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Hello. I'm The Corpus Critic.

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The Corpus Critic is Veronica Medina. I am The Corpus Critic. I review and write about local bands in Corpus Christi, Texas and her surrounding areas. I also list local show dates in my calendar, and I post any flyers for those shows on my page. Every month I write a long feature on one local band, adding just a bit more promotion in hopes of inspiring people to find out more about the band themselves. I'm hardly an authority on this subject or any other, and I make no claims to be. All I do is give my personal opinion. I rarely please everyone, and sometimes I don't please anyone. I just love music. I just love this town. I just love this scene, and I want to see her thrive. This is my part, while I'm here. That is all.

Veronica also writes album reviews and local music editorials for FYI .
The Corpus Critic is in no way affiliated with any printed publication, except the recently aforementioned, and does not write under any other name, alias or alter ego. Any claims of anyone else being The Corpus Critic or use of any images associated with The Corpus Critic are false and are being used without permission.Support local music. Support local art. Support locals.
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Rock and roll ain't no riddle man. To me, it makes good, good sense.
-Brian Johnson

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Babes In Sin, TX

Hurricane Alley Roller Derby

The ALT

We Interrupt This Program

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I love my CC

Corpus Christi Film Society

K Space

The Peoples Street Photo Project

Dustin Ashcraft, Photographer

The Texan

Molly's Irish Pub

Mug Room

Downtown Riot

The Compound

Soundvibes C.C.

Pinnacle Tattoo & Body Piercing

180 Grams!

Jinxed Inx!

Mosaic

A Makeshift Skateboard Company

Momentum Skate Shop

Artisan Roast Coffee Market

Yin Yang Fandango

Whataburger

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Music:

Five bands to consider...

The Filthy Youth
The Drawing Board

The Panderers
Sam Owens
Matt Hole & The Hot Rod Gang.........................................

Full-Length Live Streams...LISTEN UP!

The Mooney Suzuki Have Mercy
The White Stripes Icky Thump
Queens of the Stone Age Era Vulgaris
The Teeth You're My Lover Now.........................................

Bands in 100...

Albert Hammond, Jr.
Arctic Monkeys
Beirut
The Black Keys
The Blow
Black Market Revival
Born Against Fate
Building G
Burden Brothers
Dead Sky
Dr. Dog
Fauna Noir
Five Times August
Flowers to Hide
Girl In A Coma
Jonathon Clay
Kill Hannah
Kings of Leon (1) (2)
The Last Seance
Linkin Park
Matt Hole & The Hot Rod Gang
Modest Mouse
Noisettes
The One AM Radio
The Pierces
Pink Mountaintops
Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Red Light Knights
The Redwalls
The Robins
The Rubberband
Spectrum
Stonewired
Sun Salutation
The Teeth
Temporary Lovers
Therapists!
Tina B
Triple Threat
The Vein
Vellocet
Voodoo Organist
Winchester
Wyrd Fate
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Previously Recommended...

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A Shoreline Dream
Air
Albert Hammond, Jr.
A Month of Sundays
Andrew Bird
Apollo Sunshine
Arcade Fire
Architecture in Helsinki
Arctic Monkeys
Art Brut
As Tall As Lions
Bang Camaro
The Bees
Beirut
The Black Angels
The Black Keys
Black Lips
Black Market Revival
Black Mountain
The Blood Arm
The Blood Brothers
Blood Meridian
The Blow
Bon Savants
Born Ruffians
Brian Jonestown Massacre
Buffalo Roam
Burden Brothers
Celebration
The Chakras
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Cold War Kids
The Colour
Dance Like Robots
The Death Kit
The Decemberists
Decadent Suits
Deerhoof
The Ditty Bops
Dirty Sweet
Dr. Dog
Effi Briest
Electric Penguins
Elvis Perkins
The Ettes
Explosions in the Sky
Fatwater
Fauna Noir
The Feeling
Fields
Fight Like Apes
Finally Punk
Flowers to Hide
The Fonzarellies
The Fratellis
Girl In A Coma
Golden Boots
The Good The Bad and The Queen
Grizzly Bear
Harlem Shakes
Harry and the Potters
Hey Bulldog
Higgins
The Honey Drips
Hot Club De Paris
Hot Springs
Humanzi
IV Thieves
Ivy League
Jarvis Cocker
Jotto
Joy Zipper
Julian Carax
Justin Storms
Kings of Leon
Kings of Spain
Klaxons
The Knife
Kula Shaker
The Kybosh
LCD Soundsystem
Louis XIV
Man Man
Mardo
Matt Death & The New Intellectuals
Mellowdrone
Menomena
Mission of Burma
Morning After Girls
Motel Creeps
The Nite Lights
Old Crow Medicine Show
The One AM Radio
The Oxford Set
Pablo
Paris Motel
The Photo Atlas
The Pink Mountaintops
Pop Levi
The Purrs
Queens of the Stone Age
Red Light Knights
The Robins
The Rumble Strips
The Self-Righteous Brothers
Shadow Parade
The Shins
Tapes Nâ€™ Tapes
Ted Leo + The Pharmacists
The Teeth
Temporary Lovers
Therapists!
The Thrills
Tokyo Police Club
Tokyo SOS
TV on the Radio
Twinklehead
Two Gallants
Tyler James
The Ugly Beats
Ultra Sonic Edukators
Valient Thorr
Vanishing Act
The Velvet Teen
Voodoo Organist
We All Have Hooks For Hands
The Whip
The Wombats
The Young Knives

Movies:

AC/DC-Family Jewels, Alice in Chains- MTV Unplugged, Almost Famous, Amadeus, Bob Dylan: No Direction Home, Bound For Glory, The Buddy Holly Story, Coal Miner's Daughter, The Doors, Great Balls of Fire, High Fidelity, Jeff Buckley: Live in Chicago, La Bamba, Last Days, Led Zeppelin, Ray, School of Rock, Sid & Nancy, Stoned, This is Spinal Tap, Walk the Line, What's Love Got to Do with It

Books:

Jagger Unauthorized

My Blog

Bands in 100: ABOUT

Things could be worse; I could've not said anything at all. This blog is dedicated to the criticism of music: local, regional, national and international, and there are either reviews of shows or alb...
Posted by The Corpus Critic on Tue, 01 Aug 2006 03:22:00 PST

The Jinx

"The computer crashed with all the files about 2 weeks ago, so I was left with these rough demos," singer Johnny Hotcakes explains. These days The Jinx are thriving in San Antonio, Texas, where they'v...
Posted by The Corpus Critic on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:54:00 PST

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Featuring five new tracks, the New York trio has given us a big taste of either what to expect from their next big musical undertaking...or what not to expect at all. From the beginning and with a fir...
Posted by The Corpus Critic on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:54:00 PST

Caribou

Canadian psychedelic has been all the rage for the past year, as there is a huge barefooted co-op consistently filing out of the northern woodwork that has recently included bands like Black Mountain...
Posted by The Corpus Critic on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:26:00 PST

The Black Keys

Standing in the dark amidst the smoke and sweat-filled air while your arms rub against the sliminess of your nearest neighbor, you'll find yourself strangely and helplessly drawn to the blues-driven,...
Posted by The Corpus Critic on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 05:33:00 PST

The Magic Numbers

Widely identified as following in the footsteps of yesteryear's The Mamas & The Papas after their 2005 debut, The Magic Numbers are a group of two British brother and sister pairs with unconventio...
Posted by The Corpus Critic on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 06:41:00 PST

Spoon

Right off the bat with the first few crunchy guitar strums, Spoon re-stakes their claim and their ever resounding sound with their sixth full-length album titled, perhaps arbitrarily, Ga Ga Ga Ga...
Posted by The Corpus Critic on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 07:51:00 PST

Queens of the Stone Age

Fresh from the desert, Era Vulgaris is the brainchild of Joshua Homme's Queens of the Stone Age. Ever-changing, ever-evolving the Queens have been slaving away but keeping rather tight-lipped about t...
Posted by The Corpus Critic on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:50:00 PST

The White Stripes

One would surmise that three-chords and two pieces would never take a band further than a breakthrough album and a sophomore demise, but The White Stripes are in it for the long-haul. Delicious and d...
Posted by The Corpus Critic on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:19:00 PST

Art Brut

They whipped self-proclaimed music elitists all around the world into a pop frenzy with the release of their debut album Bang Bang Rock and Roll. This was an album fraught with quirky subject matter ...
Posted by The Corpus Critic on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:37:00 PST