Amanda Hatfield

In spite of the heavier tone of her new material, the electric part of the set is quite short. “We’re going to tone it down a bit,” she said, taking up her acoustic guitar for “Walk Alone,” one of Short Movie’s quieter moments, followed by “David,” whose lyric “A wasted love is a life of regret” she sings with the full-throated emotion of a wizened woman…

The three 2015 BrooklynVegan SXSW day parties at Red 7 wrapped up on rainy Saturday (3/21) with a multi-genre lineup across the venue’s inside and outside sta…

London trio Kero Kero Bonito seem as much influenced by Blue’s Clues as they are by Sleigh Bells and Cibo Matto, so it’s no surprise that they were more illustrative with their costumes and sets than any other artist we saw this week…

Villagers (aka folk singer Conor O’Brien) has a new home-recorded album on the way, which (from what we’ve heard of it) is sounding like his barest material yet…

Ceremony were just down in Austin for SXSW last week, playing a few shows including the BrooklynVegan Saturday party at Red 7. The shapeshifting band previewed a few songs from their upcoming album, and while people often use “sounds like Joy Division” to just mean “post-punk,” these new Ceremony songs really sounded like Joy Divis…

Like there tend to be in Austin during SXSW, there were a few late shows on the Lamar Pedestrian Bridge last week, two of which included local hardcore band Glue (Thurs 3/19 and Sat 3/…

The first of three free BrooklynVegan SXSW day parties at Red 7, and the only one that had no rain, happened Thursday (3/19) from noon to 6pm with 15 bands across the venue’s two stages…

Australian group Jack Ladder & the Dreamlanders just played a bunch of shows at SXSW, including the BrooklynVegan day party on Saturday (3/21). Se…

As the static from the modem faded, Butler played about five seconds of Shania Twain’s 1999 hit “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!” before launching into Joan Jett’s “Bad Reputation,” during which time he he fussed despondently with his levels and repeatedly yelled to the stage managers, “Cut the lights…

Northern Ireland’s SOAK (aka Bridie Monds-Watson) played her first North American show lastSunday afternoon (3/15) at NYC’s Rockwood Music Hall…