Those Peabodys (Photo By John Anderson)
The Last Roundup
It's TCB's farewell column next week, so strap in for two weeks' worth of news in one. Better make that two months: Austin sunshine kids
Li'l Cap'n Travis'
Twilight on Sometimes Island comes out Tuesday, and singer/guitarist
Christian Braafladt will return from Colorado for the July 7
Continental Club release party. Beyond that, says bassist
Jeff Johnston, "We've never sat down to decide what the future of the band is going to be before, so I don't think we're going to start now"
Brawny bashers
Those Peabodys have finished their latest album but lack the means to master or release it. Someone please help them
Youngmond Grand,
Til We're Blue or Destroy, and
Dumptruck frontman
Seth Tiven likewise have new albums in the can.
King Tears, playing Fridays this month and next at
Flipnotics' new
Triangle location (4600 Guadalupe), has two
Jeff Klein's next album is done as well, but lately he's been playing with
Greg Dulli,
Mark Lanegan, and
Zykos drummer
Cully Symington as the
Gutter Twins. They've just recorded an album for
Sub Pop
If you see
Evil Hook Wildlife E.T. in Club Listings, go see them: It's
Roky Erickson backed by
Summer Wardrobe. "Obviously, we're pretty thrilled," says drummer
George Duron
Car Stereo (Wars)'s DJ
Chris Rose, diagnosed with "Musical ADD" in the current
Blender, is working on a solo CD as
the Bandit. "I want it to feel like a smoother and slightly less chaotic
Girl Talk," he says
Power-pop combo
Sparkwood's album
Kaleidoscopism is "selling really well" on Japanese indie Colourfield/Excellent, says frontman
Bart Padar. He hopes for a domestic release later this year, but Sparkwood is on injured reserve until guitarist
Mark Doroba recovers from a broken arm
Former
Emo's general manager
David Thomson, seeking investors for a combination record store/coffeehouse for years, says he had an interesting conversation with former
Sound Exchange manager
Craig Koon last weekend. Coincidentally or not, SE's old location on the Drag happens to be vacant right now
Former
Shindigs spitfire
Melissa Bryan just recorded a three-song demo with
Grand Champeen's
Michael Crow, who also did the upcoming
Secret Weapons CD, and left this week to busk in Europe. She plans to catch the
Ugly Beats in Rotterdam, Holland, while she's there
Jesus Christ Superfly's
Rick Carney is taking 20 students from the local
Paul Green School of Rock to the first-ever
School of Rock Fest in Asbury Park, N.J., this weekend.
Ween and
Bad Brains headline
Foot Foot and
Hit Space are in various stages of recording new efforts for
Bunkhaus Records;
Baby Robots' 10-year retrospective drops next month
Because being
The Onion Austin city editor just isn't enough,
Sean O'Neal apparently still wants to be a rock star and is close to reforming the
Arm.