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Portland band A Weather are busy prepping their new sophomore album Everyday Balloons out March 2nd on Team Love. Prior to the release, the band has made this new tune “Giant Stairs” available as a preview. We digs it.
Download: A Weather – Giant Stairs [MP3]
Friday is a great day for some indie-pop, especially from Philly band Free Energy. This new tune “Hope Child” will appear on the band’s upcoming album Stuck On Nothing due out March 9th on DFA. Hooray!
Download: Free Energy – Hope Child [MP3]
| Date | 2/5/10 |
|---|---|
| Location | Beauty Bar |
| Doors | 8pm |
| Tickets | $5 with RSVP |
Our good friends Knuckle Rumbler are throwing down on a party tonight at Beauty Bar called Adi Fest. Who is this Adi person you say? Well he’s one of the most widely known music journalists in town currently working for the Austinist. As always with a KR event, expect great things like an Alison Narro photo booth, DJ Prince Klassen spinning in bewteen sets, and of course the complimentary beverages that start at 8pm and end when the free booze is gone. Music for the night is all tribute bands and includes Stonefree Experience (Jimi Hendrix), Cheap Sunglasses (ZZ Top), and Magnifico (Queen). This is definitely the place to be on Friday night. RSVP at Do512 for $5 entry.
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We’re happy to tell you about some new friends we’ve made from Denver, Colorado: Snake Rattle Rattle Snake. They’ve just released their self-titled EP, and they’ve already got us wanting more. We’re offering up one of these tracks to you, which showcases the brooding vocals of Hayley Helmericks. For some reason, this recalls a really dark version of Pretty Girls Make Graves if they were more post-industrial than post-punk, if that makes sense to anyone but me. The group is making their way to Austin for SXSW, and we’ll be sure to keep you posted on their arrival, along with other various details.
Download: Snake Rattle Rattle Snake – Parallel Lines [MP3]
Brooklyn band Dinosaur Feathers are prepping the release of their new self-released LP Fantasy Memorial on March 2nd. To build the hype machine by this relatively unknown band, we’re throwing up this new single from the guys ‘Teenage Whore”. Funny title, cathcy song. Baller. (via MBV)
Download: Dinosaur Feathers – Teenage Whore [MP3]
| Date | 2/6/10 |
|---|---|
| Location | Mohawk |
| Doors | 8:30pm |
| Tickets | $10 from Frontgate |
Bowerbirds are making a return to Austin on Saturday night at Mohawk. The folk styling group will be joined on the stage by songwriter Julie Doiron. If you haven’t seen these guys yet, please make a point to do so.
[audio: https://austintownhall.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/northernlights.mp3]Download: Bowerbirds – Northern Lights [MP3]
Brooklyn’s finest funk artist Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings have a new MP3 floating around the internet today. The song is called “I Learned the Hard Way” and is the title track of the group’s new LP. I Learned the Hard Way will hit stores April 6th on Daptone Records.
Download: Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings – I Learned The Hard Way [MP3]
| Date | 2/5/10 |
|---|---|
| Location | Emos |
| Doors | 9pm |
| Tickets | $10 from Ticketweb |
Alec Ounsworth, former lead singer of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, and his new band Flashy Python is coming to Emo’s on Friday night. Ounsworth will be joined on the stage by our very own Michael Kingcaid of What Made Wilwaukee Famous. Word is the former CYHSY lead singer will perform his own solo material as well as songs from his new band Flashy Python.
[audio: https://austintownhall.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/07-Cattles-New-Clothes-1.mp3]Download: Flashy Python – Cattle’s New Clothes [MP3]
We are going to make our obligatory Daytrotter post this week with a set by the incredible singer/songwriter A.A. Bondy. The up and coming artist plays 4 songs from his most recent release of 2009 When the Devil’s Loose. This track “I Can See the Pines Are Dancing” is a highlight of the set just as it was a highlight for us last year.
Download: AA Bondy – I Can See the Pines Are Dancing (live) [MP3]
If you follow labels closely, they always lead you to new gems. Such was the case when I hit up Labrador Records, the label that releases lots of killer Swedish tunes. This time around they led me to Sambassadeur, another up-and-comer from the Swedish scene. You’ll find this tune on their new album European, which comes out at the end of Ferbruary.
Download: Sambassadeur – Days [MP3]
