2011's Dia De Los Toadies will take place on Friday, Aug 26th and Saturday, Aug 27th, returning for the second year in a row to WhiteWater Rocks in New Braunfels. This year's show will start off with an intimate acoustic show done campfire style on the night of Friday, August 26th and lead into a full day of music on August 27th. The lineup for Saturday features some of Austin's finest, including The Sword, the Black Angels, Ume, and Quiet Company, with the Toadies closing out the show. Tickets are available here.
Today The Huffington Post debuted "Cruel" - the first video from St. Vincent's new album Strange Mercy - with an intro from Annie Clark herself. The video was directed by Terri Timely. Strange Mercy is out September 13th.
The new Fungi Girls album is available now via Hozac. This Cleburne-based trio is continuing to write their own reverberating, groove-filled chapter of psychedelic pop. Their influences include the 13th Floor Elevators, Piper at the Gates-era Pink Floyd, the Beach Boys, and the Velvet Underground, and you can hear a flash of those inspirations in each song the Fungi Girls crank out. If you were fired up about these guys upon hearing their debut album, consider Some Easy Magic to be a full box of molotov cocktails. You stream it here.
To celebrate the release of The UFO Club / Night Beats split 10 inch and a great year, The Reverberation Appreciation Society is throwing a summer party with Sailor Jerry on Friday, August 12th at The Mohawk. For the calendar-phobic, that's tomorrow night. The bill is rocktastic, featuring performances by Dum Dum Girls (playing a special show as a guitar duo), Mark Sultan / BBQ (from The King Kahn and BBQ Show), our friends the Night Beats, the premiere performance of The UFO Club (featuring Christian Bland of The Black Angels), and Shapes Have Fangs. Super solid.
While we're on the subject, here's a tasty nugget from the Night Beats' debut album. It's available for consumption right now via Trouble in Mind Records:
"Any number of bands cite 60’s Texas psych as an influence, but rarely does a group actually capture what made those bands special. Following their debut EP also on Trouble In Mind, The Night Beats have expanded on the bedroom immediacy of their first recordings to create an LP that perfectly captures and modernizes the hallucinogenic and exhilaratingly demonic aura of bands like The 13th Floor Elevators and Golden Dawn. With blazing guitar work and a razor sharp rhythm section Danny Lee Blackwell and company mutate conventional chords & progressions into a mind-blowing sonic sprawl."
It's been a while since I've talked about Zorch. I have been anxiously awaiting new music from this Austin duo since they released their demo back in '09, so when I heard their new stuff today I didn't hesitate to put it right here on the blog.
The new tunes come in the form of band's new cassette single "Cosmic Gloss" b/w "E.M.F.," showing off some pop hooks to go along with their unique brand of noise. Zorch have received recent press from the likes of Paste, Esquire, and NPR, who named them one of the "Best Bands SXSW 2011."
Zorch will be celebrating the new tunes with a big show at the Spider House Ballroom, along with fellow fun-lovers Fresh Millions, Marmalakes, Butcher Bear vs. Soundfounder and more. Get more details on Do512 and Facebook. They are about to head out on the big summer tour, so catch 'em if you can!
Zorch's exceptionally precise and inventive songs often invite comparisons to a wildly different composite of energetic artists such as Lightning Bolt, Dan Deacon, HEALTH, Adebisi Shank and Battles all the way to more psychedelic/pop acts like Flaming Lips, Animal Collective and Fuck Buttons. However, it seems that everyone hears something uniquely new and exciting in their songs.
Zorch is an experimental/noise rock duo from Austin, TX. Composed of Zac Traeger (keyboards, omnichord, vocals) and Shmu (drums, omnichord, vocals), the two hail from Wisconsin and Canada respectively. The duo met in Boston and began recording dozens of improvisational mixtapes, which, after moving to Austin in 2009, would help lay the foundation for Zorch. Since that pivotal move, they've quickly made a home for themselves in the city's illustrious avant-garde DIY scene, building a reputation on their deafening live shows and fan interaction.
Here's what people are saying about the new release:
"loud, dissonant and hectic in all the right ways...gleefully sporadic explosion of shimmering soundscapes doesn’t provide any room for complacency." -Paste
"Boasting shimmering sci-fi sounds, percussive acrobatics, and a strong inclination toward solid hooks....equal emphasis on the noise and the pop sides of the spectrum" -Altered Zones
"two-man wrecking crew Zorch enchants and disturbs with its studied-yet-organic drum-and-keys swirl" -The Onion/AV Club
08/06 Austin, TX @ 29th St. Ballroom
08/11 Houston, TX @ Mango's %
08/12 Lafayette, LA @ Frankies %
08/13 Baton Rouge, LA @ The Spanish Moon %
08/14 New Orleans, LA @ One Eyed Jacks %
08/15 Birmingham, AL @ Magic City Wholesale
08/16 Murfreesboro, TN @ Trash Mountain (pool party)
08/17 Atlanta, GA @ 529
08/18 Greensboro, NC @ The Blind Tiger
08/19 Philadelphia, PA @ Danger Danger Gallery (anniversary party)
08/20 Baltimore, MD @ The Annex
08/21 Brooklyn, NY @ Death by Audio #
08/22 New York, NY @ Pianos
08/23 Providence, RI @ Local 121
08/24 Boston, MA @ Star Lab
08/25 Montreal, QC @ O Patro Vys #
08/26 Kingston, ON @ The Grad Club #
08/27 Waterloo, ON @ TBA (day show)
08/27 Toronto, ON @ The Silver Dollar
08/28 Sudbury, ON @ Myths and Mirrors Festival +
08/29 Ithaca, NY @ The Space at Greenstar
08/30 Dayton, OH @ South Park Tavern
08/31 Bloomington, IN @ House Party
09/01 Chicago, IL @ Ball Hall
09/02 Milwaukee, WI @ The Cactus Club
09/03 Madison, WI @ TBA
% with Twin Killers, Caddywhompus
# with Doldrums
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Fun Fun Fun Fest is proud to announce the current lineup for the 6th annual Fun Fun Fun Fest to be held November 4 – 6, 2011 at Auditorium Shores in Austin, TX.
The 2011 headliners include everything from indie dance darlings Passion Pit to heavy metal gods Slayer, from hip hop legends Public Enemy to punk icons The Damned. This year, FFF reunions include Hot Snakes, who disbanded in 2005 at the height of their popularity, Hum, who have not been consistently active as a recording or touring group since 2000, and Glenn Danzig playing Misfits songs for the first time in years with original Misfits guitarist Doyle Wolfgang Von Frankenstein. More bands are planned to be added to the full FFF line up in Aug/Sep.
Weekend passes are on sale now, including PIP (Pretty Important People) passes. Single day passes, band set times, student discounts and more will be coming in September. Stay tuned for plenty of opportunities to win tickets in the member’s area at funfunfunfest.com, during Fun Fun Fun Fest’s infamous and annual Scavenger Hunt, the newly added Fun Fun Fun Olympics, and on Twitter/Facebook outlets.
FUN FUN FUN FEST 2011 CURRENT LINE UP:
ORANGE STAGE
Passion Pit • Lykke Li • M83 • Blonde Redhead • GIRLS • HUM • Clap Your Hands Say Yeah • Okkervil River • Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears • Architecture in Helsinki • Ted Leo & The Pharmacists • Heartless Bastards • Tune-Yards • Ra Ra Riot • Tinariwen • Radio Dept • Cold Cave • We Were Promised Jetpacks • Mates of State • The Joy Formidable • Cloud Nothings • The Boxer Rebellion • Asobi Seksu • Keep Shelly In Athens • Le Butcherettes • Jim Ward (Sparta/At The Drive-In) • Joe Lally (Fugazi) • Future Islands • Crooks • Lemuria • TV Torso • Manejo Beto
BLACK STAGE
Slayer • Danzig Legacy (Danzig/Samhain/Danzig & Doyle Perform Misfits) • The Damned • Hot Snakes • Murder City Devils • Kid Dynamite• Boris • Cave In • Negative Approach • D-Generation • Eyehategod • Russian Circles • Thee Oh Sees • Zero Boys • Paint It Black • Trash Talk • Youth Brigade • No Bunny • Davilla 666 • Bane • Earth Crisis • Graveyard • Doomriders • Ceremony • From Ashes to Rise • World Inferno/Friendship Society • Total Control (Member of Eddie Current Suppression Ring) • Death Grips • Touche Amore • Defeater • Mind Spiders • OBN III • Shapes Have Fangs • Schmillion • Thieves
BLUE STAGE
Public Enemy • Major Lazer • Odd Future (OFWGKTA) • Diplo • Flying Lotus • Neon Indian • Four Tet • Spank Rock • Dan Deacon • Cecil Otter & Swiss Andy present: WUGAZI • Childish Gambino • Budos Band • Rakim • Del The Funky Homosapien • Big Freedia • YACHT • Baths • MNDR • Austra • Dengue Fever • Black Milk • DJ Franki Chan • Ocote Soul Sounds • Auto Body • Bird Peterson • Brandt Brauer Fricke • Picture Plane • T-Bird and The Breaks • Cecil Otter (Doomtree) • G-side • Speak • Purity Ring • DJ Car Stereo (Wars) • B.L.A.C.K.I.E. • Fat Tony
YELLOW STAGE
Henry Rollins • Reggie Watts • Brian Posehn • Upright Citizens Brigade • Turquoise Jeep • Donald Glover • Ali Wong • Anarchy Championship Wrestling • Neal Brennan (Co-creator of Chappelle Show/Half Baked) • Best Fwends • Matt Bearden • Brody Stevens • Captured By Robots • Kenny “K-Strass” Strasser Yo-Yo Extravaganza • Whamcity Comedy Set • Louis Katz • Chris Trew • Veggie Hot Dog Eating Contest • JT Habersaat + the Altercation Punk Comedy Tour
