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College Sound: Little Lo freezes to record album

New band turned off heater during recording of debut EP

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College Sounds: Student to release hip hop album

Hip-hop artist draws on fellow students, campus resources, to create album featuring relatable theme

Ogden Payne started dabbling into hip hop when he was 15 years old. After getting cut from (continued)

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College Sound: The Nouns not just a play on words

Garage band  struggled with band name, genre before settling on The Nouns moniker

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College Sound: Student creates one-man band

Taylor Bartholomew

Taylor Bartholomew writes, plays all instruments as Mt. Olivet in addition to joining, playing bass for Courrier

 

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College Sound: No Champions rocks

Punk rock band working on two new albums in hopes to gather more attention with fans, record labels

 

 

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College Sound: 3D Friends defines Skins

Daniel Chavez Wright's song chosen as theme song of MTV's newest show

 

 

 

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College Sound: Hip-hopping in Austin

Shane O'Byrne broke his back lifting weights when he was in high school and changed his life plan of wanting to be a football player.





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College Sound: Growing up in the Austin scene

17 year-old establishes self in city’s music culture

Zoe Cordes Selbin never thought she would see the Descendents perform a live show. It had been almost a decade since the pop punk band had previously reunited but on the last night of the fifth annual Fun Fun Fun Fest, Selbin finally had her chance.

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College Sound: Rally Rally steps out of DJ booth, onto stage

ACC Student Life leader recruited by brother

The members of Rally Rally look like they belong to another punk rock or progressive rock band. But in fact, these four guys produce electro indie pop that make people want to dance.



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College Sound: Avy Gonzalez produces tracks

Avy Gonzalez is a familiar face among Austin Community College. He's the president of the Center for Student Political Studies and held offices with other organizations such as Student Government Association and Phi Theta Kappa. And he is also part of the ACC Mascot Search Committee. But years before he moved to Austin in 2005, Gonzalez built a name for himself in Miami as a music producer and continues to produce music to this day.

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College Sound: Ross DuBois goes solo

ACC musician performs on his own after long band career

Ross DuBois is a balancing act. When he's not taking classes for his journalism degree at both Austin Community College and Texas State University this semester, he's also currently recording his debut solo album.

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College Sound: ACC student band The Steps sits down with the Accent

They perform in England and Japan. They shared the stage with Bob Dylan, The Killers and N.E.R.D. at various music festivals such as Austin City Limits (ACL) and New American Music Union. This is an impressive track record for Austin band, The Steps. What makes it more impressive is that the garage rock band members, three of which attend Austin Community College, are currently 20-22 years old.

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