Blog: HearYa: An Indie Music Blog

On the Tuesday night of SXSW, Oz was trying preview Nick Waterhouse for me before seeing his set the following day. I was skeptical at best; ornery at my worst. I remarked to him, "I hope this isn't some hipster bullshit revival act where some clown gets up in a suit and sings some old-school karaoke crap." The next day, we had just witnessed an amazing set from Lee Fields and I was still prickly. "That's a tough set to live up to," I remarked. But then, not only did Nick Waterhouse put to rest any moronic preconceived [...]