Pau Wau Party Number 3 is coming up, featuring four of the bands from the recent left-of-center compilation Pau Wau: The Lost Tribes, A Guide To Austin Music. You’ll be able to pick up a free copy at the show…and this time around Zorch, Weird Weeds (above), Sleep Good, and Field Dress will take the stage at Hotel Vegas – all on Saturday, May 21st.

Also want to mention you’ve still got a few nights left to check out the film doc Echotone, showing at the Alamo South Lamar all week…so there’s two excellent ways to get out and remind yourself that you live deep in the best music scene in the world. 

Armed with their recent (5/3) sophomore release Where My Communist Heart Meets My Capitalist Mind, Sounds Under Radio heads to La Zona Rosa tomorrow night (5/7), to open up for Echo & the Bunnymen. Sounds Under Radio has been enjoying much attention lately in part for their single "Sing" and its use on The Vampire Diaries…so there’s some excitement out there for the new album. And are we old enough to remember Echo and the Bunnymen? Yes. Yes we are. 

"Hop Skip Jump", the hit track from The Brothers Burn‘s latest LP, "A Work In Progress", has been immortalized in video, and been spotted bobbing amongst the flotsam of Youtube! By sheerest accident, the brothers were discovered at an Austin grocery store in the wee hours of the morning, helping themselves to the grapes in the produce section. You need to be able to look past the court’s commitment judgment and the obsessive concern about "Mother" to really experience the brothers’ music, which has been compared to the likes of Aphex Twin, Prodigy, and The Crystal Method.

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

Melodic, post-punk, good-times band MoTel Aviv will present their debut album Post Modern Nation this Friday @ Beauty Bar. Easy to hear, easy to love, hard to do. 

–Photo by Scott David Gordon

As usual, a little too much to do this weekend…in addition to Psych Fest, there’s another installment of 101x Homegrown Live, this one featuring The Great Nostalgic, Marmalakes, Golden Bear, and The Dark Water Hymnal; Sounds Under Radio (above) plays ND 501 Studios; TV Torso, The Sour Notes, and White Rabbits are at Emo’s; STEREO IS A LIE play Skinny’s, and much more. April goes with a big local bang, not a whimper. 

Just want to note that the current poll (up there to the right) is going something fierce, with Bridge Farmers and Holy Wave neck-and-neck as we build up toward Austin Psych Fest 2011…check out the all-psych poll and cast a vote! 

Bands of Austin! Over yonder is our Open Blog, a fine, friendly location to post anything and everything about Your Band, and let us know what’s happening…we pull those posts over here to the main page all the time (most recently for Norushi Minx), where you can occupy a front-and-center rectangle to be ogled by all. So now you know…

You have three chances left to check out Echotone, a highly anticipated + acclaimed documentary about Austin’s Red River music scene. Film features some of the very best + most exciting of our tremendous local musicians…including Sunset, Ghostland Observatory, Belaire, The White White Lights, Black Joe Lewis, and many many more. Don’t take my word for it: "The Best (Free) Soundtrack We’ve Ever Seen." – Paste Magazine If you’re not fired up already, here’s the trailer. Now: get on down there tonight @ 7, tomorrow @7, or Wednesday night, 9:30. 

The Mother Falcon Seaholm Power Plant show has come and gone, but the Fusebox Festival is still going very very strong, with happenin’s all over town, lasting until 5/1. Musical performances from The Blue Cranes, How I Quit Crack, and The Mediums still to come. Get on out there and play a town lake piano. 

(photo by Sam Grenadier)

In honor of the upcoming Austin Psych Fest we’ve nominated a set of all pyschedelic bands for the current poll – check ’em out and cast a vote! And then go see ’em live next weekend, 4/29-5/1 – the Psych Fest scored the Seaholm Power Plant as a venue, which really couldn’t be more perfect. 

One of my personal favorite venues will be shutting down soon: the Ghost Room, at 304 W. 4th, is scheduled to close on June 5th. One of the best courtyards in Austin – and standout sound quality for every show thanks to Chris Payeur – makes this a place you’ll definitely want to catch a show before the end. T Bird and the Breaks are scheduled to play the final on June 4th, although they will reopen for special Sarah Jaffe and Centro-matic shows on July 9 and 10. If you want to get right on out there tonight you can catch Ethan Kennedy, Ghosts Along the Brazos, and Broken Folk. The Ghost Room calendar is right here.  

We know about The Bright Light Social Hour around here. If you didn’t before, you heard this March: they were scary dominant at this year’s Austin Music Awards, winning Band of the Year, Album of the Year, and Song of the Year. Now the rest of the country gets a close look as they head out on their first major U.S. tour, departing May 12th & returning home for a Mohawk show on June 11th. May they return with mustache in full glory.