New Music, Emerging from your Local Scene
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Eels | "End Times"
Indie legends Eels released their latest LP End Times just last week, and if you haven’t gotten around to listening to it, it’s streaming in its entirety on their MySpace page.
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Local benefit show with lots of good Nashville bands this Thursday, January 28th, at YEAH! (an acronym for "Youth Empowerment through Arts and Humanity). It’s an 18 and up live event from 9pm-Midnight featuring How I Became The Bomb, Shoot The Mountain and Hammertorch. Your $5 cover and the beer you buy will be a 100% donation to help keep YEAH! around – so get there thirsty! Enjoy this not too new video of How I Became the Bomb to get an idea of what is waiting for you.
Thanks are overdue to our wise and wonderful expert jury, who helped to determine the results of our Year End Emerging Artists Poll. These are some of the people who know, love & support Austin bands:
Will Evans (Emo’s), Austin Powell (Chronicle), Daysha (Earthbird Music), John Laird (Side One Track One), Lawrence Boone (Covert Curiosity), Mike (The Peen Scene), John Kunz (Waterloo Records), Tiffany Diane (Austin is Burning), and Tyler Groover (TwoGroove).
We also solicited votes from our own writing staff, including Tolly Moseley, Resalin Rago, Ellen Green, and Mitchell Mazurek.
Thanks also to all the bands who participated to our poll either by submitting to the open contest or be simply being selected, and thanks to all the fans and Deli readers that animated our fans’ poll. Looking forward to the bands of 2010…
Iranian-born rockers, turned New Yorkers via Los Angeles, Hypernova, are set to release their debut album “Through the Chaos” through Narnack Records this spring. Raam (vocals/guitar), Jamshid (bass), Kami (drums), Kodi (guitar), and Poya (rhythm guitar) have endured the chaos and limits of Tehran and the competition of the music scene in American metropolises only to emerge on top. The quintet masters rollicking and bright guitars, accompanied by forceful, syncopated drums, and an interchange of tormented and hopeful lyrics about their struggle, journey, and fortitude. The group’s fast-paced, dark dance-rock fits comfortably into the New York groove; and with the new album on the way, these determined gentlemen are sure to fulfill their American and rock n’ roll dreams. – Meijin Bruttomesso
Big local band happenings afoot today – not the least of which is the live performance by Spoon scheduled for 4 pm in the Waterloo parking lot downtown. Waterloo will be giving priority guaranteed admission until 3 pm along with any purchase of Transference, so, basically, you’d get album + live show for price of album. For the post-cosmic cowboy generation I’d say this is a landmark Austin musical event. (The cosmic cowboys had their fun, and benefitted Haiti, at the Austin Music Hall last night.)
Also heard news today of the official release date for a band that has topped many local lists and made our own top ten: The White White Lights will release their debut Medium Head Boy (on Indierect Records) February 27th. And they’ll be playing the Independent along with The Sour Notes on Jan 30th (that’s Saturday).
The experimental electro-freak’s White Car are back with a new mixtape for Viceland. The mixtape is just as a dark as White Car’s music and is complete with tracks from Ministry, Front 242 and even Prince. The bands debut ep is due from Rainbow Body Records early this year.
Back in 2007, The Saps made a hilarious video for their track “Coup de Grace”.
When I tell people that Reading Rainbow are one of my favorite new bands from Philly, they often ask me to describe what they sound like. In Reading Rainbow’s case, I can’t find the appropriate comparisons. I can’t say if you like Jesus & Mary Chain then you’ll like Reading Rainbow. But I will. Can’t say that they’re My Bloody Valentine meets The Ronettes meets Bo Diddley meets Velvet Underground is right on either, but it sort of is. My point here being that while Reading Rainbow may conjure up your own personal touchstones, they are uniquely creating their own reverb nation with lo-fi sharpness, indulgent psychedelia and to-the-point noise pop melodies. Last year Reading Rainbow’s Sarah and Rob made a great record called Mystical Participationthat you owe to yourself to buy and vibe out to. myspace.com/levarmotherfuckingburton – Bruce Warren, WXPN/Some Velvet Blog