If you haven’t already heard, disco/rock nonet, Sweet Spirit, are about to release a gigantic party-bomb of an album. The Austin-based group fronted by writing partners Sabrina Ellis (Bobby Jealousy, A Giant Dog) and Andrew Cashen (Tear Dungeon, A Giant Dog) are set to release their first full-length LP in mid-October on Nine Mile Records….
Connor Beitel
From Alabama to Texas, Connor Beitel is the Creative Director at Small Batch Productionsin Austin, TX. In addition to being a writer at Vinyl Mag, Connor helps run an organic audio/video experience for emerging musicians called Small Batch Music Project.
Review: Hardy & The Hardknocks: Drownin’ on a Mountaintop
T. Hardy Morris is back with his second LP and a new haircut (above photo related). Continuing his journey as a solo artist, Morris partners with Dangerbird Records to release Hardy and The Hard Knocks: Drownin’ on a Mountaintop. Igniting with distorted guitar and heavy pedal steel, the album’s leading track, “Young Assumptions,” gives an…
Shaky Knees 2015: Xavier Rudd x Vinyl Mag
If you’ve kept up with the festival circuit at all in the last decade, you have undoubtedly heard of solo instrumentalist Xavier Rudd. The native Australian, through his proficiency in a variety of culturally unique instruments, creates truly impressive albums that blend world music with vocals reminiscent of the artists that have inspired him, such…