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SXSW Announces a Couple Hundred More Showcasing Bands for 2010 [Lots of Austin Bands in the Mix]
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Preview: Legs Against Arms EP Release [Club de Ville / Saturday]
Why We Don't Like You: Texas A&M Aggies
Pecan Street Project Gets $10.4 Million Stimulus Grant
Schieffer's Out of Gov Race
Andrew Kenny is an Austin native that most of us recognize when we hear him sing. His previous work in American Analog Set is forever cemented in the minds of indie music lovers. Though he's spent a spell in NY, performed with a wide variety of other groups since AmAnSet went on hiatus (Broken Social Scene, Ola Podrida, Album Leaf), and had a lot of time earlier in '09 devoted to reuniting AmAnSet for SXSW, he's found the time to put together a new collection of songs on Barsuk. Magnolia album is at once distinctly Kenny and surprisingly different. His unmistakable croon and trademark spaciousness is out in full force, but he's added lush instrumentation and lots more guitar on these songs. Kenny & Co are spending most of May on tour to support the record, but they'll return in June and perform at Stubb's on July 4th with Explosions in the Sky and Octopus Project. Until then, check out "Sugar" on NPR's Song of the Day.
Mind the Drift is a pummeling, thick, absolutely heart-pounding listen through and through. Really, there's not a damn thing surprising about that fact, considering the source. The duo behind this record has a long history in hardcore - Jared (Karp, Tight Bros from Way Back When, The Whip) Coady (The Murder City Devils, Dead Low Tide, Broadcast Oblivion) and Toshi Kasai (Altamont, Deaf Nephews) - have all paid serious dues in that area. Though the haunting layered vocals, the astounding drop-D guitar work and the intricate, creep-tastic noodling are all impressive, Coady's drumming is the true star of Mind the Drift. The guy is an animal. Grab this record even if you're not a fan of hardcore stuff - drummers especially - it's a perfect example of the loud revolution happening just under the indie mainstream radar.
Big Business [Official] [MySpace]
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Acid Mothers Temple: Lord of the Underground: Vishnu and the Magic Elixir (vinyl)
Aiden: Knives
ATB: Future Memories
The Belleville Outfit: Time to Stand
Better Than Ezra: Paper Empire
Big Business: Mind the Drift
The Black Dahlia Murder: Majesty
Bloc Party: Intimacy - Remixed
Book of Love: Book of Love (reissue with bonus tracks)
Book Of Love: Candy Carol (reissue with bonus tracks)
Book Of Love: Lovebubble (reissue with bonus tracks)
Book of Love: Lullaby (reissue with bonus tracks)
Bricolage: Bricolage (vinyl)
Burning Image: Fantasma
Caethua: Village of the Damned
Cage the Elephant: Ain't No Rest for the Wicked (vinyl)
Casey Driessen: Oog
Cause Co-Motion!: Because Because Because (vinyl)
Cecil Taylor: Piano Solo at Town Hall 1971
Children: Hard Times Hanging at the End of the World
The Church: Untitled #23
The Crystal Method: Divided by Night
The Datsuns: Head Stunts
Del McCoury: By Request
The Dexateens: Singlewide
The Durutti Column: Love in the Time of Recession
Eat Skull: Wild and Inside
George Jones: Walk Through This World With Me - The Complete Musicor Recordings, 1965-1971 (Part 1) (5-CD box set)
Goes Cube: Another Day Has Passed
Graham Coxon: Spinning Top
Hanne Hukkelberg: Blood from a Stone
Hans Zimmer: Angels & Demons (soundtrack)
Heaven & Hell: Devil You Know (vinyl)
The Hill Country Revue: Make a Move
The Horse's Ha: Of the Cathmawr Yards (vinyl)
Jeremy Enigk: OK Bear
Jim Dickinson: Dinosaurs Run in Circles
Jim O'Rourke: I'm Happy, And I'm Singing, And a 1, 2, 3, 4 (reissue with bonus tracks)
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts: I Love Rock N' Roll (vinyl reissue)
John Mayall: Latest Edition (reissue)
John Mayall: Moving On (reissue)
Josh Reichmann Oracle Band: Crazy Power
Juan Maclean: The Future Will Come (vinyl)
Lee Hazelwood: Movin' On (reissue)
Marcio Local: Says Don Day Don Dree Don Don
Mark Kozelek: Lost Verses Live
Maximo Park: Quicken the Heat (vinyl)
Meanderthals: Desire Lines
Meat Puppets: Sewn Together (vinyl)
Melanie Pain: My Name
Mokira: Persona (vinyl)
NOFX: Frisbee (vinyl)
Papercuts: You Can Have What You Want (vinyl)
Peter Tosh: Equal Rights/Legalize It (2-CD reissue)
Phoenix: Kitsune Tabloid
Pulp: This Is Hardcore (vinyl reissue)
Queen: Rock in Rio (dvd)
Rise Against: Rise Against (vinyl)
Roman Candle: Oh Tall Tree in the Ear
Saint Etienne: Continental (remastered with bonus tracks)
Saint Etienne: Foxbase Alpha (remastered with bonus tracks)
Salim Nourallah: Constellation
Sebastien Tellier: Reworked by Strangelets (vinyl)
SND: Atavism
Steve Earle: Townes (2-CD edition) (vinyl)
Steven Wright: I Have a Pony
Sugar Pie DeSanto: Go Go Power - The Complete Chess Singles 1961-1966
Susan Tedeschi: Just Won't Burn (vinyl reissue)
Telefon Tel Aviv: Immolate Yourself (vinyl)
Torngat: La Petite Nicole (vinyl)
Trainwreck Riders: The Perch (vinyl)
Trey Anastasio & Don Hart: Time Turns Elastic (vinyl)
Various Artists: The Complete Goldwax Singles Volume 1 1962-1966
Various Artists: Lost: Season 4 (soundtrack)
Various Artists: The Ultimate Depeche Mode Tribute
Warren Haynes: Tales of Ordinary Madness (vinyl reissue)
Ween: Chocolate and Cheese (vinyl reissue)
Weinland: Breaks in the Sun (vinyl)
Wildbirds & Peacedrums: The Snake (vinyl)
The Wooden Birds: Magnolia (vinyl)
Wooden Shjips: Contact (vinyl)
Wussy: Wussy
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It's great to get another Wooden Shjips release so soon after their 2nd full-length. Anyone who digs old-school psych should check them out.
The amazing thing about this review is that you can't even spell the name of the artist correctly. Nice job. Stick to the news.
@ athnathan: Thank you for pointing out my typo. It's been corrected.
@ davetx: The Wooden Shjips record is great. I'm also excited about the bonus tracks on the reissue of Jim O'Rourke's I'm Happy, And I'm Singing, And a 1, 2, 3, 4.