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Telegraph Canyon to Play SXSW
Along with The Burning Hotels, who tore up South-by in non-sanctioned showcases in recent years, Telegraph Canyon has been invited to play a sanctioned...
Explorations in Zounds
As I pompously declared last week (“C’mon Feel the Noize,” April 21), there seems to be an 817 audience hungry for post-everything music, a...
Black Tie and CMJ, Flick On, FWAC’ers
Though HearSay ain't no native, your friendly neighborhood columnist has been around here long enough to know what's what about local music.
But I'll admit...
The Crash That Took Me
Huge, shimmering, occasionally fuzzy guitars. Pounding, splashing drums and syrupy atmospherics. Slinky, androgynous vocals that slowly transmit Beatles-esque melodies with lyrics about transmutation, self-reflection,...
Drift Era Rides the Vibe
Do you like moody stoner post-rock instrumental music? Of course you do. Do you know what “post-rock” means? Of course you don’t. That’s why...
Last Chance for Flick
Asked to name the biggest bands to come out of the 817 over the past 10 or 15 years, most folks would probably first...
Grief’s Harvest
Sarah Ruth Alexander is a second-generation child of the Dust Bowl. Born to a family of cotton farmers outside the tiny Texas town of...
Joy and Pain
Many songwriters often disguise the depth of their meaning innocuously beneath a veneer of hooks and cheery melody. The contrast of infectious sing-alongs containing...
Songbird Jones Soars
If you asked Songbird Jones frontman Matt Jones what he wanted out of life 10 years ago, the 34-year-old would have said a career...
Controlling the Noise
The writing dynamics inside of bands vary almost as broadly as the stylistic sonic fruits of those dynamics. There are some groups in which...
