Austin

Auld Lang Syne: New Year’s Eve with The Sword, or Bob Schneider, or…

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MULTIPLE enticing shows featuring local acts are planned for New Year’s Eve 2010…pick your Austin venue and you’ll most likely find a New Year’s Party headlined by one of our own. Here’s a few options: Bob Schneider plays the Paramount; White Ghost Shivers and Agent Ribbons (above) – and Cake – play the Austin Music Hall; Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears and Grupo Fantasma play La Zona Rosa, The Bright Light Social Hour will be recording a live CD (and celebrating an official vinyl release) at The Parish; The Sword plays the Mohawk; T Bird and the Breaks are at Stubb’s; and The Belleville Outfit and Warren Hood hold down Momo’s. 

Austin

Xmas Bazaar: The Gourds, Ray Wylie, Suzanna Choffel…

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Kicking off today with Sahara Smith and running right through Xmas eve, some of the pillars of the Austin music scene, (especially roots flavor), will descend on the Palmer Events Center for the Armadillo Christmas Bazaar, playing shows from noon through 11 pm everyday. Uncle Lucius (above), Eliza Gilkyson, Warren Hood, The Gourds, and many more, three artists per day, $4 entrance weekdays, $7 evenings and weekends. More about all that stuff I just said. 

Austin

Britt Daniel Stole My Girl

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These guys (The Gay Blades) are NJ-based, but their content earns them a spot on the Deli Austin today. Credible scenario, and he’s on record as saying "if it did happen, I don’t think I could blame either of them. They are both pretty fantastic human beings." The Gay Blades will be at Emo’s tonight (12/14) along with Devil in the Drink and the Midgetmen, who kick things off at 9:30.  

Austin

Free Tix for The Pons @ The Ghost Room 12/11

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The Pons are playing The Ghost Room this Saturday (12/11) and we have two tickets eager to nestle in the hands of the first commenter! Just please provide your email, and we’ll get you in to see The Pons, Red Falcon, and our 2009 Year End Poll winner (and compulsive capitalizers) STEREO IS A LIE. 

Austin

From the Open Blog: The New Time!

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The New Time formed in the fall of 2006 in the heart of Pennsylvania’s former coal belt. Led by Alaskan songwriter John Davidson, the band moved to Philadelphia, expanded its lineup and released a demo EP, With Signs Following, in the fall of 2007. The band teamed up with producer Nathan Johnson (Brick, The Brothers Bloom) in February 2009 to record the EP, An Incomplete History, which the band self-released in July 2009. In August 2009, The New Time relocated to Austin, Texas, where Davidson has assembled a new lineup with Megan Oprea (strings), Justin Cope (bass), Mark Lynch (drums), and Gregg Cornish (keys). This second iteration of the band began playing shows in Austin during SXSW 2010 and is currently working on a debut full-length album.

(Ed.: this post taken from The New Time’s post on our DIY Open Blog, check out other Open Blog posts in the Deli Kitchen.)

Austin

Monahans’ Shadowbox @ SVT

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Quirky Americana sound sculptors Monahans are presenting the somewhat mysterious Shadowbox this Sunday (12/5) at the Salvage Vanguard Theater, accompanied by Whiskey Priest. You can find nine of their 2010 recordings, released monthly since March, all available for download at Monahans.net. Presumably these will compose Shadowbox? Commenters are welcome to enlighten us. We know that’s our job, but it’s a collaborative age. 

Austin

The Octopus Project Rolls Out Hexadecagon LIVE

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Hexadecagon Shows Trailer from The Octopus Project on Vimeo.

This Friday, 12/3, Eastside Drive-In will play host to the latest performance of Hexadecagon by The Octopus Project, who no one will accuse of lack of ambition: the live performance is a surround-sound, surround-visual, all-encompassing multi-media blowout, with the band surrounded by the audience and the audience surrounded by the media…if you follow me. If you don’t follow me, just go, and it will all make sense.