I recently interviewed country-rock band Waco Brothers for Spinner.com’s SXSW preview. Read it here.
Waco Brothers plays its official SXSW showcase on Saturday, 3.20.10, at Red-Eyed Fly at 11pm.
Visit the band online at www.wacobrothers.com.

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A band that (mostly) survived the ups-and-downs of the major label music industry and continues to create quality music, The Damnwells thankfully hasn’t let the drama spoil its spirit. In 2009, the band asked its fans to help out on PledgeMusic to support the recording of its new record, and to date has raised more [...]

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Denton’s Midlake recently released The Courage of Others, the follow-up to the lauded The Trials of Van Occupanther. The new album is another beautifully crafted album, which finds the band weaving its penchant for British folk and 70’s Americana into sedate indie anthems. While the band first found its footing in the UK, its US [...]

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David Garza is no stranger to South By Southwest. For most of the 90s, Garza was a staple of the Texas college circuit–playing almost any gig he could get–and he gained a lot of devoted fans as a result. After a couple of albums on Lava/Atlantic, Garza went back to doing things on his own. [...]

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DJ/producer Ceeplus Bad Knives is a long-time staple of the Houston music scene. Since the 80s, he has been involved in some aspect of Houston music, and continues to perform and produce music. South By Southwest’s own Matt Sonzala has said of Ceeplus: “He’s one of the foremost experimental DJ’s on the TX scene who’s [...]

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After the demise of Quicksand, musician Walter Schreifels joined some of his other hardcore buddies as Rival Schools and released the spectacular and under-appreciated United By Fate, which unfortunately was the band’s last official release. However, after several reunion shows in 2009, rumors persisted that the band plans a summer 2010 release for its follow-up. [...]

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Houston’s own Wild Moccasins is one of the city’s best-loved indie pop bands. Its 2009 release, Microscopic Metronomes, brought the band a lot of attention, and was among my favorite local albums last year. The band plans to play several times in Austin during this year’s SXSW before heading out on the road for a [...]

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Tacks, The Boy Disaster is an Austin-based band I first found out about while waiting to see another band play during SXSW a couple of years ago. I was immediately blown away by the band’s live performance, enough to buy the band’s album—which, as you know, can be a tough-sell with all of the great [...]

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Classical music probably isn’t something most people think of when they hear “South By Southwest,” but Houston’s Two Star Symphony does classical like no other band can. The group’s music is a somewhat gothic take on classical music, and they do “rock”. I was fortunate to catch the band–which includes Margaret Lejeune (cello/harp/oboe), Jo Bird [...]

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You may remember Toby Pipes from the innocuous (and infectious) mid-90’s single by Deep Blue Something, “Breakfast At Tiffany’s”. Forgive him, though, as the hit song was an anomaly for the rest of that band’s sound, which Pipes expands upon with the shoegaze-y Little Black Dress.
His latest band’s sound is a throwback to 80’s Britrock, [...]

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