If you’ve ever been to a convention center for any reason, you can understand how it feels like an airport without planes. Add to that, the security is almost more annoying, and to get anywhere you have to depend on your own feet, or a taxi—or bus—or, in environmentally conscientious Austin, a pedi-cab… So, it’s […]
Created out of fill from the San Francisco Bay, Treasure Island was originally built to host the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition, celebrating the completion of the world’s most famous bridge, our Golden Gate. Some say the island is named after a novel by long-time S.F. resident, Robert Lewis Stevenson, while others (i.e., T.I. festival […]
The first song on the Two Gallants’ second album, What The Toll Tells, begins with howling winds and a breathy whistle, leading you to prepare for a bittersweet “Patience” style ballad, when suddenly the song unsheathes its claws and leaps straight for your eyes. The song, “Las Cruces Jail,” is fairly indicative of the Two […]
