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The visual art scene, however, lacked a center. Local artists were creating work that could compete in New York, but Texas galleries weren’t interested in showing contemporary art, and few buyers knew what to select to impress their friends. “It was just bluebonnet paintings,” remembers the artist Barry Buxkamper, who was an undergraduate student at UT when he first met Hickey. This was the void Hickey set out to fill.  The name “A Clean Well-Lighted Place” was a reference to a rathe...

Aussie underground legends LIPSTICK KILLERS are finally getting their first ever anthology. Totally deserving to be mentioned in the same breath as Radio Birdman, The Saints and The Scientists et al, this Sydney quartet burned relatively briefly but oh so incandescently, remarkably only releasing one single during their 1978-81 lifespan. But what a single! Not just an underground classic, the Deniz Tek-produced ‘Hindu Gods (Of Love)’ has gone on to become a card-carrying Aussie punk standar...

Kurt Cobain died by his own hand April 5. The alternative nation’s voice was suddenly, shockingly stilled. After three years of the most popular music being an agonized scream over heavy guitars, people wanted something shinier and more upbeat. But they didn’t want to lose the overamplified six-strings and acknowledgment that life was complicated and messy. Dookie had that in spades. Now grunge aside and finally dominated rock culture as it threatened to in 1977. A third of these records...

After graduating from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the five members of Sasha & the Valentines briefly dispersed. Throughout college, the quintet formed an orbit of musical projects to play university parties. Time spent apart inspired singer Sarah Addi to begin writing her own songs and developing a haunting, velvety vocal depth. "I was out in Hawaii working on a farm, and all I wanted to do was play shows," remembers drummer Billy Hickey. "Separated from my gear and my friends,...

The uplifting Pre-Form, Future Museums latest release for renowned Austin electronic outfit Holodeck Records, experienced what lead sound designer and multi-instrumentalist Neil Lord calls "synchronicity." "Its been an incredibly surreal experience regarding the timing of it all," he states about the release and the recent birth of his son. The album puffs and drenches in an unusual clarification, each notion more defining than the one before it. Where much of Future Museums work typically int...

By Syndicated Content ZZ Top frontman Billy Gibbons has contributed a song to a new tribute album May the Circle Remain Unbroken: A Tribute to Roky Erickson that will be released as a limited-edition colored-vinyl LP on July 17th as part of the 2021 Record Store Day event. The album features a variety of mostly contemporary artists saluting late Texas psychedelic rock pioneer Roky Erikson , who died in 2019 at age 71. Erikson was best known as the frontman for the 1960s psyc...

By Syndicated Content ZZ Top frontman Billy Gibbons has contributed a song to a new tribute album May the Circle Remain Unbroken: A Tribute to Roky Erickson that will be released as a limited-edition colored-vinyl LP on July 17th as part of the 2021 Record Store Day event. The album features a variety of mostly contemporary artists saluting late Texas psychedelic rock pioneer Roky Erikson , who died in 2019 at age 71. Erikson was best known as the frontman for the 1960s psyc...

ZZ Top frontman Billy Gibbons has contributed a song to a new tribute album May the Circle Remain Unbroken: A Tribute to Roky Erickson that will be released as a limited-edition colored-vinyl LP on July 17th as part of the 2021 Record Store Day event. The album features a variety of mostly contemporary artists saluting late Texas psychedelic rock pioneer Roky Erikson , who died in 2019 at age 71. Erikson was best known as the frontman for the 1960s psychedelic-rock group The 13th F...

ZZ Top frontman Billy Gibbons has contributed a song to a new tribute album May the Circle Remain Unbroken: A Tribute to Roky Erickson that will be released as a limited-edition colored-vinyl LP on July 17th as part of the 2021 Record Store Day event. The album features a variety of mostly contemporary artists saluting late Texas psychedelic rock pioneer Roky Erikson, who died in 2019 at age 71. Erikson was best known as the frontman for the 1960s psychedelic-rock group The 13th Floor Eleva...

Austin 360 The 1990 Roky Erickson tribute album, "Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye," was one of the best tributes ever made, so why not a sequel? Former Austinite Bill Bentley, who produced the first one, has gathered up an impressive cast for "May the Circle Remain Unbroken: A Tribute to Roky Erickson," coming out as a special Record Store Day vinyl release on July 17 via Light in the Attic Records. Erickson, who led the pioneering 1960s psychedelic band 13th Floor Elevators and released more...