Hard Proof

Our friends Hard Proof Afrobeat just released two new songs on a fresh new 45. It will only cost you $5 to buy a copy of your very own, and if you do, your grand kids will thank you some day. Imagine little Timmy Jr. Jr. stumbling across this dusty record 50 years from now and having his mind blown and body shook up by these funky ass rhythms. They'll be all like, damn, grandpa was a cool mofo.

Via Kept Records:

"Sub-Saharan sounds are fused with jazz and deep funk to produce two intense, dance-demanding rhythmic cuts on this fresh 45. The a-side is clear genre busting fusion of flavors: it's an afro beat-down with brass bounce; it's an instrumental funk cut with jazz jump and cadenced kicks. It's big like a dragon, it's bad like a dragon, it is Dragon, and it's going set fire to dance floors with global intent. On the flipside cut, Tere, the burn is brought to a simmer, with the organ leading the track and bringing things to a swell as the horns hover on the surface of another straight-up burning instrumental."

• Hard Proof - "Tere"
• http://www.hardproofmusic.com/

Locally produced and internationally-inspired, Hard Proof is an Austin-based collective that brings intense Afrobeats to the state of Texas. Hard Proof tightly fuses sounds from sub-Saharan Africa with adventurous jazz and deep funk to stimulate your brain and move your feet. Members of Hard Proof also perform with bands such as Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears, Ocote Soul Sounds, Echocentrics, The Calm Blue Sea and Cougar.

Video: Shakey Graves - "Unlucky Skin"

Our pal Shakey Graves released his first official music video yesterday. The video was made as part of the Fool's Road project, a traveling music video collaboration that drove around the country to film videos with seven different bands in their home towns, which were planned and shot within only 8 days of having met.

Shakey's is kind of disturbing, in a Whiskey Shivers kind of way. Except he goes all four-armed Predator and kills everyone, not just chicks, in a variety of ways. The video was directed, produced and edited by J.L. Southern.

More on Fool's Road:

"This project started out as an answer to a question: How does one merge all that you’re fond of with all that you do well––to the benefit of others? The answer for me was Fool’s Road: A traveling music video collaboration between one artist-filmmaker and seven musicians across the United States. 80 Days. 7 Musicians. 1 Filmmaker. 10,000 Miles. With the last half of this year, I’ll pack my very square car with a few essentials, a whole lot of gear and head north. For 80 days, I’ll be living on the road, driving 10,000 miles throughout the country to meet these talented musicians wherever they may be. Each will have eight days with me to plan and shoot a music video as reasonably and brilliantly as possible."

Emily Bell

Emily Bell is into southern blues, soul, 60′s rock 'n roll, and setting stages on fire. The Austin-based artist is celebrating the release of her debut album, In Technicolor, with an album release party on Friday, May 24 at The North Door. The album was produced by roots rocker John Evans and Grammy-winning engineer Steve Christensen.

"Emily wrote for years in Raphael Saadiq's studio in Burbank, Calif., before I found her," Evans says. "It was obvious she was no newcomer to pen and paper; the songs we were writing together had teeth."

Texas Americana great Hayes Carll says: "Emily Bell will knock you down, then lick your wounds, burn up the stage and leave you begging for more."

Nakia, a fellow Austin-based artist and semifinalist on "The Voice," raves: "After seeing Emily Bell live I felt that she must be possessed by a raw electric demon singing with the voice of a heartbroken, fallen angel. I was immediately addicted and ready for my next fix."

Check out the fiery music video for "Back to the Way I Was"

http://emilybell.com

http://www.facebook.com/EmilyBellMusic

Max Frost

Max Frost is blowing up. His name's been on everyone's lips the past few weeks thanks to his new single “White Lies,” which was named one of Paste Magazine’s “Top 25 Songs of 2013 So Far” and reached #1 on the Hype Machine. A second single “Nice & Slow” is following in its footsteps with an unbeatable mix of soul, R&B and electro-pop. Check out his track "Sunday Driving" featuring Kydd too. He's got a range and style that sounds a lot like Jamie Lidell. You can catch him at the 2013 Austin City Limits Music Festival. And at Blues On The Green before that.

http://maxfrost.net/

 

Goat - World Music

 

According to legend, Goat comes from Korpilombolo, Sweden. Most of the band's biographical details are purposefully mysterious, all the way down to the group's masked performances. What's not in question is the brilliance of their debut album "World Music," a wonderful mix of psychedelic afrobeat that found its way into many "Best of 2012" lists. Goat will make a stop at Austin Psych Fest on their brief American tour. Don't miss it.

• Goat -  "Golden Dawn"
• Goat Bandcamp
• facebook.com/goatsweden

Austin Psych Fest 2013 - Carson Creek Ranch

Anton Newcombe and Dead TV made a mixtape for Austin Psych Fest 2013. Get in.

Tracklist:

1. The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Everything Fades To White

2. Dead Tv Station Break

3. Dead Skeletons – Dead Is God

4. Goat – Run To Your Mama

5. Indian Jewelry – Heart Of A Dog

6. Silver Apples – Program

7. Suuns – 2020

8. The Moving Sidewalks – Scoun Da Be

9. The Laurels – Sway Me Down Gently

10. The Black Angels – My Boat Is Sinking

11. Roky Erickson – I Am

12. Tamaryn – Heavenly Bodies

13. Young Magic – Sparkly

14. Bass Drum Of Death – Velvet Itch

15. The Raveonettes – Young And Cold

16. The Cult Of Dom Keller – Heavy & Dead

17. The Black Ryder – Sweet Come Down

18. Lumerians – Untitled 1

19. Night Beats – Little War In The Midwest

20. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Berlin

21. Ride Into The Sun – Hunt Like Wolves

22. Hearts In Space – Gone By Yourself

23. Os Mutantes – Bat Mucumba

24. OM – Addis

25. The Besnard Lakes – The Lonely Moan

26. No Joy – Smiley Face

27. Holy Wave – Brahman

28. Wall Of Death – ThunderSky

29. Elephant Stone – A Silent Moment

30. Kaleidoscope – The Sky Children

31. Spectrum – Walking & Falling

32. Outro (Dead Tv Sailing)

http://www.austinpsychfest.com/

From the official Austin Psych Fest 2013 Poster Series: