May 2012
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On Sale Now: Tonight We Unite Tour with The...
Punx unite! Legendary street punks The Casualties sang it years ago but now they’re actually making it happen, teaming up with Copenhagen’s Nekromantix for The Tonight We Unite Tour, the closest thing to a super tour outside of Skrillex and Diplo traveling the Canadian countryside by train. Maybe that’s because the supporting acts are not your typical openers - Down By Law and...
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The Dandy Warhols streaming live on KUT, play...
The Dandy Warhols are streaming live on KUT Austin at 2PM and you can listen digitally either through iTunes or your internet browser. They’ll be heading out of the KUT studios shortly after and making their way east side, don’t miss them later tonight at Emo’s East.
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Chaos In Tejas: Cockney Rejects at Emo's East 5/31
The streets of East London in the late 70’s were filled with hooliganism, football rivalries and the Cockney Rejects, who were no stranger to any of the above. Anchored around brothers Jeff and Micky Geggus who boxed at the national level and grew up loyal supporters of West Ham United the Rejects let their street-wise lifestyle dictate their punk rock demeanor, openly mocking the British...
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Red Bull THRE3STYLE: We partied hard.
Every once in a while an event comes around that brings all the homies together. A friendly competition that happens to be the most wicked of all DJs in Austin. We partied.
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On Sale Now: Guided By Voices at Emo's East 9/25
After reuniting back in 2010 for Matador Record’s 21st Anniversary celebration Guided By Voices are about to release their eighteenth studio album Class Clown Spots A UFO in June, returning to Austin this September at Emo’s East. Having already released an album earlier this year Guided By Voices continue to keep pace with their prolific output of records, with yet another release in...
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Photos: Austin Psych Fest
Big thanks to Marleigh Jones for shooting all of Austin Psych Fest with her assortment of Polaroid, Lomography, Panoramic, 35mm and other film cameras.
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Chaos In Tejas - No Age, Ceremony at the Beauty...
8PM | $15 | with Screaming Females, The Young, Gun Outfit
Two of California’s most progressive punk bands are set to rip through the Beauty Ballroom June first for what’s shaping up to be another memorable Chaos In Tejas. Fresh off their first ATP in England No Age joins a band who are no strangers to CIT, Rohnert Park’s Ceremony. Though their new album Zoo is far less...
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6/15: The Real McKenzies at Emo's East
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6/22: The Hood Internet at the Beauty Ballroom
For the past five years Chicago-based DJ duo The Hood Internet have helped propel the term “mashup” from relative obscurity to what club goers expect to hear on a weekend night. Known for their sleek blend of cutting edge indie rock and fan-favorite hip hop hooks DJ’s ABX and STV SLV struck gold last year with Trillwave II, a mixtape so solid it might as well be considered the...
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Photos: Meshuggah, Baroness at Emo's East
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5/22: The Dandy Warhols at Emo's East
It was only a few weeks ago that their Dig! counterparts headlined Austin Psych Fest over here on the east side, now The Dandy Warhols are set to tear through Austin Tuesday, May 22nd at Emo’s East. Check out our Spotify playlist for the show that includes a cut from the Warhols’ newest release This Machine which close friends of the band consider their ”gothiest record,”...
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Return of the Queen Tour Postponed Until June
Lil Kim’s Return Of The Queen Tour has been officially postponed and her Austin date has been pushed back to June 19th at Emo’s East. All previously purchased tickets will be valid. Refunds will be available upon request through Ticketfly.com only until May 14th. Excuse any inconvenience this may cause and take it as further incentive to catch the queen when she returns to Austin...
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Best Coast Streaming New Record Via NPR, Play...
Best Coast’s new record doesn’t drop for another week but you can stream The Only Place in its entirety thanks to the generous folks over at NPR. Lemuria joins Best Coast at Emo’s East June 3rd as part of Chaos In Tejas, get your tickets now by clicking the show flyer below.
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Photos: Tech N9ne, Machine Gun Kelly at Emo's East
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5/8: Soulfly 15th Anniversary Tour at Emo's East
Doors at 6:30 PM | $10 adv/$24 | with Incite, Lody King
For almost thirty years Max Cavalera has single-handedly been at the forefront of metal and hardcore. As a teenager Cavalera founded Sepultura, experimenting with death and thrash metal in the mid 80’s long before those genres were household names. After multiple gold and platinum records Cavalera left Sepultura in the mid 90’s...
April 2012
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4/29: Deer Tick with Turbo Fruits at Antone's
Doors at 8PM | $18 adv/$20 | with the Derailers
Only a few nights after fellow Rhode Islander Sage Francis made his debut at the Beauty Ballroom Providence’s Deer Tick will play Antone’s along with Turbo Fruits (ex-Be Your Own Pet), this Sunday April 29th. Frontman John McCauley’s vast collection of demos provide the basis for Deer Tick’s eclectic sound which manages to...
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Yann Tiersen's "Skyline" up for streaming, plays...
Doors 9PM | $18 adv/$20 | with Piano Chat
Growing up in a coastal province of France Yann Tiersen was exposed to the likes of Nirvana, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and Television, all due to an annual music festival in his hometown. It’s no wonder Tiersen’s music carries the same emotional weight found in the classic post-punk bands he was fortunate enough to witness at such a...
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Chaos In Tejas: Best Coast, Lemuria at Emo's East...
Photos: Metal Alliance Tour with Devil Driver, The...
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5/31: Art vs. Science, Cheap Curls (Katie from Dum...
Doors at 8 PM | $8 Adv/$10 | with Fresh Millions, Slash Future, Sphynx
In a few years time Art vs. Science has gone from just another local Sydney band to winning the 2011 ARIA Award (think Grammy’s down under) for Best Independent Release. Having toured with La Roux & Groove Armada in the UK as well as racking up a slew of chart-topping singles it’s refreshing to know that this...
5/1: Meshuggah, Baroness at Emo's East
Don’t miss it.
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4/25: Nappy Roots at Antone's
Grammy-nominated Nappy Roots have been at it for nearly 20 years and the best-selling Hip-Hop group of 2002 still carries that fire they always have, committed to only one thing: their live performance. The group’s latest record, Nappy Dot Org, hit stores in September of 2011 and while not getting the mainstream success they wanted, the album has been a buzzworthy topic throughout...
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5/17: Jesco White at Antone's
Doors at 8PM | $15 adv | with Pick Up The Snake
Nestled deep in the Appalachian Mountains Jesco White grew up idolizing his father, who the Smithsonian Institute happened to name one of the most influential mountain dancers of all time. Following in his father’s footsteps, Jesco crafted his own style of tap and clog dancing that earned him feature roles in multiple documentaries as well...
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Austin Psych Fest Set-Times Announced
The full lineup including set-times for this year’s Austin Psych Fest have been announced and can be found here. Some notables: Lotus Plaza, Ringo Deathstarr, Sleep Over, Sun Araw and Peaking Lights close out Beauty Ballroom on Friday; Entrance Band, Pink Mountaintops and Woods back-to-back-to-back on Saturday at Emo’s East; The Oh Sees, Meat Puppets and Brian Jonestown Massacre...
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4/22: Bob Log III at Antone's
Doors at 7PM | $10 | with Mr. Free and the Satellite Freakout!, LeRoi Brothers
No, that’s not a futuristic disco-version of Evil Knieval making friends with Super Baby, it’s the Delta Blues-wieldin’, motorcycle helmet-wearin’, one man band known as Bob Log III. Though the cannonball suit may just be for looks the helmet is actually wired to a telephone-turned-microphone...
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On Sale Now: MSTRKRFT & Araabmuzik at Emo's East
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Weekend Recap: Delta Spirit, Tyga, The Pharcyde
Everyone knows DELTA SPIRIT is good. But Damn, that was awesome.
THE PHARCYDE rules, as always
Rack City, Bitch: Tyga was out of control. That dude is so rad, he played his hit “Rack City” twice.
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The Pharcyde to Release Box Set, play Beauty...
As reported by Pitchfork Media, The Pharcyde will commemorate the 20th anniversary of their breakout album Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde with the release of a box set jam-packed full of multi-colored 7“‘s, previously unreleased instrumentals, a cappellas, remixes, a 120-piece puzzle and more. Watch a teaser for the box set below and snag your tickets to tomorrow night’s show...
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4/17: Mustard Plug at the Beauty Ballroom
Doors at 8PM | $12 | with Left Alone, Steady Legend
Dig up that old chain wallet and dust off those checkered Vans, Mustard Plug is playing the Beauty Ballroom next Tuesday. One of the first bands to help jettison Hopeless Records to the forefront of the ska scene in the mid 90’s, Mustard Plug have toured the world over with the likes of Less Than Jake, MXPX and The Bouncing Souls,...
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On Sale Now: The Dandy Warhols at Emo's East 5/22
All the money or the simple life honey
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5/12: Iheartcomix presents MSTRKRFT at Emo's East
The last time Jesse Keeler was in Austin him and his DFA counterpart Sebastien Grainger spraypainted their You’re a Woman, I’m A Machine portraits on the backstage wall of Emo’s outside, reuniting for an ACL aftershow that would go down as one of the most memorable (and rowdiest) performances at 603 Red River. Now Keeler is returning to Austin, this time with MSTRKRFT, to...
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4/26: Sage Francis at the Beauty Ballroom
Poetry slam champion and contemporary spoken word pioneer Sage Francis is about to ignite the Beauty Ballroom with this prolific prose and uncanny freestyling ability, get reacquainted with the East Coast emcee via our brand new Spotify widget below and pick up your tickets now.
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5/18: Yann Tiersen at Emo's East
Doors at 9PM | $18 adv/$20 | with Piano Chat
“Let’s live in an enormous world of sound we can use randomly, with no rules at all… let’s play with sound, forget all knowledge and instrumental skills, and just use instinct – the same way punk did.” Hard to imagine these words coming from a multi-instrumentalist who comes off sounding more like a classical composer, but Yann...
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New Spiritualized album streaming via NPR, plays...
On Spiritualized’s seventh album, Sweet Heart Sweet Light (out April 17), Pierce sounds more inspired than ever by his own looming mortality. This, after all, is a guy who nearly died of double-pneumonia in 2005, and who spent months mixing this new record while taking chemotherapy for degenerative liver disease. For all the brooding rock ‘n’ roll swagger of “I Am What I...
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Photos: SXSW - Diplo, Rusty Lazer at the CYP Super...
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4/21: The Sword at Emo's East
Doors at 9PM | $15 adv/$17 | with American Sharks
What do you get when you mix Black Sabbath, The Melvins, Slayer and Deep Purple? According to the band themselves: The Sword. Austin’s own doom metal/stoner rock hybrid return to Emo’s East less than a month after signing a new multi-album record deal with Razor & Tie, one of the most rapidly expanding independent labels in the...
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Photos: SXSW - Light Asylum at the Beauty Ballroom
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4/14: The Pharcyde at the Beauty Ballroom
Doors at 9 PM | $20 adv/$25 | with Zeale (full band), Phranchyze feat. Kid Slyce, DJ Notion
While gangsta rap took over the airwaves in the early 90s the Pharcyde took a willfully weird, left-field approach to hip hop that was still uniquely ‘West Coast.’ Their producer J-Swift laced their early recordings with a jazz-funk stew of everything from Quincy Jones to Whodini to Hendrix,...
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Photos: SXSW - Andrew W.K., A-Trak, Digitalism at...
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Photos: SXSW - Dum Dum Girls, Bass Drum of Death...
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7/27: Dean Wareham plays Galaxie 500 at Antone's
Doors at 6PM | $17 adv/$20 | On Sale 4/5 at 10 AM
Described as a “Johnathan Richman fronted Velvet Underground” Galaxie 500 broke out in the late 80’s as a major proponent of the then-evolving alternative rock movement. Though they broke up in ‘91 their influence carried over well throughout the next decade, with bands such as Low crediting them for helping kickstart...
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Photos: SXSW - The Spits & The Gories at L.A....
When the audience throws live fireworks on stage before the band even sets off their own, you know it’s a punk show.
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Pop-Punk craziness at Antone's
This thursday at Antone’s is a one of a kind pop punk bill of incredibleness.
The Wonder Years:
Polar Bear Club:
Also With Transit, A Loss For Words and The Story So Far. Click Here for tickets: HERE
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Foot Patrol joins All My Friends (LCD Tribute) 4/7...
The Beauty Ballroom is looking like the place to be this weekend as funk-fetish enthusiasts Foot Patrol have just been added to a “A Place To Dance” featuring All My Friends, Austin’s very own LCD Soundsystem Tribute band. Tickets are only available at the door so make sure to get there early, and ladies don’t forget those open-toed shoes - Foot Patrol will on the...
March 2012
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5/11: Lil Kim On Sale Now
When the Queen come in town everything shut down.
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Photos: SXSW - of Montreal, Deerhoof, Japandroids...
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Austin Psych Fest: Single Day Passes On Sale Now
With Three-Day Passes just about gone Single Day Passes for this year’s Psych Fest have just been released and are available for only $45. The Black Angels and Psychic Ills headline Friday, The Black Lips and Olivia Tremor Control on Saturday followed by The Brian Jonestown Massacre and Meat Puppets on Sunday, but if you’re having a hard time making up your mind you might as well snag...
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Photos: SXSW - GZA & Das Racist at the Beauty...
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Com Truise releases ode to MS-DOS, plays Beauty...
Warning: Your computer requires 25MB of RAM to run this program.
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Photos: SXSW - Theophilus London, Big K.R.I.T. at...
This past SXSW Pandora Radio transformed Antone’s nightclub into the Pandora Discovery Den, marking the personalized radio mogul’s first official presence at the festival. Though the Discovery Den featured a week’s worth of bands as diverse as the multitude of channels offered on the radio service itself, Theophilus London easily stole the show the very first night of SXSW...