I’m totally sorry about the gap between ACL Fest reviews there. Shockingly, graduate school does NOT offer much flexibility, even when you have like, totally important music blogging to attend to! Jeez. Anyway, thanks for bearing with me and let the reviews of ACL Fest Day 2 begin! Overall, Saturday was a better festival day [Continue]
A few weeks ago, I met with Martin Crane, lead singer of local indie band Brazos, for an interview at Spider House as part of the SXSW Spinner project. You can read the published article here: SXSW 2010: Brazos. Crane’s a pretty soft-spoken and kind of shy person, and obviously cares deeply about the music [Continue]
“That’s sure a lot of tags, Pa…“ As many of you readers know, Austin Girl Music Guide’s tagline is Reviews for Regular People (new readers check out my “About This Blog” page to learn more!). I love music and the main goal of this blog is making music accessible. I want to share the music [Continue]
The madness continues with my review of Saturday’s shows! Most Surprisingly Awesome Show: !!! I didn’t know how I’d feel about !!!. Generally, I don’t feel good about things that are too-cool-for-school and having an unpronounceable name can definitely be seen as one of those things. But !!! put on a kick-ass show, [Continue]
As promised, the ACL preview continues with my picks for bands to see on Saturday. Don’t forget to come back tomorrow to see Sunday’s line-up! 2:00 pm !!! Dance-worthy mash-up tunes by a band whose name can’t be pronounced. Now, that’s ACL! 3:00 pm Grizzly Bear If you missed my review of Grizzly [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]
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