If you’re in Austin this week you’re gonna smell a lot of smoke. Some from cigarettes and pot, plenty from BBQ, and a shit-ton from hipster d-nozzles blowin’ smoke up your ass about their favorite crappy buzz band. Granted, there’ll be hidden gems galore. That’s how SXSW works. However, with champeenship rock ‘n’ roll […]
Read MoreWigginstock: This Is American Music
It’s not often I get to participate in a private anthropological field study, let alone one that’s pants-optional. However, this weekend I’m a cultural warrior battling mano-a-mano for the soul of American music. Hyperbole? Probably. Essentially true? That would be yes. Wiggins, Mississippi, is the site of Wigginstock, a two-day symposium on the future […]
Read MoreA Pretty Girl and a Long Kiss on the Mouth
“What a sweet, sweet life this is, Don’t know where I’m going wouldn’t matter if I did” –Joey Kneiser, “Through The Screen Door” Adios Lounge readers should already know that LD (hearts) Glossary [proof here] [more proof here] [oh and here]. Their album Feral Fire is one of the best releases of 2010 and I […]
Read MoreSX Sam’s Town Point, Thursday 3/18/10
The Adios Lounge can’t participate in this year’s SXSW Music Festival because of top-secret government work. Yep, it’s true. While Austin staggers under the weight of freebeerpalooza, I’ll be keeping the Western Hemisphere safe in a bunker 20 miles below the surface of the earth. My disadvantageous location notwithstanding, don’t think for a second my […]
Read MorePretty Things Lying on the Floor
While I finish up my next post, I figured I’d keep you busy with a grab-bag of adiosloungeica. THELONIOUS MONSTER The Monster’s set at The Echo (Thursday, February 4) was the beautiful mess I expected. Polished? Yeah, not exactly. Well-rehearsed? Of course not. But, when the boys locked into their groove — “See That My […]
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