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Via Pitchfortk.tv:

Live Women via Pitchfork.tv

Austin bands at SXSW 2009:

Austin's Strange Boys will release their highly anticipated debut album, The Strange Boys..And Girls Club, next month on the garage-punk institution In The Red Records. The street date for the album is March 24, but before that they'll rock the Psych Fest and once again be an official SXSW showcasing artist. I can't wait to get my hands on this record. I've been digging the Strange Boys for a while, but until recently I only had a handful of tracks to digest."The Strange Boys evoke a wild-eyed, porcelain-skinned innocence that is capable of summoning the wayward spirit of Brian Jones. The band's proper debut album is seeing the light of day and In The Red is proud to announce the arrival of The Strange Boys...And Girls Club. A 16 track beast that is easy to imagine being blasted out of any stereo system between The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators and Wire's Pink Flag.
The Strange Boys were the main support for Roky Erickson and the Explosives at the Chaos in Tejas festival, have played SXSW, ACL Fest, Fuck Yeah Fest, Music Fest Northwest, Bamalama, and shared bills with Daniel Johnston, Black Lips, Reigning Sound, King Khan and BBQ, Jay Reatard, No Age, Black Angels, Fucked Up, and Crystal Antlers."
The Strange Boys..And Girls Club:

"From Kraftwerk to Leonard Cohen, The Smiths to Suicide, and Pet Shop Boys to Smog, Chicago's one-man musical army Owen Ashworth a.k.a Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - has been bracketed with all manner of illustrious names in the course of his eleven year career. But it's the very particular lyrical and musical vision of Owen Ashworth that's always at the heart of things.
And whether you're a newcomer to his morbidly vivacious micro-narratives, or a long-term devotee - hungry for more clues as to how he got from there to here - Advance Base Battery Life is one short sharp shock you'll want to experience over and over again."

"For the last three years Dan Deacon has been working on Bromst. Fusing together the growing intensity of his live performances with his background in electro-acoustic composition, the outcome is a collection of pieces that are intense and epic and at the same time down to earth and welcoming. Bromst embodies the same energy and excitement as Spiderman of the Rings, however the craftsmanship and composition on Bromst have a wider scope and richer palette.Deacon has enlisted some fellow Baltimore noise makers to help him out on tour, which will commence shortly after the album release.
Unlike the completely electronic Spiderman of the Rings, the instrumentation on Bromst is a mixture of acoustic instruments, mechanical instruments, samples and electronics. The player piano, marimba, glockenspiel, vibraphone, live drums, winds and brass give Bromst a much richer tone than his previous work. The intricate and complex parts, skillfully executed by the performers, are woven together into a rich, dense, noisy dance pop that has become Dan Deacon's signature sound."

"After nearly two solid years of activity around the band's last album, the group spent most of 2008 focused on the completion of the new album. The title is a reference to a short film by the pioneering Oscar-winning Scottish-Canadian animator and electronic composer, Norman McLaren, who was a big influence on the conception and creation of this album.Check Obscure Sound for a healthy review.
The meticulousness of film animation is much like the process of sequencing and programming electronic music. On Begone Dull Care, there isn't a single sound emitted that feels out of place or like an afterthought. There is a measured restraint that's rarely employed in modern pop music and it's the precision and restraint in the arrangements that only serve to magnify what is there."
"A huge part of Austin's music scene in the '80s, Club Foot (which lived where the Frost Bank Tower now stands) helped break such seminal punk legends as The Skunks. Veteran musician/writer Jesse Sublett talks with Ume frontwoman Lauren Larson about Club Foot's checkered past, shedding light on the history of this venerable Austin institution.""Dead Venues Live" will be an ongoing series where current bands visit the spot of popular music venues that are now defunct. The first episode features the up-and-coming Austin power trio Ume delivering a blistering set at the Frost Bank Tower, where the legendary punk stomping grounds Club Foot by used to be.


From the press release:
"Austin, Texas, spiritual birthplace and global epicenter of psychedelia. What better way to honor the cradle of consciousness than a festival of hallucinogenic sights and sounds celebrating the town’s musical heritage and spotlighting the best new vanguards of the most mind-bending music ever played? This year’s Fest also features Austin’s psych cult heroes, The Golden Dawn performing their 1968 album ‘Power Plant’ from start to finish.
Prepare your earthly vessel for lift-off. Psych Fest 2 resurrects the free-thinking spirit of the sane-minded individual through the universality of great music, honoring The Vulcan Gas Company and the innovators that played there. Non-conformists and seekers are welcome, and the uninitiated are invited to come explore outer and inner space and in an atmosphere of psychotropic bliss, because blowing minds is our business."



"To call someone who died at 22 "the father of rock" is not as fanciful as it seems. As a songwriter, performer and musician, Holly is the progenitor of virtually every world-class talent to emerge in the Sixties and Seventies. The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, the Byrds, Eric Clapton, Pete Townshend and Bruce Springsteen all freely admit they began to play only after Buddy taught them how."





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