Greg Ackerman - Writer

08/31/2024

GOOD READ: Ten Tour Tips from John Dwyer of Thee Oh Sees (OSEES) 🤣
(via Bandcamp Daily)

The OSEES frontman shares tips learned over two decades of road do***ng.

08/17/2024

LAST NIGHT: My Morning Jacket “Wordless Chorus” live at Park City Song Summit

My Morning Jacket “Wordless Chorus” live at Park City Song Summit - Canyons Village

08/08/2024

LAST NIGHT: Urban Heat “Have You Ever?” live at Metro Music Hall Review coming soon to The Cosmic Clash
cc: JRC Events Reybee, Inc.

Urban Heat “Have You Ever?” live at Metro Music Hall

08/04/2024

IMPORTANT: my friend Leslie Sisson of Moving Panoramas is fighting a tough battle with breast cancer and needs our help. The medical bills are overwhelming. Please share and donate if you can. Every bit helps! 💖

Our fearless leader needs your help. Leslie was recently diagnosed with stage IIA breast canc… Moving Panoramas needs your support for Help Leslie Beat Cancer

07/02/2024

GOOD READ: Kevin did a bang-up job with this tribute to Austin's best music journalist who passed yesterday - Michael Corcoran Has Died and Austin’s Lost a Voice That Always Kept Things Interesting
RIP Corky 🖤

Columnist, Author, Historian Found Dead at 68

05/22/2024

LAST NIGHT: Warpaint encore new single, "Common Blue" live at The Grand at The Complex (SLC)

cc: Rough Trade Records Live Nation Concerts

Warpaint encore "Common Blue" live at The Grand at The Complex

05/14/2024

WATCH: LCD Soundsystem “Tonite” at Kilby Block Party 5
🪩👀

LCD Soundsystem “Tonite” at Kilby Block Party 5 - 25th Anniversary of Kilby Court

05/13/2024

WATCH: LCD Soundsystem “Us v Them at Kilby Block Party

LCD Soundsysytem “Us v Them at Kilby Block Party 2024

05/07/2024

The Austin City Limits Music Festival (ACL) lineup announce today leaves much to be discussed... why no Black Pumas? Shouldn't Kendrick be doing a make up date after last year's debacle? Love me some Leon Bridges and Sturgill Simpson but where are the huge, wow factor headliners? Hint: It's not Blink-182

Congrats to Austin acts:
Bob Schneider Music
Ray Benson and Asleep at the Wheel
Kalu and The Electric Joint
Daiistar
Rickshaw Billie's Burger Patrol
Chief Cleopatra
Being Dead
Zach Person

04/20/2024

NOW PLAYING: Phish - 4/18/2024 - Carini (4K HDR) at the Sphere - Las Vegas - Happy 420 Day! 🌳✨

"Carini" from Phish's 4/18/24 show at Sphere, Las Vegas, NV. by Trey Kerr

04/18/2024

The original musicians of the Titanic - only one survived

h/t April Dawne

04/05/2024

NEW MUSIC: Listening to the new Wine Lips record, Super Mega Ultra which dropped today. These Austin Psych Fest veterans are great as is the new record.
It's Bandcamp Friday which means if you grab it now, the band keeps ALL the money you pay. Fees waived

12 track album

03/28/2024

GOOD READ: Nothing makes me happier than to read work by a respected colleague like this feature on my friend Danny Brown by my pal Playback Austin Music-News (Kevin Curtin) for Austin Chronicle.
This is GOOD STUFF folks

H/T Case Cockrell
cc: The SIMS Foundation

The Detroit wild card on getting his s**t together (and finding H-E-B)

03/20/2024

RIGHT NOW: Watching videos I uploaded to YouTube from SXSW last week with a stupid grin on my face There's a dozen of them
https://www.youtube.com//videos 👈

03/18/2024

SXSW 2024 - 64 sets by 60 acts in 11 days

3/7 - Hotel Vegas
Como Las Movies
Holy Wave
P***y Gillette
Mint Fields (MX) ***
The Well
A Giant Dog

3/8- Antone’s - Univ of Texas House
Ghostland Observatory

Hotel Vegas
A Giant Dog

3/9 - Hotel Vegas
Annabelle Chairlegs

Cheer Up Charlie’s
Grandmaster ***

Chess Club
The Rotten Mangos ***

3/10 - Hotel Vegas SOTO vs ATH
Half Dream ***
The Infinites ***
Club Coma ***
Booher
Semihelix

3/11 - Hotel Vegas
Rickshaw Billy’s Burger Patrol
Ringo Deathstarr ***
Urban Heat

ACL Live
Mogwai ***

3/12 - 13th Floor - Psychedelic Plants Clash 🪴💀🤘
OnismE
Semihelix ***
Colatura (NYC) ***
Lauren Lakis
Pink Fuzz ***

Hotel Vegas
Tear Dungeon
Porcelain
Blank Hellscape ***

3/13 - Coral Snake - Paste Mag live broadcast
Shannon & the Clams

Parish - Marshall Amplifiers party
Skinny Lister
Die Spitz

13th - NZ party
Swallow the Rat

Mohawk - Empty Bottle party
Dry Cleaning

Cheer Up Charlie’s - Free For All party
Bodega (NY) ***

Empire Garage
Automatic
Bar Italia ***

3/14 - Lazarus Brewing - Music for Listeners
Fieh (Oslo)
Coach Party (isle of wight) ***
Lottery Winners (UK) ***
SPRINTS (Dublin) ***

Zilker Brewing - TLF Showcase
Arches (HK) ***
Lauren Lakis
Swallow the Rat

Parish - Marshall Amplifiers party
Dinosaur Jr

Hotel Vegas - Springbreak Boogie
A Giant Dog
FAZI (China) ***
Ho99o9 (Newark) ***

3/15 - Parish - Marshall Amps party
The Black Angels (w/ Misti on bass) ***
The Octopus Project
Daiistar

Hotel Vegas - Springbreak Boogie
L*D and the Search for God

Cavalier - Lost Well - Webberville Block Party - Cosmic Clash / Play to the Plants
OrangeG ***
Jess Cornelius ***
Queen Serene
Dead Leaf Echo
Swallow the Rat
Exotic Fruitica
Laveda
Angelo Moore ***
Fading yellow ***
Andrew Cashen ***

Empire Control Room & Garage
Fugitive
Glassing
SPARTA ***��

*** indicates notable performance or first time seeing artist

03/10/2024

LAST NIGHT: The Rotten Mangos live at Chess Club
WATCH: https://youtu.be/FR4Nj7gGflE?si=fHxS0-9pRCNbcyJg 📹👀

The Rotten Mangos live at Chess Club during SXSW 2024

02/25/2024

TONIGHT: Join me at Antone's Nightclub to honor the best in Austin music at the Austin Music Awards benefiting The SIMS Foundation

Preview by Case Cockrell for The Cosmic Clash

The 42nd annual Austin Music Awards will take place at Antone’s Nightclub on Sunday, February 25, in downtown Austin. The Austin Chronicle event will feature talent from a massive array of ge…

01/01/2024

PHOTOS: New Year's Eve celebrations from around the world
(via CNN)
https://apple.news/AnsRvucqUQdq_Whh3iUUOMA