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Local Music

All local music submissions will be considered for review or mention on Austin …

Local Music is Sexy VI

On Friday night, in an effort to warm up the crowd from the main event this weekend, the Austinist (sometimes home of Big Diction's Rob "Don't Call Me Gay" Stiller hosts their sixth "Local Music Is Sexy" at the Mohawk and, if I may say so, I think this one may be the …

Red State Blues

Note: The show has been moved to La Zona Rosa

Well proud Americans, if you hadn't noticed already tomorrow is Election Day. So as with all other major events in your life, it would be unnatural to not go with a hearty hangover. That's why Do512 is throwing an …

Jaguar Love - Highways of Gold (+Show with Polysics at Emo's Tonight)

If you're in the market for a great show this Saturday night (as you should be), may I humbly recommend checking out Jaguar Love at Emo's with Polysics tonight.

Jaguar Love, who hail from Portland, just released their debut LP, Take Me To The See, on Matador Recs. The …

Frantic Clam - "Richard Cory" (local)

If you've got your finger on the local pulse, you may have noticed a band called Frantic Clam on Austin Sound this week. And if you went so far as to listen to the demos, you already know most of what I'm about to tell you about relative newcomers Frantic Clam and …

Bangers and Mash: Super Furry Animals - MWNG (2000)

[Note: Bangers and Mash is a column about Brit-pop by Big Diction's arch-nemesis, and chief Welsh corespondent, Dan Cwikla. He also writes a short column in the Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogery- chwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch Gazette. -Ed.]

It's the best album you'll ever …

Live Review: Cat Power (October 11th :: Stubb's :: Austin, Texas)

This is a press pic by Stefano Giovannini

Live shots from the show here or here.

After a not-so-fun-fun-fun-fest and a canceled show, Cat Power had some making up to do on this visit back to Austin to make good on her reschedule. I'll save you a little suspense: she …

Bangers and Mash: The La's - The La's (1990)

[Note: Bangers and Mash is a column about Brit-pop by Big Diction's arch-nemesis, Dan Cwikla -Ed.]

The only album proper ever released by the Liverpudlian quartet, at the time, The La's heralded a possible addition to the old guard of melodically endowed Britons upon …

Fredrik - Black Fur

The good people at The Kora Records sent over a new track today from a Swedish band I'd never heard of called Fredrik. My first thoughts went to a couple of shoddy chairs I bought from IKEA that, if I remember correctly, have the same name. If that indeed be the case, …

Around The Office: "We got a lot of reading done today."

Jay Crocker - Below The Ocean Over

I was listening to some wailing trumpet solos when I got the press release about Jay Crocker's new album Below The Ocean Over, so when I heard this track off it, the horn parts fit suspiciously well with the playlist I'd been listening to and enjoying on my own. …

Super XX Man - "Medication"

Okay first of all, has anyone seen this? Pitchfork's "Guide To Music"? Really? If you're like me, trying to get a grasp on over a century of great music that came before your lifetime (yeah I'm a Sousa fan) can be, at times, daunting. But that doesn't mean you need to …

List: Adorable Animals I Could Eat In One Sitting

Live Review: Shearwater (September 4th :: The Mohawk :: Austin, Texas)

Note: Unfortunately, camera issues marred our pictures from the show, so these are stock photos instead. Apologies. - Ed.

Let me just put this on the table and then back it up with some facts: Shearwater are the best "new" (to the indie-mainstream) band in the world …

Show Preview: The Donkeys

The Donkeys - Photo: Jeff Wenzel

First of all, I know I've been out of touch lately, with hardly any posts up, so let me apologize for my absence, but also suggest that you check out some of the other great sources of music we have linked to in our "Links" section off …

Jungle Rockers: Cool It Out EP

Note: This review was originally posted on Austin Sound (link), but is the original work of the author. -Ed.

If local thrift stores selling old pearl snaps along side vintage instruments wasn't enough to convince you that Austin might be a town that values a "revival" …

French Horn Rebellion - "Up All Night"

Chicago/NY duo French Horn Rebellion recently did a remix of a band we featured a little while ago, This Is Ivy League (we included the track below). But the band, which features the Brothers Perlick-Molinari, David you you might know as the producer of first MGMT EP, …

Oneida: Preteen Weaponry (Jagjaguwar)

Through a veil of snare fills and murky feedback, Preteen Weaponry stammers into existence. This umpteenth album from Oneida is meant to be listened to as one song, divided nicely into three distinct parts (or "movements" if you prefer), all recorded in the same day. …

The Los Dos Bros - "Start All Over Again"

My initial thoughts on hearing "Los Dos Bros" concerned the close and unfortunate similarity between their name and "Los Dude-Bros", which is a) hilarious, and b) my least favorite sub-demographic of white people. As such, I was thoroughly perplexed when I found out …

Bark Hide and Horn - "Treasure of the Everglades"

Bark Hide and Horn sound like the bottom of a bottle of whiskey slowly running out while the night's not quite done. Solemn trumpet solos and the occasional bell part punctuate the sparse arrangement of drums and guitars, the reserved croon of lead singer Andy Furgeson …