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Year’s Best Spins: San Antonio artists dominated the Current‘s favorite releases of the year
Seven of our music writers’ 10 favorite albums of the year were by Alamo City artists.
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Anarchy in SA: Day-long event celebrates the Sex Pistols’ infamous show at Randy’s Rodeo
San Antonio label Saustex Records and South Texas pop-culture museum TexPop San Antonio are presenting “The Filth and The Flautas (Redux)” at Paper Tiger on Saturday, Jan. 7.
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Ukrainian band Jinjer playing San Antonio as ambassadors of their war-torn country
Jinjer will be joined by P.O.D., Malevolence and Space of Variations at the Aztec Theatre.
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Powerful new album After Now by South Texas-tied jazz duo looks for hope amid national turmoil
The album, which also features San Antonio Poet Laureate Andrea ‘Vocab’ Sanderson, takes listeners on a complex, ambitious and compelling ride.
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Chasing the Dragon: Catching up with Trivium ahead of the band’s Aztec Theatre performance
Saturday’s show will likely draw the largest crowd the band has played for as a headliner in the Alamo City.
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Os Mutantes brings its influential Brazilian psych to San Antonio’s Paper Tiger on Saturday, Oct. 29
The band is one of the most influential international acts from the psychedelic era.
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Former Girl in a Coma frontwoman Nina Diaz got a confidence boost in recording her second solo album
Diaz is taking steps to assemble another full-time band after dropping her second solo album, I Could Be You, You Could Be Me, on Aug. 18.
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Puscifer’s Maynard James Keenan talks happy accidents ahead of the band’s San Antonio concert
The theatrical group will drop into San Antonio’s Tech Port Center + Arena on Saturday, October 22, for what promises to be not just a musical performance but a multi-media spectacle.
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Dos Culturas: The Last Bandoleros may have left San Antonio, but their Tex-Mex roots still shine through
The innovative pop-rock-Latin music trio dropped a new album called Tex Flex early this year and has a second LP due out later this month.
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Invincible Czars to perform live score for classic horror film Nosferatu at Alamo Drafthouse
Attendees of the Tuesday, Oct. 4 concert-slash-screening can expect an immersive experience that balances a love of tradition with a modern musical sensibility.
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Drummer Gerry Gibbs — a headliner at this year’s Jazz’SAlive — is back in San Antonio
Gibbs’ performance with his sextet Thrasher People will mark his first time playing the free two-day festival since he departed the Alamo City for New York.
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Classical pianists Duo Jatekok are ready to rock Rammstein’s San Antonio crowd
Not many piano duos have faced such a literal baptism under fire: making a stateside debut opening for a rock band’s pyrotechnics-heavy stadium tour.
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The world has finally caught up to San Antonio power-pop band the Krayolas
A true San Antonio hybrid, the Krayolas initially drew attention for filtering the sounds of the British Invasion through a Mexican American lens.
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Ahead of San Antonio show, Def Leppard dishes on its first album in seven years
The album’s 15 songs dip into the early-’70s sweet spot of music history Def Leppard has unabashedly tapped into since the band formed in Sheffield, England in 1977.
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Nuclear Juarez is blazing new trails with instrumental rock. Just don’t ask it to play ‘Walk Don’t Run.’
Nuclear Juarez will play a free gig at north-of-downtown nightspot Sanchos Cantina y Cocina on Friday, August 5.
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San Antonio doom metal band Las Cruces drops its first album in 12 years, and it was worth the wait
Las Cruces’ long-awaited new album, Cosmic Tears, was released last month on high-profile stoner label Ripple Music.
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Rainbow Kitten Surprise’s Jess Haney talks about the band’s ‘surreal’ journey to success
The band is scheduled to play a sold-out show at New Braunfels’ Whitewater Amphitheater on Saturday, July 9.
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Sepultura frontman Max Cavalera revisits early material for San Antonio show with his brother Iggor
Singer-guitarist Cavalera pioneered a sound that was equal parts death metal and thrash metal with his first band Sepultura.
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Thank You Scientist is bringing its hard-to-pigeonhole sound to the Paper Tiger
“We’re whatever the hell we are,” guitarist Tom Monda said in a Zoom interview from his home in New Jersey.
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Tone Deaf: The ‘slow bleed’ of the St. Mary’s Strip is jeopardizing live music in San Antonio
Neighborhood complaints, noise concerns, construction and lack of parking are putting pressure on the area that’s long been the city’s music hotspot.
