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Jungle Rockers: Cool It Out EP 2008-08-26 17:45:48 Note: This review was originally posted on Austin Sound, but is the original work of the author. -Ed.
If local thrift stores selling old pearl snaps along side vintage instruments wasn’t enough to convince you that Austin might be a town that values a “revival” spirit, the Jungle
Rockers might be the kick in the 40-year-old Levis you need. In fact, the new EP by the Jungle Rockers, which fo
French Horn Rebellion - “Up All Night” 2008-08-20 18:18:11 Chicago/NY duo French
Horn Rebellion
recently did a remix of a band we featured a little while ago, This Is Ivy League (we included the track below). But the band, which features the Brothers Perlick-Molinari, David you you might know as the producer of first MGMT EP, also have a brand new full-length out now, which they're supporting with a tour this fall.
I don't know a whole lot about the band Read more:Night
Live Review: Shearwater (September 4th :: The Mohawk :: Austin, Texas) 2008-09-11 10:21:56 Let me just put this on the table and then back it up with some facts: Shearwater are the best “new” (to the indie-mainstream) band in the world right now. Like Spoon’s Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga last year, Shearwater answered their newfound media attention with an album that completely surpassed all expectations, one that will probably go down in the books as the best album of the year (of course, I’ Read more:Austin
, September
, Texas
Bangers and Mash: The La’s – The La’s (1990) 2008-10-13 13:28:45 [Note: Bangers and Mash is a column about Brit-pop by Big Diction's arch-nemesis, Dan Cwikla -Ed.]
The only album proper ever released by the Liverpudlian quartet, at the time, The La’s heralded a possible addition to the old guard of melodically endowed Britons upon its release in 1990. Marked by jangled guitars and the distinctive, gravelly vocals of frontman Lee Mavers, the album offered a s
Fredrik - Black Fur 2008-10-12 16:21:53 The good people at The Kora Records sent over a new track today from a Swedish band I'd never heard of called Fredrik
. My first thoughts went to a couple of shoddy chairs I bought from IKEA that, if I remember correctly, have the same name. If that indeed be the case, I'd like to have a word with the band about the necessity of a solid base in the making of a quality sitting apparatus.
Supposing Read more:Black
Jay Crocker – Below The Ocean Over 2008-10-11 01:09:43 I was listening to some wailing trumpet solos when I got the press release about Jay Crocker
’s new album Below
The Ocean
Over, so when I heard this track off it, the horn parts fit suspiciously well with the playlist I’d been listening to and enjoying on my own.
Crocker you might know as a member of another Calgary band I posted about a while ago called Ghostkeeper, but – and this might ju
Red State Blues 2008-11-03 06:11:56 Note: The show has been moved to La Zona Rosa
Well proud Americans, if you hadn't noticed already tomorrow is Election Day. So as with all other major events in your life, it would be unnatural to not go with a hearty hangover. That's why Do512 is throwing an election-themed party tonight called Red StateBlues
- A Concert for Change at La Zona Rosa. Unless you intend to cast your ballet sober, I
Jaguar Love - Highways of Gold (+Show with Polysics at Emo’s Tonight) 2008-10-25 08:38:37 If you're in the market for a great show this Saturday night (as you should be), may I humbly recommend checking out Jaguar
Love at Emo's with Polysics tonight.
Jaguar Love, who hail from Portland, just released their debut LP, Take Me To The See, on Matador Recs. The band's lineup is a combination of remnants of bands past, including Johnny Whitney and Cody Votolato of The Blood Brothers (whose Read more:Tonight
Frantic Clam - “Richard Cory” (local) 2008-10-23 11:25:22 If you've got your finger on the local pulse, you may have noticed a band called Frantic
Clam on Austin Sound this week. And if you went so far as to listen to the demos, you already know most of what I'm about to tell you about relative newcomers Frantic Clam and "Richard
Cory": they're a band to seriously watch (and listen to, for that matter).
The originality, or probably more appropriately, t
Bangers and Mash: Super Furry Animals – MWNG (2000) 2008-10-22 10:58:29 [Note: Bangers and Mash is a column about Brit-pop by Big Diction's arch-nemesis, and chief Welsh corespondent, Dan Cwikla. He also writes a short column in the Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogery- chwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch Gazette. -Ed.]
It’s the best album you’ll ever listen to! Well, maybe not. Still, SuperFurryAnimals
’ disc MWNG (Welsh: MANE) is certainly the best Welsh language album y Read more:Super Furry Animals
Live Review: Cat Power (October 11th :: Stubb’s :: Austin, Texas) 2008-10-17 16:22:38 This is a press pic by Stefano Giovannini
Live shots from the show here or here.
After a not-so-fun-fun-fun-fest and a canceled show, Cat Power
had some making up to do on this visit back to Austin
to make good on her reschedule. I'll save you a little suspense: she made up good.
A few numbers off Jukebox and an apology served to clear the lingering air of the past. Whether they were as concern Read more:October
, Texas
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