Posts Tagged ‘Austin’

Official video for new single, Get To Know, by Charlie Belle, “You don’t know if you are going too fast; you don’t know if you are going to last,” Jendayi Bonds gently intones in “Under the Rug,” one of the five spare, sweet-tart pop tunes on this Austin trio’s debut EP. The chorus ideally evokes the impulsive yet hesitant forward motion of adolescence. Bond knows that subject well she’s only sixteen, and her bandmates (brother/drummer Gyasi and bassist/Rock Camp for Girls pal Zoe Czarnecki) are even younger. they’re influenced by wry indie popsters like Magnetic Fields and Bonds is more interested in wordplay than in showing off. Already beloved in the trio’s hometown of Austin Texas.

Surf Rock band from Austin Texas, sound a like Sonic Youth

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Austin based Musician and traveller Abram Shook, and this breezy summery cover from the midnight Cowboy movie,

Everybody’s Talkin’” is a folk rock song written and originally released by Fred Neil in 1966. A version of the song performed by Harry Nilsson became a global success in 1969, reaching No2 on the Billboard chart, plus winning a Grammy after it was featured on the soundtrack of the film “Midnight Cowboy“. The song, which describes the singer’s desire to retreat from other people to the ocean, is among the most famous works of both artists, and has been covered by many other notable performers.

The song was first released on Neil’s second album, 1966’s self-titled Fred Neil. It was composed towards the end of the session, after Neil had become anxious to wrap the album so he could return to his home in Miami, Florida. Manager Herb Cohen promised that if Neil wrote and recorded a final track, he could go. “Everybody’s Talkin'”, recorded in one take, was the result.

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Austin’s own Abram Shook put out the immensely pleasing “Sun Marquee” back in January, and it’s been a favourite of mine  since.  It’s a kind of breezy, relaxed pop music that’s impossible to not get lost in. Austin-based musician Abram Shook has done his fair share of wandering the world, searching for a spiritual and a literal home. From road trips through South America to surfing excursions in Indonesia, he’s been fortunate to have the opportunity to absorb more of the world’s cultures first-hand than many of us ever will. After leaving Santa Cruz, California where he grew up and studied jazz, Shook spent several years in Portland and Boston playing in numerous bands,  Turning to traveling as a means to quell his existential dread, eventually landed him in Austin, TX, where he’s been part of the city’s rich creative community for over 8 years. Though the music community in Austin is no substitute for the briny air and patient West Coast beaches he still longs for, its vitality and creativity still manage to nourish the soul.

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Abram Shook’s solo debut, “Sun Marquee” breathes with the lungs of a man that finally found a new place to call home. Propelled by Shook’s impeccable bass groove, and inspired by artists like Shuggie Otis, Serge Gainsbourge, and Chico Buarque, Sun Marquee distills lessons learned and questions unanswered into an accessible collection of pop songs.

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If you are even the slightest fan of post-punk, then you need The Dead Space’s new album “Faker” in your life.  There’s not a track on it that isn’t rad.

Am I the only person that’s about to be poleaxed by The Dead Space’s long-awaited debut album, ‘Faker’, expertly recorded by Ian Rundell. The trio of bassist/vocalist Quin Galavis, guitarist Garrett Hadden and drummer Jenny Arthur have been honing their craft in Austin, TX since high school, but after a 7” single on Hadden’s excellent Thread Pull label (Flesh Lights, Foreign Mothers), a song on the second ‘Casual Victim Pile’ compilation, the moment is long overdue for The Dead Space to put-it-all-together. And that’s exactly what they’ve done —this is a band whose blend of tension, fragility and genuine muscle —certainly in the spirit of their influences like Joy Division, Bauhaus and Swans .

the Excellent Titled band are a Australian Psych-Rock band KING GIZZARD and the WIZARD LIZARD will be coming to these shores soon playing at the Bodega in Nottingham

Shakey Graves performs a session for the wild Honey Pie Blog-site, filmed this year at the Newport Folk Festival on Rhode Island this guy is incredible, see some of our other clips

SHE SIR – ” Portese ”

Posted: June 27, 2014 in MUSIC
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Highly anticipated debut from the Austin, Texas dream Pop band titled GO GUITARS the band create their own style of shimmer pop

Stevie Ray Vaughan and his cover version of the Jimi Hendrix classic “Voodoo Chile” Stevie one of the greatest Blues/Rock Guitar player ever,

Shakey Graves stops by for some songs at KJHK radio, the Austin based Folk Blues singer songwriter plays, The Perfect Parts, Hardwired, Dearly Departed, Foot of her Bed, Where A Boy Once Stood.