By Ché Salgado Music Journalist Here are KTSW, we consider our job to basically be turning you, the audience, on to new music. This is all well and good, but the fun is the process of discovering and coming to love new albums, bands, genres and movements isn’t solely based on listening alone. It couldn’t be, when you absolutely love what you’re hearing you can’t help but need more to […]
By Ché Salgado Music Reviewer If you’ve been keeping up with the KTSW blog or maybe just music news in general, you know Spoon have come out with a new album, Hot Thoughts. (I wrote about it here.) And so of course, with this ninth LP, a whole generation of “All Eight Spoon Albums Ranked” articles become outdated. But after some extremely cursory Googling, I found that some outlets have already […]
By Ché Salgado Music Journalist Artist: Spoon Album: Hot Thoughts Released: March 17, 2017 Label: Matador Website: spoontheband.com If you could boil down the critical consensus of Spoon down to just three words, you'd probably get: "minimal", "reliable" and "consistent". Now we can just go ahead and take "minimal" out of there because in 2017, I can't find the time to deal with erroneous labels slapped on a band in […]
By Ché Salgado Music Journalist Artist: The Halfways Album: In the Interim Released: February 24th, 2017 Label: Self-Released Website: www.thehalfways.com Ask anyone around the Austin-San Marcos-San Antonio area who’s in the know in their scene, and whether they like it or not, they’ll probably tell you psychedelic rock. In the last few years, bands like The Halfways and the Roaring Sun have cropped up with a new brand of Texas neo-psychedelia. […]
By Ché Salgado Music Journalist Artist: Priests Album: Nothing Feels Natural Released: January 27, 2017 Website: http://666priests666.tumblr.com/ It was reported in 2014 that Rivers Cuomo of Weezer found Priests "charming". For a few people, this endorsement might have seemed confusing. The clean-cut front man of the band that brought us "Beverly Hills" giving a cosign to the raw, sociopolitical D.C. punk quartet that is Priests--it seemed out of place. But in […]
By Ché Salgado Music Journalist If it hasn't come to your attention already, Houston will host the world's best festival since ATP 2.0 back in April. Day for Night has been around since last year and, just like this year, boasted a fantastic lineup with the likes of Kendrick Lamar, New Order, Flylo, Battles, the Philip Glass Ensemble and so many more. No doubt that Day for Night put on […]
By Ché Salgado Music Reviewer Artist: Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam Album: I Had a Dream That You Were Mine Released: September 23, 2016 Label: Glassnote Records Website: http://www.hamiltonrostam.com/ When Rostam Batmanglij, the mind behind Vampire Weekend announced last January his departure from the band, there was uncertainty, of course, that was to be expected. What wasn’t expected was how much of this uncertainty was focused on Vampire Weekend, as opposed […]
By Ché Salgado Music Journalist Artist: Jefre Cantu-Ledesma Album: In Summer Released: August 7th, 2016 Label: Geographic North Website: http://jefrecantu-ledesma.com/ There I was, basking in the last moments of my menial albeit very chill summer job at Menchie’s, thinking of some words to say for an equally menial record. Nothing was coming, and the review was due in eighteen hours, eight of which would be dedicated to sleep, another four dedicated […]
By Ché Salgado Music Reviewer Artist: Mats Wawa Album: Classics EP Released: February 19th, 2016 Label: Ville Vesten Plateforening Website: https://www.facebook.com/matswawa/ We’re a little slow to the draw here, despite being released in February, Mats Wawa’s Classics EP has only just been dropped in our “CDs for review” box. But that's just as well because frankly, this is music made for summer. Though the band hails from Norway, of all […]
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