The headliner for the secret show at Mohawk this Saturday has been unveiled!
Here is the lineup...
MATT AND KIM
THE LEMURS
+ the contest winner of the Undiscovered Austin Artist Search Contest.
Doors are @8pm. Bring either $2 or 2 cans of food and get there early!
Live footage from Emo's of The Golden Arm Trio playing a Star Wars medley.
The Golden Arm Trio plays with Invincible Czars for a Holiday Show at Mohawk on Friday, December 19. Get your tickets at the door.
What Next?: Austinist Indieroke One Year Anniversary, December 27th at The Mohawk
It's hard to believe it has already been year since Austinist had its first karaoke party at the 'hawk last December. What started out as an evening of keeping busy during the Christmas lull, singing indie and not-so-indie classics with friends, has turned into a fairly consistent occurrence.
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
Deerhunter, TV on the Radio, Deerhoof, Juana Molina, Crystal Stilts,
White Denim, and Grizzly Bear.
Amadou & Mariam – Welcome to Mali
released December 16 on Because UK
Report Card: A
This
isn’t the type of thing that’s going to get every smirking college
student buying into the hype, with its amalgam of funk grooves, big-ass
instrumentation, and a distinct lack of lyrics you can sensibly sing
along to, but that’s not to say that every smirking college student has
impeccable taste. After all, Amadou and Mariam have been around the
block with this music thing for about thirty years, and Welcome to Mali represents not an unaware headfirst dive into West African
experimentation but rather the embodiment of a lifetime of refinement.
Think The Rolling Stones if only The Rolling Stones were still making
music anyone wanted to hear.
The Calm Blue Sea
RIYL: Caspian, Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky
Performing: December 12 @ Mohawk.
The hardest thing for a post-rock band to do is not sound like Explosions in the Sky. It’s true – ask This Will Destroy You. It’s really hard, apparently. The Calm Blue Sea doesn’t seem to have this problem though. The band just released their first LP, a self-titled six song offering produced by Erik Wofford, whose previous credits include working with My Morning Jacket, The Blacks Angels and the aforementioned Explosions. The self-titled record swells and soars, explodes then decays, following a tested post-Mogwai formula without sounding tired and too familiar.
Live, The Calm Blue Sea conveys every once of emotion their stellar debut documents. The band recently wowed a surprisingly packed Red7 audience and undoubtedly will again in December when they join The Midgetmen, Follow That Bird and The Bubbles at Mohawk. Tickets are available at the door.
CBS isn’t entirely instrumental, like some of their peers. Vocals do show up occasionally (“Literal,” “This Will Never Happen Again”) though they’re placed in the mix more for effect, just another layer in the band’s dense compositions. The same goes for xxx piano. While CBS aren’t the first and only space-rock band to use a piano, it’s from this melodic framework that The Calm Blue Sea is able to build such epic tunes, providing more dynamics and ethereal range than a few delayed and otherwise-effected guitars can.
The Calm Blue Sea is available at Waterloo Records for $9.99 or through the band at their shows.
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