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At a time when we are all witnessing the CD’s imminent demise and the convenience of digital files running rampant, thankfully from an art perspective, a vinyl re-emergence is upon us. While sound quality is obviously seen as the most important reason why we are seeing audiophiles jumping back ...
Music
Animal Collective
Neko Case
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Alabama rock group Vulture Whale a free EP you can download and take with you from their website. The extended player is called Bamboo You and is available to download if you’re willing to joing the band’s mailing list. Check it out now . I’ve really enjoyed the sounds ...
Music
Alabama
Date
11/21/09
Location
Stubbs
Doors
11:30pm
Tickets
$8 from Frontgate
Relatively new indie rock band Generationals are playing the inside stage at Stubbs during the late night hours of Saturday. The guys will be joined on the stage by locals The ...
Music
The Doors
You want the Pixies reunion tour? At-the Drive In is back together? Nix all that! I want The Get Up Kids back together, and fortunately for me, they temporarily are reunited, and for hundreds of fans in Austin, we got the chance to live in memory lane, at least for one glorious night. ...
Music
The Get Up Kids
At the Drive-In
Seems like the old boys who used to make up The Blood Brothers are progressing nicely in their new bands. What with Jaguar Love and now Past Lives both working on new material, I guess we’ll never see a reunion. Oh well. This new track from Past Lives (featuring 3 former BB members) ...
Music
The Blood Brothers
Date
11/20/09
Location
Waterloo / St. David’s Church
Doors
5pm/6pm
Tickets
Free/ $20 from Frontgate
Yes yes technically Daniel Johnston lives in Austin, but we wanted to tell you about multiple shows in one post. The first is your usualy ...
Music
The Doors
While perusing some of our old From the Closet features I realized that we have never given a shout out to David Bowie , until today! So how does one choose from such a vast discography when dealing with one of the legends of rock? Easy! Easy you say? Yes, easy! Just stick with his best ...
Music
David Bowie
Flight Of The Conchords
Hooray! We are now happy to anounce a killer show we will be helping out with at Mohawk in December. One of our favorite bands of last year ( #1 to be exact ) Dutchess & The Duke are returning to Austin on December 12th and we couldn’t be more excited. They will be joined on the ...
Music
Sunrise
Arizona band Blackmarket have a new single floating around the internet today and we are digging what we hear. This new track is called “Tounge Twister Typo” and is set to appear on new LP entitled St. Vincent Decor . This one will be available sometime next year.
Download: ...
Music
Date
11/19/09
Location
Mohawk
Doors
8pm
Tickets
$10 from Frontgate
Front runners of the dance movement Friendly Fires are playing at Mohawk on Thursday night. The show also includes buzz band The XX and Holly Miranda so the lineup is sick. This also ...
Music
The Doors
Man it seems like it’s been ages since anyone has heard from Seattle boys Minus the Bear . While the wait may have been long, it looks like the indie rockers are finally back and prepping some new material for a early 2010 release. Two songs have been made available as a preview of ...
Music
Date
11/18/09
Location
Antones
Doors
8pm
Tickets
$16 from Frontgate
You gotta know with this website that we’re going to talk about the Mountain Goats show when they stop through town. So take yourself over to Antones on Wednesday night which ...
Music
The Doors
Genesis
Who would’ve guessed that Eels leading man Mark Everett would have new material so soon after dropping LP Hombre Loco our way during the summer ? Well he’s back and his band has another new album hitting stores in January called End Times . Here’s a first taste of the ...
Music
Eels
Date
11/18/09
Location
Emos
Doors
8pm
Tickets
$18 from Ticketweb
The time for us to re-live the days of high school and college with a show by The Get Up Kids has finally come at Emo’s on Wednesday. Openers are also pretty solid and provided by ...
Music
The Get Up Kids
Kevin Federline
The Doors
A little while back, a favorite artist of ours Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson made his way to town and we had the chance to ask him a few questions about his music. Not much is known about the up and coming artist so we hope you find this interview to be informative. Or at least a good ...
Music
Grizzly Bear
TV On The Radio
David Bowie
Bob Dylan
Elvis Costello
Bruce Springsteen
Shortly after the release of their LP Humbug in August, the Arctic Monkeys are set to release an EP of B-sides from the album’s recording sessions. The EP, entitled Cornerstone , hits stores today and many tracks are already making their way to the interweb. Here’s one called ...
Music
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Amidst the world of lo-fi stands one Slumberland Records band who is willing to go against the grain. Ladies and gentleman we present to you, Pants Yell! . Well, we don’t actually present them to you, as Received Pronunciation is the group’s ...
Music
Calvin Klein
Austin band Sunset have a new LP coming our way later this month and they’ve offered up three MP3s as a preview of this new material. We’ve got one for you below called “Gold Dissolves to Gray” which will appear on an album with the same name due out Nov. 24th on ...
Music
Date
11/17/09
Location
Emos
Doors
7pm
Tickets
$16 from Ticketweb
Yes yes I know this is officially listed as a Say Anything show, but didn’t the Emo movement die in like ‘02? That out of the way let me put it out there that I like Eisley ...
Music
The Doors
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Many may not remember the band Longwave , the band that bubbled just beneath the breakthrough success of bands such as Kings of Leon and The Strokes . Working hard for years, differentiating themselves from their contemporaries, they sort of disappeared. Yet, all ...
