This is fine.
| Date | 9/22 |
|---|---|
| Location | Mohawk |
| Doors | Registration 3:30 |
| Tickets | Free, but donate to Caritas |
Feeling frisky? Feeling like getting that elusive receipt from your favorite fast food joint or a purple sock puppet?
It is on like Donkey Kong, the FFF8 Scavenger Hunt is scheduled for 9/21 in San Antonio, 9/22 in Austin, Dallas and Houston. Click here for the deets of when, where and what. You know the why.
One of my favorites from 2011, Black Light Dinner Party, are releasing their full-length Sons and Lovers on September 24th. They’ll be playing some shows up around the northeast. From what I understand, they put on a pretty lively set. Dance.
Give it a run, this title track is a fun little jaunt that starts softly and progresses right into some slow pop jam territory and lets you off the hook easy…
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ACL approaches. With anticipation comes reflection. One of the most spell-bindingly pure moments for my 2012 festival was checking out Willis Earl Beal near sunset at the fest’s smallest stage. A reel to reel, a cape, some sunglasses, mannequins as backup singers, a microphone and a beer – it was emotion on stage.
Willis has an amazing story; military, hospital, homeless, street artist. Sample this live recording before heading to NPR to check out the album.
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The new album At Home from Keep Shelly In Athens is approaching it’s September 17th release date and so the promotional material keeps hitting the intarwebs. This time, it is a gem of dark dance synth that builds, vocalizes, dances and fades called “Flyaway”.
The band is co-headlining a mini-tour in October with Chad Valley. You people on the coasts are lucky. That is going to be one gem of show, the Chad Valley set at Holy Mountain was one of my mostest favoritest things this year.
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Ty Segall may as well just move to Austin and live at the condos across the street from The Mohawk. It would shorten his commute. Why do all that touring? I have a feeling, plenty of fans would be fine with it.
Ty is supporting his latest effort, a solo record called Sleeper that is a bit of a surprise to many fans. As you can read in Nathan’s review, the album has Ty picking up the acoustic guitar for a good majority of the songs, a first for some time. I have gotten used to going to Ty Segall Band shows and bracing my ribs for the inevitable crowd crush that would happen behind me while snapping a few pics. But how would the faithful react to this more personal side of Ty playing Sleeper in its entirety?
Read on for more thoughts on Ty and the openers Hidden Ritual and Holy Wave with plenty of pics…
Holy Ghost! knocked out a lovely opening set for New Order about a month back. I took killer pics. /me is modest.
The only real bummer about their spot was the timing; the new jams were still too far from release to be ready for the stage. Don’t get me wrong, I love the tracks that exist in the wild and all of the hits that helped prove to my less-obsessed friends it was worth it to show up early. Recently, there have been a few preview clips, which are stupid IMHO, for the pending release on DFA called Dynamics.
Stream the real thing below, “Okay” is a pretty chill release, but I can see it getting into rotation for the weekend playlist.
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Was it worth the wait?
Sometimes, you get so jacked up about seeing a headliner that it gets hard to deal with opening bands, antsy for the dancy. Last Friday was one such night. We all like the gents in Young Girls. They get silly and are ready to party. Nathan convinced them to put out their pending 7″ on Austin Town Hall Records. How about that?
ATH went to Parish Underground and checked out the new material from one of our current favorite acts. I took pics and grabbed a little video sample of their inevitable hit.
Lanterns on the Lake have put out some beautifully spell-binding tracks in the past and the new album is on my I-can’t-wait-to-not-do-anything-but-listen list of records. Until The Colors Run lands September 9th on Rough Trade.
If you haven’t heard of the band, take a listen to a few other tracks over at their Soundcloud. I like to think of them as a non-digitally affected (and effected) Still Corners with tracks building behind an airy vocal provided by Hazel Wilde. This track is slightly stripped down, recorded live but sounding studio produced. Talented lot.
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This is a sweet track to add to your weekend streaming. Wymond Miles is guitar guru for The Fresh & Onlys and has released an LP and EP in recent years, but there is building buzz around the pending full length called Cut Yourself Free due 10/15 on Sacred Bones.
Thing is, I took a second listen and the song struck me as very familiar. I had just listened to Turn On The Bright Lights last week. Tell me if you hear a similarity or maybe I’m just nuts.
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I missed this track when it hit the Intarwebs, but I am fixing that.
The Delta Mirror is described as “Electro Shoe-Goth”. I call it post-punk slap-core wingnut and this track is a heaping helping of it. This track called “Goldfish” has a heavy drum intro followed by big fuzz before settling into a structure built around an addictive vocal. Breaks and beats finish out a chorus structure and using layered vocals as song structure.
The album Better Unsung is out now on Lightwave. They cover of “Goodbye Horses”, too. Tuck that penis.
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