Tuesday, February 09, 2010

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Brass Knuckles

Dirty Dozen's fight to stay relevant echoes their hometown's struggles

In Music
By Nicholas Hall

Live & Local

Live & Local : Panic Division @ Scout Bar by Imelda Vergara

The Beat is on(line)

Music: The Backbeat guys know the odds are against them, and they're loving it by Enrique Lopetegui

The Sound & The Fury

Sound and the Fury: (a week on the music scene) by Enrique Lopetegui

Candy Apple Daydreams

Aural Pleasure review: From the synthesizers to the stupid-ass hairstyles, seems like everybody’s loving the ’80s these... by Jeremy Martin

Been Meaning to Tell You

Aural Pleasure review: What qualifies as ambient anymore? In comparison to San Antonian Ernest Gonzales’s seismic, surp... by Jeremy Martin

Romance Is Boring

Aural Pleasure review: After releasing their first two albums in 2008, Los Campesinos! spent the middle of 2009 preppin... by Jeremy Willets

Realism

Aural Pleasure review: Stephin Merritt rarely steps into the studio with his rotating collective the Magnetic Fields wi... by Brian Baker

The grateful dead

Music: If Tejano is finished why are these Grammy-nominated San Antonians still around? | By Enrique Lopetegui [1/27/2010]

Pain in the neck

Music: I Am Ghost fear the reaper | By Jeremy Henderson [1/27/2010]

Live & Local

Live & Local : The Sandworms at Limelight | By Jeremy Martin [1/27/2010]

The Sound & The Fury

Sound and the Fury: (a week on the music scene) | By Enrique Lopetegui [1/27/2010]

United in blood

Music: Agnostic Front bring the Pain to San Antonio | By Mitch Clem [1/20/2010]

Nine Minutes with Exene Cervenka

Music: On January 5, I had the odd pleasure of a telephone interview with Exene Cervenka, lead singer of th... By Bryan Rindfuss [1/20/2010]

Live & Local

Live & Local : Heavy Feathers | By Jeremy Martin [1/20/2010]

The Sound & The Fury

Sound and the Fury: (a week on the music scene) | By Enrique Lopetegui [1/20/2010]

Beach House: Teen Dream

Aural Pleasure: Beach House is a pretty perfect name for Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally’s warm and sleepy gloa...... By Jeremy Martin [1/27/2010]

Eels: End Times

Aural Pleasure: Mark Oliver Everett started as something of a Beck imitator, so it’s fitting that he’s gotten ar...... By Chris Drabick [1/27/2010]

T-Model ford: The Ladies Man

Aural Pleasure: If the biggest blues names from Chess Records’ heydey had hopped a Greyhound, hightailed it out ...... By Duane Verh [1/27/2010]

Lil Wayne: Rebirth

Aural Pleasure: Let’s be completely arbitrary here and say that the first rock song was Fats Domino’s “The Fat M...... By Jeremy Martin [1/27/2010]

OK Go: Of the Blue Colour of the Sky

Aural Pleasure: Though they’re one of the past decade’s few memorable mainstream...... By Michael David Toth [1/20/2010]

I am Ozzy

Aural Pleasure: Ozzy Osbourne executed an entire coop of chickens with a shotgun at point-blank range. His first...... By Jeremy Martin [1/20/2010]

Katherine McPhee: Unbroken

Aural Pleasure: Verve Forecast attempts to do what RCA couldn’t — sell some Kath...... By Jeff Niesel [1/20/2010]

Spoon: Transference

Aural Pleasure: The seventh album from Austin’s Spoon is the kind of “experimental” that really might be better ...... By Jeremy Martin [1/20/2010]

Frank Zappa: Philly 76

Aural Pleasure: The glorious Philly ’76, recorded in former U.S. capital Philadelphia, 200 years after ...... By Enrique Lopetegui [1/13/2010]

Lindstrom and Christabelle: Real Life Is No Cool

Aural Pleasure: Lindstrøm is a gold-standard Norwegian producer of powerfully fuckable, interstellar tech-disco ...... By Michael Byrne [1/13/2010]

Owen Pallett: Heartland

Aural Pleasure: If Heartland doesn’t become Pallett’s breakthrough album, record-buyers are wrong. Pall...... By Jeremy Martin [1/13/2010]

Vampire Weekend: Contra

Aural Pleasure: When Alice Cooper first heard of Vampire Weekend, he was disappo...... By Chuck Kerr [1/13/2010]

The Bravery: Stir the Blood

Aural Pleasure: The Bravery are good at marketing. They’re the kind of band that posts “leaks” of new tracks on ...... By Jeremy Willets [1/6/2010]

Bob Seger: Early Seger Vol. 1

Aural Pleasure: Ten tunes from the vaults of Michigan rock icon Bob Seger reaffirm the strength of classic rock ...... By Carlo Wolff [1/6/2010]

Puddle of Mudd: Volume 4: Songs in the Key of Love & Hate

Aural Pleasure: If it were 2001, Puddle of Mudd’s fourth studio release would fit right into the musical landsca...... By Jeff Niesel [1/6/2010]

Pop Pistol: Angelus

Aural Pleasure: “This album took two years to create and has changed into many beasts along the way,” read the l...... By Jeremy Martin [1/6/2010]