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NEW - Live music review: The seance will be televised - @qotsa-official.bsky.social @acltv.bsky.social taping thecosmicclash.com/2025/11/23/l...
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Live music review: The seance will be televised – Queens of the Stone Age ACL TV taping
Marcel Proust was a dark-minded poet-philosopher, once musing: “Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the …
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NEW - Live music review: Emo originals Cap'n Jazz played Mohawk last Monday thecosmicclash.com/2025/11/24/l...
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Live music review: Emo originals Cap n Jazz played Mohawk last Monday
The Midwest Emo Kinsella dynasty feels everlasting in 2025. For this outing, the emo originals Cap’n Jazz made their way to Mohawk in the Red River Cultural District on Monday night to assert a leg…
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November 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Live music review: The seance will be televised – Queens of the Stone Age ACL TV taping
Marcel Proust was a dark-minded poet-philosopher, once musing: “Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the …
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November 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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In honor of this week's Kilby Block Party 2026 lineup announcement... @lcdsoundsystem.bsky.social “Dance Yrself Clean” at youtu.be/XgCtRotLD08?... 🎶🪩✨
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LCD Soundsystem “Dance Yrself Clean” at Kilby Block Party
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November 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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NEW - Live music review: @pigeonsplaying.bsky.social packed Mohawk last Friday thecosmicclash.com/2025/11/19/l...
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Live music review: Pigeons Playing Ping Pong packed Mohawk last Friday
Baltimore funk jam outfit Pigeons Playing Ping Pong soared into Austin for another musical extravaganza, their third visit since 2022, in celebration of their eighth studio LP Feed The Fire. This t…
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November 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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NEW - Live music preview: Mexico City rockers Los Blenders set to play 13th Floor on Saturday with Hidden Ritual thecosmicclash.com/2025/11/18/l...
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Live music preview: Mexico City rockers Los Blenders set to play 13th Floor on Saturday with Hidden Ritual
You may be too young to remember the first wave of Rock en Espagnol that spread across North America in the 90s. Bands like Caifanes, Mana, Maldita Vecindad and countless others were heard across a…
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November 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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NEW - Interview: @pigeonsplaying.bsky.social talk Austin, Domefest and touring in 2025 thecosmicclash.com/2025/11/17/i...
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Interview: Pigeons Playing Ping Pong talk Austin, Domefest and touring in 2025
Baltimore funk institution Pigeons Playing Ping Pong are a staying force in the world of jam bands. Rounded out by singer and guitarist Greg “Scrambled Greg” Ormont, bassist Ben Carrey,…
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November 17, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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OUT TODAY: @thecosmicclash.bsky.social writer @robertdean.bskyverified.social asks if Hip Hop is dead. Good question…
November 13, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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NEW - Essay: Is Hip Hop dead or just resetting? thecosmicclash.com/2025/11/13/e...

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Essay: Is Hip Hop dead or just resetting?
For the first time in a crazy long time, there were no hip-hop tracks in the Billboard Hot 100 for the week of October 25, 2025. The last time that happened was in February 1990 — Nirvana was still…
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November 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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NEW - Live music review: Been There 4 benefit at Radio East featured Mix Master Mike & Austin acts thecosmicclash.com/2025/11/13/l...
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Live music review: Been There 4 benefit at Radio East featured Mix Master Mike and Austin artists
The two-stage setup in the Radio/East backyard was the perfect setting for the Been There 4 benefit live music event – “the party to end homelessness.”  The event took place on Saturday, November 8…
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November 13, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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NEW - Live music review: Patrick Sweany deserves a bigger stage thecosmicclash.com/2025/11/12/l...
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Live music review: Patrick Sweany deserves a bigger stage
Every time Patrick Sweany rolls through town, I ask myself the same question: how is this guy not bigger? It’s the eternal curse of music nerds — finding an artist you love and wondering what the h…
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November 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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NEW - Live music review: @bigthiefmusic.bsky.social played their biggest Austin show at Moody Amphitheater thecosmicclash.com/2025/11/11/l...
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Live music review: Big Thief played their biggest Austin show at Moody Amphitheater
Emotions are running deep this year. Hints of hope are dwindling, leaving the house costs $50, and making ends meet is becoming increasingly daunting. For Brooklyn’s Big Thief, cautious optimism is…
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November 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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NEW - Live music review: Japan's Acid Mothers Temple at 29th Street Ballroom with The Macks and ST-37 thecosmicclash.com/2025/11/10/l...
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Live music review: Japan’s Acid Mothers Temple at 29th Street Ballroom with The Macks and ST-37
Japan’s Acid Mothers Temple returned to Austin for their fourth local appearance in two years at the 29th Street Ballroom in the University of Texas campus area on Sunday, marking another sto…
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November 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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BIG NEWS: Antone's secured the future of the club with a $1.3 million investment..
Congrats to Will Bridges and his team 👏👏👏
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Antone’s Announces 50-Year Lease Extension, Blues Museum • The Austin Chronicle
For a locally owned music venue, 50 years can feel like eternity, but the Antone’s team isn’t letting the milestone stall their imagination for the future of Austin’s Home of the Blues.  Today, still ...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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NEW - Live music review: LEVITATION Halloween Freakend day two got weird at The Far Out Lounge
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Live music review: Levitation Halloween Freakend day two got weird
The second day of Levitation’s Halloween Freakend at the Far Out Lounge & Stage showcased the more experimental side of the current indie music landscape, marking the third installment o…
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November 7, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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OUT TODAY: April’s recap of Halloween Freakend with @houseofbmsr.bsky.social @stereolabgroop.bsky.social plus surprise guests is now live at @thecosmicclash.bsky.social 👇👇👇
November 6, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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NEW - Live music review: Everyday Isn’t Halloween, But it Was LEVITATION's Freakend thecosmicclash.com/2025/11/06/l...

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Live music review: Everyday Isn’t Halloween, But it Was Levitation’s Freakend
I love The Far Out Lounge (FOL), I love the people who book the shows, bartend, run the door, and clean up after all of us. This spot opened up safely, from a distance, during the lockdown to give …
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November 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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NEW - Live music review: @viagraboys.bsky.social sold-out night one of LEVITATION's Halloween Freakend at The Far Out Lounge thecosmicclash.com/2025/11/05/l...
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Live music review: Viagra Boys sold-out night one of Levitation’s Halloween Freakend
Viagra Boys performed at South Austin’s Far Out Lounge in front of a sold out audience, in what might have been the most crowded the venue has ever been. 3500 fans showed up for the opening night o…
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November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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NEW - Live music review: @borisheavyrocks.bsky.social brought metal shapeshifting to Mohawk on 20th Anniversary of "Pink" thecosmicclash.com/2025/11/04/l...
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Live music review: Boris brought metal shapeshifting to Mohawk
Heavy metal in 2025 is in a healthy, hell-charged state. Bands are experimenting with the genre like Deafheaven, Full of Hell, Sunn O))), and even Austin acts like Portrayal of Guilt. For Tokyo, Ja…
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November 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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NEW - Live music review: Nuclear Daisies make a splash at Hotel Vegas last week at album release show thecosmicclash.com/2025/11/03/l...
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Live music review: Nuclear Daisies make a splash at Hotel Vegas
Every once in a while, you’ll be at a show and wag your finger because you just know. That familiar light pops on that a music nerd can recognize when the band onstage isn’t just another local band…
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November 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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NEW - Gallery review: Hunter S Thompson would have loved
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Gallery review: Hunter S Thompson would have loved Meow Wolf
I take every chance I can get to escape the wheels of the capitalist death machine. My phone is constantly telling me someone’s been shot in a mall, or the asshole with the long red tie has done so…
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October 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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NEW - Live music preview: Halloween Freakend by
Levitation is coming to The Far Out Lounge with Viagra Boys
Stereolab. Machine Girl and more
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October 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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theocelots.bsky.social The Ocelots @theocelots.bsky.social · Oct 22
Hi BlueSky, We're The Ocelots. We are twins who play Alternative folk from Wexford, Ireland.
We released this single in February, it's called 'The Good of a Bad Year'
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The Ocelots - The Good of a Bad Year (Official Video)
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October 29, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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“Really, I still can’t explain what we encountered. I know this: you enter a radio station called ETNL, and from the moment you open the doors, nothing is as it seems. Microwaves open into art curations, you walk through fridges and into unknown realms, and then the next thing you know, you’re….”
October 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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NEW - Gallery review: Hunter S Thompson would have loved
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Gallery review: Hunter S Thompson would have loved Meow Wolf
I take every chance I can get to escape the wheels of the capitalist death machine. My phone is constantly telling me someone’s been shot in a mall, or the asshole with the long red tie has done so…
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October 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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NEW - Live music preview: Die Spitz sold-out Stubb's
for debut album release thecosmicclash.com/2025/10/28/l...
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Live music preview: Die Spitz sold-out Stubb’s for debut album release
A sold-out show at Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater in Austin can be one of the most treacherous live music experiences in the downtown area. For the occasion of hometown heroes Die Spitz, excepti…
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October 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM