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Lacking lyrics, Red Sparowes nonetheless have plenty to say. This instrumental rock band is erudite, expansive, and poised to release on their next album the culmination of their career evolution. On the eve of Fun Fun Fun Fest, our conversation with Dave Clifford (drums) and Greg Burns (bass/pedal steel) touched upon just about everything from Mao and the Sophists to the trouble with labels beginning with post-.

The 2009 Fun Fun Fun Fest is just a few months away and as always, we’ll be bringing you plenty of previews in the upcoming months, and a good amount of reviews as well once the dust settles. The fourth edition of this annual gathering of punk, hardcore, electro, hip-hop, indie-rock, and comedy will take place on November 7th and 8th at Waterloo Park and Transmission Entertainment has just revealed a few more names on this year’s line-up.

There are quite a few mentionables this week, including Dappled Cities' Granddance, produced by Jim Fairchild (of Grandaddy) and Peter Walker, and mixed by Jaquire King (Modest Mouse). Dappled Cities are an Australian indie rock band that we've grown rather fond of as of late, mostly because of "Fire, Fire Fire". Also of note this week is the latest from Ladybug Transistor and the latest Eccentric Soul compilation, The Prix Label. As usual, do...

Austin's post-drone heroes My Education have stayed very busy the last year, issuing Moody Dipper, a CD with original and remixed work courtesy friends like Teith (Trevor from Pelican) and Red Sparowes, recording their upcoming 12" release of Arvo Part's "Spiegel im Spiegel" with Dalek, and they've been diligently working on a new full-length in their home studio. This Sunday, the band will undertake a live soundtracking of F.W. Murnau's 1927 classic silent film,...

LA based Red Sparowes features members of post-metal mainstays such as Isis and Neurosis. Conjuring equally experimental, noise laden masterpieces is also Red Sparowes’ forte, and they bring the rock to Austin in support of their last release, Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun. The band’s droning, metal soundscapes will be preceded by local (multi) instrumentalists My Education. Their Spiegel im Speigel project, a two-track take on the Arvo Pärt piece from...