Author: brian.gray

The photo taker and manager of the IT Department.

Show Review: Divine Fits @ Beerland (8/1)

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Supergroup? I guess to many of us, Divine Fits would qualify.

Dan Boeckner of Wolf Parade/Handsome Furs, Sam Brown of New Bomb Turks and that one guy in Spoon. To get things going after holing up and recording the pending A Thing Called Divine Fits due 8/28, the band decided to do a home town tour hitting Austin, Montreal and Columbus. Austin got to be first, a sneaky show a Continental Club preceded this one. But this was the first night they officially played a show.

Beerland got to host, The Young got to open.

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Show Pics: Mynabirds @ The Mohawk (7/28)

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Back to the friendly confines, Mohawk’s inside stage played host to the Mynabirds touring with locals Deep Time. Another local band My Jerusalem used the opening slot.

It was a cool mix. The outside show with Murder By Death as headliner had a comfortable crowd, some of which stayed behind for the inside show which added to the crowd but it was never “crowded”. The night felt like a showcase or label party. Calm, plenty of friendly faces, the kind of show you can go to solo and just have fun in the crowd.

Click through for plenty of pics and show notes…

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Show Review: Glass Candy @ The Mohawk (7/30)

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Back in the friendly confines where All Are Welcome, Friday night’s program featured local up and comers, a band strengthening their reputation and a duo throwing a full on dance party. The end of the night I walked away spent because it was ninety-something at show time and a sold out sweaty mob.

Orthy took the early crowd over, Chromatics were amazing and Glass Candy, well you are going to have to click through to get the details. …and plenty of pics.

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Stream New Letting Up Despite Great Faults

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Playing catch up with recent transplants to Austin Letting Up Despite Great Faults, I saw on the intarwebs they recently shared a track called “Visions” off the pending album to stream and download over at their Soundcloud. The album Untogether will be released 10/9. Pre-Order options include red vinyl.

You want a little New Order nostalgia? You want harmonies and jams with a floating bass line? How about a Radio Dept.-esque gazy vocal? Click on the arrow below and give the track a spin before downloading.

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Show Preview: Glass Candy @ The Mohawk (7/27)

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Date Friday, July 27th
Location The Mohawk
Doors 800 pm
Tickets $11 adv/$13 DoS

 
 
 
Do you have a plans on Friday? No? Good. We have Glass Candy with Chromatics heading to town to play The Mohawk.

Sharp-eyed readers with a memory may recognize Glass Candy from an IT Dept. post and fans of the internet buzz will know Chromatics for their recent cover of Neil Young‘s “Into The Black”, a song in heavy rotation at Sirius XMU.

The bands had the good sense to ask ATH-local-to-watch band Orthy to open up. Flying Turns will sling vinyl to keep you dancing.

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Stream: Glass Candy – Digital Versicolor [MP3]

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Download: Chromatics – Kill For Love [MP3]

Plan Your ACL Schedule

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You can now officially start arguing with your friends about at which stages you will lose the rest of your friends. The Austin City Limits Festival 2012 Schedule is now broken down with time slots and stage assignments so you can lament your favorite band playing the Google stage. Note for the wife: no strange gap in festival lineup despite the empty few days after a Dallas show on 10/12 in New Order’s tour dates.

War on Drugs or Delta Spirit? Theivery Corporation or M83? Bombay Bicycle or Zola? Polica or Tennis? Better band or better festival band? Start the debate below…

Stream Ringo Deathstarr’s Latest

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There is a pending album release on September 24th for locals Ringo Deathstarr. Muave will be on Club AC30 and/or Sonic Unyon.

A couple weeks before, you’ll get to buy the single “Rip”. Impatient? Stream it on Souncloud, psst look below. Gazy, gazy goodness. Crank it up and get your fuzz on for two minutes.

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New Song From Snowden (Finally)

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Snowden‘s 2006 album ANTI-ANTI is a favorite of mine. Shoe-gazed post punk, several songs from that album, especially “Black Eyes” still find their way into playlists. They released a couple tracks over the years with the Slow Soft Syrup EP in 2010 including a track released on a Love and Rockets tribute.

The band is back and announcing a full length on Serpents&Snakes due in the Fall. To get you interested they have the track “The Beat Comes” up on Soundcloud and a shiny new website with info on an East Coast mini-tour. They killed during a day party set I saw in ’07. See ’em if you can.

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Show Pics: Blind Pilot @ La Zona Rosa (7/13)

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Blind Pilot has a habit of bring along outstanding openers. Last time it was Dan Mangan. This time, we had Lost Lander.

Despite it being a Friday the 13th, +1 and I headed to La Zona Rosa after a nice dinner, joining what seemed to be many other couples on a date night. And why not? Both bands ooze with sensible songwriting conducive to holding hands and swaying a little while singing along.

Pics and more notes after the break…

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Show Review: Bass Drum of Death @ The Mohawk (7/10)

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I like the new Red7. I really do. But there are only so many purple pics I can edit before going cross-eyed. For this show, I was back at the friendly confines of The Mohawk where all are welcome. Ahh, green, red, blue and plain ole off-white – The openers, La Migra, even decided to do an uplit by light bulb thing. I cranked up the ISO and had a whisky, pinky-raised.

Bass Drum of Death with DZ Deathrays in support, nary a bass guitar in sight for the latter two-thirds of the evening’s program. Plenty of familiar faces braved the crap weather and gave the Indoors arena a human temperature level.

More words and pics, of course, that way. ->

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