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Hip Tips: Slight Return
It’s been a long time, but Hip Tips is back, with more brain-melting indie-rock and sundry other faux-intellectual, artful goodies for your listening/reading/observing/getting-hip-finally pleasure.
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Pepper
There’s this scene in Blue Crush where surfer girl Anne-Marie Chadwick goes to rescue lil’ sis Penny from a house party on Oahu’s North...
Top 5 Shows 4/13-4/14: “Ronnie Milsap Is in Irving at a...
1) Tonight is the first Friday on the Green of the year! Bring a blanket and some lawn chairs and money if you want...
Chatterton’s Aldridge Solos
At the end of August, Chatterton frontman Kevin Aldridge will go into the studio to record what will amount to a...
Raul Malo
Lucky One (Concord Music Group)
By Tom Geddie
Raul Malo, mostly known as lead singer of the Grammy-winning country band The Mavericks, has a pleading, dramatic...
UPDATE Blackbox Booking Live Oak
Easily the biggest deal in the local music scene since Lola’s Saloon came along in 2006 was the opening several months ago of Live...
Gunslingers
No More Invention(World In Sound)
By Ken Shimamoto
When this debut disc by a trio from the unlikely birthplace of San Pedro, France, arrived in a...
Electric Mountain Rotten Apple Gang
Despite two fires and a burglary over the past several months, Fred’s Texas Café keeps on keepin’ on.
And now that summer’s on the...
Local Women in Music to Watch in 2020
We are living in a moment when public conversations about gender issues have taken on an urgency that impacts many aspects of our lives...
Trauma Ray’s Gaze
Many local groups flirt with the edges of atmospheric, expressive, effects-driven rock music, but none have dived as deep into the waters and come...