The Dwarves/Nashville Pussy/Jesus Christ Superfly at Emo's [Show Preview]

The Dwarves/Nashville Pussy/Jesus Christ Superfly
Wednesday, August 10
Emos (603 Red River St)
$13 advance, $15 door, 9 pm doors
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If you like your rock & roll rude, crude and socially unacceptable and have been disappointed in the last, oh, decade or so, you’ll be relieved by tonight’s Emo’s lineup. Led as always by “singer” Blag Dahlia and axe freak Hewhocannotbenamed, unrepentant social reprobates the Dwarves have been violating community standards since the mid-80s with such delicately titled messterpieces as Blood Guts & Pussy. The band hits the stage in support of The Dwarves Are Born Again (featuring naked babes and the same little person from BG&P on the cover), the band’s first LP in seven years. With titles like “Happy Birthday Suicide,” “I Masturbate Me” and, of course, “The Dwarves Are the Best Band Ever,” you know what to expect even if you’ve never heard the music. You have been warned.

Like an unholy cross betwixt Ted Nugent and the Mentors, Atlanta’s Nashville Pussy ruptures eardrums with a high-octane blend of backstreet boogie, punk rock urgency and greasy sleaze. The tireless road dogs’ cheerfully profane lyrics, leering sense of humor and, most importantly, irresistible hard rock riffage make them a fearsome force onstage and worthy companions/opponents to the Dwarves. Local punk rock power trio Jesus Christ Superfly open, and it’s worth getting to the club when the doors open in order to see one of these increasingly rare shows by Austin’s unsung rock & roll treasures. Are you ready to rawk?

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By Michael Toland in Arts & Entertainment on August 10, 2011 2:25 PM 0 Comments

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AdamSchragin

MTF,

I am the one who the fuck thought this would be a good promo blurb. You've expressed your ire that we post show reviews the day of previously, and while I was listening, I don't really agree.

"Seriously, if the Austinist is going to grow into anything, the staff is
going to need deadlines several days in advance of events they are
supposed to be 'previewing.'"

They do. We just like having most of our posts up that day, so it's pertinent to people who are deciding what to do with their evenings.

We just put up those Austinist reader surveys. I'd be curious to know what more people think about our posting schedule(s) - is it just right, or too late for most of you?

mrtexasfreedom

Ok, I know this is going to sound hugely sarcastic, and I'm sorry. But let's do the math.
A blurb just went up five minutes ago (5:00 PM) about a show at Beerland tonight at 9:00 PM. Let's look at the Austinist website traffic stats. Are the most eyeballs pointing at the site between 5:00 PM and 9:00 PM? Not so much. You're going to see the biggest crowd between 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM and then 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM. In fact, the 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM is a dead zone for website traffic.

And that's when you, Adam, have decided to post same-day show previews. Since it's a show preview, after 9:00 PM, the content is dead. Worthless. The surge of traffic that arrives the next morning will be greeted with dead content. Day after day people come to associate their visits to the austinist.com with outdated content.

You've got resources dedicated to providing very time-sensitive content for a self-imposed narrow window of relevance. Your biggest traffic numbers are receiving this content outside of that window. If you're going to limit previews to same-day, well, shit, put the motherfucker up at 8:00 AM so your morning and lunch visitors will see it. Otherwise, your unpaid writers are wasting their time contributing content.

mtf

PS- the math presented above equally applies to this Dwarves show preview that also was posted after the strongest traffic spikes of the day had subsided.

Jess_E

Couldn't agree more.

Imagine how cool it would be if there was a daily "-ist list" that recommended events for that day and linked to the articles that were put up earlier in the week for those folks who plan ahead just a little bit. .....if only

mrtexasfreedom

Who in the fuck thought this was going to be a valuable promo blurb? It got posted at 2:25 PM on the same day as the 9:00 PM event. The shelf life of this 'article' was 6.45 hours.

I would have liked to have seen that show last night. Had I read this a few days in advance, I would have known about the show and even been able to take advantage of the 'advance' ticket purchase opportunity. Now it's just dead content cluttering the site.

Seriously, if the Austinist is going to grow into anything, the staff is going to need deadlines several days in advance of events they are supposed to be 'previewing.' This just screams of not having your shit together. The article was well written. The author wasted his time and energy creating content that was only live for 6.45 hours.

mtf