Future Sounds welcomes Pistol Pistol into the Little Radio studio today for a live session and interview from 10a-12p. Tune-In!
Tune-In to Sinking Radio from 12p-2p and The Sunny and Mild Weather with Sarah and Elvira from 2p-4p and win tickets to see Devotchka at the El Rey Theatre on September 16th and Stereophonics at The Henry Fonda Theatre on September 16th. Tickets for Devotchka are also available here. Tickets for Stereophonics are available here.
Tune-In to Little Radio Friday September 12th for live in-studio sessions from:
ExitMusic on FMLY Radio from 10a-12p.
Vibe Slayer on Sinking Radio from 12p-2p
Lions of Panjshir on The Sunny and Mild Weather from 2p - 4p
Tune-In to Little Radio Friday, September 5th for Live In-Studio sessions from:
Each show will be giving away tickets today to see Tricky at The Henry Fonda Theater in Los Angeles on September 12th and The Juan Maclean at The El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles on September 13th. New CD's for both Tricky and The Juan Maclean will go to the winners! Tickets for both shows are also available here.
Monsters Are Waiting on FMLY Radio from 10a-12p PST
Adeline and The Philistines on Sinking Radio from 12p-2p PST
Dawes on The Sunny and Mild Weather with Sarah and Elvira from 2p-4p PST
Perhaps Paul ought to drive a screwdriver through his hand more often.
Not that having Westerberg out of commission for a year was a good thing, but ever since his accident, he has come roaring back with a creative vengeance. First the copyright infringin’, vying for best post-Replacements album 49:00 was dropped on us, followed closely by another independent song, “5:05″. Now, after all the fluster over those releases come the 3oclockreep EP/album(?) and another individual song, “Finally Here Once.”
3oclockreep is a similar creation to 49:00 - songs land in and on top of each other, cut one another off, veer from one style to another. It plays like bits of leftovers and the few songs that do come through, while really solid, are like the lesser songs on 49:00. The real point of interest starts a little before the halfway mark.
Firsts: Sh*te that happened before other sh*te happened.
Today: Adi’s firsts!
1st favorite song: “Uptown Girl” by Billy Joel.
Yes, it was probably Christie Brinkley who did it."
HOT OFF THE PRESS (#8) – The Bug & Kemialliset Ystävät
by Nick Courtright
It’s Wednesday, and that means it’s time for Nick Courtright’s
weekly first glance at music discovered in the last seven days, whether
it be just-released, just-leaked, or some long-lost gem that has
remained under the radar. Click here for other recent editions of HOT OFF THE PRESS, featuring acts such as
Vivian Girls, Bodies of Water, White Denim, Conor Oberst, The Walkmen,
The Music Tapes, Lackthereof, and Grizzly Bear.
The Bug – London Zoo
Released on August 12 on Ninja Tune.
London Zoo is, said as straightforwardly as possible, one of the most striking and
unmistakable albums to hit the shelves so far in 2008. The
England-based brainchild of Kevin Martin borrows from the musical
heritage of Jamaica to form heavy, lumbering, blisteringly rage-filled
music that is sure to drive off as many listeners as it attracts. But
while the scowl this album wears makes much hardcore rap look like
child’s play, the album’s polarizing effects are a sign of its
ingenuity—Martin’s sensibilities regarding darkness and repetition make
it the perfect collection of anthems for sneering and cursing as you
cut off other drivers on the highway.
This Friday night, join us for a sneak preview of a new monthly night brought to you by Lucha VaVoom and Little Radio called Cat Fight. Join us for ALL-GIRL wrestling, Ariel Acts, DJ £ady $inclair, and live music from Spider Problem.
A Look Back: Exploring the rich history of live music in Austin.
Today’s topic: Fugazi @ Liberty Lunch in 1995.
Growing up, I had a fair share of musical acts recommended to me,
primarily via two personal sources, besides the staple radio and
television suggestions. My father entrusted me with some of his finest
tapes – quite a wide variety – Black Sabbath, Kraftwerk, Simon &
Garfunkel, and The Police. My cousins’ collections turned out to be a
useful secondary supply and would lead to the hair metal mania that duly took over the Mind of Adi until the early 90s. Yes, thank them for the RATT in me. All was not lost, though – I would continue to find time for
cheese-free acts like INXS, U2, Crowded House, and Midnight Oil.
Still, there was work to be done, more musical education to be
acquired, and more live concerts to attend...all of which would change
my life.
Peoples: The cat's out of the bag. As of today, at long last, the FunFunFun Fest '08 lineup is now public in its entirety.
For the third year in a row, we've gone all out to bring you - the Transmission community - one of the nation's most unique music festivals, incorporating a broad pallet of musical styles ranging from hardcore and punk to indie rock and hiphop. After all, good music is just good music...plain and simple.
Tickets go on sale this Friday, August 22, through Front Gate Tickets. We'll also be offering student discount tickets this year as part of a statewide university campus sales drive, so Texas undergrad students, stay tuned.
For more information, check out the announcement post on The Austinist.
HOT OFF THE PRESS (#7) – Vivian Girls & The Music Tapes
by Nick Courtright
It’s
Wednesday, and that means it’s time for Nick Courtright’s weekly first
glance at music discovered in the last seven days, whether it be
just-released, just-leaked, or some long-lost gem that has remained
under the radar. Click here for other recent editions of HOT OFF THE PRESS, featuring acts such as
Bodies of Water, White Denim, Conor Oberst, The Walkmen, Lackthereof,
and Grizzly Bear.
Vivian Girls – Vivian Girls
To be released on CD September 30 by In the Red.
The
blogosphere is an odd, isolated place, and sometimes the excitement
about an album is so thick and mad and foaming at the mouth that it’s
shocking to find out the rest of the world hardly knows what’s going
on. But this seems to be the case with Vivian Girls, a band who’s been
riding the wave of Internet love and adoration these past few months,
yet—perhaps because their limited edition vinyl debut has been sold out
since practically the minute it was released—most people haven’t yet
caught the fever. All that said, Vivian Girls’ clattering, energetic
approach to punky two minute pop-rock is befitting of the web's
fawning, and surely soon enough the Brooklyn trio (all women, no less)
will be the darlings of a wider populus…even if the album as a whole
doesn’t thrill as fabulously as the first couple singles would have you
believe.
METALLICA - …AND JUSTICE FOR ALL (1988)
Elektra
Yeah, these guys are huge – nay, mega-huge – jackasses now, and have
been for several years. Metallica’s self-titled release (1991)
arguably marked the last time the band would put out a record that was
in any way decent or acceptable to their hardcore fan base. After
that, it seems like they started doing a lot more bowhunting, complaining about the Internet, and making records that sounded more like high
school book reports on heavy metal rather than examples of it.
But jump back to 1986. They’d just released Master of Puppets,
a record that brought thrash metal to the masses at long last. It was
the first thrash record to crack the Billboard Top 40. Thrash metal,
to be distinguished from glam metal: Master of Puppets represented a rude response to the glam metal popular at the
time….Poison, Motely Crue, Ratt, and other hair bands that focused on
the more aesthetic aspects of the genre rather than metal’s roots in
street life.
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