Weekend Music Preview: Austinist Indieroke & The Eastern Sea this Saturday @ The Mohawk!

One more weekend to go before the madness that is SXSW takes over our city. How will you spend that last Saturday night? Surely you must prep for the upcoming celebration of music, film, arts, and more by testing your own ability to stand and deliver in front of a crowd? Well, we think so, and would like to invite you to Austinist Indieroke: the pre-SXSW edition, as always at The Mohawk. We will have Indieroke shirts for the winners in the “Best Female Performance,” “Best Male Performance,” and “Best Duet or Group Performance” categories.


This 9th edition marks a special occasion in the history of Austinist Indieroke -- going forward, we’ll be getting you warmed up for your turn on the mic by allowing a band to deliver live tunes at 9 p.m; the Indieroke shenanigans will follow immediately at 9:45 p.m. Talented local outfit (and Local Music Is Sexy alumni) The Eastern Sea will do the honors for the first such combination of fun and frolic. The band turned in a typically impressive set recently at Red Eyed Fly -- check out the clip of “The Night” from that show via Roxwel. You can watch our recent interview with the band here. We’ll try our level best to convince the band members to take a turn at Indieroke as well!

So before you line up for Rachael Ray’s Feedback event or Playboy’s Rock The Rabbit 2009 party, head down to the 'hawk this Saturday and turn in your best rendition of Velvet Underground’s “Femme Fatale” or TV on the Radio’s “Dancing Choose,” just two of the new additions to our collection.

See you at 9 p.m.!

[Austinist Indieroke MySpace]
[The Eastern Sea MySpace]

Follow the jump for the rest of our recommendations and the Austinist Weekend Music Preview Slideshow.

Friday:

  • Erik Wofford & Cacophony Recorders’ DJ sets, The Great Nostalgic at Club de Ville (9 p.m.)
  • Waterloo Records DJ Night with Edmund & Andy at Red 7 (9 p.m.)
  • Cut Copy, Matt and Kim, DJ Knightlife (Outside / 7 p.m. / $19; Tickets); L.A.X. (Inside / 11 p.m. / Free with Cut Copy ticket stub) at Stubb’s
  • The Ugly Beats, Alright Tonight at Beerland (9 p.m.)
  • When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth, Woodgrain, Follow That Bird!, Air Traffic Controllers at Emo’s (Inside / 8 p.m.)

Saturday:

  • KVRX Stimulus Package Local Live Vol. 13 Album Release Party with A Faulty Chromosome, Reverse X-Rays, Pataphysics, DJ Dan Gentile at Club 1808 (9 p.m. / $5)
  • The Black 45 release, Lost Soul Review at Club de Ville (9 p.m.)
  • Pong, Golden Arm Trio presents DUKE! at Continental Club (9 p.m.)
  • New Disaster at The Parlor (9 p.m.)
  • The Flametrick Subs, Black Irish at Beerland (9 p.m.)

Sunday:

  • Austin Yellow Bike Project benefit with Oh No Oh My, Follow That Bird! , The Tastydactyls, The El Guapos, For Hours And Ours, DJ JD, DJ Sleuth at The Mohawk (4 p.m. / 21+ $5; minors $7)

Check out the Austinist Weekend Music Preview Slideshow below for details on a number of events in town this weekend.

Images from MySpace / provided by entity.

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