http://cannibalcheerleader.com Punk + Prose + Austin + Blood + Guts Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:04:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When I met Austin-transplant and Montana native, folk-rock wunderkind Fiver, at Quack's Coffee, he stood out strangely from the hip and fashionable patrons. Seated outside next to his black lab, Fiver sipped a soda and pensively flipped through a worn book of poetry during our brief interview. His tightly-cut, almost ... http://cannibalcheerleader.com/2012/01/fiver.html 2010 was a pretty rough year. Lots of change, lots of stress, lots of new experiences. I've changed immensely, even though outwards I appear the same. I've taken some time off from the blog and my creative pursuits in general and I don't regret it. I needed this time away ... http://cannibalcheerleader.com/2012/01/austin-art-and-esme.html Sometimes the best and brightest comes from the most unlikeliest of places. Only by happenstance did we at Cannibal Cheerleader stumble upon Costa Rica's The Great Wilderness but we quickly came to realize that the searing, flashing power  and heartfelt, engaging musicality put them in a position to be among ... http://cannibalcheerleader.com/2011/01/best-of-2010-the-great-wilderness-tiny-monsters-and-afterimages-of-glowing-visions.html What is it to rebuild as an artist? What mechanisms have to be in place to build oneself back up? More pointedly, what constitutes artistic failure to the extent an artist has to rebuild? In the case of Now Now, formerly Now Now, Every Children, the band members over the ... http://cannibalcheerleader.com/2011/01/best-of-2010-now-nows-neighbors.html Holly Miranda is a singular talent and to not celebrate this remarkable album would be a notorious crime. The Magician's Private Library combines Miranda's individual songwriting prowess and shimmering guitarwork with brilliantly layered production-work care of TV on the Radio's David Sitek. While the combination may seem initially odd, especially ... http://cannibalcheerleader.com/2011/01/best-of-2010-holly-mirandas-the-magicians-private-library.html The Mynabirds seemingly burst onto the scene this year with their dancehall-cum-chamber pop record What We Lose In The Fire, We Gain In The Flood, but frontwoman Laura Burhenn, formerly of the woefully underrated act Georgie James, has been at the rock game for quite some time now. Thus it's ... http://cannibalcheerleader.com/2011/01/best-of-2010-the-mynabirds-what-we-lose-in-the-fire-we-gain-in-the-flood.html This week Cannibal Cheerleader is going to be highlighting our favorite releases of 2010 with an emphasis on artists we haven't seen on many (or sometimes any) of the major music blogs' lists. While these bands may not have the hype, resources, cash, or fanbase of Kanye or the Arcade ... http://cannibalcheerleader.com/2011/01/best-of-2010-giant-drags-swan-song-ep.html Cannibal Cheerleader is taking a break while it's lead writer John B. is in law school. However stay tuned for some frightening revelations as the holidays draw near... That's right Cannibal Cheerleader faithful, we're relaunching our ZINE - it's time for volume 2 of the much missed Cannibal Cheerleader zine and ... http://cannibalcheerleader.com/2010/11/on-hiatus-but-something-wicked-this-way-comes.html You'll have to forgive the Cannibal Cheerleader crew for being a bit behind on this one (we are law students after all). Still, it would be disengenuous to say we haven't heard of this NYC duo whose firestorm of hype swept up the blogosphere with such fury as to drown ... http://cannibalcheerleader.com/2010/09/sleigh-bells.html Seems like just yesterday we were reviewing the masterfully woven Stuart Murdoch solo project God Help the Girl, and now, fresh off that welcome musical breather, the band's all back together, releasing the first proper Belle and Sebastian album since 2006's The Life Pursuit. To say that Write About Love ... http://cannibalcheerleader.com/2010/09/write-about-love.html