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Entries from Austinist tagged with 'missyelliott'

May 8, 2007

Great Lake Swimmers Ongiara (Nettwerk) Ongiara sees Great Lake Swimmers move a little further into country with prominent banjo strums and unforgiving Nashville-esque male/female harmonies. The themes are still dark, open and intimidating, never belying the band's daunting name. Production-wise, the songs are gorgeous: layers of acoustic guitars over a banjo and reverberating snare never sounded better. Tony Dekker's voice is straight out of the old dance hall and as slide guitars subtly make......

Continue Reading "New Release Tuesday: Great Lake Swimmers, Bjork & The Bad Plus"

March 30, 2005

Could this be the good life? Sitting downtown in a coffeeshop, drinking a mocha, eating s'mores for lunch? Yes, we think this is the good life and you too can have the good life at Halcyon. It's where Ruta Maya used to be--that old brick building on Lavaca and 4th, sandwiched between Lavaca St. Bar and Fado. We hadn't been in a while and we were downtown and in need of coffee and a place......

Continue Reading "Halcyon Days"

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