Album Review: Schwein – Easy Does It
....a John Cale broken boldness sort of journey from open to close all swept over with a thousand hushed mystic ohms weaving the ride along. To break down the album track by track would be an injustice to its cohesive nature. Each song shakes hands with the next, peaks and valleys reflecting the same orgiastic...
Schwein! An Interview and Single Release
Schwein! Interview and “Cindy Make Him” Single Release Interview by Jay Armstrong Photographs by Isaiah Mancha More often than not the people you encounter with music have an ego overshadowing their skill, the art taking a backseat to the caricature they align their lives to portray. Then there is the anomaly that is Matt...
Our 100 Favorite Songs of 2020
Find part two (1-50) here. 100. New Druids – “Hearts That Can Mend” Some of the bests from around town got together and shaped up an album with the same feel-good vibe the members themselves put off in real life. A much rarer feat than it should be. Looks like there are still a few...
Mixtape Monday: Jungle Time?
Mixtape Monday - Jungle Time?
The Fast Talkers | The Squares | Wizzard King | Plymouth Fury | Warum Joe | The Brats | Baby Shakes | Schwein | Q4U | Pale Lips | The Pathetix | Magic Rockers of Texas | Shakin Street | The Rats | Wurve | Thunders | Green Dreams |...
BEST of SXSW 2019: Show Photos (part 2)
BEST of SXSW 2019: Show Photos (part 2)
Banditos | Thelma and the Sleaze | Muther | Surfbort | Annabelle Chairlegs |
John Wesley Coleman III | Pscience
Rock N Roll, Politics, & Seattle: An Interview with Dopers
Rock N Roll, Politics, & Seattle: An Interview with Dopers By Jay Armstrong There are times when sitting down to write about a band feels impossibly hollow, working more to void the attraction of the songs they create. Qualifiers and labels by nature are divisive, this becomes less an issue once we have held hands...
Ünderworld: A Psychedelic Slacker Comedy in the Making
Pictured: Justin Jacobs as Rob Ünderworld, a psychedelic slacker comedy, is director Vanessa Pla’s independent birth child starting actors and actresses from across the spectrum. Filmed in San Marcos, Texas, and citing influences like Dazed & Confused and Empire Records, the film is what happens with a band of slacker youths take over a...
