Stephen Thompson

Stephen Thompson appears in the following:

The Austin 100: Nicklas Sahl

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Nicklas Sahl's "New Eyes" was an award-winning smash in his native Denmark, and there's no reason it couldn't cross over here: It's a slippery pop-and-soul earworm, microdosed with a bit of country.

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The Austin 100: Heran Soun

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Heran Soun was deaf for much of his early childhood. His music bridges folk, rock, electronic and ambient music with the help of a soaring, deeply emotive voice.

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The Austin 100: Lightning Bug

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

For Lightning Bug, singer-songwriter Audrey Kang lets her voice swirl into a larger enchanting whole — busy, noisy, shoegaze-y concoctions in which her lyrical intentions remain opaque.

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The Austin 100: Marble Arch

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

The Parisian guitar-pop band Marble Arch wouldn't have felt out of place on a college-radio playlist 30 years ago. But it still feels modern, sweetly rendered and utterly, hookily approachable.

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The Austin 100: Gold Cage

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Gold Cage's radiant slowcore epics may take their time, but they sure don't lack power.

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The Austin 100: Nadia Reid

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

When Nadia Reid moved from New Zealand to the U.S., she felt a deep sense of alienation and isolation — feelings that naturally bled into her beautifully, reverberantly melancholy music.

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The Austin 100: Making Movies

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Making Movies features two sets of musical brothers with a passion for protest music and a high-profile collaborator in Panamanian superstar Rubén Blades.

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The Austin 100: Marem Ladson

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Marem Ladson obsessed over American pop and folk while growing up in Spain. She sings in English and Spanish, but her sumptuous hooks and sweetly lilting vocals form a language unto themselves.

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The Austin 100: Long Beard

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Leslie Bear's sound is perfectly suited to ambivalent nostalgia. In "Sweetheart," she sets reflections on an old love against guitar lines that sound like the musical equivalent of faded postcards.

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The Austin 100: Grrrl Gang

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Grrrl Gang's members embrace the jangly charms of Scottish indie-pop bands like The Pastels while adding their own spry, spiky twists.

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The Austin 100: Hector 'Coco' Barez

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

A go-to percussionist who's become a staple of Puerto Rican music — he spent a decade playing with Calle 13 — Hector "Coco" Barez never seems to stop moving.

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The Austin 100: Field Medic

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

As Field Medic, Kevin Patrick Sullivan uses the sparest ingredients — an acoustic guitar, sparse drum-machine beats, an unadorned voice — to build lo-fi folk songs that crackle with vibrant intimacy.

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The Austin 100: Fuvk

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

The artist known as fuvk is named for a typo and pronounced in a radio-unfriendly manner. Her song "Skipper" is an enchanting fragment of folk-pop breeziness.

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The Austin 100: Deserta

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

On Black Aura My Sun, Deserta — the latest project of Saxon Shore guitarist Matthew Doty — uses whispery vocals as a garnish for a dish centered on guitars, guitars and more beautiful guitars.

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The Austin 100: Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Hearkening back to the classic likes of Black Sabbath and Motörhead, the group pummels hypnotically, soars majestically and straight-up brings the damn thunder.

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The Austin 100: Elizabeth Moen

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Elizabeth Moen wraps "Headgear" in an arrangement that sparkles agreeably, but Moen herself is the song's radiant star.

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The Austin 100: Nobody's Girl

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Nobody's Girl takes three hardworking veteran Austin singer-songwriters and assembles them into a countrified folk-pop supergroup with a knack for choruses that soar.

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The Austin 100: Fran

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Fran's Maria Jacobson knows her way around a curveball. Take "So Surreal," in which grungy guitars churn ominously before giving way to a jaunty, sprightly vocal by the song's 15-second mark

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The Austin 100: Cosby

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

The German electro-pop band Cosby spins out slithery hooks as efficiently as it confounds search engines.

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The Austin 100: Bodywash

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

The appellation "dream-pop" gets thrown around like so much confetti, but Bodywash earns it in a big way.

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