New Music, Emerging from your Local Scene
Another offering of shimmering, sophisticated indie pop is due from Masonic in just about one month…the band’s fifth album, Live Like A Millionaire, is set for release November 9th. There are, in fact, a whole platoon of excellent upcoming releases due out – we’ll be catching you up over the coming hours + days.
(photo by Jaime Butler)
School of Liars aren’t incendiary, exotic or necessarily very cool. They aren’t angry at the world, they live in a house dubbed The Rocktagon where they play, record and drink beer. To label them Indie rock would be accurate at best, painfully obvious at worst. Lead Singer/Guitarist Jon Keenan has been described as "Mercurial", he needed to look up that word to make sure it was accurate. Bassist/Keyboardist/Vocalist Jeremy Holmesly has been described as a "multi-instrumentalist". Drummer Fernando De Urioste has been described as a "the one that plays drums." Heavily influenced by the Norwegian super group Bearwolfhorsen.
(Ed.: this post taken from School of Liars’ post on our DIY Open Blog, check out other Open Blog posts in the Deli Kitchen.)
Well…North Texas, anyway. Two Denton standouts will be on hand this Saturday at the Ghost Room: Sarah Jaffe, who had one of the truly astonishing debut albums of 2010 with Suburban Nature, and Subpop artists The Baptist Generals (above). Kicks off at 10pm with los generales baptistos. And the wise shall be rewarded.
The 101X Homegrown Live series offers another installment tomorrow (9/24) at the Beauty Bar, featuring Hollywood Gossip, The Bubbles, and Sleep Good. The Bubbles – pictured above – haven’t received much of our digital ink, so let’s give them a little: Their LP Daydreaming in Technicolor came out this past August 19th to tremendous waves of acclaim ("A heavenly blast from the skies of psychedelic pop" sez the Austinist) and in addition to Homegrown on Friday they’ve got an upcoming at Beerland Oct. 13th. Oh and hey we like ’em too.
(photo by Dylan Morgan)
One of the more generous + worthy festivals in town takes place tomorrow 9/21 all over Austin: it’s HAAM Benefit Day, kicking off at the unusual live music hour of 8AM (when current poll nominee Dan Dyer, above, will play Whole Foods) and continuing on past midnight. Many many participating businesses will donate 5% of the day’s proceeds to the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians. Full day’s lineup right here.
(photo above by Jon Patillo)
I’m guessing it’s not because Ghostland Observatory are big fans of the Celtics’ starting point guard, but whatever the reason – we’ll have more for you on this soon – the Austin electro-wonder act’s fourth is christened Codename: Rondo and is due out October 26th. This is a little something to get you fired up about it. They’ll also play a release party right here in town on the 28th. We’ll have the album itself in our hot little hands soon, and a review out to you fine fine people shortly thereafter.
(photo by Chad Wadsworth)
[Ed.: Forwarding this on to the Deli readership, help out if you can:]
The night before they were supposed to leave for a 3-week tour, hard working local band, Quiet Company, had their trailer broken into and a majority of their gear stolen.
The band is currently trying to make last minute plans in order to keep their tour dates uninterrupted and needs your help. Below is a list of instruments that were taken from their trailer, which is kept in a secure, gated location, no less. If you have any information, or are able to locate any of the gear below, please contact Paul at: paul@quietcompanymusic.com
Stolen Gear Includes:
1973 Fender Jazz bass (black with white pickguard, black block inlays in the neck, original bridge with the saddles zip tied together, Dimarzio pickups, a chunk out of the nut below the G string, pretty roadworn) http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/
Late 90’s American Fender Telecaster (black with white pickguard, punisher sticker likely removed by now) http://www.jhjackson.com/wp-
1994 to 1997 Japanese Fender Baritone Jaguar guitar (black with silver hardware) (looks like this one)http://www.instrumentpro.com/
Epiphone ES-335 guitar (vintage sunburst finish, missing a screw on the tortoiseshell pickguard)http://lh4.ggpht.com/_
Samick hollowbody guitar (walnut finish, f-holes). http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/
Love, Quiet Company
Taylor, Matt, Tommy and Jeff
The Authors recent CD release, Get Haunted, is the soundtrack of every summer. Sporting a California-styled, beach-rock, New Wave sound, The Authors first full length record since their debut EP rolls riffs like waves of music into your ear holes. The sound of Get Haunted is something that falls between The Police, Dick Dale, at times Flock Of Seagulls, and something all their own, without having that awkward kind of acquired-taste sort of sound that such a hybrid would usually warrant. In fact, every song is catchy, toe-tapping, and addictive while still maintaining individuality among songs without dragging along like many first full-albums seem to do. The first track, "Timebomb", stands apart as something special. A slightly garage-grungier, harder rocking song compared to the offerings of the rest of the album, while being at the forefront to set the tone, while the following songs descend more and more into New Wave. The entire album is a gradient of genre, really, going from that grungier rock all the way to Hawaii Five-O styled guitar licks near the later songs of the album, showing a kind of range and variety paired with great confidence, all of which is rarely present in a first album. Though they are Austin darlings through and through, Get Haunted takes your head-space to Venice Beach during a summer sunset, without having to worry about all the reasons Austinites abhor California. Solid tunes, from a solid band, and at only $12, the album is more than worth the dollar per song.
Get Haunted debuted Sept. 7th. The Authors will be at End of an Ear Records today (Sept. 10th), at 6pm, sporting free beer for fans.
–Mitchell Mazurek
The very first annual Wild Frontier Fest approaches rapidly, featuring a horn o’ plenty, or a cornucopia, or a wild and free bounty, or even a deluge of Austin bands, such as, in no particular order: Follow That Bird, Oh No Oh My, Sip Sip (currently running away with our Artist of the Month poll), Quiet Company, Shapes Have Fangs, Ringo Deathstarr, the Frontier Brothers (because what would a Frontier Fest be without its brethren?), Danny Malone, and many more, 26 bands in all. All put together by the Vagabond Collective and happening this Saturday, that’s 9/11, at the Mohawk, for the price of $12. Which is remarkable.
Full lineup is right here.
Sleep Talk sounds like hot fire. Have you seen the "double rainbow" youtube vid? Well, he was listening to Sleep Talk at the time. Yeah. I know. Sleep Talk is: Mike Mcneil (Guitar, MIDI Controls, Vox) Ben Bazzrea (Lead Guitar, "the sex appeal") Nick Wong (Bass, Vox, Sick dance moves) Anthony Ortega (Drums, Laptop, Good hands… ladies) Their shows end up as dance parties, so bring your dancing shoes…
(Ed.: this post taken from Sleep Talk’s post on our DIY Open Blog, check out other Open Blog posts in the Deli Kitchen.)
‘Tis the season to release CDs, and The Murdocks are nothing if not seasonal, hence they now bring forth Distortionist, and the accompanying party at the Parish, tomorrow (9/4), along with The Couch, Naysays, and Through the Trees.
Coming up a little later today, the second installment of KUT’s Happy Hour series at La Zona Rosa…The Sour Notes (above) + The Happen-ins, doors at 5:30. And if you’re in the mood to extend the evening on into, you know, night, The Authors – as noted by our friend Ms. Eavesdropper – are having their Get Haunted CD release with MoTel Aviv, Politics, and hey, wait a sec, the Happen-ins again on the decks, all at the Mohawk. Go on.