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Yet another contender for album of the year, Little Joy, will be bringing their indie rock supergroup to The Parish on Saturday evening. Doors open up at 8pm with tickets available now for only $12. If you read our review of the band’s debut LP, you know we are pumped about this one. Here’s a standout track from the album “Keep Me in Mind”.
Download: Little Joy – Keep Me in Mind [MP3]
The Rosebuds will be bringing their brand of indie rock to Mohawk on Saturday night. Doors open at 8pm with tickets only being sold at the door. Check out our review of the bands latest album Life Like and listen to the title track of that album elsewhere on our site.
Contenders for record of the year, Blitzen Trapper, will be playing a Thanksgiving Eve show at Mohawk on Wednesday night. The bill is actually pretty impressive with Pink Nasty and Parson Redheads opening things up for the Portland based band. Even more impressive, New York band O’Death will be playing on the inside stage in between the main acts outside. Tickets can be bought now for $8. Here’s one of my favorite pop songs to come out in several years “Punctual as Usual” by the Parson Redheads.
Download: Parson Redheads – Punctual as Usual [MP3]
Nada Surf will be bringing their brand of pop-rock to Emo’s on Saturday evening. Buy your tickets now for the low low price of $15. Catch a preview of the show with “See These Bones” from the band’s latest effort Lucky. In other Nada Surf news, the guys have a new limited edition vinyl box set coming out next week. The price may sound high at $100 but you get all 5 Nada Surf LPS, digital downloads of each and a few other random goodies. Sound good? Pre-order your copy now.
Download: Nada Surf – See These Bones [MP3]
Polyvinyl artist, Owen, is bringing his brand of low key, acoustic melodies to Emo’s on Thursday evening. Doors are set to open at 9pm with tickets available now for only $10. Here’s Owen’s last single “Bad News”.
Download: Owen – Bad News [MP3]
Andrew Bird is playing the Paramount on February the 12th of next year. We’re telling you about it now because tickets are going on sale this Saturday at noon. Looks like the prices are running in the $35-$40 range which is to be expected from the fancy venue. The show comes shortly after the much anticipated release of Andrew’s new album, Noble Beast, due out on January 27th of next year. Get tickets now!
Johnathon Ford will be bringing his instrumental outfit Unwed Sailor to Emo’s Austin on Wednesday evening. Doors for the show are at 8 with music beginning around 10. Local Austin act, The Calm Blue Sea, will also be playing in support of the Oklahoma based act. Preview the show with recent single from Unwed Sailor “Copper Islands”.
Download: Unwed Sailor – Copper Islands [MP3]
Marnie Stern, the current master of finger-tapping guitar play, will be playing a couple times in Austin this week. First show comes this evening(11/18) at the Mohawk in Austin with tickets available now for only $8. Marnie is accompanied by local Austin band’s Ume and The Sour Notes. The following day, Mrs. Stern will be playing one of Waterloo Records weekly in stores at 5pm. Do I need to mention the free keg beer? If you haven’t heard any of Marnie’s insane guitar work, here’s a dandy called “Transformer”.
Download: Marnie Stern – Transformer [MP3]
This just in, Broken Social Scene and Ghostland Observatory are playing dates at Bass Concert Hall in January. Ghostland tickets can be bought now and you can pick up some BSS tickets via pre-sale on their website. Ghostland is set for the 30th of January. BSS goes down the very next night. Dig out that old student ID, both are relatively cheap if you’re still a student
Danielson will be playing at Mohawk on Tuesday evening and you better go! Tickets for the show are only $8 and can be bought now from the transmission ticket website. Don’t forget you can still download the band’s new live album Danielson Alive from the emusic website.
