This past year has been a great one for local music. From indie troubadour Cameron Smith’s beautiful album Shine to veteran psych-rockers The Cush’s Riders in the Stardust Gold, their first album for Ben Harper’s Mad Bunny Records, and hip-hop guru Sagemode Wrex’s X-Men-inspired Professor Wrex and the debut of
The 10th annual Waking Windows music and arts festival was gonna be lit. It boasted big-time indie headliners in Japanese Breakfast, the Nude Party and.
I don’t know if my distorted sense of time is a function of aging or a permanent penalty to my perception brought on by the events of the past five years, but I thought about it because the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo was canceled only a year ago, yet it feels like a distant memory. This year’s iteration, with
It goes without saying that, so far, the “roaring” in this century’s version of the Roaring ’20s seems to be in reference to the sound of the raging fire in our collective dumpster. It’s been another energy-vaporizing year of social estrangement, widening political divides, and comfortable, middle-class living
(Mad Bunny Records, digital) Based in their home state of Texas since 2010, husband-and-wife duo Burette and Gabrielle Douglas operated their group, the Cush, in Burlington for a decade during the aughts. Their newest LP,
Riders in the Stardust Gold, is their first to be released via Mad Bunny Records, an imprint founded by singer-songwriter Ben Harper. After nearly 20 years of playing music together, the Cush are more locked in and cohesive than ever.
Riders in the Stardust Gold is a six-track collection of astral, shoegaze-tinged rock with a chewy Americana core. Its album art is a pastiche of Victorian-era and 1960s pop-art styles, subtly implying that time is meaningless and that history always repeats.