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We don’t think you’d know it to look at him, but John Gross of local label Artifact Workshop loves to dance. Seriously, the Party Ender keeps putting out albums that seem determined, against all odds, to make Austin a veritable beat happening. Now we’ve never ...
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By year’s end, Austin will have boasted an impressive number of singles. Credit the the downturn of the economy, the upturn of vinyl, or the changing culture of Mp3s and singles, the result has been a boon for short-stack lovers. No doubt, however, that these four recent vinyl releases ...
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We’re four months away from SXSW (damn, where the hell did 2009 go?), so that means let the teasing begin. SXSW last night announced six bands from around the globe that will be making the trek to Austin come March 17-21. What can we say about this initial drop? Well, ...
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What do you do when you’re so damn retro that even the vintage-infatuated hipsters of Austin are scratching their heads at your sound? Release a series of 45 singles, duh! T Bird and the Breaks, the funkiest bunch of white kids since Roy Head and the Traits, don’t shy ...
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Raised on steady diet of pre- Ghost Is Born Wilco and pretty much anything Ryan Adams has recorded, Wiretree’s sophomore LP, Luck , is a collage of turn-of-the-millennium alt-country rock and pop. Kevin Peroni, who plays the majority of the instrumentation on Luck , sings with ...
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Apparently White Denim thinks that “I Start to Run” is such a damn good song, it needed two videos! Or maybe they felt their original one too “British” ? Either way, as the trio (finally) embarks on their quest to win over their home country with the US ...
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When we single out bands for our Sound Off section, it’s brand new gems like Way No Way that make us most excited. Formed only this year, the quartet combines the forces of some familiar local fixtures, and has melded impressively in a short time. With a power pop heart, fuzzed out guitar ...
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In case you didn’t know, Bill Baird fancies himself a filmmaker . We’re fine with that, but when we try to play his DVDs on our new-fangled hi-def tv, the thing starts smoking. Bill Baird wants nothing to do with your technical advancements, and we hereby dub his style ...
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It was a beautiful day here in Austin, so there was hope that maybe the new five song EP from the Dallas and Austin split quintet Blue Condition would provide a short soundtrack for a quick drive around town. Sadly, the only way Cheap Wine could become some sort of road trip ...
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Whoa! Welcome back Yellow Fever ! We know that Swine Flu has been all the rage this year, but for our money, no disease is dreamier than Yellow Fever. Ok, Ok, enough with the sickness puns. Still, it’s seemed that the local stripped down poppers have been running incognito for ...
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There’s something a little creepy about hearing David Wingo’s croaking voice filtered through a little girl, but then leave it to the amazing Zellner Brothers (creators of the Octopus Project’s incredible videos ) to make the charming unexpectedly weird. We will ...
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This year’s 4th annual Fun Fun Fun Fest once again proved to be a testament to the eclectic pull of Austin’s music scene, dosing the base of indie rock with metal, punk, hip-hop, electronica, and even comedy. With a headlining reunion on Saturday of the Jesus Lizard and Sunday with ...
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No moment of Fun Fun Fun Fest this past weekend was more emotionally fraught than the performance by Bankrupt and the Borrowers. Announced as their final show in the wake of last month’s tragic death of Jon Pettis , the show brought out a large local contingent to both pay ...
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One of the privileges afforded by folk music belongs to the songwriter: the amount of space in which they can craft their worlds and their stories of truth, temptation, and many times, failure and heartache. A handful of leather-throated troubadours like Kris Kristofferson and Towns ...
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austinsound.net - 13 days ago
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Formed over twenty years ago and having not
played Austin in fifteen or so years, Danzig closed
Fun Fun Fun Fest with a bang. The band that metalheads, punk rockers, and slightly ironic hipsters all love didn’t disappoint anyone who stood in ...
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While it couldn’t really compare with their show last year at Fiesta Gardens, which was all out spectacle, Of Montreal still managed to put on quite a carnival of ridiculousness. Even given the sublime and eccentric quality of their brand of glam pop and danceably sardonic tunes, the ...
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Gorilla Biscuits, the late 80s hardcore legends, took to the Black Stage here at Fun Fun Fun Fest and blast through an intense punk-by-the-numbers set. But, when you practically wrote the coloring book, it’s a-ok to be by-the-numbers. Blisteringly fast drums, shredding chugging guitars, and ...
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Where is Martin Swope? Where is he!? Post-punk legends sounded tame. The weirdness brought by Swope’s off-stage tape and sound manipulation seemed to be missing from the mix (or maybe he’s just not here, literally) and it felt like the band was slightly neutered. Regardless, neutered for ...
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Lucero, Lucero, Lucero. How do I not like thee? I like Bruce and the E-Street band. I like Mike Ness. I once owned a Mighty Mighty Bosstones album or two – including later era old man Bosstones. I can’t get enough of the Hold Steady and the Drive By Truckers. I even really like Avail live. But ...
