Rich Hands debut video for “I Get By”
Hop in the van for the new video for the Rich Hands’ “I Get By,” debuted last week by Impose. The SA trio’s take on the classic tour vid, “I Get By” takes us through the mundane, stupid and...
View ArticleAural Pleasure Review: Common’s ‘Nobody’s Smiling’
Common | Nobody’s Smiling | Def Jam | *** 1/2 There are very few albums in which the opening seconds are able to set the tone for everything to come. We all hesitated the first time we heard Kanye’s My...
View ArticleTPR debuts In-studio Series with SA Atmospherists Bright Like the Sun
Taking a page from NPR’s fabulous Tiny Desk series, Texas Public Radio recently initiated an in-studio recording series, kicking off with SA’s Bright Like the Sun. An instrumental band, Bright Like the...
View ArticleFree RSVP for Nina Diaz’s September Show at Tobin Center
RSVP for a chance to win free admission to Nina Diaz’s show on September 6, part of the Tobin Center’s inaugural weekend. Held at the Tobin’s outdoor River Walk Plaza, the gig will be Diaz’s debut of...
View Article6 Shows to See this Weekend
Alejandro Escovedo (Friday, August 8) On “San Antonio Rain,” from Alejandro Escovedo’s 2012 LP Big Station, the Texas rock deity interprets his experience of leaving his childhood in the Alamo City....
View ArticleHi Life: The weed rap of Devin the Dude
Lil B’s Hoop Life mixtape. Prince Paul’s A Prince Among Thieves. MF DOOM’s Mm.. Food. The concept album has a celebrated history in rap, allowing its advocates to set up creative boundaries to work...
View ArticleSound Bite: A.N.D.Y.: “Whitney”
Belgian producer and multi-instrumentalist Andy Faisca (aka A.N.D.Y.) photographed by Oblique Art Strategy The recently launched solo project of Belgian producer and multi-instrumentalist Andy Faisca,...
View ArticleBody Art: SA’s Freebies release the physical on self-titled debut EP
It’s difficult to make music a physical experience, to give a body to ideas expressed in sound. Vinyl plants do it by pressing albums onto 180 gram and, recently, EDM has granted pop a new texture,...
View ArticleBlues Category Added to San Antonio Music Awards Voting
On November 23, 1936, blues legend Robert Johnson holed up for three days in the Gunter Hotel in downtown SA, recording 16 works that would help define his legacy. Since then, blues has been an...
View ArticleVipers and Doobie Ashtrays: a Texan history of marijuana music
Though the slang has changed, singing about weed has been a staple of Texas music since the early hours of its recorded history. Here’s a brief (and certainly incomplete) retrospective look at songs...
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