Houston Press‘ music blog, Rocks Off, posted an interview I recently did with Mark C. Austin, who along with his girlfriend Amber Roussel, makes up the Fiesta Movement’s Team Houston. The duo has been extremely busy the past few months and has organized a battle of the bands, which takes place at 6pm tomorrow (Saturday, […]

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Sharks and Sailors return after a lengthy hiatus with a show at Mango’s tomorrow night (Saturday, 4.17.10) with sIngs, B L A C K I E, and Young Mammals. I recently interviewed Sharks and Sailors’ Mike Rollin for the Houston Press’ Rocks Off blog.
Read it here.
You can also read an interview with Sharks and Sailors […]

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I recently interviewed a bunch of bands for Spinner.com’s South By Southwest preview. You can read some of them by clicking on the links below.
Waco Brothers | Scott H. Biram | Iron Age | Tommy Keene | The Hood Internet | The Golden Filter | The Deadstring Brothers | The Mother Truckers
More information here.

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You can read more information on NYC’s The Golden Filter in a piece I did on the band for Spinner.com’s massive SXSW preview. Enjoy rooting around that site for a while…
Here’s a video from The Golden Filter:

The Golden Filter plays its official SXSW showcase on Friday, 3.19.10, at Emo’s Jr. at 8pm. Its album, Voluspa, […]

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Yppah (aka Joe Corrales, Jr.) is an electronic musician from Houston whose 2006 release, You Are Beautiful At All Times–which was released on the respected Ninja Tune Records–helped earn the musician accolades and fans. Along with a backing band, he performed the album live during 2007’s South By Southwest, and at the Starbucks Mixed Media […]

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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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