Email Author Audra Schroeder

2012 Stories by Audra Schroeder

• Preview: Blackstone Rangers and Diamond Age at Double Wide

  published February 23, 2012

  Think the lineup for this all-local show sounds like a sci-fi novel? You're not the only one. Headliners Blackstone Rangers are working their... More >>

• Preview: Soul Train Dance Party at the Texas Theatre

  published February 23, 2012

  Yeah, I know there was that "attempt" at the World's Biggest Soul Train line a few weeks ago, but anyone who has ever fantasized about joining... More >>

• Aaron Barker's Ice Cream Education

  published February 23, 2012

  UPDATE: The After the Great Cupcake Flood of 2008 and the Cake Ball Frenzy of 2010, the baked goods wave seems to have slightly receded in... More >>

• The Polyphonic Spree

  published February 16, 2012

  The robed ones return from a two-week Southern tour, so this homecoming show should find the Dallas collective in good choral shape. Not only... More >>

• Love Train

  published February 16, 2012

  Old School KSOC-FM 94.5 has become my default radio station, which is how I've managed to memorize the ad for this show. With the passing of... More >>

• Pinkish Black

  published February 16, 2012

  Are you anxiously awaiting the debut LP from Pinkish Black? The Fort Worth synth and drum duo has been tailoring their dark stretches of synth... More >>

• Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks

  published February 16, 2012

  Interesting that Beck produced both Stephen Malkmus' latest album, Mirror Traffic, and Thurston Moore's 2011 LP, Demolished Thoughts. The two... More >>

• Nervous Curtains Calculate Infinity

  published February 16, 2012

  Sean Kirkpatrick and I are talking at a table at Strangeways, a brick-heavy East Dallas bar with '80s dance music blaring from a speaker and... More >>

• Preview: Zorch, Saturday, February 11, at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios

  published February 9, 2012

  Austin synth/drum duo Zorch have yet to release a proper album, but last summer's cassette on experimental label Insect Records showed just how... More >>

• Review: Ben Kweller Flies his Kite

  published February 9, 2012

  For those who thought Ben Kweller was being cute by releasing a country album that coincided with his move back to Texas in 2009, his latest... More >>

• Tiger Dick Makes the Magic Happen

  published February 9, 2012

  In a cozy house in Denton this particular Tuesday night, conversation runs the gamut from pig's blood in the Trinity River to being attacked by... More >>

• Fate Lions Rally 'Round a New 7-inch

  published February 2, 2012

  Forth Worth's Fate Lions just dropped some hot wax on Plano's 7-inch-centric Tree Fall Sounds to follow up their 2009 full-length Good Enough... More >>

• Legsweeper and More Come Out of the Swamp

  published February 2, 2012

  Hey, swamp thing. Phoenix Project is now 406 Arts, and they're throwing an appropriately crusty punk-rock house party. Dallas duo Legsweeper,... More >>

• The O's Keep it Trill

  published February 2, 2012

  The O's just spent a month on an East Coast tour with the Old 97's, and this marks their triumphant return. Taylor Young and John Pedigo are... More >>

• King Khan & the Shrines Spray You Down With Love

  published February 2, 2012

  The last time I went to a King Khan & the Shrines show, I was sprayed with at least three different fluids and burned myself with a cigarette... More >>

• Lydia Loveless Kicks Over the Bar Stool in Your Heart.

  published January 26, 2012

  "Well if you really wanna raise your voice to me/ It's gonna change how I feel about you, buddy, but it won't change me." Lydia... More >>

• Eccotone, Fungi Girls

  published January 19, 2012

  Another door-kicker of a night at Queen City Hall. Fungi Girls may have the distinct honor of being Cleburne's best band. So good, in fact,... More >>

• Loretta Lynn

  published January 19, 2012

  When we talk about feminist icons in music, why is it country legend Loretta Lynn rarely makes the list? The singer from Butcher Hollow,... More >>

• Thou, The Body, True Widow

  published January 19, 2012

  A metal show in Sons of Hermann's old bowling alley on a Monday night? Sounds like some spirits are gonna be rattled loose, especially with... More >>

• The Boom Boom Box fights against the robots

  published January 19, 2012

  The passing of four calendar years since the release of their debut EP has not been lost on The Boom Boom Box. While you've been wistfully... More >>

• A Monday Night at the Slip Inn: Was It Real or Just a Dream?

  published January 19, 2012

  "Did you hear about that guy on the news?" "Oh, yeah. But what do you expect when you have a gas-huffing problem? One day you're going... More >>

• Hacked & Slashed

  published January 12, 2012

  Billed as a night of "horror scores and terror synths," DJs Gabriel Mendoza and Gavin Guthrie will be on hand to screw and chop (or hack and... More >>

• Bill Frisell & Carrie Rodriguez

  published January 12, 2012

  Austin fiddler Carrie Rodriguez gets around with collaborators, and always manages to make it seem like more than just a fling. She made half a... More >>

• Neil Hamburger

  published January 12, 2012

  When he's not railing against the odiousness of Axe Body Spray or espousing the gastrointestinal dangers of Taco Bell on Twitter, America's... More >>

• Ladysmith Black Mambazo

  published January 12, 2012

  If you've ever seen Mean Girls, you may have caught a reference to Ladysmith Black Mambazo, but the South African vocal group is much more than... More >>