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Andy's most recent reviews
Mokumedori
Mokumedori , 2017
How do you tell a fairy tale using only sound? That's a question seemingly answered by Japanese artist Mokumedori's self-titled album. Utilizing an eclectic variety of instruments, many of the ...
Various Artists
Say Sue Me / Otoboke Beaver Split 7”, 2017
Though the thought of pairing a shoegazey indie pop band with an anything-goes punk group on a split record may seem odd, in the case of this effort from South ...
Spiritual Cramp
Mass Hysteria , 2017
Given their name, it's appropriate that San Francisco's Spiritual Cramp have a sound rooted in the punk rock of 40-ish years ago. I don't think debut EP Mass Hysteria would have ...
Damon Eliza Palermo
Beacon of Maracaibo, 2018
Contemplative and calming, “Delacorta” kicks off Damon Eliza Palermo's Beacon of Maracaibo release with flowing piano and bubbling electronic tones playing under a pleasant, naturalistic bed of chirping birds. Slightly glitchy but ...
Andy's most recent features
Music SXSW 2018
Posted April 8, 2018, 12:53 p.m.The year's third month is always a crazy time to be in Austin, what with the South by Southwest Festival taking up March's middle third, but the overall ...
One Question Interviews Cindy Marabito (The Dicks From Texas)
Posted Dec. 5, 2017, 1:13 p.m.Cindy Marabito (The Dicks From Texas) SPB: Living in Austin and being a part of South by Southwest for the last several years, I'm often struck by the, what ...
Music SXSW 2017
Posted April 15, 2017, 1:38 a.m.A year after the standing President of the United States attended and lectured at the South by Southwest Festival, politics were again front and center for much of 2017's ...
One Question Interviews Scene Point Blank - Spryos Stasis
Posted June 1, 2016, 3:33 a.m.Spyros Stasis SPB: (How) Has work in sound engineering affected your music tastes and/or reviewing? Spyros Stasis: It has not affected so much my outlook on the quality of ...
Andy's most recent news stories
Tours Sound On Sound Fest Announces Lineup
Posted June 28, 2016, 11:18 p.m.
Over the past decade, Fun Fun Fun Festival has provided the city of Austin, Texas with a definite alternative to the pop culture meltdown that is the hyper-commercialized and overblown ...
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Tours Levitation Fest Off!
Posted April 28, 2016, 11:30 p.m.
Levitation, the new incarnation of Austin Psych Fest at Carson Creek Ranch, has been cancelled due to severe weather predicted in the already weather-weary state of Texas. The festival organizers ...
MP3s New Shoegazey Cover of The Psychedelic Furs's "Love My Way"
Posted Dec. 2, 2015, 3 p.m.
One of the tunes I always looked forward to on the in-game radio of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City was The Psychedelic Furs's woozy "Love My Way." Originally released ...
Bands The Dutchess and The Fox Puts Their Spell On Halloween
Posted Oct. 28, 2015, 4:23 p.m.
In anticipation of a self-titled debut coming in early 2016, The Dutchess and the Fox (a duo made up of former Psychedelic Furs player Joe McGinty and Superhuman Happiness's ...
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Andy's most recent blogposts
Seeking Respite from Ubiquitous Holiday Pop...
Posted Dec. 25, 2015, 4:03 p.m. by Andy
In the month leading up to the holiday, it's often difficult to escape the near-continual assault of schmaltzy Christmas music. It seems virtually every artist of note in the last ...Andy's Favorite Horror Film Soundtracks
Posted Oct. 31, 2015, 11:11 a.m. by Andy
Though usually panned by the majority of film critics – the mainstream ones anyway- horror films seem to be a Hollywood mainstay that just won't go away. This is hardly ...Film Review - 1988's Not of This Earth
Posted Oct. 31, 2015, 10:27 a.m. by Andy
Made in 1957, director Roger Corman's typically efficient low-budget sci-fi flick Not of This Earth came to be regarded as a minor genre classic in the years to come – and ...Film Review - Profondo Rosso, a.k.a. Deep Red
Posted Oct. 31, 2015, 10:09 a.m. by Andy
In the midst of the opening credits sequence for Italian director Dario Argento's 1975 Profondo Rosso (a.k.a. Deep Red), the viewer is treated to a truncated scene appearing to show ...
