable or not. I find that on most days I wake up with ...

Continuing our journey through my recent bandcamp.com discoveries we have: This Quiet by Markov Bandcamp: markov.bandcamp.com Twitte...

A couple weeks ago I posted about how I had decided to search bandcamp.com in order to discover some local Austin punk bands. You see, whi...

Think of one of your all-time favorite bands, the kind of band that helped shape your musical tastes ... the kind of band that helped de...

I always have to call bullshit on people who claim that they'd listen to more non-mainstream music if it were more accessible. There...

I hate to do this, but I need to retroactively give Quiet Company's "We Are All Where We Belong" an honorable mention for my T...

All things must end. This is as true for SXSW as it is for everything else, but this year my SXSW experience ended in epic fashion. We start...

Day four of SXSW this year was the best so far. It started off with one of my favorite local acts - The Sour Notes - at B.D. Riley's: ...

My third day of SXSW 2012 was more along the lines of what passes for "normal" for this event. There wasn't anything in partic...

This is going to be another short post because I've got one foot out the door for SXSW - Day Three and last night (while I saw a bunch o...

I meant this to be a longer post, but I'm dead tired and I'm still dead tired from last night and I've only got an hour till I h...