Texas Microphone Massacre - Blown Away

What this video is

Texas Microphone Massacre emerged from Austin's DIY electronica underground as a genre-hybrid project blending electronica, hip-hop sensibilities, and prog-rock methodologies. Active during the 2010–2012 period of explosive independent music video production enabled by YouTube, the band released Blown Away as a 2012 single. The Austin scene at this time was noted for its southwestern electronica identity, with TMM…

Why it matters

Blown Away represents a pivotal artifact of 2012 Austin underground electronica — a genre-bending hybrid that anticipated industrial-inflected electronic music's mainstream crossover while remaining rooted in DIY independent production aesthetics. The video's fast-cut approach and dark visual…

The director

Lucy Sica is a music video director associated with the Austin, Texas underground music scene circa 2010–2012. She is the confirmed director of multiple Texas Microphone Massacre videos including Giants on Stilts (2012) and Last December (2010), and is…