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This year's Chaos In Tejas Fest provided an early summer ode to all things loud and noisy, and proved to be an exceptional kick-off to what is shaping up to be a great summer of live music. Here's a wrap-up covering highlights from the diverse strains of punk, hardcore, and indie featured this year.

Trash Talk & Propagandhi at Mohawk, photos courtesy Alison Narro and Nash Cook. For more Trash Talk, as well as Strange Boys, Thermals, Cro-Mags, the 3 a.m. show on the Lamar Bridge, and much, much more, follow the jump.

Hjertestop, Destino Final, Peligro Social, Brutal Knights, Cock Sparrer photographed by Amanda Klaus for Austinist.com.

Chaos in Tejas 5 is well underway and hopefully you were able to catch the likes of Propagandhi, Trash Talk, The Bellrays, Black Panda, Cro-Mags, Annihilation Time, and Extra Golden at The Mohawk, Beerland, and Emo’s last night (Snapshots). The punk-hardcore fest rages on all weekend and the schedule for Friday evening contains some of the best action. Of course there is The Thermals show at the 'hawk (read our interview with Kathy Foster from the band here) and there’s a countless number of ferocious bands at Emo’s and Beerland. But there’s a couple of late night extravaganzas this evening as well -- catch Japanese band AI along with Austin’s World Burns To Death at the Broken Neck after hours or head over to the Lamar Pedestrian Bridge late at night for Canadian punk band Career Suicide and a special guest.

Photos from last night's Black Panda, Broken Gold and Bellrays show courtesy Amanda Klaus.

It's official: Chaos in Tejas is upon us. The week's festivities kicked off last night at Red 7 with Ponytail, Harlem, Teenage Cool Kids and Yellow Fever. Austinist contributing photographer Pooneh Ghana was there to capture it all. Tonight we're looking forward to Trash Talk and Propogandhi at the Mohawk and much more: stay tuned for more photos from the events.

The Thermals formed in 2002 and dropped their debut More Parts Per Million the following year. The band’s vivacious pop-punk ditties garnered the attention of one Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie) and their career gained further momentum with 2004’s F*ckin' A, their first album for Sub Pop (and our personal favorite). Drummer Jordan Hudson departed soon after and as a result, Hutch Harris and Kathy Foster took it upon themselves to play all the instruments on album number three The Body, The Blood, The Machine, produced by Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty.

If it's too loud, you're from out of town.

Austinist will be bringing you unprecedented coverage of the festival each day, as well as some interviews and introductions to the bands leading up to day one. Don't miss our review of Propagandhi's latest release Supporting Caste, and stay tuned for more - including some giveaways. Heck, let's start now. Follow the jump for the festival's complete lineup and venue list, and register to win a pair of tickets to the Thermals and Shakey Hands show Friday, May 22 at Mohawk. We've already given away one three-day pass to Emo's, and we'll be doing that again very soon.

As evidenced by its title, Supporting Caste takes on consumerist complacency, self-perpetuating class struggle, and the limitations of democracy, all in the space of about 50 minutes and with enough high-speed riffing to power a hybrid car.

We are thrilled about music in Austin this May, and a big part of our excitement is thanks to the fifth installment of Chaos in Tejas, a multi-venue festival featuring the best punk and hardcore has to offer. This year's venues include Emo's, Red 7, Mohawk, Beerland, the Broken Neck and more, and the lineup is better than ever. Don't miss Propagandhi's reunion tour in support of their new release Supporting Caste, get some Amebix and Severed Heads of State action, shake to the Thermals and please (please) don't miss sets by Harvey Milk, Times New Viking and Trash Talk. Check here for the complete lineup and ticket info, but stay tuned: Austinist will be giving away tons of tickets and three day passes in May.

Now We Can See is such a transcendently perky recording that we suspect the Thermals had Japanese poet Masahide’s words ‘Barn’s burnt down- Now I can see the moon’ in mind naming and performing it. This would be especially appropriate in light of their apocalyptic last album, The Body, The Blood, The Machine, featuring one couple’s attempt to escape the clutches of a fascist Christian regime that has taken over the United States. Well, that was 2003, and it’s not just the Thermals feeling a lot more chipper these days.

Chaos In Tejas 2008 kicks off this evening at Emo’s with Roky Erickson & The Explosives headlining the outside stage. Erickson has had a storied if troublesome life -- he was an instrumental force in the psychedelic music revolution in Texas in the 60’s with the 13th Floor Elevators, he then battled mental illness and had some run-ins with the law, and in the 80’s, he apparently claimed to have been possessed by a Martian. Erickson’s career returned to some sense of normalcy in the 90’s and by 2005, he was back in the limelight, performing at the 2005 Austin City Limits Music Festival with The Explosives.