Concert Central

April 12th starts at 8pm! Momo’s on Rio Grande/6th Street above Katz. Rockin’ for Rescue is Dedicated to ending the euthanasia of homeless pets by creating awareness and providing education to the public and provide support for non-profit animal rescue organizations. Please visit http://www.myspace.com/rockinforrescue Rockin for Rescue where you can make a [...]

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Although they were out promoting a new album, the new songs were few and far between. Maybe for the couple hundred fans crammed into the Somerville Theatre, that’s just as well. They played the old tracks with a pretty hard rock emphasis going all the way back to She’s An Angel and Ana Ng, [...]

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Stylistically went from Creedence to Crosby Stills & Nash to Trans Siberian Orchestra. They managed to build up momentum in the half hour set so that by the time they hit the track Honestly and followed up with a nameless instrumental jam, they were on fire. Played a setlist of songs from their [...]

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my favorite band of SXSW – they almost made me cry, so unique and perfect taking the darkest country and wacking it up, think the guy’s voice is big part of their charm – unique – though disappointed by his youth and cleanliness but these are things that cannot be helped, maybe a tad of [...]

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one-man band playing violin and singing in a way very reminiscent of my local hero Scott H. Biram but not as punk nor as tight, turns out they’re touring together soon

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adored their sound—the way blues rock ought to be done, the music made the lot of skinny boys sexy boys, lots of southern flavor, reminded me of that movie Black Snake Moan, good drums and slide, “Black Ass Woman” is the song to start with

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so darling the crowd could hardly stand it, 6-piece female ska group from Japan, all energy and high-skill, didn’t speak English except for a few tag shout-outs for the crowd, the top crowd response of every band I saw this year at SXSW – inspired an inspired mosh pit, I personally think it was more [...]

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the favorite show of the year the first time we saw them but they were a little messy today, instead of white suits they had on white t-shirts because it was hot, they know how to put on a show: they started off with a drum circle of their band members, then it all got [...]

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Sublime-lite, similar sensibility to O.A.R. – actually stopped to give a motivational speech that he apologized for, rock that verged into pop-punk with reggae/dub undertones

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my beloved lead singer of Lost Sounds, his look fit his irreputable reputation: face never breaking free from the cover of his shaggy hair, he was younger than I would have imagined, he was also a lot more intense and together than I would have imagined, he knows his music up and down and left [...]

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