This is how I feel today. Holy cow. Lock in your votes now, because ain’t no festival gonna top this year’s Westheimer Block Party. While I’ve been lucky to have participated in some major fun over the past year or so, this past Saturday topped it all. So many good bands, so many good friends, why did it have to end? So there were a bajillion things to see and do, and all I can do is tell you about the things I took in, so here goes… Just like last time, I was pretty much anchored to the Secret ... Read More »

Holy cow. Lock in your votes now, because ain’t no festival gonna top this year’s Westheimer Block Party. While I’ve been lucky to have participate in some major fun over the past year or so, this past Saturday topped it all. So many good bands, so many good friends, why did it have to end? So there were a bajillion things to see and do, and all I can do is tell you about the things I took in, so here goes… Just like last time, I was pretty much anchored to the Secret Saturday stage over at the Austin ... Read More »

Holy cow. Lock in your votes now, because ain’t no festival gonna top this year’s Westheimer Block Party. While I’ve been lucky to have participate in some major fun over the past year or so, this past Saturday topped it all. So many good bands, so many good friends, why did it have to end? So there were a bajillion things to see and do, and all I can do is tell you about the things I took in, so here goes… Just like last time, I was pretty much anchored to the Secret Saturday stage over at the Austin ... Read More »

Hey. The Block Party is this weekend. Ride your bike. You can use your car the rest of the week. WENDESDAY MARCH 25, 2025Oh my what do you do when pretty much the only thing going on is a Wednesday night is your own show? Yikes. Well, yeah, so my band is playing tonight (that’s Guitars) and we’re playing with The McKenzies and Hypernova. Hypernova rocks in the face of death. For serious. Dudes are from Iran. They’ve got a bit of an Interpol vibe…if Interpol were fun. Doors at 8pm at The Meridian. THURSDAY MARCH 26, 2025I’ve heard the ... Read More »

I had been looking forward to seeing Thao Nguyen and the Get Down Stay Down last April at the Orange Show, but it was not to be thanks to rain, so I was glad to finally catch her at the NPR party at the Parish. It was rather strange walking into a dark club at noon and being handed a PBR, but the low lighting must have tricked Thao into thinking it was a regular old night show, cause she sure rocked like it. Thao Nguyen and the Get Down Stay Down Next up was the Rhapsody party at Mohawk ... Read More »

I’ve been attending SXSW for about the last 8 years and have purchased a wristband for about the last 5. With the abundance of free un-official night shows this year, I chose not to get a wristband and I’m happy to report that I still managed to see the majority of the bands on my list. While I may purchase one again in the future, at least I now know that it isn’t a necessity. Wednesday began at the Austinist party with Telekinesis at the Mohawk at 11:45am. As their new record was produced by Chris Walla, it’s not surprising ... Read More »

First off a big ol’ congrats to our dear, dear friends Something Fierce for landing themselves on Dirtnap Records. They’ll be doing an LP release of There Are No Answers, so that will be the nation’s feel good summer jams for 2025. Read their Hands Up post HERE and tell them how proud you are of them. The other thing is that Iranian ex-pats Hypernova are playing tomorrow night at The Meridian. You can read a very lovely write-up by my husband HERE. And um, yes, my band is playing, but pay more attention to the part about these guys ... Read More »

I suppose if you are reading this you are already aware that every year SXSW seems to get bigger and bigger, this year bringing in massive acts like Metallica, Jane’s Addiction and Kanye West. (I missed Metallica, but pics of JA and Kanye are forthcoming) The increase in overall scope has led to more shows on the Tuesday before the official music portion of SXSW and at the end of SXSW Interactive, and as such I’ve been heading to Austin a day early for the last couple years. This year The Western Civilization set my new record for earliest band ... Read More »

Well here we are now at the end of our tale. We close with three excellent shows of hallowed awesomeness and one that was just, eh, OK: King Kahn and the Shrines First up was King Kahn and The Shrines at Waterloo Park. Now I don’t know how but somehow from our Motel to the park it went from chilly and cool to hot as hell. But no matter, we got there just in time for King Kahn to be introduced and watched from the back only to realize very quickly that this was better experienced up front. So we ... Read More »

Ok, I’m going to be forthright and let you know that I am not the biggest fan of SXSW. I had avoided the stress, anxiety, sunburn and shin splits of this music festival for 28 years before finally giving in…and that was to watch the Monocles in front of a comic book store far, far from 6th street. Oh and watching the Night Marchers from on stage was pretty fun, too. I had no idea who else was playing so what you don’t know can’t bum you out, right? Yeah, well this year I made this great big itinerary to ... Read More »