This year’s ACL Festival was a banner one in many ways. After 10 years, marked by explosive growth and popularity, the 10th anniversary Fest needed to be memorable. I’ve been attending ACL for the past six years and some have been better than others. There have been times when I’ve sworn off attending ever again, [Continue]
Last year, I started a new holiday tradition, one truly for the ages. Born out of apathy for Top Whatever end-of-year lists, I decided that it wasn’t really the Austin Girl Music Guide style to pretend like I’d listened to every album that came out in a given year carefully enough to actually rate them [Continue]
It’s entirely possible that everyone might already be tired of hearing about the two new Arcade Fire singles (particularly if you’re on Twitter, where I’ve personally tweeted about it no less than 7 times in the past two days), but guess what? I’m going to write about it anyway. Arcade Fire is one of my [Continue]
Today and tomorrow, I’ve finally decided to respond to all the “Top Blogs of 2009″ challenges by taking a reflective look back at the Austin Girl Music Guide. I identified my two favorite posts from 2009 and will be reliving them here for your pleasure/amusement! AGMG has only been in existence since April, but scrolling [Continue]
Veckatimest – 2009 In preparing for this review, I realized something pretty quickly. Veckatimest is not the type of album that you can put in the car and expect to get the full impression. Grizzly Bear is the type of band that relies on plenty of nuance and subtlety to keep pace with their bigger [Continue]
Arcade Fire, Funeral - 2004 Again, not really a contest this time. I love this band. Enjoy!! [Continue]
Funeral - 2004 Funeral was the debut album for Arcade Fire, and when it was released in 2004, it proved without a doubt that indie bands can still come out of nowhere and be not only powerful, but highly influential. Even 5 years later, Funeral is dangerously close to perfection. This is the type of [Continue]
So this is blogging, huh? Wow, you really have to put some effort in to get it up and running. Kudos millions of people eager to overshare with others! Here’s what my blog is about…I love music and listen to lots of it. I listen to as much as I can, but I don’t claim [Continue]
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