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RIP Daniel Johnston
Local music hero Daniel Johnston passed away yesterday. Most of you all who don’t live around Austin are probably asking, “who?” I’ll go with the easiest answer. You may remember Kurt Cobain wearing a shirt with this weird frog on … Continue reading
1994: Kurt Cobain commits suicide
I remember seeing the main news story on MTV in the University Towers’ cafeteria as Kurt Loder followed up with the PSA-esque pleas telling other people to seek help if they felt like killing themselves. Despite my life-long bouts of anxiety, … Continue reading
Sloan
PUBLISHER’S NOTE: This concert took place on September 14, 2018, placing the story into The Lost Tales category amongst many other events. Just letting you know, more overdue Concerts, Movies and cool events are a’ coming! Sloan is one of Canada’s … Continue reading
Posted in Concert, Music, The Lost Tales
Tagged Alternative, Aughts, Canada, Nineties, Power Pop
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Nada Surf 2018 (Let Go anniversary tour)
First of many digging out stories and despite this concert being almost two months ago, I still think it’s relevant; bands doing anniversary tours has been a thing lately. For me, if it’s Nada Surf, I’m there because The Stars are … Continue reading
Posted in Brushes with Greatness, Concert, Music
Tagged Alternative, Aughts, Power Pop
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RIP Dolores O’Riordan
Caught the news about her passing this morning pretty early thanks to having Duran Duran in my FaceBook feed. Makes sense this would be a part of their updates, the Cranberries were Duran Duran’s opening act during their 1993 “Wedding … Continue reading
RIP Tommy Keene
Tommy passed away last Wednesday in his sleep despite being in really good health. The papers said he was 59. Wow! He could’ve fooled me since I had the honor of seeing him open for Matthew Sweet (twice) this Summer … Continue reading
RIP Grant Hart & Jessi Zazu
With these two great musicians/writers, I didn’t forget, I put them off so my site wouldn’t be just a long string of sad, sad obituaries. First was seeing Grant Hart passing. Most people my age know him as the drummer … Continue reading
Matthew Sweet
A huge favorite of mine from 1992 on came to Austin around Mid July to play two shows at the relatively new ACL3Ten venue. I went to both shows but I also made sure got to the in-store performance/autographing at … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative, Aughts, Nineties, Power Pop
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Tears For Fears
Last week I finally saw the band behind my favorite records of 1985 and 1993. Currently they’re touring with Hall & Oates but as Roland said, every now and then, they get let out to play a headlining show in … Continue reading
The xx
Got to see The xx at the Moody Theater last week. It was a belated Christmas present for my friend Mark who’s really into them. I like the band too, I’m just behind on the current record and their previous work … Continue reading
RIP David Bowie
What a crappy way to start the week and just when his latest album came out. Given his nature, I think he may have timed it this way. David’s material was pretty impressive too. Namely with how readily the more … Continue reading
RIP: Scott Weiland
Scott’s death isn’t any surprise sadly. The guy lived pretty hard on booze and drugs, I think it was a pre-requisite for being the singer in Velvet Revolver due to the rest being made up of former Guns n’ Roses … Continue reading
RIP Nick Marsh of Flesh for Lulu
The sad news went down over the weekend while I was pre-occupied with getting through the remainder of my week. People in my age bracket may recall the band, but not the members. I’ll throw out a hint, Flesh for … Continue reading
Kaiser Chefs
They canceled last Fall but returned last week to play their first headlining show in Austin since…I have no idea. I think the Kaiser Chiefs usually appeared at Austin’s numerous festivals. Didn’t matter to me, it’s often better to catch … Continue reading
Lloyd Cole
Last week, we celebrated part two of my belated concert gifts with my friend Mark…Lloyd Cole. Here we go as always, who? Well, I was in the same camp around 2003. The short answer, Lloyd is a singer/songwriter from the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative, Eighties, Nineties
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