You gotta love Sub Pop. Great music, great sense of humor. And a great decision to make their Silver Jubilee a free, family-friendly, Georgetown-set affair. (They’re 25 this year! Why not fete themselves?) Also, did you read Tad’s lips during that deafening construction noise? Continue reading Sub Pop Celebrates their Silver Jubilee (Video)
“On My Own,” the penultimate track, drops into a half-time drag-and-pound guitar-twitchfest making you hear what Robert Plant heard in this bunch when he covered two of their songs. Continue reading Sub Pop Band Low Goes Where Country Should Go
“We’ve never been reaching for anything. I think a lot of bands try to reach beyond doing it for fun, and then you get defeated and break up.” Continue reading A Brief History of Mudhoney with Dan Peters
Love Battery served as a reminder that nostalgia isn’t a bad thing…Especially if it batters your ears hard enough to require plugs Continue reading Love Battery, Truly, and Rusty Willoughby Fly a No-Toothless-Nostalgia Zone
Saturday night felt like the Night of the Underdog at Chop Suey, with four terrific rock acts playing their hearts out to a sparse-but-enthusiastic house well into the wee hours. Odds are, you probably weren’t there; and if you weren’t, it was your loss.
Continue reading City Arts Fest Trips Out and Rocks It Up Closing Weekend (Photo Gallery)
Several months ago, Google threw me a link about a microbrewery planning a Mudhoney tribute beer. (A tribute is well-deserved; the 23-year-young band is currently touring with Pearl Jam.) I clicked and landed on the loud, proud site for Burnt Hickory Brewery, a fledgling Atlanta area outfit boasting a band-beer line and the credo “Higher gravities for higher minds.” Intrigued, I reached out to brewmaster/PR chief Scott Hedeen about the brewery, its music ties, and its “super fuzzy big muffy honey brown” Mudhoney ale. Continue reading Punk Brewmaster Scott Hedeen Talks Mudhoney, Beer, and Mudhoney Beer
This time the accolades for the local pop troupe come from Entertainment Weekly, who yesterday named them one of the ten best new bands at South By Southwest this year. Says Leah Greenblatt, “These new Sub Pop signees felt like laying back in a patch of soft green grass (not beer-vomit-soaked dirt). The easy-like-Sunday-morning side of me that very much enjoys a straightforward, expertly-crafted folk-rock hook got what she wanted with TH&TH; of almost every new band I saw at the festival, these guys seemed the most ready for their ‘Tonight’s Saturday Night Live musical guest is…’ closeup.” Continue reading The Head and the Heart Gets Some More SXSW Love
