Austin - New Year’s Eve in Austin is generally referred to as amateur night, due to the packs of Jagerbomb-happy frat boys stumbling from bar to bar. The Mohawk is safely tucked away on Red River, a couple of blocks from the mayhem, giving the hipsters a little Lonestar-filled Oasis.
It does catch you off [...]

(June 8, Imbibe) Rhett Miller has a doppelganger in Oregon that fronts Palatine Hill, an alt-country rock group. The doppelganger goes by the name James Whelan, and while he may have some of Miller’s moves and licks, he doesn’t quite have the Old 97’s front man’s chops. Close, but not quite…
Vocally, Whelan doesn’t have [...]

(May 19, Alberta Art Hop) Each year a creative, cultural arts festival, put on by Alberta Street’s local business owners and artists, comes together to form an enchanting, multi-talented artistic experience called “Art Hop”. Represented at the Hop are visual artists specializing in an array of disciplines and mediums.
Also at the Hop, and most [...]

(May 15, Mississippi Studios) Born in North Miami Beach, 24-year-old, Steph Taylor, has been selling out shows from Miami to Gainesville. She currently lives in Miami, and was in town to open the Acoustic Minds show at Mississippi Studios last week.
Taylor’s piano and guitar playing is a flurry of passionate, painful motion and sound. [...]

(May 15, Mississippi Studios) The list of famous twins is long.
A personal favorite are the Dioscuri, those meddlesome twin sons of Zeus, known as Castor and Pollux (a famed horseman and boxer, respectively). These two kidnapped the daughters of Leucippus and were sentenced to spend alternate days as gods on Olympus, and as [...]

(May 3, White Eagle) Growing up in northeastern Ohio, Shayla Carpenter whittled her music into a sound that is equal parts acoustic, soul, and sultry folk.
Her MySpace profile touts that her sound is a cross between Alana Davis, Joss Stone, Tracy Chapman, and some others…
Carpenter was recently at the White Eagle as part [...]