It’s back, it’s huge, it’s in triplicate as usual: Fun Fun Fun Fest announced their full line-up, and it includes local fiends Woven Bones (above), Mother Falcon, Royal Forest, Eagle Claw, and perhaps most significantly of all, Black Nasty. Don’t argue with him, he’ll take it farther than you. November 5-7, Waterloo Park. 

FUN FUN FUN FEST 2010 COMPLETE LINE-UP:

ORANGE STAGE:

Weird Al Yankovic
MGMT
Devo
Dirty Projectors
The Hold Steady
Man Man
Cap’n Jazz
Os Mutantes
Deerhunter
Wavves
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
Polvo
Kaki King
Dum Dum Girls
Best Coast
Crocodiles
Magic Kids
Indian Jewelry
Appleseed Cast
Margot and the Nuclear So and Sos
Toro Y Moi
Junius
Woven Bones
Royal Forest
Mother Falcon

BLACK STAGE:

Bad Religion
GWAR
The Vandals
Dwarves
The Gories
Municipal Waste
Strike Anywhere
The Casualties
Valient Thorr
Jeff The Brotherhood
The Briggs
Power Trip
Eagle Claw
Mastodon
Suicidal Tendencies
High On Fire
Snapcase
Floor
The Bronx
Ringworm
Kylesa
OFF!
Peelander Z
Hatred Surge
Black Congress

BLUE STAGE:

RJD2
Slick Rick (performing "Great Adventures Of")
Deakin (of Animal Collective)
Delorean
Big Freedia
Designer Drugs
Devin The Dude
Invincible
Butcher Bear and Charlie
League of Extraordinary Gz
DJ Nick Nack
A-trak
Yelle
Pharoahe Monch
Jean Grae
POS
Dam-Funk
Dominique Young Unique
Black Nasty
DJ Bird Peterson
Crew 54

YELLOW STAGE:

Cold Cave (doing a live visual projection show)
Monotonix
Mariachi El Bronx
Live Action Wrestling
Veggie Hot Dog Eating Contest
Punk Rock Story Time with Joe Sib (spoken word)
New Movement (live sketch comedy)
Air Sex Contest (presented by Alamo Draft House)
Live Stunt Show
Video Shows
Stand Up Comedy with: Matt Bearden, Altercation Punk Rock Comedy tour and many more tba

Sweat swung like beads on spinning ceiling fans as The Downbeats opened at The Parish last Thursday night for an audience full of young guns who were likely sliding shut the door to their moms’ minivans not an hour ago. When informed they had 8 minutes left in a time-check, The Downbeats lead vocals sprayed in perfect punk rock form over tuning guitars, “Well then, we got about 8 more songs.”  Moments later, he disrupted a song to proclaim he didn’t feel quite right, and with foxly movement as stylized as synchronized swimmers, all but the drummer jumped off the stage, instruments and microphones with them, to play the rest of the set among the audience. 

Reverberating second act Sip Sip’s 14-man-band resembled Danielson in energy and costuming.  Dynamic and entertaining, Sip Sip juggled back and forth between song and rap, accompanied by a whirlpooling horns section and a synthesizer, on top of standard rock instrumentation.  At moments, they drew up an irrefutable comparison to a double-headed giant of Jay-Z and Michael McDonald with the brassy hips of Chromeo. Sip Sip, fronted by members of Austin’s lushly orchestrated Mother Falcon, was very much the lungs of the evening. 

 

Headliners Legs Against Arms beamed pleasant rock, which was a complementing decipherable pop to the grating, and sometimes trying, sound of the third act, The Act Rights. The Act Rights jammed with fortitude, but their buzzing garage sound and pop blister vocals spent the entire set walking a tightrope of take-it-or-leave-it. Legs Against Arms rolled along with radio-ready rock ’n stroll. 

 

–Lauren Hardy (photo by Natalya Alexandrovna)

The dangerously likable indie rockers Oh No Oh My have invited you all to design their new poster…details straight from the band below: 

Are you one of those people that never win anything? I know, me too. I did win tickets to see Mighty Ducks 2 when I was in first grade, for this sweet joke I submitted to the Denver Post. But you know, that doesn’t really count. I had to go with my parents. And I think my sister got to go too, so really, that was a shared victory, and not something to call my own.

BUT I DIGRESS. We’re going to give away the following:

1 Shoot ‘Em Up T-Shirt (in whatever size you want)
1 Brains/Walking Into Me on 7" 45RPM Vinyl (just released, featuring 2 songs from our upcoming album)
1 Dmitrij Dmitrij EP on 12" 45 rpm Vinyl
1 Dmitrij Dmitrij EP CD
1 "Oh No! Oh My!" CD 
2 Oh No Oh My Beer Coozys
A bunch of Oh No Oh My temporary tattoos
and some Oh No Oh My buttons/pins/badges/whatev..er you want to call them

HOLY CRAP THAT’S AWESOME. How do you have to do in exchange for such an awesome prize package?? Make us a tour poster! To summarize what we’re looking for:

11×17 Poster
Preferably 1-2 Colors (in case it’s so awesome that we decide have it screen printed but if you feel your vision needs full color, then I guess that would be okay…)
300 DPI
Must have "Oh No Oh My" on it
Please nothing cute, or precious, or things like that.
Simple is good.

Send a smaller file version of your entry (something like 550×850 pixels) to daniel@ohnoohmy.com with the subject "Poster Contest" and YOU’LL BE ON YOUR WAY TO GLORIOUS PRIZES. 

Love at 20 is the new project from former members of Clap Clap. Clap Clap received MTVU’s "best new band" award, performed ME Television Special and a KVRX radio show, and were featured on "Real World Austin". Members of Love at 20 have produced and engineered acts like: The Sword (Austin), Iron Age (Austin), Nate Grace (Pitchfork Forkcast), Bluu Suede (American Idol Top 12 Finalist) and Cursive (Omaha, NE).

"If Maroon 5’s Adam Levine was more into Brit rock bands like Stereophonics rather than Prince, he would have called his band Love at 20." –urb.com

"Love At 20 is not a fad band that will disappear into the masses. It has the sincerity and talent to stand on it’s own. "Time To Begin" contains the type of music that has the longevity to stay with you for years ahead." –sailorlegs.com

"Love At 20 combines their old band’s inclination toward the dance floor with propulsive guitar fireworks and Groener’s pent-up, Rivers Cuomo-esque croon." –AV Club

To support the release of "Time to Begin" in early November, four video vignettes will be released, each of which will feature a new up and coming Austin director paying homage to their favorite film maker.

(Ed.: this post taken from Love at 20’s post on our DIY Open Blog, check out other Open Blog posts in the Deli Kitchen. Love at 20 are also among the nominees in our current poll…) 

The Parish will be abuzz tonight in celebration of the release of indie-pop band The Soldier Thread‘s new album, In Spades. 

"We’re totally stoked," guitar/vocalist Justin McHugh says of the new release. "It’s definitely a direction we wanted to go." 

"It offers a bigger sound than the first, in addition to more guitar and more vocals from (viola/vocalist) Patricia Lynn," Justin promises. 

 

The second full-length record follows an EP, Fevers and Fireworks, and their debut album, Shapes. Producer Dwight Baker, who has produced Bob Schneider and Alpha Rev, had a hand in the release, and Justin believes it shows how the band has evolved  since the first record. He adds that The Soldier Thread is headed towards a "poppier" sound in order to draw more people, and this record displays that. 

 

The band says they are thrilled with the outcome of the new sound and are anxious to have it in people’s hands.

 

"We hope that people like it, and that it’s well received and can grow the fan base some. I think there’s definitely stuff on it that the fans that we do have right now will like," Justin says. 

 

"We’ve been sitting on this record now for some time now and it’s just going to be nice to have it out there– it’s a good release for us– both just to release the record and, well, emotionally."

 

The party kicks off at 8 and will feature performances from Wiretree, Quiet Company and special guest Casey McPherson of Alpha Rev, in addition to the guest of honor.

 

Expect Texas-wide tour dates to be announced soon following the album release show, and check thesoldierthread.com for the latest updates.

 

–Amanda Hensel

Mr. Sam Beam, better known as Iron & Wine, made the wise decision some years ago to homestead right around here. And so this week we get an unusual two-night offering from Iron & Wine: Tomorrow night (7/28) Iron & Wine hosts (?) or otherwise presents a special Movie Night at the Paramount, featuring the 1973 film Badlands (itself the work of another hill country denizen, Terence Malick). And the following night (7/29), along with Calexico, he’ll perform as part of a benefit for both MANA (Midwives Alliance of North America) and HAAM (Health Alliance for Austin Musicians). All good reasons to absorb some hill country genius. 

Minorcan, also known as Ryan Anderson, and sometimes erroneously identified as Minocran (and much more difficult to google as such), has an album called Keep at Hand, has a delicate sound, has a baby daughter, has a very tiny guitar, has it in mind to sound like the ocean in winter, and has a gig coming up Wednesday 7/28 at the Parish, in the illustrious company of Follow That Bird! and Leatherbag, along with Iowan headliners The Poison Control Center. 

The minds of Learning Secrets have put together a little shindig to benefit the oil-slick many of the Gulf: Black Gold Disco, happening this Saturday at the Beauty Bar, where all proceeds will go to help the Endangered Species Coaltion and their work in the gulf. Candi & the Strangers, Bodytronix (above), and Learning Secrets themselves will handle the music. You’ll feel good and you’ll dance. Questions?

It is, for many reasons, going to be a good weekend to be a living, breathing, concertgoing Austinite…you’ve got your Quiet Company down at Threadgills (Friday), your Oh No Oh My over at the Ghost Room (Thursday), plus at the Mohawk Friday TV Torso, The Gary, and Martin Crane of Brazos, and then on Saturday, also at the Mohawk, the instigating and titular event for this particular post: the Fete D’Lorenza honoring KUT’s Laurie Gallardo, and featuring 2009 Deli Year End Poll winner STEREO IS A LIE, The (inimitable) Midgetmen, Melogrand (pictured above), Red Falcon, 100 Flowers, Elevated Lines, and Dead Black Hearts. Now THAT is a birthday party. 

 

Trippy organs, groovy beats, and thick greasy chords characterize the emanating sounds which are are reminiscent of 1960’s Brit-Rock groups like The Kinks or Syd Barrett’s early version of Pink Floyd, and are on par with modern acts such as The Black Keys, Jet, and The Strokes. Walk into their live show and it’s clear by the end of the first song that The Hi-Tones have what many other bands lack: an outstanding front-man who commands the attention of the audience. Debonair and soul-shattering lead vocalist Johnny Flores, slender with jet black curls, not only has a impressive set of pipes, it seems he has borrowed some fancy footwork from Mr. James Brown himself. Sensual and sweat drenched, he spins, jumps, slides and shakes with relentless passionate energy. Bassist Gary Delgado, tall and dreamy, floats on his own introspective plane of existence thumping out punchy rhythms that pop like the exploding flash-bulbs of the 1930’s. On cue, savvy guitarist Chazz Bessette steps out armed with a with a classic fireglow red Rickenbacker selected meticulously from an arsenal of vintage guitars. The crowd begins to pack the floor and becomes wild with dancing and excitement. The sexual energy given off by the music is apparent by the amount of flailing females that line the front row of the audience. By the end of the set, a dull evening has turned into what feels like a jiving bohemian dance party. Native Texan Kevin Culwell delivers pulsating guitar licks with a sense ease while the crowd dances in a frenzy. Kurt Lammers sits back with a smile and keeps the bodies moving with a constant beat that never seems to lose a click. I have seen the future!

The Hi-Tones are currently in studio with Grammy nominated producer Frenchie Smith [Jet, Trail of Dead] in Austin, TX. Watch for their debut album in 2010! 

(Ed.: this post taken from The Hi-Tones’ post on our DIY Open Blog, check out other Open Blog posts in the Deli Kitchen. The Hi-Tones are also among the nominees in our current poll…) 

Summer Sessions at the beatific One World Theater Saturday night was a dance party made better by the gorgeous view, art, and cocktails in the gallery. There were a couple of surprises; one being that Cowboy and Indian (and Rider) never saw the stage but was banished to the gallery. Their balanced harmonies and costumes managed to steal a handful of fans from the sunset, the art, and the bar in the opposite corner. L.A.X. began in the upstairs theater soon after Cowboy and Indian dismantled, followed by the headliner.

 

“Ladies and Gentlemen, the Black and White Years,” and with flashing red lights, the band launched into a set that got the hipsterati to pause their photo opps and do what they drove out to Bee Caves to do: dance.

For a solid hour pulses climbed as blood pumped by an ecstatic collective heart, which had napped through the preceding acts, was finally awakened by shuddering guitars, thunderous drums, and frantic yips from lead vocal Landon Thompson.  His stage presence is goofy but dangerous. Nervous, maniacal giggles and the glare of stage on Thompson’s thick glasses transformed him from mere mortal to demon nerd hopped up on prescription study aides; guitar as his pitchfork. Up-tempo grooves spanning their work induced brownian muscle spasms among the crowd and band. Scott Butler’s twisting grew in proportion to the accelerated thumps coming from Billy Potts’s drums during Steady as it Goes, the climax of a frantic set. It wasn’t until the first song of their encore, Broken Hand, that the band slowed, but only for the verses.

–Resalin Rago  

 

The venerable and venerated Austin venue Antone’s turns 35 this year…perhaps this day…and at any rate celebrates tonight (7/15) with the help of another Austin institution, the versatile Bob Schneider. Electronic maestros Speak (pictured above, photo by Jon Patillo) will open…