Austinist Presents: Literature, Wiretree, Milk Thistle, No Mas Bodas & Planets [Free Week Show Preview]

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Austinist Presents Free Week with Literature, Wiretree and more
Wednesday, January 4
29th St. Ballroom ()
8pm, free
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Free week rolls on tonight with our humble offering at the 29th Street Ballroom. Five local bands for the glorious price of free - should be the perfect capper to a hilarious day of reading about the fallout from the Iowa caucus.

Grimy indie-poppers Literature will headline our showcase. The band just released their debut LP, Arab Spring, which you can grab for whatever you care to pay for it on their bandcamp. The ten songs are catchy, pop-punk nuggets, distorted and besmirched by low-fidelity that would be right at home on Slumberland Records circa 1995. The album got a Twitter recommendation from Kip Berman of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, who likened the sound to an amalgam of the Buzzcocks and Exploding Hearts.

Wiretree also recently released an album. Make Up, the power-pop four-piece's third LP, has been getting rave reviews. It's open-hearted, unironic and cathartic rock 'n' roll in the mold of Big Star or Velvet Crush. The other bands on tap for tonight are Milk Thistle, who play a reverb-laden brand of psych rock limned by pop music and glam (we'll see if frontman Devin Usher is sporting glitter tonight); No Mas Bodas, four ladies playing post-punk music as unconventional as their name would suggest: pairing sax and cello, synth beats and operatic vocals with guitars and samplers to create melodic, interesting sounds; and Planets, whose debut record was named one of the year's best by the Statesman.

Literature: [myspace]
Wiretree: [blogspot]
Milk Thistle: [myspace]
No Mas Bodas: [bandcamp]
Planets: [myspace]