Today, I was catching up on my blog-reading, checking out local favs Austin Town Hall, and stumbled across a cool new single from The Wooden Birds, who are a lo...
Each year at this time, I get to go back and spend a good part of my summer in the state of my birth, Oregon, and the city I first fell in love with, Portland. ...
We here at OVRLD are always trying to expand the genres we cover, and one of the styles we don't listen to as much is punk rock. We've had it on the site before...
The depth and breadth of the music scene here continues to floor me. Just when I think that I've got a good handle on many of the great bands, I am reminded t...
Sometimes you can just tell you're going to like a band. A song starts with just the right combination of sounds and it feels unique yet totally familiar. If ...
An open letter to my friend Megan, a vinyl enthusiast and native Texan:
Dear Megan,
How’s it going? Thanks for always letting Carter and me hang out and lis...
Panda Bear just released the follow-up to his seminal 2007 album, Person Pitch. That album and the new Tomboy have helped create a whole new subgenre of “bedroo...
I like rap, I just don’t know much about it. In fact, while most of the ovrld staff is comprised of rap appreciators, none of us is really a connoisseur. On t...
I’ve been living in Austin for close to eight months and I’ve already seen Sahara Smith and her band perform twice just by coincidence. As the seemingly break...
Being new to Austin, I’m still learning a lot about the music scene here, always getting new local band recommendations. Among the bands I’ve been turned onto...