Papermoons is the Texas duo of Matt Clark and Daniel Hawkins, whose recordings connect Houston’s independent music scene with a spare, intimate form of guitar pop. Clark’s guitar, vocals, and pedal bass work with Hawkins’s drums and harmonies to create arrangements larger than their two-person instrumentation suggests. New Tales was recorded in Houston in 2008, while No Love followed in 2013 through a network of releases involving Deep Elm, Storm Chasers, and Japan’s Stiff Slack. The duo’s work balances acoustic detail, rhythmic restraint, and melancholy melody within the broader Texas indie-rock tradition.
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Held artifact from Free Press Summer Fest 2012, an edition the act played. Free Press Summer Fest 2012 lineup poster. Printed copy reads JUNE 2 & 3 × ELEANOR TINSLEY PARK, HOUSTON TX, with The Avett Brothers, Snoop Dogg, Willie Nelson, Afrojack, The Flaming Lips, Primus and Descendents at the head of the list. The print carries no artist credit; the artwork is credited by the curator. Artwork: Jermaine Rogers. Free Press Houston Archive holding.
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“Squeezed in the middle is Phillip Foshee plays some really neat acoustic stuff that should perk your ears if you, like me, love local bands like Buxton and Papermoons.”
Lineup row held for Free Press Summer Fest 2012, source fpsf-dev-2014-previous-lineups.
Documentary evidence
Portrait — not event-specific. Papermoons, from the Free Press Houston article “This month in the Free Press - Papermoons”. Free Press Houston archive image (photographer not stated), 2008. Archive-held image; rights status not separately stated.. Free Press Houston Archive. Sourced from an existing Free Press Houston archive article; not asserted as event-specific evidence.
Free Press Summer Fest 2012Lineup row held for Free Press Summer Fest 2012, source fpsf-dev-2014-previous-lineups.
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Related Free Press Houston coverage
Archive articles that name Papermoons. A mention is a sighting in the paper’s own pages, not a statement that the piece is about this performer.
