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The much anticipated Flaming Lips show is finally upon us this Friday at Austin Music Hall.  Opening support for one of the best live bands around will be provided by fellow Okies Stardeath & White Dwarfs.  Unfortunately this bad boy is sold out so you’ll have to try your hand at craigslist or scalping.

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Download: Flaming Lips – Silver Trembling Hands [MP3]

Friday is another one of those rare (or not so rare) days in Austin that comes around every once and a while that blows the minds of us music types.  The day is so jammed full of music goodness that we are dedicating a whole post just to Friday’s shows.  Which one are you headed to?

The Parish: Elvis Perkins & A. A. Bondy @ 8pm for $14.

Mohawk: Bishop Allen and Darwin Deez outside @ 8pm.  Tickets for $10.

Stubbs: Indie supergroup Monsters of Folk @ 7pm for just $35.

Beerland: Local boys Frantic Clam, Visitors, Basic & Hotel Hotel for only $5 @ door.

Austin Music Hall: Mastodon, Dethklok, High on Fire, & Converge @ 6:30 for $35.

Red 7: The Revival Tour with Chuck Ragan (Hot Water Music), Jim Ward (Sparta), Frank Turner, Possessed By Paul James, & Jon Snodgrass and Chad Price (Drag the River) for only $10.

He made our top Halloween songs list last year and now we think you should go check out Mr. Rob Zombie at Austin Music Hall on Tuesday.  Not sure what the music will sound like, but we do know that the spectacle should be worth the price of admission.  Openers include Nekromantixm and Captain Clegg & The Night Creatures.

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Download: Rob Zombie – Living Dead Girl [MP3]

Oh Debbie Harry… You’re still pretty hot… aaaaaand you’re playing in Austin today!  So without further ado, we give you the honor of making you and your band Blondie our from the closet artist this week.  The track featured is “Hanging on the Telephone” which appears on Blondie’s biggest and best selling album (20 million) to date, Parallel Lines.  This song is one of many singles from the album that tore up the US and UK pop charts during the band’s heyday in the late 70s and very early 80s.  If you’re interested in the show tonight at Austin Music Hall, fellow veteran rocker Pat Benatar and more recent ladies of rock The Donnas will also be on hand.  Tickets are still on sale and quite pricey at $70 a pop.  Rock on women of rock.

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Everyone’s favorite indie kids Death Cab for Cutie are playing a sold out show at Austin Music Hall on Friday.  The show should be made more enticing to you music fans as ATH favorite Ra Ra Riot will be joining the band on the stage.  Matt Costa will also be playing right before the headliners.  Music starts at 8pm.  Check out craigs list for some tickets buying options.

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Download: Death Cab for Cutie – Little Bribes [MP3]

If you live here in Austin, tomorrow is one crazy day for live music options in our town.  We’re not sure we can remember a day that was so packed as this one as far as music goes.  So packed, in fact, that we can’t fit all these shows on our main page.  Follow the jump to see full details on all the great shows going down Tuesday.

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Kings of Leon have another new song called “Sex on fire” you can check out on the band’s myspace page.  The song will appear on the King’s new album Only by the Night set for release later in September.  The band also has some new tour dates they just posted to their website with a stop at Austin’s own Music Hall on the list. Tickets will go on sale August 15th for the event.  We’ll post ya a reminder again closer to the sale date.