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NEW - Live music preview: Holiday Hootenanny returns to Radio East Dec. 13 with stacked lineup thecosmicclash.com/2025/12/06/l...
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Live music preview: Holiday Hootenanny returns to Radio East December 13 with stacked lineup
The Resound-Pooneh Presents-KUTX Holiday Hootenanny returns to Radio / East on December 13, marking another year of music, vendors, and holiday-themed festivities to close out another year of Austi…
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NEW - Live music review: @nekocasefans.bsky.social returned to the @paramountaustin.bsky.social for Thanksgiving thecosmicclash.com/2025/12/11/l...
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Live music review: Neko Case returned to the Paramount Theater in Austin for Thanksgiving
So on a warm Tuesday night, a two days before Thanksgiving, Neko Case and her touring band returned to the Paramount Theatre in support of her latest album, Neon Grey Midnight Green, her eighth stu…
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December 11, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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NEW - Old school punks The Bouncing Souls and H2O played Empire in Austin last Sunday thecosmicclash.com/2025/12/10/l...
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Live music review: Old school punks The Bouncing Souls and H2O played Empire last Sunday
As an official Old Head, it’s an experiment in time for me: I got into punk in the early ’90s, and now that it’s 2025, I’m somehow in my fourth decade of this thing. The people we looked up to — an…
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December 10, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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OUT NOW: Holiday Hootenanny takes place next Saturday at Austin's Radio East with a KILLER lineup. Read all about it at @thecosmicclash.bsky.social then grab tix...
December 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Live music preview: Holiday Hootenanny returns to Radio East December 13 with stacked lineup
The Resound-Pooneh Presents-KUTX Holiday Hootenanny returns to Radio / East on December 13, marking another year of music, vendors, and holiday-themed festivities to close out another year of Austi…
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December 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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NEW - Live music review: A Charlie Brown Christmas at Parker Jazz Club evokes deep nostalgia thecosmicclash.com/2025/12/05/l...
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Live music review: A Charlie Brown Christmas at Parker Jazz Club evokes deep nostalgia
Recently, I had the pleasure of attending The Parker Jazz Club’s tribute to A Charlie Brown Christmas, and it’s now on my must-do tradition list. Hosted every Monday in December, The Ry…
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December 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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OUT NOW: Big Bill Ball 8 was a typically good time that showcased Austin acts that deserve your attention IJMHO
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December 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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NEW - Live music review: Big Bill Ball 8 at Radio East offered accurate snapshot of Austin music scene thecosmicclash.com/2025/12/04/l...
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Live music review: Big Bill Ball 8 at Radio East offered accurate snapshot of Austin music scene
The eighth annual Big Bill Ball at Radio East in the Southeast part of town, marked another celebration of the Austin scene, offering a snapshot of local music in 2025 with a six-band bill featurin…
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December 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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OUT NOW: our Murder City Devils review by @robertdean.bskyverified.social is now live at @thecosmicclash.bsky.social 👇
December 2, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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NEW - Live music review: Murder City Devils brought rock n roll fury to Mohawk thecosmicclash.com/2025/12/02/l...
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Live music review: Murder City Devils brought rock and roll fury to Mohawk
I love a show where the band is not there to fuck around. No small talk, no rare material, no rambling monologues about the world. Just pure rock and roll fury. At the Mohawk on Sunday, November 23…
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December 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Radiohead are gutted to have to announce the postponement of the first two Copenhagen dates this week - tonight, Dec 1st and tomorrow, Dec 2nd. The shows have been rescheduled for Dec 15th and 16th respectively.
December 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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NEW - Live comedy review: Dave Attell at the Mothership-A masterclass in controlled chaos thecosmicclash.com/2025/11/30/l...

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Live comedy review: Dave Attell at the Mothership – A masterclass in controlled chaos
Few times in life do we get to see a true master at work. Watching someone carve stone for a temple or fling paint across a canvas gives a glimpse into creation itself — that raw place art comes fr…
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November 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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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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November 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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NEW - Live music review: Standout rapper Earl Sweatshirt
cemented his legacy at Stubb's BBQ
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Live music review: Standout rapper Earl Sweatshirt cemented his legacy at Stubb’s
For the release of his fifth studio LP Live Laugh Love, the Earl hive is as healthy as ever, even if it means the 31-year-old’s legacy is a long way from his angst-ridden years. Earl and his …
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November 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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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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November 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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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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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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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