The second Pau Wau party is coming around next Friday 4/22 @ Hotel Vegas! All in support of Nick Cornetti’s zine devoted to some of the greatest local music, PAU WAU The Lost Tribes: A Guide to Austin Music. For the connossieur, Pau Wau pairs nicely with an Echotone screening. Free keg of Brooklyn lager will attend. Zine comes with a killer comp of 15 tracks, with both music and artwork by: 

Agent Ribbons
American Sharks
Dikes Of Holland
The Weird Weeds
Cartright
Dana Falconberry
Sunset
Field Dress
Chris Catalena & The Native Americans
Sleep Good
Lean Hounds
Missions
Traffique
My Milky Way Arms
Zorch 

Lineup for the benefit party: 

12:30am American Sharks
11:30pm Sunset (above)
10:30pm Dikes of Holland
09:30pm Church Shoes (indiana)

The dream of the 90s is alive… in Austin. The Toadies, hailing from Texas’ own Fort Worth, will be ringing in Record Store Day at Waterloo on April 16^th at 5 p.m.. Record Store Day is a worldwide celebration of music conducted by independent retail outlets. This often includes exclusive releases and in-store performances.  Cue “Possum Kingdom.” Since reuniting in 2006 (following a nearly a five year hiatus), The Toadies have released one live album and two studio recordings, “No Deliverance” (2008) and “Feeler.”  The band’s show at Waterloo is free to the public and sure to be positively rife with nostalgia and flannel.  Pick up a copy of The Toadies’ RSD limited edition 7”- “No Deliverance”/ “Someone Great.”

–Lucy Barber

These Mad Dogs of Glory took their name from a Bukowski poem, and are just about to take their coarse-grit country out on the Texas road, but just before they do, they’ll make things noisy for one night at Red 7, this Wednesday, 4/13. And that’s it. 

The Scoot Inn will be packed with local bands this Saturday night (4/9), all to benefit the people of Japan…The Boxing Lesson, One Step Program, Lean Hounds (above) and more will take the stage. Be sure to go check out One Step Program, whose track "Bad Spaceman" is my own all-time favorite profanity-laced boasting track narrated by an astronaut – bar none. How often can you hear that live AND help people? 

Matt Smith’s Austin recording studio Hot Tracks has been forced to relocate, and to help cover costs a superb lineup of local bands (and fans/friends/colleagues of Hot Tracks) are putting on a big, badass show at Club De Ville; in addition to helping out a good local biz, this is a phenomenal way to catch 10 killer local bands in one night. All proceeds go toward the relocation. Friday, 4/15, bands inside and out, including David Wingo (above), Leatherbag, Danny Malone, The Eastern Sea, Wiretree, and many more…full lineup (times TBD): 

Corrina, Corrina
Danny Malone
David Wingo (of Ola Podrida)
The Eastern Sea
The Gary
The Great Nostalgic
Leatherbag
My Education
The Pons
Wiretree

Beginning with the legacy of The 13th Floor Elevators, Austin’s keeping a stronghold on their empire of psychedelic rock and bands like Rayon Beach are testament to that reign. Having played last year’s Psych Fest, a fuzzed out festivus of feedback both local and national, Rayon Beach is a crown jewel in the city’s trippy crown. Rayon Beach strikes the perfect balance of bludgeoning garage rock, synthesized beach pop, and hallucinogenic ambience- a trifecta for any summer playlist. The trio’s been spacing out together since 2009 and put out Memory Teeth last year. Enjoy the title track and prepare for some serious flashbacks.

–Lucy Barber

The latest installment of 101x’s Homegrown Live series takes place tonight 4/1 @ the Mohawk, headlined by What Made Milwaukee Famous but also featuring Tacks, The Boy Disaster, Ovenbirds, Shapes Have Fangs, The Curious Mystery, and Rayon Beach. 

Tacks, The Boy Disaster, the rare, grammatically confusing band with a comma, have been around creating their dreamy, lush, orchestral pop for a few years now, occasionally disappearing from view but always worth seeing if their heads appear. They granted their EP Oh, Beatrice a comma as well; they may even give a few out at the show tonight. Video above for "Frozen Feet" directed by none other than Sunset‘s Bill Baird. 

The Great Nostalgic, in addition to having the best profile pics in the known universe, also have a new album: Hope We Live Like We Promised. It’s catchy, distinctive, and imported carefully intact from another earth, like everything they do.  They’ll be celebrating the vinyl release at Emo’s on Saturday (4/2) in the fine company of Burgess Meredith, One Hundred Flowers, and Royal Forest. $6, Great Nostalgic on at 11:15…

No one does pre-school fundraisers quite like Austin: this Friday at the Primavera Montessori campus, you can see both Matt the Electrician and Eliza Gilkyson performing under the stars. Bring a picnic…apps, drinks, desserts provided. I feel confident saying you won’t hear better music at a preschool event all year. 7-10 pm Friday April 1st, 1934 Berkeley Avenue, more details here. 

Ok, this time for real: The Belleville Outfit announced their imminent breakup not so long ago, and tomorrow night (3/26) they’ll play their final show at Momo’s. For almost exactly four years, they’ve been bringing their own stew of folk-jazz-Americana to fans in Austin and beyond; though they will all undoubtedly all continue to create, they will no longer do so as Belleville. So go see them off in style…they’re on at 10, preceded by Joe Moody and King Corduroy, and followed at midnight by Melissa Ludwig. 

Hanson isn’t normally a band we devote much coverage to, given that they’re A) not Austin-based, and B) not exactly indie; but we have to admit one of the more inspiring acts from SXSW this year was none other than the Hanson bros., who threw together a livestream telethon and ended up raising over $100,000 through sxsw4japan. Locals found ways to pitch in too, from simply putting out a donation jar during shows (as we saw Sahara Smith do at the Frog ML showcase) to posting original songs for download and donating all proceeds (as Kimberley Freeman and One-Eyed Doll (above) did with their "Water Song", which you can find right here). 

So – amidst concerns that SX might be turning Austin into Ft. Lauderdale, good to remember a little Austin always shows through. Bad news continues to roll in from Japan; if there are other benefit efforts from local bands still under way, please let us know & we’ll use this little platform to boost awareness. 

Austin-based dream pop band Norushi Minx will provide a SXSW hangover cure show on Friday, March 25 at the ND @ 501 Studios. Norushi Minx is vocalist/guitarist Huyen and bassist V. Marc Fort (Schatzi, Bo Bud Greene, The Fuckemos) joined by friends: guitarist Mike Vlahakis (Dynamite Hack), guitarist Jon Sanchez (Roky Erickson, Paraguay) and drummer Jared Hoffman. Norushi Minx will debut material from their second EP to be released this summer, as well as a Cocteau Twins cover.

Norushi Minx drop their bliss-inducing noise pop at 10:30 p.m. Paraguay – featuring Sanchez and Claire Hamilton – headline the show at 12:30 a.m. The Low Lows (Austin via NYC) rock at 11:30 p.m. and Glad We Were open the show at 9:30 p.m.

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