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The Cult ‘Under The Midnight Sun’ Review: veteran UK rockers honor their past and explore their future on new album. “Forget what you know.” That murmured line from ‘Mirror,’ kicks off The Cult’s new album ‘Under The Midnight Sun‘, their first album since 2016’s ‘Hidden City‘. And in many ways that lyric encapsulates the 8-song […]
Concert Review: The Cult at Stubb’s, Austin. UK alt-rock veterans return to Austin for blistering set. There was a sense of legacy surrounding The Cult’s performance this past Sunday at Stubb’s Amphitheater. After a strong-set from doom metal outfit King Woman, the pre-show music was chock full of the post-punk acts The Cult emerged with in […]
SLIS Podcast Episode 43: The Toadies’ Mark Reznicek Talks ‘Rubberneck’ 25th Anniversary Tour, New EP ‘Damn You All To Hell’, and More The Toadies have been a Texas music staple ever since the hit the scene in 1989, with their unique mix of alternative rock with a Southern twist. They broke through to the masses […]
Concert Review: Roxy Music at Moody Center, Austin: Inimitable genre-straddling outfit celebrate 50 years together with stellar retrospective set. It takes a special kind of alchemy to keep a band together, let alone one that makes it to the five-decade mark. But Roxy Music has always been a special band: part art project, part glam […]
‘Blow Out’ 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray [Criterion Collection] Review: Brian De Palma’s Hitchockian thriller is a audiovisual feast in 4K. Brian De Palma has never been shy about using homages in his films, but for his 1981 thriller Blow Out he took this approach to the next level. Equal parts Hitchcock’s Vertigo and Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow […]
Concert Review: Perturbator at Emo’s, Austin. French synthwave master whips crowd into a frenzy. Emo’s was packed this past Sunday, with a diverse crowd craving some dark, electronic, soundtrack inspired grooves. And the triple bill of Street Sects, Health and Perturbator were there to deliver in spades. After two slamming sets by the opening acts, Perturbator […]
Greg Puciato ‘Mirrorcell’ Review: ex-Dillinger Escape Plan vocalist indulges his love for 90s grunge and 80s new wave on sophomore solo album. The Dillinger Escape Plan may have broken up in 2017, but former frontman Greg Puciato has still been plenty busy. In the ensuing years he’s released two albums from his electronic project The […]
Concert Review: Puscifer at Bass Concert Hall, Austin: Maynard James Keenan’s art-music collective channels and parodies modern angst in explosive performance. Puscifer are a hard act to quantify, their mix of electronic tinged rock/comedy troupe/performance art is unconfined, elastic and multi-dimensional. And while their discography is formidable, the project formed by Tool / A Perfect […]
Billy Howerdel ‘What Normal Was’ Review: A Perfect Circle mastermind strikes out on his own with impressive solo debut. “This is me stepping back into my early teen self and making the record I would have made if I had the means and the knowledge when I first picked up a guitar—just in 2022. It’s […]
‘Double Indemnity’ 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray [Criterion Collection] Review: iconic film noir gets the deluxe treatment it deserves with new release. Film noir remains one of the most compelling cinematic genres in film history. Between the stark black and white cinematography, and characters who exist in shades of gray, it allowed for more complexity than other […]
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