Category: South

Live Music Coverage

The Hippie House Presents Step Jam: Austin Pets Alive!, Music, Beer + More || Austin, TX 6.11 [Event Preview]

The Hippie House Presents Step Jam no. 1, the very first in a series of Step Jam events where local businesses join forces with Austin musicians, artists and foodies to raise money for a local charity. Join The Hippie House and friends this Sunday, June 11th, for an afternoon block party at Pressler Place (315 Pressler, Austin, Texas) benefiting […]

Jun 7, 2017 Read →

Jamband

Jimmy Herring and The Invisible Whip: Live at San Antonio’s Tobin Center, August 31 [Event Preview]

San Antonio spread-heads rejoice! Jimmy Herring is posting up at the Tobin Center in Texas on August 31.                   Between a full-time position in Widespread Panic and shorter stints with several other bands, Herring is generally kept quite busy. The Invisible Whip tour will mark his first solo tour in about five years, and will […]

May 25, 2017 Read →

Electronic

Join Blunt Force and Resonant Frequency JamFeed’s First #JamBarge in Austin, TX, June 23rd [Event Preview]

We are pleased to announce that our friends over at JamFeed are throwing their first annual event this Summer, JamBarge. The Austin music-tech start up is throwing a concert, food and booze cruise June 23rd on the beautiful Lake Travis, just Northwest of Austin proper. JamBarge will be the funkiest outdoor homie throw down, complete with hour long sets from […]

May 23, 2017 Read →

Electronic

Little Dragon Casts A Spell Over Austin | April 26th 2017 [Live Music Review]

Little Dragon breathed the fire of life into the packed crowd at Stubb’s Amphitheater. The entire show was a ritual, as if a spell had been cast over the packed audience by Yukimi Nagano – Little Dragon’s foxy Swedish frontwoman. Yukimi danced with a gourd shaped tambourine in hand and chanted out notes of pure […]

May 18, 2017 Read →

Festival Coverage

Musical Highlights from Scoremore’s JMBLYA in Austin, TX | May 6th, 2017 [Festival Review]

JMBLYA is an event that I look forward to every year, as the youthful staff at ScoreMore consistently puts together an impressive lineup of some of the hottest names in hip-hop and EDM. This year, the event sold out with an astonishing 25,000 tickets in advance, making it the third largest concert of 2017. The […]

May 15, 2017 Read →

Indie

Tycho at Stubb’s in Austin, TX | May 12th, 2017 [Photo Gallery]

Tycho serenaded a mesmerized and jubilant crowd at Stubb’s this past Friday, and photographer Ryan McCoy was able to capture the night for us. If you have the chance, do not miss Tycho on this tour! This run will be accompanied by the band’s new lighting designer, Charlie Botwin, and is even more visually delectable […]

May 15, 2017 Read →

Festival Coverage

Wind Rider Music Festival: Where Music, Culture, BBQ & Recreation Meet for Memorial Day in New Mexico! [Event Preview]

  Within the homeland of the Mescalero Apache lie four sacred mountains.  These four mountains represent the direction of everyday life for the Apache people. Tribal elders would often speak of a sacred place called Sierra Blanca. It was there that the creator gave life to the Apache Peoples. It was on Sierra Blanca, according […]

May 10, 2017 Read →

Electronic

Pretty Lights & Friends Surprise Second Line Parade + Pop-up Show Through New Orleans 5.7.17 [Show Review]

Sunday, May 7th, marked a legendary day for Pretty Lights, PLF, New Orleans residents and the lucky people in town for Jazz Fest alike. Earlier that day, Live For Live Music announced that Derek Vincent Smith, the famed American electronic music producer known as Pretty Lights, would be throwing a second line parade to the seventh ward […]

May 9, 2017 Read →

Festival Coverage

Old Settlers Music Festival Celebrates 30 Years In Grand Style [Festival Review]

Old Settlers Music Festival celebrated 30 years of good times with a weekend unlike anything I’ve ever experienced. Old Settlers offers a gourmet samplings of the best singer songwriters, jam bands, bluegrass and Americana you can find – bringing in Grammy winning Los Lobos from LA to headline along with locally grown Austin heroes like […]

May 7, 2017 Read →

Electronic

Gorillaz Invade Austin City Limits 2017: Lineup drop includes Red Hot Chili Peppers, Chance the Rapper, Vulfpeck and more [#DroolMode]

Austin City Limits has been a big deal for a while now, bringing out the big guns year after year for the fall concert event at Austin’s Zilker Park. But late last night, I heard some serious news:     ACL announced the 2017 lineup – and Gorillaz have top billing. Having recently dropped their newest album, […]

May 4, 2017 Read →