Featured Gallery Music Why Is This Man Smiling? The Smashing Pumpkins Go Big

November 2, 2011 - 12:02 pm

For the past two years, Billy Corgan has been dribbling out songs online—some as individual tracks, some grouped together in small EPs—as part of a massive, 44-song magnum opus called Teargarden By Kaleidyscope. Loosely based around Corgan’s interpretation of The Fool’s Journey in the Tarot, he described the project as a return to the Smashing Pumpkins’ psychedelic roots. If you’ve spent seven minutes rocking out to his epic 2008 jam “Superchrist,” you know that an unfettered and experimental Billy is exactly the kind of Billy you want pumping out records on a regular basis.

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Music Mandy’s Music Mail 3/25/11

March 25, 2011 - 9:28 am

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Apologies to all you gorgeous party people, I’m afraid this week’s post is going to be a bit on the short side; was one of those highly infuriating weeks where there just wasn’t that much to write about and very few new tracks that I actually enjoyed. Although Sade (who doesn’t love a little Sade action?) announced the release of a second greatest hits album (no released date yet) and she finally agreed to collaborate with my future BFF Jay Z on a track for it. So that’s rather magical.

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Gallery Music If it Ain’t Brogue, Don’t Fix It: Glasgow’s TWIN ATLANTIC

May 6, 2010 - 4:48 pm

Hailing from Glasgow Scotland, 4-piece Alternative Rock Outfit Twin Atlantic made quite a splash at this year’s Bamboozled Festival.  The boys got the Aquarium Stage rocking as they murdered the mid-day 2:15 slot.  Read the full story

Music Home Video

April 12, 2009 - 11:41 pm

Home Video are Collin Ruffino and David Gross, transplants from the misunderstood landscape of New Orleans, now living in the brooding brownstones of Brooklyn, New York. Here they revel in a self-created world of references to Edward Gorey, Massive Attack, The Brothers Quay, Smashing Pumpkins, and a dusting of Chopin, references that they have been collecting for nearly ten years.

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Gallery interview Tacos With Twin Atlantic

April 12, 2009 - 11:30 pm

Glasgow, Scotland’s newest musical export, Twin Atlantic,  arrived in Austin, TX on their first trip to the good ole’ USofA.  And you could tell, too, by the way everything seemed so damn wonderful to them.  Having dinner with them was like having dinner with 5 musically virtuosic children in the way that children are sweet little sponges, eager to learn and experience everything around them.  That’s about the only way these guys are like kids.  Well that and the fact that they were drunk after two margaritas.  We took time out of their busy gigging schedule to sit down for the lads’ first-ever authentic Mexican meal, which they absolutely relished.  The venue was Austin foodie staple Gueros, home to the best Mole’ in TX.
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Music Other Lives

April 6, 2009 - 3:54 pm

I first heard of Other Lives when a friend who, when he found out I was going to SXSW mentioned them first in his list of must see acts at the festival.  I take these types of recommendations seriously especially coming from musically well-versed and knowledgeable heads.   I dug in to find out more about this Stillwater Oklahoma band about a week before I left for Austin and what I found only added fuel to my growing interest.

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