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From Jay Trachtenberg, The Austin Chronicle:
Instrumental jazz/rock experimentalists that have been together locally for more than a decade, BVM has been described as a melding of Ornette Coleman and Television. The band has been writing and performing scores for silent films lately and will participate in SXSW Film with a performance of its original score to 1919 Ernst Lubitsch film The Oyster Princess on Thursday, noon-1pm, at the Alamo Ritz.
From Adam Schragin, The Austin Chronicle:
For more than a decade, Tia Carrera has walked the line between outright mayhem and sprawling psychedelic jams found on last year's second disc for metallic Detroit indie Small Stone, Cosmic Priestess.
From Abby Johnston, The Austin Chronicle:
The SoCal quartet coined the genre "trash pop," youthful energy heavy on guitar fuzz