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Three live and tight performances from Austin's Politics
 

The Good Music Club: Politics

Live performance footage often abstracts location in these YouTube times, so keep in mind while watching TGMC's three clips here that Politics' sharp, tight, Nineties-reminiscent indie rock emanates locally. That includes the Joy Division/Interpol guitar toll on “In Your Place.” See the band at Pachanga Fest in Fiesta Gardens next Saturday, May 12. Read More | Comment »

The Good Music Club 4:52PM Thu. May. 3, Raoul Hernandez

Otherworldly Roots

Early in the Austin City Limits taping last night, Punch Brothers frontman Chris Thile mentioned an episode of the landmark PBS program from 1990 featuring Strength in Numbers, a supergroup once composed of Bela Fleck, Sam Bush, Mark O’Connor, Edgar Meyer, and Jerry Douglas. Read More | Comment »

Geezerville 12:47PM Wed. May. 2, Jim Caligiuri

Greencards and Black

Now in their 10th year, the Greencards have stopped noting that they won Best New Band at the Austin Music Awards in 2003. I write that with great interest on several counts, not the least of which is their Threadgill’s show this coming Saturday, May 5. Read More | Comment »

1, 2, Tres, Cuatro 1:30PM Mon. Apr. 30, Margaret Moser

Dziekuje Mr. Wrona

Two Polish metal bands prompted me to Poland last October. On Sunday, at the White Rabbit in San Antonio, Behemoth headlines the Decibel Magazine Tour with Swedish blood bathers Watain. Two days later – Tuesday, May 1, at Emo's East – Decapitated opens for extreme Swedes Meshuggah and also Baroness. What's Polish for “heaven”? Read More | Comment »

Death Valley Nights 4:57PM Fri. Apr. 27, Raoul Hernandez

Meet Nano Whitman via three TGMC clips
 

The Good Music Club: Nano Whitman

Wow, shades of Honky Chateau-era Elton John and Harry Chapin in a young, contemporary singer-songwriter. The Good Music Club turns up another local prize in Nano Whitman. And don't miss the visualists next taping, Monday at the ND, with another quartet of upcoming Austinites: Lonesome Heroes, the Dalles, Frank Smith the band, and the Sour Notes. Read More | Comment »

The Good Music Club 1:04PM Fri. Apr. 27, Raoul Hernandez

Coathangers at Fusebox

Invasion of the New Grrl Order was choreographed by Allison Orr of Forklift Danceworks and Girls Rock Austin founder Emily Marks. Read More | Comment »

Down on the Street 3:42PM Thu. Apr. 26, Shelley Hiam

Olivia Tremor Control Headlines Austin Psych Fest

Bill Doss of Olivia Tremor Control speaks with unguarded warmth, answering questions in long, detailed pathways. He of the reunited Austin Psych Fest Saturday headliners is far more forthright than the experimental crowd's traditional aloofness. Here's some of what didn't make the Music Listings in today's Chronicle. Read More | Comment »

Shuffle 9:07AM Thu. Apr. 26, Luke Winkie

Mysterium Tremendum

It figures. I spoke to Mickey Hart yesterday and learned something. The former Grateful Dead drummer, who's appearing with his band at La Zona Rosa Thursday night, used the word “sonification” to describe the music he’s making. Turns out he’s taking light waves and turning them into sound. And these aren't just any light waves. Read More | Comment »

Geezerville 2:20PM Wed. Apr. 25, Jim Caligiuri

Heartless Bastards Aim With ‘Arrow’

Need a gorgeous voice to match this April weather? How about Erika Wennerstrom of Heartless Bastards? The local quartet's new CD, Arrow, flies Byrds-meets-Tom Petty on the lost highway of love. Wennerstrom leads her sulfurous Bastards in-store at Waterloo Records on Wednesday, 5pm. Read More | Comment »

1, 2, Tres, Cuatro 5:47PM Mon. Apr. 23, Margaret Moser

Rill Rill

A week after Austin's 40 Acres Fest, Southwestern University in Georgetown one-upped UT with Clusterfest. Previously starring hefty acts like Big Boi and Girl Talk, the local event went under billed this year with proggers Minus the Bear drawing an underwhelming crowd for 40 Acres' 20th anniversary. Clusterfest, meanwhile, delivered Sleigh Bells. Read More | Comment »

Shuffle 1:02PM Mon. Apr. 23, Abby Johnston

Alice Bag

If Austin's felt a little cooler recently, it isn’t just the weather. Alice Bag was in town. A punk legend, she's been touring her new book Violence Girl, which covers her bands the Bags, Cholita!, and Castration Squad, plus all that came before and after. Read More | Comment »

Internal Affairs 4:48PM Fri. Apr. 20, Zoe Cordes Selbin

The Good Music Club: Round 3 Sneak Peek

Indie rock echoes of the Pogues (Bobby Jealousy), Southwestern song authenticity (Nano Whitmanan), post-Interpol beacon rock (Politics), and jangling clang cut by a striking voice (Paul Banks & the Carousels): The Good Music Club's third round of filming yields locals both buzzing (first act cited) and unknown (the last), but all ready for discovery. Read More | Comment »

The Good Music Club 11:30AM Thu. Apr. 19, Raoul Hernandez

10 Minutes With Amos Lee

Friday headliner at this weekend’s Old Settler’s Music Festival is Philadelphia native Amos Lee. Discovered by Norah Jones, the young soul-folk singer-songwriter surprised everybody when his fourth release, 2011’s Mission Bell, debuted at No. 1 on Billboard album chart. Read More | Comment »

Geezerville 12:13PM Wed. Apr. 18, Jim Caligiuri

April Showers

It’s one of those times where my expectations exceed my gratitude. Traci Lamar Hancock’s family posted a second tender but terse request, Harold McMillan was roughed up in Houston, and the fucker who ran down Slim Richey in February is still tooling around. Read More | Comment »

1, 2, Tres, Cuatro 9:43AM Tue. Apr. 17, Margaret Moser

DIY Recording

If you’re a local musician, there's a myriad of Austin recording studios to choose from. Let’s say you’re just getting started, though. Or maybe you just want to record some demos. Or, let’s be honest, you haven't enough money to book studio time. No matter the reason, self-recording can be an obvious and totally viable option for those who may be studio-shy. Read More | Comment »

Internal Affairs 2:40PM Fri. Apr. 13, Zoe Cordes Selbin

The Good Music Club: Blind Pets

Blind Pets' flammable rock has been a favorite here since the local trio's 2010 disc Smashed, and its equally raucous follow-up, last year's Sweet Tooth. The Good Music Club bottled three songs at its second ND taping. Read More | Comment »

Death Valley Nights 1:55PM Thu. Apr. 12, Raoul Hernandez

Not Fade Away

How much is too much? On the heels of last year’s 73-CD box set of every show on the band's infamous 1972 European tour, Shout! Factory is releasing the Grateful Dead's All the Years Combine, a 14-DVD set with a running time of nearly 38 hours. Deadheads, are we screaming “enough” yet? Probably not. Read More | Comment »

Geezerville 1:03PM Wed. Apr. 11, Jim Caligiuri

Why Pie?

Given last night's all-star Hey, Loretta! Hillbilly Hoedown and Pie Social at the Continental Club, the proceeds of which benefited the SIMS Foundation, I looked up the history of pie socials to see how they developed. Finally! Something Wikipedia has no entry for! Read More | Comment »

Girlie Action 1:25PM Tue. Apr. 10, Margaret Moser

Feedtime

My account of last night's At the Drive-In spectacle at Red 7 appears in Thursday's Chronicle, but in the meantime, here's a recap of last week's Feedtime revving at Beerland. Read More | Comment »

Where Eagles Dare 1:13PM Tue. Apr. 10, Kevin Curtin

The Guns ring out in their latest live videos
 

The Good Music Club: Guns of Navarone

No-one can accuse the Good Music Club of not living up to its name. Now it's the turn of Guns of Navarone to light up the screen. Read More | Comment »

The Good Music Club 12:40PM Fri. Apr. 6

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