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The Good Music Club

Mommy, Why Is Chris Black Gonna Be Drunk at the Funeral?

"There's a right way and a wrong way to do everything." Read More | Comment »

11:10AM Thu. Nov. 1, 2012, Wayne Alan Brenner

The Good Music Club: Whiskey Shivers

In February, booking wild stringrass boys Whiskey Shivers for the Chronicle's Paper Cuts series, we knew 2012 was the locals' breakout year. Recent sophomore disc Rampa Head strengthens that case as does this trio of TGMC live clips. Read More | Comment »

9:07AM Fri. Sep. 28, 2012, Raoul Hernandez

The Good Music Club: Moonlight Towers

You go to Grulkefest? Seeing this now longtime local quartet's guitarist Jacob Schulze there made me think that the Moonlight Towers of today and tomorrow are the Wannabes and Doctors' Mob of Grulkefest's yesteryear. That Moonlight Towers' finely integrated bandship could well be perennial. Sleek, radio-loving, elegiac – these three clips bottle it. Read More | Comment »

4:17PM Thu. Sep. 20, 2012, Raoul Hernandez

The Good Music Club: Black Tabs

I like a band that reminds me of 1975. And even 1995, for that matter. Austin trio Black Tabs gives you three reasons why being forward-thinking isn't always all it's cracked up to be. Read More | Comment »

3:39PM Thu. Sep. 13, 2012, Raoul Hernandez

Previewing a month of live local acts
 

The Good Music Club 7

Want another festival? Here's four top local acts – Whiskey Shivers, Holy Wave, Moonlight Towers, and Black Tabs – all shot at the ND and each with a live performance clip that will be fleshed out over the next month with individual video showcases. A stacked Austin bill compressed into 15 minutes. That's what I call time management. Read More | Comment »

1:37PM Thu. Sep. 6, 2012, Raoul Hernandez

The Good Music Club: Scorpion Child

Needed: One word and one word only for this live-clip deuce from Austin's Scorpion Child. Raaaaaaaaaaaawwwk! Read More | Comment »

9:03AM Mon. Sep. 3, 2012, Raoul Hernandez

The Good Music Club: My Jerusalem

Austin singer-songwriter Jeff Klein really found his nirvana – his sweet spot – in the local, but deliciously New Orleans-inflected twilight rock of My Jerusalem. Here's three reasons why. Read More | Comment »

9:39AM Fri. Aug. 24, 2012, Raoul Hernandez

The Good Music Club: Melogrand

Ohio art-pop emigres the Story Of shed three bandmembers, who then added a fellow homelander that moved from California to Austin to fill out Melogrand's core. Read More | Comment »

3:56PM Thu. Aug. 16, 2012, Raoul Hernandez

Slowtrain ain't a-comin, they're right here
 

Good Music Club: Slowtrain

Last week we gave you a little tease of Slowtrain's set at the Good Music Club. Now here's three tracks from Adoniram Lipton and company. Read More | Comment »

4:47PM Thu. Aug. 9, 2012

Samples of Scorpion Child, Slowtrain, Melogrand and My Jerusalem
 

The Good Music Club: Round 6

Not only are the quartet of live performances herein uniformly strong, they arc nicely: Slowtrain's ebullient roots pop, My Jerusalem's terrific rock noir, Scorpion Child's metallic libido, and a soft, smart, indie comedown from Melogrand. Each local act gets its own week of close-ups in the coming month, but here's first bite. Read More | Comment »

5:01PM Thu. Aug. 2, 2012, Raoul Hernandez

Three new live clips from Austin's Music TV
 

The Good Music Club: Good Field

Good Field and the Good Music Club? Instant match, pairing the local rockers and the scene's DIY MTV. Here's your weekly dose of three clips from the ND at 501 Studios. Note the new TGMC taping there tomorrow, starring Moonlight Towers, Whiskey Shivers, Holy Wave, and Black Tabs. It's all ages, free, and starts at 8pm, with a new act on at the top of every hour. Read More | Comment »

1:37PM Fri. Jul. 27, 2012, Raoul Hernandez

The Good Music Club: White Dress

KUT's "Music Minute" mistress Laurie Gallardo continues as one of Austin's best talent scouts. Spotlighted this week through Gallardo and company's Good Music Club, three live clips from local quartet White Dress will represent a first look at the band for many Austin scenesters. Meet singer Arum Rae, y'all. Read More | Comment »

11:09AM Thu. Jul. 12, 2012, Raoul Hernandez

The Good Music Club: Mr Lewis & the Funeral Five

When the circus comes to town, call Mr. Lewis & the Funeral Five. The local sextet's big top beat, song drama, and sheer stage chutzpah makes for the perfect soundtrack of all things wild, woolly, and weird. The Good Music Club proves the point with three new live clips. Read More | Comment »

11:27AM Thu. Jul. 5, 2012, Raoul Hernandez

The four piece returns with a little more pedal steel
 

The Good Music Club: The Dalles

The Dalles are back for more at the Good Music Club: This time, they're brought the mighty Zachary Moulton of Mike and the Moonpies to add a little pedal steel to their set. Read More | Comment »

3:05PM Thu. Jun. 7, 2012

The Good Music Club: The Sour Notes

Only a single video from one of our in-house pop/psych favorites the Sour Notes? Oui, but it's a burner. Frontman Jared Paul Boulanger's My SXSW diary a couple months ago is also worth revisiting. Read More | Comment »

11:40AM Thu. May. 31, 2012, Raoul Hernandez

The Good Music Club: Round 4 Sampler

The Good Music Club's fifth taping happens Saturday at the ND as reported in Playback this week. What goes down at these free tapings, this weekend's starring the Boxing Lesson? Take a gander at the locals taped last month, more footage of which we'll share in coming weeks. Read More | Comment »

1:47PM Thu. May. 24, 2012, Raoul Hernandez

Paul Banks & the Carousels gotchya by the throat
 

The Good Music Club: Paul Banks & the Carousels

As video content mounts, audio of its local tapings now streams at TGMC's radio station. This week's ocular installment, meanwhile, Paul Banks & the Carousels, spotlights the local trio's namesake frontman with a voice in no need of all that Yim Yames' reverb … Read More | Comment »

1:45PM Thu. May. 17, 2012, Raoul Hernandez

Bobby Jealousy's visual buzz
 

The Good Music Club: Bobby Jealousy

Have I seen Bobby Jealousy? With these three clips, oui. Took me a bit to catch Sabrina Ellis' other act, A Giant Dog. Now to track down BJ's new CD. Read More | Comment »

11:35AM Thu. May. 10, 2012, Raoul Hernandez

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 »

4:52PM Thu. May. 3, 2012, 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 »

1:04PM Fri. Apr. 27, 2012, Raoul Hernandez

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