A 20-year-old Austin band’s Trail of Dead stops in OKC.
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SXSW: A few things to look forward to
Headed into day No. 1 at SXSW, here are a few things that have me excited.
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SXSW: The Next Austin?
You can argue OKC is “The Next Austin” if you want, but that might not be a good thing.
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Permanent parking, mobile food
A food truck dining area in Dallas. Photo Provided “After almost a year of planning, we found out today that it’s really happening,” Wheat said after the DDRC decision. The idea gained momentum after the success of H&8th Night Market, a monthly event in the spring, summer and fall in Midtown. Wheat looked at H&8th […]
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TIF love
While the city’s use of sales tax revenue through MAPS has gained the most attention over the past decade, the city has also turned to tax increment financing (TIF) as another way to leverage tax dollars into economic development. By creating a TIF district, the city provides public incentives to developers with the increase in […]
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X marks the spot
Releasing three albums in four years, Austin four-piece Pure X has shown a lot of promise and even more artistic flexibility. The band’s fuzzed-out, buzzed-about 2011 debut, Pleasure, was a sweet and simple collection of reverb-heavy ballads of the Jesus and Mary Chain persuasion. Last year’s follow-up, Crawling Up the Stairs, let those songs bake […]
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RECAP: South by Southwest, day one
Day 1 was a scorcher, at least according to the standard set by Oklahoma City’s frozen tundra. The high for the day peaked at about 83, but at times, it felt even warmer. Thankfully, The Buffalo Lounge had just the remedy. I arrived at the downtown Austin venue — this year at Avenue on Congress, […]
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Killer tunes
Photo: Ben Aqua Sam Chown, best known as one-half of the Texas experimental psych duo Zorch, constantly has music rattling around in his brain. It forced him to form his latest outfit, Shmu, a shoegazing R&B trio, to get all the sounds he has been collecting out into the open for public consumption. “This is […]
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Don’t ‘Get Stoned’
The band confirmed the break Nov. 20 and said he has left the band for “personal reasons.” Read as: Too much party, not enough band. This summer, he also took time off to go through rehab, his publicist confirmed. No replacement has been announced. During the making of the band’s most recent 2012 album, Welcome […]
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Blades of gory
As Austin outfit The Sword would tell it, it’s a good time to be a heavy metal band. “People are finally trying some different stuff in heavy metal and hard rock,” frontman J.D. Cronise said. “All too often, bands rely on the traditional way … but traditional metal is funny to me because it’s a […]