Glitterer Electrifies the Crowd At 29th Street Ballroom

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Glitterer Electrifies the Crowd At 29th Street Ballroom

Jonathan Marin Music Journalist AUSTIN, TX- Glitterer took the stage at 29th Street Ballroom on February 12th. Hot off the heels of their 5th album “erer” their continental tour finally landed in Austin. With them, the talented acts Graham Hunt and Prize Horse, whose styles were certain to complement Glitterer’s melodic yet hard-hitting style, creating a cohesive and reverberating endeavor that would resonate with fans for times to come. Prize […]

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The image shows a shot of the stage at Mohawk with the four members of Orchid onstage with blue lighting shining over them while part of the crowd is seen at the bottom of the photo.

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Concert Review

Lights Out with Orchid at Mohawk

Desarey Elizondo Lopez Music Journalist This past Tuesday I had the opportunity to see the screamo/hardcore band Orchid, a band that I have been a huge fan of for a few years. Their Austin show at Mohawk marked their only U.S. show for this stretch of their Doom Loop World Tour, which of course meant I couldn’t miss out on it. What made seeing this band so important […]

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A photo of the band, Cuerno TX, taken with a wide lens. The dominating color of the photo is red.

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Local

Cuerno TX rising in the local hardcore scene

Sofia Slack Music Reviewer There’s something electric about finding a band right as they’re figuring out who they are. That’s exactly what it felt like the first time I saw Cuerno TX, a hardcore group that formed in 2024 and has already become one of the most exciting acts in the local scene. The band is made up of  Leonardo Saldivar  on vocals, Michael Flores  on guitar, Jack Furbee  on drums, and  […]

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Interviews

Snowball: Insight About an Underground Shoegaze Artist

Juniper Wolff Local Music Journalist In a post-pandemic society, alternative music has blown up and impacted many people, particularly Gen Z. Samantha Anderson is a spectacle in this regard. A recent Texas State graduate, she “fell in love with alternative rock and wanted to explore as much music as possible” during the isolating lockdown era. Going by the moniker “Snowball," Samantha is a one-woman show. From writing and mixing to producing […]

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All members of the band pictured in green lighting, playing live music. There is one man with glasses, his left hand holding the microphone. To his left is the guitarist, his face is blurry due to the camera quality. The bassist is semi-covered by the guitarist. They are all looking away from the camera. Behind them is a drum set, though the drummer is obscured.

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Features

Trauma Ray: Fronting the New Shoegaze Scene

Desarey Elizondo Lopez Music Journalist The term shoegaze comes from the distorted and fuzzy noise of the genre due to the amount of effect pedals used, and originates from pioneering 90s bands such as Slowdive, Swirlies, and My Bloody Valentine. This atmospheric and blended sound has mainly defined the genre up until recent years, with a shoegaze revival steadily making a comeback and blending in experimental sounds and entirely different […]

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Three men dressed in all black on stage from the left to right there is a man on drums a man in the center with a black guitar and another with a black bass. In the background with a red backdrop illuminating behind them with purple lights around the perimeter.

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Music

Make Way For JMSN

Ethan McConnell Music Journalist SXSW has only just begun, and I have gotten the great opportunity to already have attended many shows just within the first two days. For music, the festival does not cheap out on providing nothing but the best and most interesting artists to the great city of Austin. With SXSW, you have artists from all over the world coming in, whether it be from in the […]

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Culture

Historic Cephas House to host 3rd annual African American Read-In

By Joel Mendez News reporter SAN MARCOS — The San Marcos Public Library alongside the Calaboose African American History Museum will host the 3rd annual African American Read-in at the historic Cephas house Saturday morning. This event is part of a series of read-ins happening nationwide in honor of Black History Month. The African American Read-In was established in 1990 by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) to […]

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Austin’s Spoon at Longhorn City Limits

By Harriet Bernard Music Journalist It’s the biggest UT Austin home game of the season against the University of Georgia. Crawling through a sea of burnt orange adorned fans with sprinkles of red and black ensembles. While I was not dressed to the nines for my hometown team, I was feeling the team spirit. Right next to the DKR Texas Memorial Stadium was a small stage with people waiting […]

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A blown-out exposure photo of the building crowd as Royel Otis prepares to take center stage at ACL Music Festival.

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Royel Otis (I just discovered my favorite artist): ACL 2024

By Joaquin Lewis Music Journalist Like many, I first discovered Royel Otis through their breakout cover of Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Murder on the Dancefloor” on Triple J’s Like A Version this past January. Despite this cover becoming a staple on my playlists, I hesitated to dive deeper into their discography and become an invested fan. That all changed in April when I stumbled upon their cover of The Cranberries’ “Linger.” I […]

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