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The Austin 100: Boy Scouts

Courtesy of the artist

Hometown: Oakland, California

Genre: Rock

Why We're Excited: As Boy Scouts, Taylor Vick writes songs that bloom from spare, diaristic bedroom-folk ruminations into looped, harmony-rich gems propelled by gorgeous, layered harmonies. Even in her early days recording bedroom-folk tunes on GarageBand, Vick had a knack for wrapping wrenching ballads in tender arrangements that foreground her voice in innovative ways. But as her budget increases, it's becoming clearer just how much beauty she's capable of shoehorning into a single song.


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Stephen Thompson is a writer, editor and reviewer for NPR Music, where he speaks into any microphone that will have him and appears as a frequent panelist on All Songs Considered. Since 2010, Thompson has been a fixture on the NPR roundtable podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour, which he created and developed with NPR correspondent Linda Holmes. In 2008, he and Bob Boilen created the NPR Music video series Tiny Desk Concerts, in which musicians perform at Boilen's desk. (To be more specific, Thompson had the idea, which took seconds, while Boilen created the series, which took years. Thompson will insist upon equal billing until the day he dies.)