AltWeeklies Wire
Incubus: 'Incubus HQ Live'new
To celebrate both the release of 2011’s If Not Now, When? (their first studio album in five years) and the fact they’ve been together for 20 years, Incubus invited its fans to six free, intimate nights at a storefront on La Brea in West Hollywood.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
08-16-2012 |
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Last Nighters: 'Animal Room'new
Animal Room, the debut LP by San Antonio’s Last Nighters, plays like something of a concise history of modern Southern indie music.
San Antonio Current |
James Courtney |
08-16-2012 |
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Tags: Last Nighters
Joss Stone: 'The Soul Sessions Vol. 2'new
For someone so musically addicted to re-introductions, Joss Stone is pretty damn bad at them.
San Antonio Current |
Justin Strout |
08-16-2012 |
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Tags: Joss Stone
Crosby, Stills & Nash: 'CSN 2012 (Live)'new
Time hasn't been kind on CSN, judging by their first live performance in 20 years.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
08-16-2012 |
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Tags: Crosby, Stills & Nash
Spider Bags' Shake My Headnew
At its foundation, Shake My Head is a collection of straightforward bar-rock songs. Walking (well, staggering) rhythms lend a vintage R&B swing behind overdriven guitar lines that mine '70s rock and pop.
Tags: Spider Bags
Bad Breaks: 'Bad Breaks'new
Bad Breaks really captures my attention at the moment of transition into "Seppuku," the album's second (and best) song.
San Antonio Current |
James Courtney |
08-02-2012 |
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Oulipo's Primitive Waysnew
Primitive Ways sounds like the next step of an almost great band, drunk on possibilities but still learning how to present them.
No Eyes' No Eyesnew
No Eyes' self-titled EP is like a Texas psych-rockin' longhair in the midst of getting his mop snipped into a neat London bowl, but some loose ends still await their trim.
Los Texmaniacs: 'Texas Towns & Tex-Mex Sounds'new
When it comes to condensing everything that's great about Tex-Mex into a CD that pleases both the people and academia, nobody does it better than the Texmaniacs and the Smithsonian.
San Antonio Current |
Enrique Lopetegui |
07-29-2012 |
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Public Enemy: 'Most of My Heroes Still Don't Appear On No Stampnew
Despite their storied place in the hip-hop pantheon, it’s been a long time since Public Enemy has been relevant.
San Antonio Current |
M. Solis |
07-29-2012 |
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Sohns: 'Ripe/Rot' EPnew
Gloomy sounds of struggle and organ washes open up this EP from Sohns, a quartet of local racket-raisers, but it jumps right into some rewarding noise on track two, the wonderfully titled "Soul Train Blues of the Broken Skull."
San Antonio Current |
Leonard Pierce |
07-29-2012 |
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MTMTMK: 'The Very Best'new
The marriage of London-based production/DJ duo Radioclit and Malawian singer Esau Mwamwaya, The Very Best has yielded both deeply soulful and intoxicatingly carefree moments through two mixtapes and one album before MTMTMK.
San Antonio Current |
James Courtney |
07-27-2012 |
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Nas: 'Life is Good'new
Though universally considered one of the greats, Nas has worked, to some extent, in the shadow of Biggie and 2Pac since his rapturous emergence in 1994.
San Antonio Current |
James Courtney |
07-27-2012 |
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Sea Changenew
Frank Ocean, 'Channel Orange,' and the tides of love.
North Bay Bohemian |
Gabe Meline |
07-16-2012 |
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King Mez's My Everlasting Zealnew
As far as rap in The Tar Heel State goes right now, King Mez is our leader. And like The Listening a decade before it, this is the new classic text. (self-released)
