Band of the Week: The Push and Shove

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Band of the Week: The Push and Shove

By Harriet Bernard Local Music Journalist With Austin being one of the most recognizable music capitals of the world, many artists – both young and old – find their way into its lively music scene. While some artists are just getting started with their music careers, others have been in the game for years. Austin-based The Push and Shove is a five-piece band. Coming from differing musical backgrounds, each of […]

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Band of the Week: Bleach Burn

By Kylie Hogg Local Music Journalist Austin-based five-piece band Bleach Burn has been making music for the past two years. Silver Linings, the band's debut album published in December 2022, takes a slow and sludgy introspective dive into heartbreaking subjects including drug usage and traumatic relationships. With fuzzy guitars and intense synthesizers, this album is sure to be a favorite for fans of shoegaze. The group began in 2021 when […]

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The background of the album cover is a burnt orange. The bottom left of the cover reads “the Mary Veils, Esoteric Hex” in various grey/nay block letters. There is a graph with vertical lines and multiple bell curve waves filled with red and blue colors. In front of the graph is a yellow human head. Many red, teal, and light green square planes run through the head at different angles. Silhouettes of a group of people sit in the bottom right corner of the cover. In the middle right side of the cover is a red eye with shading around it for the eyelid and a green color underneath it.

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Band of the Week: The Mary Veils

By Clara Blankenship Music Journalist I am constantly on the hunt for new artists and albums to fit my current situations and emotions. As finals are approaching, a sense of being overwhelmed has dominated my days. To my dismay, I was having trouble finding music that matched my stress. I was listening to KTSW while driving, as I usually do, and I heard a song that perfectly emulated my frustration […]

April 29, 2022 186 2

An art print of a man with dark curly hair. One hand is on his head with the other wrapped around his neck. A liquid substance is dripping off of his hand and arms. The colors on the art print are colored in mostly pastels: light pink, blue, purple, and black. The band name, Oberhofer, is written in black cursive handwriting on the top left-hand corner, while the album name, Smothered, is written in white cursive handwriting on the bottom right-hand corner.

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Band of the Week: Oberhofer

By Cassidy Segovia Music Journalist Brooklyn locals Brad Oberhofer, Zoe Brecher, Ben Roth and Dylan Treleven make up the band Oberhofer, a quirky indie-rock band that has been making music since the dance-filled indie rock takeover of 2008. While Brad Oberhofer was attending New York University, he started Oberhofer and released catchy singles such as “o0o0o0o0o.” The introduction of Oberhofer started a new wave of the lo-fi and bedroom genre […]

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A man with long blonde hair, Austin Brown, stands with his hand in his pocket and stares into the camera. In front to the left sits a man with a beard and his hands in his lap, Sean Yeaton, staring off into the distance. On the right and in the front stands a man with curly hair, Max Savage, also with his hand in his pocket, staring at the camera. In between them all sitting on the ground in overalls covered in paint sits Andrew Savage, who stares far into the distance. There is a green, yellow, and brown tapestry on the ground spattered with paint and covering furniture and a yellow curtain in the background.

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Band of the Week: Parquet Courts, an American Punk Band

By Bandera Barter Music Journalist Parquet Courts, whose name is an obscure basketball reference to the type of flooring used in NBA arenas, is an American punk band now hailing from Brooklyn. Their conception began not too far from us here at Texas State in San Marcos. The band was formed in 2009 when lead vocalist Andrew Savage met guitarist Austin Brown while attending The University of North Texas in […]

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Band of the Month: Glasshealer

By Iliana RamirezMusic Journalist Members of the Glasshealer band consists of Hayden Steckel (vocals and guitar), Ernesto Gray (vocals, guitar, and keys), Jared Marxuach (bass), and James Owens (drums). The four came together through random connections with one another, but connected when they began working together. Marxuach and Steckel knew each other through their girlfriends who were roommates. Marxuach knew Grey from previously playing in a band together as well […]

February 29, 2020 208

The picture shows Geoff, Laura, and Leela smiling and looking to the right with a brick wall in the background.

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Band of the Week: Wood Street Band

By Dylan HollandAssistant Music Director https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGjUOqJvqX4 It was around 7 p.m. and I had just gotten out of class to head to the Wood Street garage to meet the Wood Street Band for the first time. Once I’d arrived at the top level of the garage, I was looking over San Marcos; in the distance the lights from the street and stadium were illuminating the surrounding trees, and revealed the […]

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The three members of Kairos (Jake, Jacob, and Brent) laughing and goofing off

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Band of the Week: Kairos

By Conner YarbroughMusic Director https://youtu.be/esUZ-R8P9yo What’s better than a San Marcos-based, reggae-inspired rock band? A San Marcos-based, reggae-inspired rock band that makes overwhelmingly tasty pancakes...with cinnamon and maybe a little nutmeg - not once, but twice for the KTSW Band of the Week team. It’s a pleasure to finally introduce (someone cue the drumroll) Kairos! After meeting the band in the fall for our failed first-shoot (that may have involved […]

March 16, 2019 330

Moon Dunes members sitting next to the side of a white and electric blue 1956 Chevy

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Band of the Week: Moon Dunes

By Conner Yarbrough Blog Content Contributor & Staff Editor As one Facebook reviewer describes, Moon Dunes is “straight space yogurt.” While their music seems almost perfectly defined by this galactic comparison, this chill-wave quartet of San Marcos 20-somethings is even sweeter than the review implies. A band I would easily wake up at 7 a.m. again to hangout with. A band whose star-crossed members are just as cool as the […]

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