Twang Twang Shock-A-Boom ‘Cutz’ New Music

Chris Searles revisits the cult local trio’s salad years

"...Twang Twang Shock-A-Boom: If ever a local band name perked..."

Dec. 10, 2013 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Jeff Haley: Twang Twang the Third

"...At 27, former Twang Twang Shock-A-Boom bassist Jeff Haley is still a little..."

April 3, 1998 Music Feature

David Garza Recounts a Few of the 10,000 Stories Behind Fiona Apple’s Fetch the Bolt Cutters

Texan muse and former Austinite relocated production to El Paso

"...star in 1989 at UT-Austin when his collegiate trio Twang Twang Shock-a-Boom touched off its own Beatlemania, Garza, 49,..."

April 20, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Most Modern Music Sucks; It's a Rare Group With the Balls to Risk Sincerity, Say Like Van Halen!

March 20, 2008 Postmarks

Playback: 35 Years of Chronicle Music Covers

We wade through the roughly 300 issues stamped with the mug of a musician

"...Twang Twang Shock-A-Boom (6/22/90)..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Rocking the Bottom Line

Chris Searles lays down the beat for a sustainable local economy

"...Searles has even been known to reunite his band Twang Twang Shock-a-Boom for the ball, proving once again the..."

April 18, 2008 Features Feature by Nora Ankrum

Honolulu’s Oil in the Alley to Rock the Hideout

Hawaiian trio takes the Downtown stage for an improv-fueled joyride

"...Hardick, Betty Elders, Sara Hickman, David Halley, Darden Smith, Twang Twang Shock-A-Boom, and Poi Dog Pondering (a Honolulu band!)...."

Nov. 14, 2019 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

What Happened to Our Buzz?

Riffing on a "Buzz"

"...or two about being trendy from his days in Twang Twang Shock-a-Boom. "And as soon as you're trendy, if..."

Aug. 11, 1995 Music Feature

Musical Manifesto

Davíd Garza's

"...fairly diverse paths. Between his tenure with local sensations Twang Twang Shock-A-Boom, Garza's first band and still perhaps his..."

April 3, 1998 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Off the Record

Blasts from the past courtesy of Armadillo Records, David Garza's Twang Twang Shock-a-Boom, and Jody Denberg's final broadcast

"...David Garza never suffered a sophomore slump with Twang Twang Shock-a-Boom, the quirky acoustic trio he formed his..."

Dec. 11, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

TCB

Fun Fun Fun doesn't disappoint, the Dixie Chicks leave Bush for Britney, and a Red tide sweeps through club land this week.

"...he got it." The Longview native, whose East Texas twang seasons Tanya Tucker's "Delta Dawn," Waylon Jennings' "Good Hearted..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Twang Twang Shock-a-Boom

Reissue

"...Twang Twang Shock-a-BoomMe So Twangy 20th Anniversary Edition..."

Feb. 26, 2010 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

The Big Crapshoot

Tracking South by Southwest

"...SXSW meant finding a deal. As a member of Twang Twang Shock-A-Boom, Garza played his first SXSW in 1990...."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature by Andy Langer

This Euphoria

David Garza returns Dream still intact

"...fronting the aptly named trio of freshman music majors Twang Twang Shock-a-Boom. He eventually left school and the band..."

Jan. 23, 2009 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

All in Perspective

Chris Searles

"...the drummer describes as a "fairly buzzy little band": Twang Twang Shock-A-Boom. Austin's juvenile incarnation of the Violent Femmes,..."

April 3, 1998 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Violent Femmes Freak Magnet (Beyond/BMG)

"...Ask Davíd Garza about his Violent Femmes-inspired local trio Twang Twang Shock-a-Boom from a decade or so back, and..."

March 31, 2000 Music Review by Ken Lieck

Bonus Tracks

"...that same sort of don't-overdo-it charm of the old Twang Twang Shock-a-Boom tapes, but that's not to say he..."

Nov. 10, 1995 Music Feature

Davíd Garza

"...he's morphed from the charismatic leader of the onomatopoeic Twang Twang Shock-a-Boom to a solo alt-rocker looking to shred..."

March 17, 2006 Music Review by Melanie Haupt

Event Menu

We're here to present you with several attractive options: among them, drink whiskey, shop sustainably, and/or construct a gingerbread house

"...edition of the Sustainable Shopper's Ball (www.sustain-a-ball.org) this weekend. Twang Twang Shock-a-Boom will provide the solar-powered musical entertainment, while..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Food Column

ACL Fest Interviews

"...his work circa 1989, as part of local favorites Twang Twang Shock a Boom, all the way to music..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Music Feature by Matt Dentler

Waterloo Records Celebrates 40th Birthday with Two In-Store Performances

Ray Wylie Hubbard, Heartless Bastards, and in-store memories

"...new location, the [1991] Nirvana Nevermind in-store, and a Twang Twang Shock-A-Boom cassette release were the biggest events the..."

March 29, 2022 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Off the Record

UT pulls the plug on the Cactus Cafe

"...bit of revolution," relates David Garza, whose collegiate outfit Twang Twang Shock-a-Boom went from busking on the West Mall..."

Feb. 5, 2010 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

The good, the bad, and the ugly: a look back at the year in Austin music

"...Arc Angels, Twang Twang Shock-a-Boom, Two Nice Girls, Sister 7, Buick MacKane..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Dancing About Architecture

"...for the wedding reception. (So that's what the former Twang Twang Shock-a-Boomer is up to between albums!) As for..."

June 21, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Across the Great Dah-Veed

"...Garza was still fronting his trio of UT darlings Twang Twang Shock-a-Boom. What was Peña doing back then? Same..."

March 1, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Psychoactive Sounds

"...I went into digital mastering. And I worked with Twang Twang Shock-a-Boom for several years, doing sound on the..."

Sept. 4, 1998 Music Feature by David Lynch

Dancing About Architecture

Another Sixth Street club discontinues live original music, as Davíd Garza struggles to get his heard.

"...Spy" for the soundtrack -- rumblings from the former Twang Twang Shock A Boomer's camp are that his sophomore..."

June 15, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Natural Appeal

"...people made fun of Garza for the quirkiness of Twang-Twang Shock-a-Boom or his eight promising, but unfocused, pre-Atlantic albums..."

March 12, 1999 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Dancing About Architecture

Ring Out the Young, Ring in the "New"

"...Gosh, it seems like only yesterday that Twang Twang Shock-a Boom was on everyone's shit-list as the..."

Dec. 19, 1997 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Record Reviews

"...are everything. In Austin, his name still carries collegiate Twang Twang Shock-A-Boom baggage, and almost solely because he was..."

Nov. 21, 1997 Music Review

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