This is fine.
I would love to say that I’m ready for next week, but in reality, my brain and body can never be fully ready for what’s about to take place. To help myself, and you faithful readers, ease a little of the stress coming our way, we’ve got another artist preview coming your way. As always, we’ll tell you a bit about the bands and also post shows we see listed. Follow the jump for more.
We’re really happy to be teaming up with yet a bunch of other rad Austinites to help promote a great little day show over at the New Movement Theater on 7th and Lavaca…its close to all cool happenings. Bryan over at Pop Press International is the big organizer, and he’s gotten some great bands together, including traveling acts and local acts (we’ve got rep our town bro!). There will be adult beverages from Adelberts and Lone Star, free tacos til they’re gone and more…so show up and have fun. Click on for more info on the show! Read more
So close! Yet we’re so far away. Okay, not really…SXSW is officially upon us, and shows are sprouting up all over the place. Personally, I’m freaking out. So many incredible bands that I want to see for the first time, and so many more that I would gladly see a hundred times over. Here’s a list of a few acts that I haven’t actually caught yet, so I’ll be seeing them for the first time…SXSW is the first time to lose your band cherry. Read more
More SXSW shows coming your way today with another awesome free party featuring some of the best local bands Austin has to offer. This one is going down at the Whiskey Room on 6th and features many ATH approved local bands, along with old ATH show alum The Loom. Check it out below for some deets:
Dates: March 15th & 16th
Time: Music @ 12 noon both days
Location: The Whiskey Room 503 E. 6th St.
Lineup Friday 3/15: The Ruxpins, Mayeux & The Broussard, The Loom, So Long Problems, The Couch, & Frank Smith
Lineup Saturday 3/16: Fatback Circus, These Made Dogs of Glory, Carpetbagger, Sour Bridges, Whiskey Shivers, Guns of Navarone
Free for over 21 with food provided by Brick House + Tavern.
[audio:https://austintownhall.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/04_-_Gatsby_Did_It_All_For_A_Girl.mp3]Download: Guns of Navarone – Gatsby Did It All For a Girl [MP3]
[audio:https://austintownhall.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/05.Song-for-the-Winter-Sun.mp3]Download: The Loom – Song for the Winter Sun [MP3]
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I mentioned that ATH would be sponsoring multiple events during SXSW so today I need to let you know about another great show we’re promoting during the festival. This one is a night show on Friday out on with amigos over at Cakeshop Records and Loglady Records. We know your evening options are limited so we better see you there. More deets:
Date: Friday, March 15th
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Trailer Space Record Store
Lineup: Dead Angle, Waxahatchee, Grandma’s Boyfriend, Permanent Collection, TV Ghost, California X, Part Time
Free and open to the public with FREE BEER for 21+.
[audio:https://austintownhall.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/PC-07_Its_Alright.mp3]Download: Permanent Collection – It’s Alright [MP3]
The IT Dept. is going to SxSW.
My picks for stuff to see is based solely on random selection, what I heard recently that caught my ear while perusing the intarwebs and names that I am happy to see on the list of showcasing artists. SxSW is like that; follow your folly. You will always miss something. You will always hear about some big thing that you can’t go to. So ,take a chance with me and the ATH IT Dept. and dance a little, because I am going digitally affected for my list. Read more
You know it’s SXSW time right? Well it is fools and ATH has gotten together with some fine folks all over the country to sponsor some incredible showcases here in Austin next week. Today we’ll start off with a show we are helping sponsor with incredible national indie labels Father Daughter, Gold Robot, and Small Plates. Here are some deets for what is sure to be the best day party you’ll ever hear about:
Date: Friday, March 15th
Time: Doors @ 11:30/music @ 12:15
Lineup (in order): Gems, Mutual Benefit, Body Parts, Night Panther, Monster Rally, Day Joy, Roman Ruins, Conveyor, Francisco the Man, and Levek
Location: The Grackle @ 1700 E 6th Street (MAP)
Free and open to the public for 21+ RSVP Here
Musical preview:
[audio:https://austintownhall.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Fever.mp3]Download: Night Panther – Fever [MP3]
[audio:https://austintownhall.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/GEMS-All-I-Ever.mp3]Download: GEMS – All I Ever [MP3]
Well, it’s that time of year again; your liver hurts just thinking about it, and your Excel program has never seen so much action since Windows 98 first came out. Let’s put all that anxiety aside and concentrate on some really rad bands that are going to be making it our way in the next few weeks. These are three of the bands I’m most excited about seeing, and I have a feeling that I’ll see one or more of them at least twice…I’m just that guy.
More shows are popping up by the day. Keep your ears to the Internet for the coolest party info.
It’s SXSW time again, and I’m already overloaded with party emails, bands needing shows, and the multitude of band submissions that come our way this time of year. Another thing I’ve always noticed, is the multitude of sites offering their very own “SXSW Guide”, “SXSW Survival Tips”, or some other mumbo jumbo to that extent. Well today ATH is jumping into that game with our very own SXSW rules to live by. Now this isn’t your typical list, as we always try to tell it like it is despite who we may piss off. So stop RSVPing to all of those parties and check out the ATH guide to not screwing this up. Follow the jump for more.
The IT Dept. is getting frisky for SxSW. I am putting together a nice list of artists for the electronic music fans at the Hall and this artist vaulted to the head of my list with this track.
André Obin has this gem called “The Arsonist” which will be on his debut album The Arsonist due on Sky Council. Sweeping synth, low and lower basslines, just enough special sauce to glue it all together with a perfectly restrained vocal. Then the drums.
Listings don’t show it yet, but he will be here 3/14 at Casa Chapala, unofficial day party methinks. He won an “Electronic Performer of the Year” award in his hometown of Boston so I hope it will not be a laptop on a card table. Staying tuned.
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