by Alice Teeple | Nov 29, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Music
By Alice Teeple Photos by Alice Teeple Christine Smith takes a drag from her well-deserved cigarette outside the Bowery Electric. She’s just wrapped a spectacular solo performance for her sophomore album release, Meet Me On The Far Side Of A Star. It’s fitting this...
by Alice Teeple | Nov 7, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Music
Niabi Aquena of Searmanas in an interview with Downtown Listening to the opening strains of a Searmanas song is like falling into a murky pool of lucid dreams. The ethereal vocals of Niabi Aquena gently sprinkle cinematic fairy dust over her lush soundscapes. Her work...
by Alice Teeple | Oct 31, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Music
By Alice Teeple Photos by Alice Teeple The nights are longer and the veil is thinner between the mortal and spirit worlds as October winds down. North Carolina singer-songwriter Lauren Light has unleashed her terrifying new track, Run, just days before Halloween. This...
by Alice Teeple | Oct 26, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Music
By Alice Teeple Photos by Alice Teeple We are at the dawn of Scorpio season: a time of introspection and the upheaval of emotional baggage. It is a time for forgiveness of those who have damaged our self-worth, and of the darkness we self-generate in response. We need...
by Deb Martin | Oct 14, 2019 | Culture, Events, Music
You might be tempted to write off the 1980’s as a decade of too much— too much hairspray, too much neon, and too much eye makeup, but if you did you’d be dead wrong. And that was proven by one of this summer’s hottest tickets, the “Squeeze Songbook 2019” tour. Squeeze...
by Alice Teeple | Oct 11, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Music
Photos and feature by Alice Teeple There’s an old adage advising against white clothing after Labor Day, but consider an exception for Austin’s White Denim. A rollicking performance by the Texan quartet at Le Poisson Rouge proves that rock n’ roll is always in...