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]
Rap icon Nas and reggae legend-in-the-making Damian Marley stormed Austin last night, thrilling the vast variety of fans who’d come out to see them in the steamy weather – lovers of rap, reggae, and any combination of the two, were undoubtedly captivated watching the pair of artists rip through the tracks from their new joint [Continue]
Monday, June 7th 101X Homegrown Live Presents Neon Indian with Survive, Cry Blood Apache Check out the indie-electronic hero from Austin at Emo’s tonight. Doors open at 9 pm, tickets are $12. You can buy them here. Robert Randolph and The Family Band with Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights Robert Randolph brings [Continue]
Because I was working during SXSW, I didn’t make it to quite as many showcases as I would have liked. Still, I saw quite a few bands and attended a bunch of parties during the week and I thought the easiest way to handle reviewing everything would be in time order. I’ll be dividing the [Continue]
The Dusty Foot Philosopher Extended Edition (Reissue) – 2008 Like many, I was first introduced to K’Naan at a live show, when he was opening for Stephen and Damian Marley at Antone’s in 2006. At that time I hadn’t heard of him, so before the show we tried in vain to find videos of K’Naan [Continue]
Welcome to Jamrock – 2005 I’ve talked about Damian Marley several times already on this blog, mostly in reference to other people, and considering that Welcome to Jamrock is one of my favorite reggae albums ever, I thought it was about time to give it its own review. It was almost an accident how I [Continue]
Friday, September 11th Billy Joe Shaver, The Trishas 9 pm at Threadgill’s World HQ. Tickets are $10 and you can buy them here. Saturday, September 12th Band of Heathens, Drew Smith’s Lonely Choir Cost is only $13 (get them here) and they’re playing at Antone’s at 9 pm. Check out Sunday (and find [Continue]
Wow! Last week was utter madness. But it was tons of fun and completely worth every stressful moment, including driving 800 miles in three days and waiting five hours for You Tube to upload only to have it fail for an unknown reason. That only happened like, six or seven times! Anyway, now that all [Continue]
Mind Control - 2007 Mind Control is the first solo album by Stephen Marley, the second oldest of Bob Marley’s children. Prior to its release, Stephen had spent most of his career producing albums for his numerous siblings in the music industry. In fact, I was first introduced to Stephen Marley during the taping of [Continue]
Movement – 2008 After seeing Rootz Underground perform at a KEXP event in the Austin City Limits studio at KLRU during SXSW last year, a non-reggae devoted friend of ours was so taken by the band’s performance that he immediately downloaded Movement. Having sat through many a reggae album at our house, he kept telling [Continue]
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