Austinist Preview: The Tah-Dahs @ The Mohawk Tonight!

The Tah-Dahs pound out energetic pop punk hooks reminiscent of earlier (and better) times when punk/garage rock was fun, before its soul was polished up like a turd and sold to Geffen the burbs. For cheap. This is a band that knows how to have a good time and that, well, knows how to play--in every sense of the word, live and on record. Sweaty frontman Roy Ivy, jester and genius, furiously forges through verse and chorus with tongue in cheek, while bassist Charlie Papathanasiou and drummer James Porter bounce along like puppies. These (twenty or thirty something, well-endowed) gentlemen are not afraid to take off their motherfuckin' shirts.

Fellow Metroplexers The Happy Bullets and Prayer for Animals accompany the Tah-Dahs to the Mohawk tonight in a show brought to us by the lovely Callithump Productions. Local upstarts (and quite good ones) Haunting Oboe Music round off the evening's lineup. So tune your ears to guitar, and get thee to the Mohawk. Tonight!

The Tah-Dahs [myspace]
The Happy Bullets [myspace]
Haunting Oboe Music [myspace]
Prayer For Animals [myspace]

The Tah-Dahs, The Happy Bullets, Haunting Oboe Music & Prayer for Animals
Friday, December 15
The Mohawk [map]
10 PM, $6

*photo uncredited from The Tah-Dahs's website