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FTC: David Bowie

November 19, 2009 RayRay 5 comments

While perusing some of our old From the Closet features I realized that we have never given a shout out to David Bowie, until today! So how does one choose from such a vast discography when dealing with one of the legends of rock? Easy! Easy you say? Yes, easy! Just stick with his best album and the best representation of the glam rock genre: Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars. I wish I could drop the whole album on our site for those pitiful few who haven’t heard it, but that’s not allowed, so I’ll stick with title track “Ziggy Stardust”. Can you even imagine what it would’ve been like to be around in the early 70s and see Bowie during the height of his Ziggy alter-ego? Many have tried to imitate, many have carried on the torch, some have even mocked, but we’ll just never get another Bowie. Never. Be sure to pick this one up on vinyl so you can experience the true mind blowing power of putting this on the record player back in 1972. Enjoy.

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ATH Interviews: Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson

November 17, 2009 nathan.lankford Leave a comment

A little while back, a favorite artist of ours Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson made his way to town and we had the chance to ask him a few questions about his music. Not much is known about the up and coming artist so we hope you find this interview to be informative. Or at least a good read… Follow the jump for our full interview.

Friday Bottom 5: FFF Fest 2009

November 13, 2009 nathan.lankford 6 comments

Really, I love Fun Fun Fun Festival. I will readily stand up to the masses and argue about how much better FFF is in comparison to Austin City Limits. But, as with all festivals, there will inevitably be some sort of let down that leaves you frustrated. While I think some of these may be a bit obvious, there are others that definitely need to be brought into the forefront.
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Fun Fest 2009 In Photos, Take 2

November 12, 2009 RayRay Leave a comment

So as we said on Tuesday, we had a few photographers running around over the weekend and now we want to bring you some photos from ATH photo man Eric Uhlir. Eric has been lending us his photos for close to a year now and we have always been pleased with his outstanding results. The quality of his framing and attention to detail really is top notch. Follow the jump for all of Eric’s pictures.

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Top Ten Fun Fest Artists

November 11, 2009 RayRay 3 comments

We hope all of you stayed dry on Sunday at the Fun Fun Fun Festival and we also hope you soaked in the great weather of Saturday. All in all we had a great time over the weekend and saw tons of great bands. Just as we did with ACL, we’d like to give you a brief recap with our top 10 favorite bands from the weekend festivities. We’re putting these in no real order and just listing them with some brief reasons why we liked them so much. Follow the jump for our top 10 Fun Fest bands.

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Fun Fest Interviews: Les Savy Fav

November 11, 2009 nathan.lankford 3 comments

Our Fun Fest interviews are nearing an end this week but not before an interview with hard rockers Les Savy Fav. Before the festival, we had the opportunity to catch up with founding member Syd Butler to talk to him about his band and his record label French Kiss Records. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do. Follow the jump for full interview.
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Fun Fest 2009 In Photos, Take 1

November 10, 2009 RayRay One comment

Over our weekend of Fun Fun Fun, we had lots of fancy photographers running around taking pictures for us to capture the madness that went down. Today we want to share come photos by our long time photographer Jonathon Edwards. He’s been working hard for us for quite some time now and I think you’ll agree that his work is always pretty impressive. So take some time to have a look and re-live the weekend that was Fun Fun Fun Fest. Follow the jump for photos.

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Fun Fest Interviews: Ratatat

November 9, 2009 RayRay Leave a comment

During Fun Fest weekend, we had the chance to sit down and speak with electro beat makers Ratatat. Duo Mike Stroud and Evan Mast were a tad bit on the sleepy side early in the morning, but we still managed to discuss some things we thought you guys would like to know. Hopefully you’ll find out something new about the band if you’re a fan. Follow the jump for full interview.

FT5: 2009 FFF Fest Highlights (From the Future!)

November 6, 2009 -1893llzws 2 comments

We all have friends on Twitter, right? Sure you do! Well, one of my Twitter friends, Burton Parker (@welvis), on occasion, tweets from the future. Most of the time it’s fairly asinine, but there are some genuine moments of hilarity. So for this week’s Friday Top Five I decided to jock Burton’s style and recall some of my favorite moments from 2009’s Fun Fun Fun Fest…from the future!
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Fun Fest Interviews: Destroyer

November 5, 2009 nathan.lankford Leave a comment

We move along with our Fun Fest interviews today with the great Dan Bejar and his musical project known as Destroyer. We’ve been following Dan for quite some time with his work in and out of Destroyer so we were excited that we could get some email questions in with him. Follow the jump to read the full interview.

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