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• Posted CD Capsule Reviews: Eric Metronome, The Octopus Project + Black Moth Super Rainbow to Austinist
  Octopus Project + Black Moth Super Rainbow The House of Apples and Eyeballs (Graveface) It's difficult not to swell with hometown pride when discussing the Octopus Project. They're one of the few bands in our insular, self-important music discussion circles who really backs that shit up. Innovative, experimental, catchy, interesting. These guys know what to do, and they do it--consistently. Their recent collaboration with Pittsburgh's equally unclassifiable Black Moth Super Rainbow Tincan Extraordinary Salad...
• Posted Austinist Preview: The Tah-Dahs @ The Mohawk Tonight! to Austinist
  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...
• Posted Holiday Rock N Romp Today @ Ruta Maya to Austinist
  Austin's Rock N Romp is a kid-friendly concert series featuring local musical acts and performers once a month for the benefit of the music community and the families that are a part of it. The holiday Romp is today at Ruta Maya Cafe, beginning at 4 pm and will feature the music of The Palm School Choir singing (among other things) some of their favorite Flaming Lips songs, and local indie wunderkinds AM Syndicate,...
• Posted Austinist Show Preview and Giveaway: Earl Greyhound @ the Mohawk, Thursday, Dec. 7 to Austinist
  Man, somewhere along the way we killed anthemic stadium rock, or at least ran it six feet into the ground with overexposure and under-talented hair ripoffs. But don't you wish we could resurrect Queen and T-Rex and and ask them to share (and fucking shread) an Austin stage for just one magical night of robust, raunchy riffs, reminding us rock fans what we're supposed to do and how we're supposed to do it? And...
• Posted Austinist Interviews the Octopus Project to Austinist
  The first-ever Fun Fun Fun Fest is this Friday, December 1st, at Waterloo Park. Over two dozen great acts are on the bill, including Spoon, Peaches, The Black Angels, Prefuse 73, and DJ Mel. Tickets are $20, and can be purchased online. Octopus Project perform on the Indie stage at 3:30pm. -- The Editors What's your favorite thing about playing festivals? (Or do you prefer not to play them?) Festivals are rad! We very...