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Sixteen Deluxe to Reunite at SXSW (plus the dB’s)
Last year we had Silver Scooter , and it looks like this year we’re going to get an awesome reunion from fuzz-rockers Sixteen Deluxe. Their’s was a sad saga of local band makes good - signing to a major label, leading the Austin music scene out of the late Nineties ...
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Damage Pants - Damage Pants (Bombay Cove)
Hard rock duos have always had it rough – filling up a room with sound can be damn difficult with only two men. Nonetheless, Austin angerfiends Damage Pants manage to do more than fill a garage with their rough-at-the-edges thrash rock. Combining post-hardcore vocals with more ...
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Mp3: Brackett & Co. - “Dark Fire”
Uh-oh, we’ve seen this story before - Okkervil River members have a creative surplus, start a side project to start stretching out some of their own tunes, and turns out that side project is damn good! Watch your back, Sheff - looks like keyboardist Scott Brackett is pulling a ...
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Monument to No One - Monument to No One (SR)
Monument to No One’s self-titled debut features, at first glance, an interestingly out-of-place thank you: “The Pittsburgh Steelers”. That thank you screamed “Danger – or at least nu-metal – ahead!” After all, other than Kid Rock and other meat-rock of a similar ilk, what ...
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Sound Off: Legs Against Arms
As their name might suggest, local quartet Legs Against Arms languishes in a constant and irreconcilable state of anxiety and struggle. It’s an angst that they manage to sublimate into their rich, orchestral-tinged sound, however, smoothly unraveling anthems on par with Snow Patrol or ...
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Mp3: Custodian - “Pop-a-Lock”
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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Singles Roundup: TV Torso; The Sour Notes; Follow That Bird
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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SXSW Announces First Six Bands
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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T Bird and the Breaks Release Series of 45s
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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Wiretree - Luck (Cobaltworks)
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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Video: White Denim - “I Start to Run”
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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Sound Off: Way No Way
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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Video: Sunset - “Rivers of Babylon” (Plus New Album News)
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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Blue Condition - Cheap Wine (Catfood Records)
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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Mp3: Yellow Fever - “Hellfire”
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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Video: Ola Podrida - “This Old World”
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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Fun Fun Fun Fest 2009
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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Watch: Bankrupt and Borrowers - “Dumpster” (Live at FFFFest)
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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Minorcan - Keep at Hand (Blood on the Vinyl)
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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Danzig
Danzig
austinsound.net — 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 ... (more) Danzig
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