TWEETS FROM SXSW 1989 “The registration line was insane. That’s 20 minutes of my life I won’t get back.” “Do you know where Saturday’s day party is?” “Austin learned it’s lesson from the Armadillo. No way are they gonna tear down Liberty Lunch for an office building.” “I’m in such a hurry I’m gonna have […]
Halfway through “I Am Trying To Break Your Heart,” the leadoff track on 2002’s “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.” That’s when I stopped listening to Wilco, which had been one of my favorite bands of the ‘90s because of their first three albums- “A.M.,” “Being There” and “Summerteeth,” as well as the fab “Mermaid Avenue” collab with […]
The dance floor is a river that can count to three. Cowboy hats float counterclockwise, and hearts swim beneath shirts of turquoise, pink and purple as a wily fiddle gives a Southern accent to small talk at the bar. The smoky country voice of John Anderson howls on CD from the omnipresent sound system: If […]
Gather ’round, kids. I’m going to tell you about the time I saw a legend, a natural mystic, in the flesh. In the four decades since his passing, Bob Marley has not only become the most internationally popular black musician of all time, but more a symbol of freedom, enlightenment and love than mortal man. […]
By Michael Corcoran It was a little frustrating being a rock music fan growing up in Hawaii because the only concerts we’d usually get in the ’70s were big acts on the way to Japan or Australia. There were maybe five big shows a year and the clubs were overrun with cover bands for the […]
LOS ALAMOS, NM, 2013. The band with the Texas plates pulled up to the street fair stage and found out they were expected to play two 75-minute sets that night. Such a surprise double shift would send most bands into an obscenity-coated tizzy, but to the Warren Hood Band that just meant the three distinctive […]
Poi Dog Pondering- “7” (2008) A tree grows in your backyard for many years and the branches spread and the leaves flesh out, providing more shade with each summer. Flowers blossom, a few at first, giving the tree a smattering of color. And then one day you throw open the curtains and your tree is […]
NEW BRAUNFELS. Certain moments can turn a good concert into a great one and Ryan Bingham‘s sold out show Friday night had a doozy. Near the end of the two-hour set, the former bullrider and his four-piece band of musical ranchhands pulled out “Southside of Heaven” from his 2007 debut “Mescalito” and the sunburned and […]
By Michael Corcoran On this particular Friday night, Austin singer/songwriter/bandleader Bob Schneider has a big show in Dallas at the House of Blues, where about 1,000 fans have bought tickets to dance and sing along to such songs as “40 Dogs (Romeo and Juliet)” and “Tarantula” that sound written by two different people. It is […]
The waitress at Hyde Park Bar & Grill says she likes Bill Carter’s big silver skull ring. It’s from the set of “Pirates of the Caribbean,” Carter says. “The first one. It was made for my friend, but he wanted one with a yellow bandanna and ruby eyes, so he gave this one to me.” […]
