The latest news from Mohawkhttp://www.mohawkaustin.com/news<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/00/01/medium.4fvqx77h502s.jpg" /><br /><p>Wed. February 22, 2012.</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://www.transmissionentertainment.com/" target="_top">Transmission Events Presents:</a></p> <p>Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks</p> <p>Times TBD.</p> <p>Price: $17 ADV // $20 DOS</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=63805&eid=72406" target="_top">Buy Tickets Now @ http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/</a></p> <p>Already a renowned figure in American alternative music due to his involvement with the legendary band Pavement, Stephen Malkmus has gone on to have a fruitful solo career. Based in Portland, Oregan and backed by band The Jicks, Stephen Malkmus has remained a critical darling for nearly two decades, becoming a hugely respected elder figure of the American underground.</p> <p></p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/pADR7Hx9xqk" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:40:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/57131<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/15/08/medium.y01h9n34uvub.jpg" /><br /><p>Friday, January 24th, 2012.</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://www.transmissionentertainment.com/" target="_top">Transmission Events Presents:</a></p> <p>MDS Residency: HarMar Superstar + Polia + Marijuana Deathsqauds + Total Fucking Blood</p> <p>Doors: 9pm</p> <p>Ticket Price: $8 ADV // $10 DOS</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=63565&eid=72124" target="_top">Buy Tickets Now @ http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/</a></p> <p>Like a butterfly emerging from a cocoon, Har Mar Superstar returns this fall with <em>Dark Touches</em>, his first album since 2004s critically acclaimed <em>The Handler</em>. The new Har Mar retains his defiant sexiness and uncanny knack for irresistible R&B hooks, but fans his colorful wings in the spirit of inclusion. Har Mar has always represented the most out-there and outrageous and in your face aspects of me, says Sean Tillmann, the Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter and producer behind the Har Mar Superstar moniker. ve gone through phases where theres been angry Har Mar and different versions of this guy, but lately its all been this vibe that everyones included and everyones part of this thing, and you feel like you added something to it just by being there. Its about me going out and getting as sweaty as possible, moving around as much as I can, and in a sense glamour-ing everybody for the night and making them feel better about themselves.</p> <p>Tillmann spent the past several years playing music with his other projects Sean Na Na and Neon Neon, whose album <em>Stainless Style</em> was nominated for the 2008 Mercury Music Prize. But he also found time to launch a new career as an actor and screenwriter, earning roles in the upcoming feature films <em>Whip It</em> (directed by Drew Barrymore, and starring Junos Ellen Page and Arrested Developments Alia Shawkat) and <em>Lovely, Still</em>. Hes developing his own movie scripts and sitcom pilots, building on the success of his Crappy Holidays videos; in each of the comedic shorts directed by Ryan Rickett and written with John Ringhoff Tillmann suffers a different cruel twist of fate for each holiday.</p> <p>I kind of got sick of the Har Mar persona for a little while, says Tillmann. I thought it was time to go away for a little bit, so hung up the Har Mar jacket and went back in my shell and made a new Sean Na Na album and had fun doing that and toured a lot with Neon Neon, and started these film projects with my friends out here. But Tillmann kept writing tunes throughout those years, and after awhile he found himself feeling much the same way he had when he started Har Mar Superstar ten years ago. I just got sick of playing guitar music again, he says. I realized that I really missed Har Mar.</p> <p>For <em>Dark Touches</em>, Tillmann recorded with friends like Greg Kurstin of Los Angeles band the Bird and the Bee, rapper P.O.S. of the Rhymesayers collective, singer-songwriter Adam Green, the Faint beatmakers Clark Baechle and Jacob Thiele, and The Handler producer John Fields, whose credits include Andrew W.K., Rooney and the Jonas Brothers. The results soundtrack a retro-futuristic dance party, an exuberant pastiche of late Eighties R&B grooves, crisp synth samples, Tillmanns soulful falsetto part Usher, part Todd Rundgren and cheeky lyrics describing the courtship practices of the lothario known as Har Mar Superstar. I Got Next, for instance, was inspired by Tillmanns habit of asking a cute girl to sign a contract agreeing that, if she should break up with her current beau, Har Mars got next. s like, sign this contract, and Ill come back and make out with you next time, explains Tillmann, who co-wrote the track with his Neon Neon band mate, Bryan Boom Bip Hollon and Bird And The Bee singer Inara George. I have a lot of contracts signed, on napkins and things. Its a fun, flirtatious thing to do that feels naughty when youre on tour.</p> <p>Tillmann started writing <em>Dark Touches</em> a few years ago, but it took him a minute to realize that the initial ideas worked perfectly as Har Mar Superstar songs. Tall Boy (written with Kurstin) and Girls Only (written with Fields), for instance, were conceived as tunes for Britney Spears and the Cheetah Girls, respectively, but have twice the spice coming from Har Mars perspective. I realized a song like Girls Only is so much more amazing if I sing it, he says. I wrote that one for the Cheetah Girls a while ago, and I feel like Disney freaked out a bit after doing a Google search and seeing pictures of me performing in my underwear. I understand why they would pass on that. But its one of those things where I was stepping outside of myself and writing totally uninhibited for somebody else. Then, when you come back at the end of the day, you realize you wrote a Har Mar song, and theres a light bulb that goes off and youre like, Oh yeah, thats ME.</p> <p>Har Mar Superstar was born ten years ago, when Tillmann was living in Minneapolis, playing guitar-based indie rock. The Har Mar idea, he says, was a reaction to boring indie rock and how people were taking themselves way too seriously, and any aspect of playing and touring was no fun after a while, and I realized if I go to a dance party and sing an R. Kelly song on a couch, the girls are going to go fucking crazy. So I started transferring that to the stage and doing more R&B-oriented songs, and it really was a no-brainer after Id done it a few times. Like, why dont I just make this gross, why dont I just start writing songs like that? And as soon as I did, it was obvious, it was like a light bulb went off and I went on my way and got more and more aggressive, and the shows became this weird exercise in sexual tension, and I really learned how to play with that fire and make it work for me.</p> <p>By the time Tillmann had accumulated eight or nine new tunes last year, he started to embrace the idea of making the album that would become <em>Dark Touches</em>. I just kept going with it, he says, and this record was born. Embracing the various threads of his personality the humorous, the self-deprecating, the potty-mouthed, the lusty Tillmann came up with booty-shakers even more irresistible than <em>The Handler</em>s hit tune Dope, Man, a sunny funk tune about the agony and ecstasy of being a weed dealer and t Ask Dont Tell co-written with his buddies Josiah Steinbrick from the band Heavens and Matthew Compton of Cursive and Engine Down are the epitome of what Tillmann calls fun party jams with a deeper subtext or double- or triple-entendre going on in the lyrics.</p> <p>Elsewhere, hes more direct: Gangsters Want to Cuddle Me, with its lo-fi electro beat and a slinky Sly Stone-style horn loop, tells the story of a how a hoodie covered in puffy neon dinosaurs made Tillmann into the most huggable dude walking down Sunset Boulevard. And Game Night featuring a beat supplied by Minneapolis rapper P.O.S. and a whisper verse by Adam Green narrates the singers habit of inviting friends together in LA for board games and trivia. (He even hosts a popular Sunday night pub quiz at Silverlake Mexican restaurant Malo.)</p> <p>Har Mar is as much Crappy Holidays as it is an album, says Tillmann. The place that Im coming from isnt going to change, and it all really is an extension of myself. Theres not too much of a division between Har Mar and Sean at this point. I guess it sort of fulfilled the prophecy: Ive just become my own guy, and thats what Har Mar records present to people.</p> <p></p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ZSMCNLpgZ5o" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 05:55:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/57271<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/01/07/medium.anr03wm00pj7.jpg" /><br /><p>Saturday, February 25th, 2012.</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://austinfacialhairclub.com/" target="_top">Episode VI: Return of the Handle-Bar.</a></p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/media/photos/5741" target="_top">See last year's Pics Here. </a></p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/xfLiZup6PCY" width="450" height="650" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:55:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/57201<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/02/08/medium.4d6ls7l43v1v.jpg" /><br /><p>Friday, March 2nd, 2012.</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://www.transmissionentertainment.com/" target="_top">Transmission Events Presents:</a></p> <p>Fashion Freakout 5 w/ The Fleshlights + A Giant Dog + OBN III's.</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=65028&eid=73753" target="_top">Buy Tickets Now @ http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/</a></p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/PRfk1sxQbTI" width="420" height="420" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:50:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/63391<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/03/05/medium.9y31v3hkjg3s.jpg" /><br /><p>Monthly HH in 2011. 21+</p> <p>5 - 8pm. Motorcycles Unite and park them inside Mohawk! Free pool, darts, and ping pong. Captain Jim playing Classis Rock, Psych, and METAL. Free Shot of Whiskey for Riders.<br /> $1 High Life<br /> $2 Domestics<br /> $2 Wells</p> <p></p> <p> <object width="420" height="315"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9e5cqe_JE0Q?version=3&hl=en_US" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9e5cqe_JE0Q?version=3&hl=en_US" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed> </object> </p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:55:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/50701<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/11/01/medium.lldrw5053272.jpg" /><br /><p>Saturday, March 3rd, 2012.</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://www.transmissionentertainment.com/" target="_top">Transmission Events Presents:</a></p> <p>Saul Williams + TBD...</p> <p>Doors: 8pm // Show: 9pm</p> <p>Ticket Price: $13 ADV // $15 DOS</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=63393&eid=71945" target="_top">Buy Tickets Now @ http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/</a></p> <div class="panel-pane pane-content-field pane-field-long-desc"> <div class="pane-content"> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-long-desc"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <p>Never has the power of the word and the ability to dictate reality been expressed so clearly and creatively at once, than through the lyrical fervor of Saul Williamss spoken word art.</p> <p>Gifted and fiery, Williams is a former Grand Slam Champion who continually explores social consciousness with passionate emotion through his poetry. His artistry is raw and expressive, and always capable of provoking deep introspective thought in hopes of bringing about change.</p> <p>Williams brings his remarkable success to books, film, television, and music. He co-wrote and starred in <em>Slam</em>, a Sundance Film Festival and Camera dOr Cannes Film Festival winner. He has also been on HBOs <em>Def Poetry Jam</em> and is a recurring character on UPNs hit show, Girlfriends. With three albums to his credit, Williamss music provides a sonic soundscape for his already rhythmic and expansive poetry. His debut album, <em>Amethyst Rock Star</em>, earned him great critical acclaim and his September '04 self-titled release has received just as many accolades.</p> <p>As the author of four unique collections of poems, including <em>She and The Seventh Octave</em>, his voice adds value and intensity to the weight of words. His newest book, <em>The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop, gives readers a tour of the history of hip-hop</em>.</p> <p>A prolific contemporary artist, Williams is modern poetry at its best.</p> <p>"Saul Williams has proven himself a master of words, music and acting time and time again. With this album, hes expressing himself through what he refers to as 'the most powerful artistic medium. If it has the power to make a nation nod their heads then it can help society change its face.'"</p> <p>- Def Poetry Jam</p> <iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/kRsgavuG4sg" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0"></iframe></div> </div> </div> </div> </div><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:30:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/57321<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/07/04/medium.6xrjt2351m00.jpg" /><br /><p>Monday, March 5th, 2012.</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://www.transmissionentertainment.com/" target="_top">Transmission Events Presents:</a></p> <p>Leslie and the Ly's + Pennyhawk + Ramona & the Swimsuits</p> <p>Doors: 6:30pm</p> <p>Ticket Price: $10 ADV // $12 DOS</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=63824&eid=72426" target="_top">Buy Tickets Now @ http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/</a></p> <p><span class="desc">Leslie Hall initally caught the hearts & eyes of Americas children when she began posting images of her world famous gem sweater collection on the interweb. Word of mouth quickly grew and within a month Leslie recieved over 2 million unique hits to her website, which left her with a $800 bill for exceeding her bandwidth. </span></p> <p>In order to raise money to pay back her mother, Leslie did what any 200 lb. plus girl from Iowa would do. She became a rapper. Leslies star has risen quickly with such viral video music hits as GOLD PANTS, BEATDAZZLER, & ZOMBIE KILLER.</p> <p>Her stage show is like nothing you have seen before. Complete with video projection & 3-6 costume changes (all lovingly hand sewn by her mother), you can expect to be dazzled. Leslies laserbeam dance moves have been known to cause near blindness in the fans who gather at her shows. You can be sure that gay men will squeal with delight when she tumbles and triumphs never before seen dance moves. If you are lucky, it is possible that a bead of perspiration may ripple down her brow and upon your flesh.</p> <p>-recent shows include 2 sold out nights supporting the Scissor Sisters at New York Citys Bowrey Ballroom. -owns over 300 gemmed sweaters -Find out why every venue she plays, asks her back....</p> <p>Influences : Tracy Turnblad, Elvira - Mistress of the Dark, Ginger Spice Likes: Dill Pickle Potato Chips, Sierra Mist, Zombie Movies, Lifetime Television for Women, Hobby Lobby Craft Department</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/i8WoyPEVRFo" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:45:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/57331<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/14/04/medium.6hcai5z1l0t9.jpg" /><br /><p>Tuesday, March 6th, 2012.</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://www.transmissionentertainment.com/" target="_top">Transmission Events Presents:</a></p> <p>The Business + DOWNTOWN STRUTS + BLACK EYED VERMILLION + CONCRETE.</p> <p>Stay Tuned for Deets.</p> <p>Tickets: $10 ADV // $12 DOS.</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=64095&eid=72727" target="_top">Buy Tickets Now @ http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/</a></p> <p>The BUSINESS were formed towards the end of the seventies in UK with a line-up consisting of Micky Fitz-Steve Kent-Martin Smith and Nick Cunningham. Their first apperance on vinyl came in 1981 on the VU Records compilation 'Sudden Surge Of Sound' with the track 'Out in the cold'. The album also featured the UK SUBS and Laura Logic, formerly X-RAY SPEX. The Business track did not fare too well with the music press and one critic described it as "an angry bastard version of Status Quo". The group next turned up on the 'Carry On Oi!' LP which featured two songs by them. <br /> <br /> A month later they released their debut single 'Harry may' which reached the top ten in Sounds independant chart, and is now quite hard to find. The original line-up split soon after it's telease and the last track they recorded was 'Step Into christmas' for the 'Bollocks to Christmas' EP(Dec.'81). Also released in December was the '1980-81 Official Bootleg' on Syndicate Records. This mixed live and demo recordings from the first incarnation of the band.<br /> <br /> Micky Fitz wasted no time in re-forming the band with the help of Steve Whale, Mark Brennan, Graham Ball(ex-Conflict) and John Fisher(later to join Combat 84). The band only survived long enough to play one gig and Ball and Fisher left. Kev Boyce was drafted in to fill the vacant drum-stool and recorded an EP 'Smash The discos' with the band in March '82. The single spent six weeks in the indie chart peaking at number one spot by Pigbag's quarter of a million selling 'Papa's got a brand new Pigbag'. Before the release of the band's delayed first album, they appeared on two compilations in 1982. 'Total Noise' EP featured a studio version of 'Loud proud and punk' and the secret Records 'Oi Oi that's yer lot' LP inclued 'Real Enemy'. The business debut album 'Suburban Rebels' was finally released in May 1983 and reached number 37 in the national charts. <br /> <br /> The LP was produced by Micky Geggus of the COCKNEY REJECTS, but was not technically their true first album. The original first album was produced by Ron Rouman(the band's manager) but The Business were not happy with the mix, so they decided to remix themselves. However, when they went to do this they found the tapes had mysteriously disappeared. So they borrowed 2,000 from Secret and re-recorded the album. The tapes finally came to light when Secret licensed the song 'Blind Justice' to Cherry Red for use in the 'UK/DK' video and sound-track LP(released 1983).<br /> <br /> Apparently Secret had sent, by mistake the Geggus mixes instead of the Rouman LP. The original Rouman produced album finally surfaced on the 'Back to Back Vol.2' double LP on wonderful World records in 1985. The album was titled 'Smash The discos'(later re-issued on Link) and iclued covers of Crass's 'Do they owe us a living' and Sham 69 'Tell us the truth''. The band was unable to record during most of 1984 due to legal hassles with Secret and trouble with their management. However, in september they returned again with a new LP 'Loud Proud and punk- Live' and a new drummer Micky Fairbairn. The album went down well with the music press and gained a five star review in Sounds.<br /> <br /> 1985 proved to be a productive year with the new line-up releasing their first 12" 'Get Out Of My House' ; two double LP's 'Back To Back-Vol.1' and the already mentioned volume 2; and the controversial 'Drinking and driving' . The latter was released on 7" and 12", the 12" containing a cover of SHAM 69's 'Harry up Harry'. The single did not impress the public, especially Professor Brian Pritchard of Action on Drinking and driving. He was quoted in the national press as saying: "The record is absolutely criminal, the group should be prosecuted for aiding and abetting manslaughter"(!!)<br /> <br /> An album followed in December '85 entitled 'Saturday's heroes' which inclued 'Drinking and Driving' and another 'offensive' song - the title track 'Saturday's heroes'. The song was a tongue-in-cheek tribute to football hooliganism, but again was treated seriously and with contempt. Record wise, apart from songs on various compilations, The business were not heard of again until the release of 'Do a runner' in February '88(a brilliant song reminiscent of COCK SPARRER). Dojo Records kept the band's name alive prior to this by releasing a compilation LP in june '86. 'Singalongabusiness' contained singles A and B-sides, plus various odds and sods. The 12" 'Do a runner' was issued on Link records(which was formed by Business bass player Mark Brennan in '87). <br /> <br /> An LP 'Welcome to the real world' followed quickly in May '88. As well as containing original Business songs it also contained versions of songs originally written for Prole and The Blackout(bands which Business members had been previously involved in). In October '88 a four-track EP was given away with the first issue of 'Beat Of The Street' magazine. The inclued song was a live version of 'Do a runner' recorded at the Lisieux Festival in Normandy-France and which was to be the band's last ever gig.<br /> <br /> On Saturday April 2nd 1988, The Business played their final English gig at the Astoria in london. A crowd of 1500 attented and the event was recorded by Link and issued as the 'Live and Loud' LP. The band split up shortly after the aforementioned French Festival...<br /> <br /> Biography by Martin Sumper</p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5rRYD7jUPBI" width="420" height="420" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:15:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/58221<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/14/08/medium.y82b03n9eiwu.jpg" /><br /><p>InterActive + Music.</p> <p>Austin, Texas Presents:</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://sxsw.com/music" target="_top">SXSW InterActive & Music Festival.</a></p> <p>Wanted: All Deets TBA.</p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Mn6qOtROWIE" width="420" height="420" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:05:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/63401<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/00/09/medium.5hf6x7sf4u67.jpg" /><br /><p>Saturday, March 31st, 2012.</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://www.transmissionentertainment.com/" target="_top">Mind of Adi Presents:</a></p> <p>Doors @ 8 // Show @ 9</p> <p>Akina Adderley & The Vintage Playboys + Nakia + Hard Proof Afrobeat</p> <p>Akina / Nakia Soul Shakedown featuring:<br />Akina Adderley & The Vintage Playboys / http://aavpmusic.com<br />Nakia / http://www.nakia.net/<br />Hard Proof Afrobeat / https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hard-Proof-Afrobeat/52118866030</p> <p>Akina Adderley & The Vintage Playboys is an Austin soul band whose unique sound blends elements of rock, funk, and old-school R&B. Front woman, vocalist, songwriter and band leader Akina Adderley lights up the stage as 'the little woman with the big voice.' Her powerful presence is irresistible, and KUT 90.5FM declared her "phenomenal vocals call to mind the sounds of classic soul and R&B." Granddaughter of jazz trumpeter Nat Adderley, grandniece of jazz saxophonist "Cannonball" Adderley, and daughter of Nat Adderley, Jr. (producer/pianist/band leader for Luther Vandross), Akina brings a distinguished musical pedigree to the Vintage Playboys, who are a tight group of players from an eclectic musical background. The Austin American Statesman calls AAVP a dynamite nine-piece driven by [Akina's] rich, emotive pipes. They have shared bills with such acts as Budos Band, Big Sams Funky Nation, The Scabs, and Carolyn Wonderland. On the heels of an Austin Chronicle cover and subsequent performance at the Chronicle's "Paper Cuts" concert series, tremendously well-received showcases at SXSW '09, '10, and '11, tapings for Radio Without Borders on KUT 90.5 FM, News 8 Austin's Summer Rooftop Series, and Balcony TV Austin, an auspicious debut album release, and road shows from Memphis to Los Angeles, AAVP's fan base continues to grow and excitement surrounding their live performances is steadily increasing. AAVPs eponymous debut full-length recordwhich the Austin Chronicle described as having "laid out [Akina's] dark, rich vocal chops over the Vintage Playboys brassy punch"was released on March 28, 2009. The album is available on iTunes and CD Baby, as well as at area record stores. Their sophomore album is scheduled for a spring 2012 release.</p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/sgg1T_qPoKc" width="420" height="420" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:25:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/63421<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/13/06/medium.h0807o4p7q4j.jpg" /><br /><p>Saturday, March 31st, 2012.</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://www.transmissionentertainment.com/" target="_top">Transmission Events Presents:</a></p> <p>Bomb the Music Industry! + Laura Stevenson and The Cans + Ghostknife + Shit Creek</p> <p>Doors: 9pm // Show: 10pm</p> <p>Ticket Price: $10 // $12 minors</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=65413&eid=74169%20target=">Buy Tickets Now @ http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/</a></p> <p>Bomb the Music Industry! (commonly abbreviated as BtMI!) is a musical collective originally from Baldwin, Nassau County, New York. They write, produce, record, and distribute all of their music under the leadership of songwriter and producer Jeff Rosenstock.<br /> <br /> They are known for their DIY punk ethic, embodied in such actions such as distributing six albums worth of their own material for free on their website, and offering free stencils and paint for fans to create their own T-shirts. They also offer their fans a chance to perform on stage if they learn a song and bring their instrument to the show. <br /> <br /> Rosenstock and several other contributors were previously members of The Arrogant Sons of Bitches. As that band was breaking up, Rosenstock recorded the first BtMI! song, "Sweet Home Cananada," using his PowerBook's built-in microphone. "I wrote that song and put it out to see if anybody wanted it. That was how it started, people showed interest and I like recording stuff."</p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5mq2A5LgQvc" width="420" height="420" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:35:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/63431<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/06/02/medium.7lu3ckolkrg4.jpg" /><br /><p>Sunday, April 8th, 2012.</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://www.transmissionentertainment.com/" target="_top">Transmission Events Presents:</a></p> <p>PONTIAK</p> <p>Doors: 9pm // Show: 10pm</p> <p>Ticket Price: $8</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=65408&eid=74164" target="_top">Buy Tickets Now @ http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/</a></p> <p></p> <div id="player-bio"> <div class="bio"> <p><a href="http://mog.com/artists/mn316029/pontiak">Pontiak</a>'s neo-psychedelic rock is created by three brothers from the Blue Ridge area of Virginia -- Van (lead vocals, guitar), Jennings (bass, organ, vocals), and Lain Carney (drums, vocals) -- who were separately involved with numerous bands in the U.S. and Europe before reconvening in Baltimore in 2005. Once together, they quickly established common musical ground and began honing a multifaceted sound steeped in '60s psych and acid rock, '70s prog and proto-metal, and '90s stoner and indie rock, with likeminded outfits such as Dead Meadow and Black Mountain providing a few contemporary comparisons. Returning in due time to their isolated Virginia birthplace, the brothers recorded both 2005's White Buffalo EP and 2006's Valley of Cats LP in their home studio. Both albums were subsequently released on the band's own label, Fireproof Records.</p> <p><a href="http://mog.com/artists/mn316029/pontiak">Pontiak</a> supported their albums by touring the country, taking advantage of the nightly on-stage jam sessions to write, road-test, and perfect a noticeably heavier batch of new songs. Such new material would help them attain a deal with Thrill Jockey Records, which issued the trio's second album, Sun on Sun, in September 2007. Widespread critical acclaim ensued, and on the first day of 2008, <a href="http://mog.com/artists/mn316029/pontiak">Pontiak</a> began making waves again, having released a split EP of John Cale covers (simply entitled Kale) with labelmates and future touring partners Arbouretum. In 2009, the band hit a creative groove, and recorded the full-lengths Maker and Sea Voids, followed by a steady succession of albums: 2010s Living, 2011's Comercrudos, and 2012's Echo Ono.</p> <p>~ Eduardo Rivadavia, Rovi</p> </div> </div> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/_jZNI4pHtZk" width="420" height="420" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:10:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/63461<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/05/13/medium.1ulf5t385e56.jpg" /><br /><p>Monday, April 9th, 2012.</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://www.transmissionentertainment.com/" target="_top">Transmission Events Presents:</a></p> <p>Andrew Jackson Jihad + The Menzingers + Cheap Girls + Joyce Manor + Treasure Fleet + The Sidekicks</p> <p>Doors: 6pm // Show: 7pm</p> <p>Ticket Price: $10 // $12</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=65409&eid=74165" target="_top">Buy Tickets Now @ http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/</a></p> <p><strong>Andrew Jackson Jihad</strong> is an American folk/punk/rock group from Phoenix, Arizona, formed in 2004. They have been classified as everything from indie rock to anti-folk to Americana.<br /> <br /> Andrew Jackson Jihad was formed after its original drummer, Justin James White, approached Sean Bonnette and Ben Gallaty, who had just left Rodan (not the Rodan of Kentucky fame) and The Sub-Standards. Since then, many significant Arizona musicians have sat in with the remaining duo of Sean and Ben, including John De La Cruz of Fatigo and Asleep In The Seas Owen Evans. Dylan Cook also plays mandolin regularly with the band.<br /> <br /> According to <a href="http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=21821" rel="nofollow">Songfacts</a>, Bonnette, who is also the lyricist of the band (with upright bass player Ben Gallant handling most of the production and some vocals as well) volunteered at a suicide prevention hotline for teenagers for eight years, and worked with homeless men and women in the Phoenix, Arizona area. These experiences gave him a sometimes bleak, but at moments, hopeful outlook on life, often reflected in the bands lyrics.<br /> <br /> On Halloween 2005, Andrew Jackson Jihad covered <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Neutral+Milk+Hotel">Neutral Milk Hotel</a>s <em>In the Aeroplane Over the Sea</em> album in its entirety at CounterCulture Cafe.<br /> <br /> Their biggest performance to date has been in their hometown with <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Flogging+Molly">Flogging Molly</a> and <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Authority+Zero">Authority Zero</a> on St. Patricks Day 2006.<br /> <br /> On April 15, 2006, the band played as part of the 2006 New Times Music Showcase, nominated for Best Americana Band, and won a 2006 Best of Phoenix later that year.<br /> <br /> Besides their local shows, where they have become arguably the most prominent representative in Arizona of the DIY ethic, they have also toured in clubs and basements across the Western United States, appearing at such venues as the Knitting Factory in Los Angeles, CA. One show in Kimberly, Idaho saw the band in a cowboy bar and leaving the premises as soon as possible after the show.<br /> <br /> Andrew Jackson Jihad also performed at St. Augustine, Floridas second annual Harvest of Hope Festival in 2010. They played a dual set with Bomb the Music Industry!</p> <p></p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/s017CY0YmAo" width="420" height="420" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:20:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/63481<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/15/05/medium.de8qw6e33vo9.jpg" /><br /><p>Wednesday, April 10th, 2012.</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://www.transmissionentertainment.com/" target="_top">Transmission Events Presents:</a></p> <p>HOLD STEADY</p> <p>Doors: 6:30pm // Show: 7:30pm</p> <p>Ticket Price: $16 // $18</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=65410&eid=74166" target="_top">Buy Tickets Now @ http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/</a></p> <p>Resisting the musical trends in New York City, vocalist/guitarist Craig Finn (ex-Lifter Puller) formed the Hold Steady after moving from Minneapolis in 2000. Wanting to capture the sound of bands such as the Replacements and the Grifters, he recruited guitarist Tad Kubler (also ex-Lifter Puller), drummer Judd Counsell, and bassist Galen Polivka. Recording mostly live, the band released its debut, Almost Killed Me, on Frenchkiss Records in March 2004. Dave Gardener (Rocket from the Crypt, Drive Like Jehu) and Dean Botulonis signed on to produce Separation Sunday, which arrived in 2005. The World/Inferno Friendship Society's Franz Nicolay (keyboards) and Bobby Drake (drums), formerly of End Transmission and Arm, were also added to the Hold Steady lineup. The band's third effort, 2006's Boys and Girls in America, marked its first release for Vagrant. After writing the majority of their fourth record on the road, the Hold Steady returned to John Agnello's Water Music studio to record Stay Positive, their most heavily produced effort. In July of 2008, the album was released by both Vagrant and Rough Trade. In 2010 the band announced the departure of Franz Nicolay. Later that same year they released their fifth album, Heaven Is Whenever. Kenyon Hopkin, Rovi</p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/UOFeaedv3Uc" width="420" height="420" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:35:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/63491<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/04/09/medium.159nuyzj71r8.jpg" /><br /><p>We do a few things well.</p> <p></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:15:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/22671<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/12/15/medium.wa3202fk07g9.jpg" /><br /><p>Tuesday, April 10th, 2012.</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://www.transmissionentertainment.com/" target="_top">Transmission Events Presents:</a></p> <p>Megafaun w/ Field Report</p> <p>Doors: 9pm // Show: 10pm</p> <p>Ticket Price: $10 ADV // $12 DOS</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=64092&eid=72725" target="_top">Buy Tickets Now @ http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/</a></p> <p><span class="desc">Based in Durham, North Carolina, Megafaun was built by brothers Brad and Phil Cook and fellow Eau Claire, Wisconsin native Joe Westerlund. The trio, plus longtime friend Justin Vernon (a.k.a. Bon Iver), made the cross country move together from WI to NC as the band DeYarmond Edison, ultimately splitting in 2006. Megafaun was born from those ashes and proceeded to record the remarkable album Bury the Square in 2007. The band found a home on the road, collaborating with friends (they also joined Akron/Family and Dreyblatt as backing band) and developing an American musical language that is exquisitely translated by 2009's Gather, Form & Fly. </span></p> <p>Brad, Phil, and Joe have been playing in bands together since 1997, after meeting at jazz camp in Wisconsin as teenagers. With the end of DeYarmond Edison, a paradigm-shift was imminent." Brad and I left our primary instruments behind and picked up secondary ones. We booked a seven day tour without having written any songs," said Phil, revealing the seeds of the improvisational spirit that both Megafaun and their fans now cherish and exalt. "We've become song writers collectively and individually through the birth of this band," added Joe, "and Gather, Form & Fly marks a huge growth and change in our thinking about time and song form."</p> <p>Gather, Form & Fly rings out in its honesty to its makers and, thus, to its listeners --- both on wax and on stage. Phil, Brad, and Joe move with awareness of their every move, acknowledging in near-unison that this album shares Bury the Square's broad stylistic and emotional palettes --- group percussion, cacophony, drone, and folky narration will not disappoint --- but also reveals sounds and words that have been, somewhat silently, with them all along. There are the moments, present in every song, that will turn heads toward speakers, turn eyes toward the sky, and turn all notions of music on their sides, if just for one shimmering and genuine moment. And then, almost anywhere this Summer, you can go see Megafaun live... and hear it all again, for the first time. - jambase</p> <p></p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ZU58KvlJMtA" width="420" height="420" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:20:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/58421<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/03/01/medium.83q9irr117qb.jpg" /><br /><p>Wednesday, April 11th, 2012.</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://www.transmissionentertainment.com/" target="_top">Transmission Events Presents:</a></p> <p>Keep Shelly in Athens w/ Jonquil</p> <p>Doors: 9PM // Show: 10PM</p> <p>Ticket Price: $12</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=63040&eid=71570" target="_top">Buy Tickets Now @ http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/</a></p> <p>As enigmatic as they are talented, Keep Shelley in Athens is a Greek based duo signed to Forest Family Records. Fearing the trend of bands coasting more on their own hype than their actual talent, KSiA keep their cards close to their chest, focusing on their music, not their image. If their sold-out 2010 EP is any indication, its a more than fair trade-off.<br /> <br /> The vocals, at times hopeful and haunting, provide a coherence to the music. Its all too easy to hear the descriptor and write a band off as an aimless assembly line creation from the mope factory, spiraling unchecked well beyond the 14 minute mark. But unlike some of their atmospheric contemporaries, KSiAs songs are as tightly constructed as anything you might hear on the radio, never pushing the run time to the point of self-indulgence. In our opinion they can be as mysterious as theyd like so long as they keep producing this captivating sound. Fans clamoring for a KSiA record to have and to hold can pre-order their February release through Transparent Records.</p> <p class="rt-br">http://myspoonful.com/keep-shelly-in-athens</p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/DmgzngwjLlw" width="420" height="420" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:30:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/58431<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/06/06/medium.t20xygen06k6.jpg" /><br /><p>Wednesday, April 11th, 2012.</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://www.transmissionentertainment.com/%20target=">Transmission Events Presents:</a></p> <p>Real Estate w/ The Twerps</p> <p>Doors: 6:30pm // Show: 7:30pm</p> <p>Ticket Price: $13 ADV // $15 DOS</p> <p><a class="ilnk" target="_top">Buy Tickets Now @ http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/</a></p> <p><strong>Real Estate</strong> is a band from Ridgewood, New Jersey, United States, now based in Brooklyn, N.Y. The band has roots in the Garden State and they're led by singer/guitarist Martin Courtney and feature guitarist Matthew Mondanile (the latter known to some for his work in Ducktails, Predator Vision, and The Parasails) as well as Alex Bleeker on bass and Etienne Duguay (also of Predator Vision) on the drums.</p> <p></p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/4HWcViTXdYc" width="420" height="420" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:50:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/63441<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/04/00/medium.4c3ykn34qv58.jpg" /><br /><p>THURSDAY, APRIL 12th, 2012.</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://www.transmissionentertainment.com/" target="_top">Transmission Events Presents:</a></p> <p>TERRY MALTS</p> <p>Doors: 9pm // Show: 10pm</p> <p>Ticket Price: $8</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=65411&eid=74167" target="_top">Buy Tickets Now @ http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/</a></p> <p>San Francisco, California trio Terry Malts began in late 2009 when three members of Smiths-worshiping indie pop quintet Magic Bullets conceived the band as a less sensitive side project. Guitarist/vocalist Corey Cunningham, bassist/lead vocalist Phil Benson and drummer/vocalist Nathan Sweatt, eventually opted to concentrate on Terry Malts full time and Magic Bullets disbanded. Perhaps ashamed of their derivative past, Terry Malts made deliberate efforts to obscure their origins from the press at first, making no mention of Magic Bullets in any statements. Self-classified as "chainsaw pop," the group follows in lines drawn by both classic fuzz-pop institutions like the Ramones and Jesus and Mary Chain, pop-punk roots like the Descendents and Hsker D, and the reverb-coated stable of late-2000s Slumberland Records bedroom pop. The band's first recorded outing was a six-song cassette on Loglady Records in 2010, followed the next year by two 7" singles on Slumberland. In the following years, the band played sporadic gigs in the Bay Area and did several beer-soaked tours up and down the West Coast. Their first full-length album, Killing Time, was released in 2012.</p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/u82DdWZP3fk" width="420" height="420" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:05:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/63531<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/00/12/medium.8j9915bf8qpe.jpg" /><br /><p>Friday, April 13th, 2012.</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://www.transmissionentertainment.com/" target="_top">Transmission Events Presents:</a></p> <p>School of Seven Bells + Exitmusic</p> <p>Doors: 8pm // Show: 9pm</p> <p>Ticket Price: $10 ADV // $12 DOS</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=64012&eid=72634" target="_top">Buy Tickets Now @ http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/</a></p> <div id="description"> <div class="article_c1"> <p>Like many bands before them, School of Seven Bells were born as the result of a late-night revelation. Benjamin Curtis connected with sisters Alejandra and Claudia Deheza in 2004 while their bandsSecret Machines and on!air!library!, respectivelywere on tour. While watching PBS at 3am, Alejandra caught a show about the School of Seven Bells: a mythical South American pickpocket academy that may or may not have existed in the 80s. The idea of seven minds working as one appealed to her, as did the phrases cryptic musicality, and a creative spark ignited.</p> <p>By the end of 2006, Curtis and the Deheza sisters had completely disappeared into School of Seven Bells. From the outset, it was clear that the trios music transcended the usual genre restrictions. Early recordings popped up on Sonic Cathedral, Table of Elements, and Suicide Squeeze, then Blonde Redhead</p> </div> <div class="article_c2"> <p>tapped School of Seven Bells for a tour. Remixes came from Cocteau Twins Robin Guthrie and Prefuse 73, whose Class of 73 Bells, a re-imagining of SVIIBs ended up on his 2007 album Preparations (Warp).</p> <p>School of Seven Bells music is full of tensions gentle guitars wrap around jagged beats; silky vocals hide behind grumpy, alien synthesizersbut the resulting songs are effortlessly cohesive, and insidiously catchy. Elements of dream-pop, Afrobeat, IDM, and 4ADs gauzier moments provide a constantly shifting frame for the Dehezas lyrics, which they write as mysterious missives between the Schools imaginary seven members. On their Ghostly debut, Alpinisms, we get the impression that the three seasoned musicians have taken up full-time residence in a dizzying fantasy world; they move freely within the realm of pickpockets and dreamers, composing a soundtrack according to their own odd, beautiful logic.</p> </div> </div> <p>http://ghostly.com/artists/school-of-seven-bells</p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1An2pjS4mKE" width="420" height="420" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:40:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/58441<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/04/13/medium.h34h8660166d.jpg" /><br /><p>Saturday, April 14th, 2012.</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://www.transmissionentertainment.com/" target="_top">Transmission Events Presents:</a></p> <p>Cursive w/ Cymbals Eat Guitars + Conduit</p> <p>Doors: 8pm // Show: 9pm</p> <p>Ticket Price: $12 ADV // $14 DOS</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=63562&eid=72122" target="_top">Buy Tickets Now @ http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/</a></p> <p>Cursive is an <a class="bbcode_tag" href="http://www.last.fm/tag/indie%20rock" rel="tag">indie rock</a> band from Omaha, Nebraska, United States. The band records for the label Saddle Creek Records and, along with <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Bright+Eyes">Bright Eyes</a>, is one of its flagship artists. The band was formed in 1995 by <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Tim+Kasher">Tim Kasher</a>, Matt Maginn, Steve Pedersen (all formerly of <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Slowdown+Virginia">Slowdown Virginia</a>), and drummer Clint Schnase. In 1997, they released <a class="bbcode_album" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Cursive/Such+Blinding+Stars+for+Starving+Eyes" title="Cursive - Such Blinding Stars for Starving Eyes">Such Blinding Stars for Starving Eyes</a>. After a few years of touring the band broke up in 1998. They posthumously released <a class="bbcode_album" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Cursive/The+Storms+of+Early+Summer%3A+Semantics+of+Song" title="Cursive - The Storms of Early Summer: Semantics of Song">The Storms of Early Summer: Semantics of Song</a> in the fall of that year. A year later in the summer of 1999 the band reformed. Pedersen had started law school so Ted Stevens (formerly of <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Lullaby+for+the+Working+Class">Lullaby for the Working Class</a>) stepped in and joined the band. In 2000, their album, <a class="bbcode_album" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Cursive/Domestica" title="Cursive - Domestica">Domestica</a>, a concept album written like a one-act play documenting the lies, hate and deceit associated with a divorce, gained them much attention from fans and critics alike and they toured with <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/At+the+Drive-In">At the Drive-In</a>.<br /> <br /> Cursive added Gretta Cohn in 2001 on cello. The strings added complimentary sounds to that summers <a class="bbcode_album" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Cursive/Burst+and+Bloom" title="Cursive - Burst and Bloom">Burst and Bloom</a>. In 2002, the band toured on the Take Action! Tour.<br /> <br /> Saddle Creek Records released <a class="bbcode_album" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Cursive/The+Ugly+Organ" title="Cursive - The Ugly Organ">The Ugly Organ</a> in 2003, a series of internal monologues that reflects insecurities and self-doubt amidst the turmoil of life on an ever-turning emotional carousel. The music magazine, Rolling Stone, gave the album a 4-star rating, while alternative music magazine Alternative Press rated the album a perfect 5 out of 5. In 2004 <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Cure">The Cure</a> selected Cursive to tour with them on their Curiosa tour. Afterwards the band went on hiatus with no specified return date.<br /> <br /> The label put out a compilation album of unreleased songs and B-sides, The Difference Between Houses and Homes on August 9, 2005. In mid-2005 Gretta left the band to pursue other musical opportunities. Instead of replacing her, the band remained a four-piece.<br /> <br /> After Cursives hiatus, Saddle Creek announced that Kasher had temporarily stopped his work on his side project, <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Good+Life">The Good Life</a>, to start recording an album with Cursive. The new album, <a class="bbcode_album" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Cursive/Happy+Hollow" title="Cursive - Happy Hollow">Happy Hollow</a> (named for an area of Omaha around Happy Hollow Boulevard, running parallel to Saddle Creek Road, and, perhaps, a comment on midwestern city life), was released August 22, 2006. Its first single was Dorothy At Forty, released on July 11th, 2006. With this album Kasher turned his focus away from self-reflective lyrics to concentrate on what he thought were bad politics, empty suburban lives, and religious hypocrisy. Music Magazines Spin, URB, Time Out New York and Blender gave the record a 4 star rating, and Rolling Stone, gave the album a 3.5-star rating, while alternative music magazine Alternative Press rated the album a perfect 5 out of 5 saying Cursive havent just redefined their soundve transcended it. Happy Hollow features a five-piece horn section, a concept first introduced on the songs Art is Hard and Gentleman Caller on The Ugly Organ<br /> <br /> The October following the release, the band revealed plans to bring audience participation to its catalog, offering fans a chance to remix its song Bad Sects through a competition on the website. The finalist is scheduled to appear as a B-side on an upcoming Cursive single. Cursive released their latest album, Mama, Im Swollen, on March 10th, 2009.</p> <p>http://www.last.fm/music/Cursive/+wiki</p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ZgJfr-195xk" width="420" height="420" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:50:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/58461<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/06/08/medium.32498l77j3f8.jpg" /><br /><p>Tuesday, April 17th, 2012.</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://www.transmissionentertainment.com/" target="_top">Transmission Events Presents:</a></p> <p>Chairlift w/ Nite Jewel</p> <p>Doors: 6:30pm // Show: 7:30pm</p> <p>Ticket Price: $10 ADV //$12 DOS</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=63825&eid=72428" target="_top">Buy Tickets Now @ http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/</a></p> <p>Chairlift, a multi-instrumental three-piece, currently hailing from Brooklyn, New York, play a thoughtful, dream-filled pop music, combining the timelessness of unforgettable melody with spare and sophisticated production, a meta-psychedelic worldview, and a classical avant-garde sensibility resolutely and merrily embracing the future.</p> <p>Chairlift is: Aaron Pfenning, an experimental minimalist guitar player, who creates the delicate haunting quality of Chairlift; Caroline Polachek, a Connecticut-born singer whose vocals shape-shift from the ethereal to the earthy to the evanescent, depending on the particular needs or lines of a song; and Patrick Wimberly, a Nashville native whose decision to study jazz and orchestral arrangements at university first brought him into the radius of the band.</p> <p>The group's genesis lies back at the University of Colorado, where, in early 2006, fellow students Aaron and Caroline met in an economics class, quickly developing a friendship and musical simpatico that led to the creation of a nascent version of Chairlift. Aaron claims he pulled the band's name from a list of potential monikers compiled by Caroline and stored in a document file on her home computer.</p> <p>According to Caroline, the young Chairlift played a variety of small local venues in a concerted effort to generate interest in a new music scene in a Colorado festooned with myriad jam bands but precious few neo-popsters on the edge. In June 2006, as one of the local groups booked for the 2nd Annual Lady Ava Pop Festival, sponsored by a Boulder-based indie label, Chairlift was praised in the local press as a "dreamy electro-folk band."</p> <p>University of Colorado music student Patrick Wimberly, whose tastes ran to Miles Davis, Albert Ayler and Hank Williams, had his mind split open at an early Chairlift performance and vowed to himself that he would one day join this band whose music had already begun to seep into his metabolism.</p> <p>In April 2006, Aaron and Caroline -- working with Chairlift's pre-Patrick bassist -- recorded the initial tracks for the band's self-released "Daylight Savings" EP at New Monkey Studio in Los Angeles before laying down stakes in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in August of that year. A fortuitous re-meeting with Patrick in Brooklyn coincided with a bass vacancy in the band and Patrick Wimberly became an official Chairlift member in early 2007.</p> <p>Like Caroline's films, Chairlift is expansive and cinematic, its name evoking an ever-changing vantage point rising (or falling) above the ground. When it came time to write and record the songs for "Does You Inspire You," the band's debut album, the members of Chairlift drew on a vast array of pop influences, finding echoes of country-western ("stiff boots and rawhide") pathos in "Don't Give A Damn," a swaying emo-samba in "Make Your Mind Up," and an ironically sunny evocation of love's turmoils in "Bruises," (which was ironic soundtrack for a 2008 iPod Nano campaign).</p> <p>Chairlift has been busy during the group's first two years in New York City, releasing the indie single, "Evident Utensil," with a remix by MGMT, in 2007; recording and releasing "Does You Inspire You" in September 2008; and establishing a reputation as a genre-busting live band with a series of unforgettable live concerts.</p> <p>The initial success of "Does You Inspire You," released on the Brooklyn-based indie Kanine label in September 2008, led to the signing of Chairlift to Columbia Records. For the group's major label debut, Chairlift remixed and mastered "Does You Inspire You" and included two new tracks -- "Dixie Gypsy" and "Le Flying Saucer Hat" -- originally intended for the debut.</p> <p>"We have the opportunity to add more material that really should've been on there in the first place," said Caroline to NME.com. "So we get to add two new tracks to it, which we're really excited about. Those tracks were really a part of the batch for 'Does You Inspire You' but we didn't have the chance to finish them. Now the complete era will be documented."</p> <p>Already receiving rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic -- "utterly magical" (guardian.co.uk) and "earns the rare distinction of holding the songs to back up the buzz" (The Nashville Tennessean, February 24, 2009) -- the era of Chairlift has only just begun.</p> <p>http://myplay.com/artists/chairlift/bio</p> <p></p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/mvqakws0CeU" width="420" height="420" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:00:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/58471<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/09/01/medium.54ee7rude6hk.jpg" /><br /><p>Wednesday, April 18th, 2012.</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://www.transmissionentertainment.com/" target="_top">Transmission Events Presents:</a></p> <p>Hunx and His Punx w/ Natural Child</p> <p>Doors: 9pm // Show: 10pm</p> <p>Ticket Price: $8 // $10</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=64841&eid=73551" target="_top">Buy Tickets Now @ http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/</a></p> <div id="wiki">A visual cross between the leather bondage movie and the raunchy retro-fuelled imagery of early John Waters movies like Desperate Living, San Franciscos queer <a href="http://www.myspace.com/hunxsolo" rel="nofollow">Hunx and his Punx</a> (one of whom is Seth Bogart of former <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Gravy+Train%21%21%21%21">Gravy Train!!!!</a>) have injected humor, imagination and fun into their prodigious multimedia output, which includes records and videos.<br /> <br /> Hunxs bouncy pop sound is equally cool, melding 60s-based bubblegum pop sensibilities with DIY <a class="bbcode_tag" href="http://www.last.fm/tag/garage" rel="tag">garage</a> prowess for a sticky-sweet aural assault. Starting with his Good Kisser single on Austrias <a href="http://www.bachelorrecords.com/" rel="nofollow">Bachelor Records</a>, Hunx has moved forward with lightning speed and now has three other singles in the offing. Often compared to Arizonas <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Nobunny">Nobunny</a>, who co-wrote songs for <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Hunx+And+His+Punx">Hunx And His Punx</a>. <br /> <br /> In January 2010, <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Hunx+And+His+Punx">Hunx And His Punx</a> began a tour featuring an all-girl backing band. The new line-up has been identified on the tour and in new songs such as Lovers Lane as <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Hunx+and+his+Punx/blog.mtvmusic.com/tag/hunx-and-his-punkettes/">Hunx and His Punkettes</a>.<br /> <br /> A release on Atlantas <a href="http://www.robshouserecords.com/" rel="nofollow">Robs House Records</a> is already sold out of two separate pressings. Also on the roster are a single from San Franciscos Bubbledumb Records (which released the original issue of the <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Nobunny">Nobunny</a> LP) and one on Jay Reatards revived <a href="http://www.myspace.com/shatteredrecords" rel="nofollow">Shattered Records</a>.</div> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/iyv4bPwUJws" width="420" height="420" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:15:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/63541<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/14/09/medium.kc122gu37t79.jpg" /><br /><p>Thursday, April 19th, 2012.</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=64074&eid=72701" target="_top">Transmission Events Presents:</a></p> <p>Melvins w/ Unsane</p> <p>Doors: 7pm // Show: 8pm</p> <p>Ticket Price: $17</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://www.transmissionentertainment.com/" target="_top">Buy Tickets Now @ http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/</a></p> <p>The Melvins were the first post-punk band to revel in the slow, sludgy sounds of Black Sabbath. Their music is oppressively slow and heavy, only without any of the silly mystical lyrics or the indulgent guitar solos; it's just one massive, oozing pile of dark slime. The Melvins' first record was released in 1987; they've released many albums since then, but it wasn't until 1993 that they went to a major label, thanks to their prot, Kurt Cobain. While some may find the Melvins to be dull and repetitious, their place in rock history is interesting, even if considered to be just a footnote. <br /> <br /> <br /> The band formed in Aberdeen, Washington, the same town that produced Nirvana's Cobain and Krist Novoselic. For Nirvana and many other Seattle-area bands, the Melvins' sludge was inspirational; the younger bands took the Sabbath-styled heaviness of the Melvins, while adding an equally important pop song structure, which the group tended to lack. While all of their disciples became famous after Nirvana broke big in 1991 (including Mudhoney, which featured former Melvins bassist Matt Lukin), the Melvins only expanded their cult slightly. They did earn a major-label contract with Atlantic, but after releasing three records for the label, they were dropped in late 1996 and the group returned to indie status, landing with Amphetamine Reptile for 1998's Alive at the F*cker Club. The late '90s and early 21st century saw a flurry of releases by the band: The Maggot, The Bootlicker, The Crybaby, Electroretard, The Colossus of Destiny, Hostile Ambient Takeover, Pigs of the Roman Empire, Houdini Live 2005: A Live History of Gluttony and Lust, all of which (except for the fourth one) were issued on Mike Patton's Ipecac label. <br /> <br /> <br /> In addition to their Melvins activities, singer/guitarist Buzz Osborne joined Patton (and former Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo and Mr. Bungle bassist Trevor Dunn) for the experimental outfit Fantmas, resulting in a number of releases (1999's self-titled debut, 2001's The Director's Cut, 2002's Millennium Monsterwork by "the Fantmas Melvins Big Band" (recorded live in San Francisco on New Year's Eve 2000 but not released until two years later), 2004's Delirium Cordia, and 2005's Suspended Animation), while the Melvins' latest bassist, Kevin Rutmanis, joined Patton in another side project, Tomahawk. In 2006, Big Business bassist Jared Warren and drummer Coady Willis joined the Melvins, appearing on that year's Senile Animal album. The follow-ups, 2008's Nude with Boots, 2010's The Bride Screamed Murder, and a live album titled Sugar Daddy Live, were recorded with the same lineup and released by Ipecac. Stephen Thomas Erlewine & Greg Prato, Rovi</p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/khxJ1pxoSm0" width="420" height="420" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:05:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/58481<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/09/07/medium.5t016ye509k2.jpg" /><br /><p>Sunday, April 22nd, 2012.</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://www.transmissionentertainment.com/" target="_top">Transmission Events Presents:</a></p> <p>Shabazz Palaces</p> <p>Doors: 6:30pm // Show: 7:30pm</p> <p>Ticket Price: $12 ADV // $14 DOS</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=64936&eid=73653" target="_top">Buy Tickets Now @ http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/</a></p> <p>Shabazz Palaces are percussionist <span class="bbcode_unknown" title="Unknown artist">Tendai Maraire</span> and <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Ishmael+Butler">Ishmael Butler</a>, formally of <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Digable+Planets">Digable Planets</a> and <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Cherrywine">Cherrywine</a>. While Tendai employs ancient instruments from his homeland Zimbabwe, Ishmael provides the groups vision and vocals. <br /> <br /> For Butler, who never stopped making music since he released his classic album by <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Digable+Planets">Digable Planets</a> , Blowout Comb, Shabazz palaces is his latest place to play with ideas. Those ideas have always been simultaneously global in their expansiveness and basement ceiling low in their commitment to hip-hops bottom line. <br /> <br /> After releasing several recordings themselves on small time labels, in 2010 they contracted to release an ep with <a class="bbcode_label" href="http://www.last.fm/label/Sub+Pop">Sub Pop</a> and have collaborated in recordings and on stage with artists such as <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/+noredirect/Mc+Silk">Mc Silk</a>, <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/THEESatisfaction">THEESatisfaction</a>,. They deliver sincere and radical lyrics with sounds and beats that include sounds from around the world. Containing echos of <a class="bbcode_tag" href="http://www.last.fm/tag/funk" rel="tag">funk</a>, minor-key <a class="bbcode_tag" href="http://www.last.fm/tag/jazz" rel="tag">jazz</a>, London <a class="bbcode_tag" href="http://www.last.fm/tag/dubstep" rel="tag">dubstep</a> and <a class="bbcode_tag" href="http://www.last.fm/tag/mbira" rel="tag">mbira</a> sounds they structure their songs outside the 16-bars/chorus/repeat form of much hip hop.Their music won them the first ever Music Genius award from The Stranger in 2010.<br /> <br /> The group which also features mixing engineer <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Erik+Blood">Erik Blood</a>, often dress in elaborate costumes and masks for their live performances.<br /> <br /> Their video for <a class="bbcode_track" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Shabazz+Palaces/_/Belhaven+Meridian" title="Shabazz Palaces Belhaven Meridian">Belhaven Meridian</a> is a one-shot bw music video, shot in Watts, LA, homage to the 1977 classic film Killer of Sheep, a film set around the Watts Riots. It features a cameo by Ernest Wadell from The Wire.<br /> <br /> Dope.</p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/VMZKPaSF0GE" width="420" height="420" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:25:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/63571<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/10/07/medium.4lppnk8bq2cq.jpg" /><br /><p>Wednesday, April 22ND, 2012.</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://www.transmissionentertainment.com/" target="_top">Transmission Events Presents:</a></p> <p>Sleepy Sun w/ White Hills (presented by Austin Psych Fest)</p> <p>Doors: 6:30pm // Show: 7:30pm</p> <p>Ticket Price: $10 ADV // $12 DOS</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=65100&eid=73830" target="_top">Buy Tickets Now @ http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/</a></p> <p><br />FREE with your AUSTIN PSYCH FEST 2012 WEEKEND PASS, get yours here - http://www.austinpsychfest.com</p> <p>The band of brothers known far and wide as Sleepy Sun don't sit still for long. Though they remain real and spiritual citizens of the Northern California hive that birthed the band in the latter half of the last decade, Sleepy Sun is a rambling band- a certifiably vagabond unit that built a reputation among American and European audiences as fine-tuned, ironclad locomotive and candy sweet heavy pop machine. Barnstorming the Great Plains....stealing afternoons from the unsuspecting on the European festival-go-round...hooking the uninitiated opening for the Arctic Monkeys, Black Angels, and Low Anthem, they've done yeoman's work, sparked the party, and made the music sound young again. <br /> <br /> Sleepy Sun's miles, months, and days in the van are a tangible presence in Spine Hits, an LP of whimsy, restlessness, and urgency that leaps nimbly from landscape to landscape with ease, irreverence, and a catch-em-before-they-ain't changeling nature. For the most part, the sprawling Zeppelin-esque epics that defined much of Embrace and Fever have been traded in for a potent pop-compact framework. But never at the expense of the dodging, juking, and downshifting instincts that set their older long form pieces apart from a thousand other psychedelic drone warriors. <br /> <br /> Recorded under the big skies of the California high desert with Queens of Stone Age and Eagles of Death Metal alumnus Dave Catching, the jams on Spine Hits are alternatingly precision whittled and moodily muscular. Matt Holliman and Evan Reiss' guitars adroitly move from steamroller heavy to beachside airy and bouncing to interstellar- tinkering with texture and dynamics like never before. Vocalist Bret Constantino sings with a road-toughened, husky soul yowl and hush that occasionally betrays a society-weary frustration but more often hints at a way out. The rhythm section of drummer Brian Tice and Jack Allen is a super-cohesive, tricky, and tough-as-hell unit that keeps the Sleepy train on track as it teeters, creeps and runs wild across the land. <br /> <br /> To any seasoned Sleepy Sun listener the new destinations will be surprises and revelations. "V.O.G." hints at a backstage conspiracy hatched on the Arctic Monkeys tour- buoyant and tight as a wire. "Boat Trip" moseys with a Lou Reed offhandedness- a postcard from Brian Wilson's forgotten vacation with the Velvets. "Still Breathing" is an elegiac nod to the band's early alignment with the Verve's dreamworlds. <br /> <br /> For Sleepy spotters that came to love the band in its most massively rocking incarnations, there are the slow burns- "Stivey Pond" a sinister, stalking, and tender lurching beast bearing down on the subject of its obsession. And "Lioness (Requiem)" - a drifting, drowsy, late night lost in contemplation, dawn nowhere in sight. <br /> <br /> Spine Hits isn't a portrait of a band in a moment. It's a box of snapshots spilled on the floor and blowing in the wind...left behind by a band that can't stop moving, but remembers what they left behind in a thousand colors.</p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1L-A6YhLGR0" width="420" height="420" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:30:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/63581<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/05/00/medium.169hygk0258e.jpg" /><br /><p>Tuesday, May 1st, 2012.</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://www.transmissionentertainment.com/" target="_top">Transmission Events Presents:</a></p> <p>Allo Darlin' w/ The Wave Pictures</p> <p>Doors: 9pm // Show: 10pm</p> <p>Ticket Price: $8 ADV // $10 DOS</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=63803&eid=72402" target="_top">Buy Tickets Now @ http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/</a></p> <p>Allo Darlin are many things. They can turn a room in a famous punk venue into a joyous, jumping, sweaty, pop-mosh pit. Or bring a room of 500 to hushed silence with the few strums of a ukulele and a love song about cooking. Theyre close friends that found each other and the music they make in London. Elizabeth and Bill are from Australia, Mike and Paul are from Kent. Theyve only been playing seriously as a band since January 2009, although Elizabeth has been releasing music under various guises since 2007. <br /> <br /> In that time, theyve been signed to one of the great indie labels, played sold-out shows in Germany and Sweden, wowed the crowds at the Indietracks and Swn festivals, toured the UK and recorded an album. Theyve received airplay on BBC Radio 1, BBC 6 music and XFM, and had glowing reviews in places such as the Metro, The Fly and The Guardian, the latter calling their <a class="previewbutton " href="http://www.last.fm/music/Allo+Darlin%27/_/Henry+Rollins+Don%27t+Dance" rel="nofollow"><img class="icon preview_icon" src="http://cdn.last.fm/flatness/clear.gif" border="0" width="16" height="16" /></a><a class="bbcode_track" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Allo+Darlin%27/_/Henry+Rollins+Don%27t+Dance" title="Allo Darlin' Henry Rollins Don't Dance">Henry Rollins Dont Dance</a> single on <a class="bbcode_label" href="http://www.last.fm/label/WeePOP%21+records">WeePOP! records</a> the best indiepop song for years.<br /> <br /> Their first single for <a class="bbcode_label" href="http://www.last.fm/label/Fortuna+Pop%21">Fortuna Pop!</a>, <a class="previewbutton " href="http://www.last.fm/music/Allo+Darlin%27/_/The+Polaroid+Song" rel="nofollow"><img class="icon preview_icon" src="http://cdn.last.fm/flatness/clear.gif" border="0" width="16" height="16" /></a><a class="bbcode_track" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Allo+Darlin%27/_/The+Polaroid+Song" title="Allo Darlin' The Polaroid Song">The Polaroid Song</a>, was released in December 2009. That song made it into the Drowned in Sound Top 50 Singles of the Year, and garnered them further great reviews. m sort of scared at how brilliant Allo Darlin are, and could be. Disarming and self-effacing they might be, but when they smack you square on the nose with a pop song so instantly loveable as <a class="previewbutton " href="http://www.last.fm/music/Allo+Darlin%27/_/The+Polaroid+Song" rel="nofollow"><img class="icon preview_icon" src="http://cdn.last.fm/flatness/clear.gif" border="0" width="16" height="16" /></a><a class="bbcode_track" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Allo+Darlin%27/_/The+Polaroid+Song" title="Allo Darlin' The Polaroid Song">The Polaroid Song</a> it makes my jaw drop in awe. (A Layer of Chips blog)<br /> <br /> Their debut album <a class="bbcode_album" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Allo+Darlin%27/Allo+Darlin%27" title="Allo Darlin' - Allo Darlin'">Allo Darlin</a> was released in June 2010, and another single <a class="previewbutton " href="http://www.last.fm/music/Allo+Darlin%27/_/Dreaming" rel="nofollow"><img class="icon preview_icon" src="http://cdn.last.fm/flatness/clear.gif" border="0" width="16" height="16" /></a><a class="bbcode_track" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Allo+Darlin%27/_/Dreaming" title="Allo Darlin' Dreaming">Dreaming</a> was preceded this in March. The album was recorded at Soup with producer Simon Trought, underneath the Duke of Uke shop in Brick Lane.</p> <p>http://www.last.fm/music/Allo+Darlin%27/+wiki</p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/yDM_DyoGGSA" width="420" height="420" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:15:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/58491<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/02/00/medium.017lxy75r1f6.jpg" /><br /><p>Monday, May 7th, 2012.</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://www.transmissionentertainment.com/" target="_top">Transmission Events Presents:</a></p> <p>Hanni El Khatib + Sundelles</p> <p>Doors: 9PM // Show: 10PM</p> <p>Ticket Price: $10 ADV // $12 DOS</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=63036&eid=71565" target="_top">Buy Tickets Now @ http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/</a></p> <p>A press bio states, "<a href="http://www.hannielkhatib.com/" target="_blank">Hanni El Khatib</a> makes music for relationships on the verge of exquisite failure," while his blog and Twitter account sport the respective tags, "These songs were written for anyone who's ever been shot or hit by a train," and simply "knife fight music."</p> <p>But domestic violence (as in "relationships failing via knife fights") is not the connective tissue here -- it's the aesthetic of classic catastrophe that rules the day, both in Khatib's lyrics and in his sound, which instantly evokes '50s Los Angeles as seen through the lens that shot <em>Rebel Without a Cause</em>.</p> <p>It's no coincidence that the video for "Dead Wrong" (streaming below) features vintage footage of California greasers doing their thing, while the song itself dances out a swaggerful and airy blues to Khatib's playful sneer: "Yeah, I know it might be a scary sight/To run into a bunch of us at night."</p> <p>Likewise for his off-kilter cover of "You Rascal You," a '30s standard that shows off Khatib's love for American archetypes like Sam Cooke and Robert Johnson. This isn't just dress-up (though the one-man band has dabbled in clothing design as well). These two songs suggest a real mastery of a long-lost craft. It stands up in the face of modern day girl-group remakes and indie blues duos alike, and hints at a highly promising full-length to come.</p> <p>http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2010/08/hanni_el_khatib_black_keys_shangri-las.php</p> <p></p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ZMXSaX-jLas" width="420" height="420" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:30:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/58501<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/10/00/medium.nxv37at0zgl4.jpg" /><br /><p>Saturday, May 12th, 2012.</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://www.transmissionentertainment.com/" target="_top">Transmission Events Presents:</a></p> <p>ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE</p> <p>Doors: 9pm // Show: 10pm</p> <p>Ticket Price: $10-$12</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=65103&eid=73832%20target=">Buy Tickets Now @ http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/</a></p> <p>Acid Mothers Temple ( & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O.) are a psychedelic Japanese musical clan featuring a massive and ever-changing cast of musicians centred around guitarist Kawabata Makoto. The collective record under a number of names reflecting the different arrangement of people performing including Acid Mothers Temple & the Cosmic Inferno, Acid Mothers Afrirampo, Acid Mothers Temple & the Pink Ladies Blues, Acid Mothers Temple SWR, Acid Mothers Guru Guru, Acid Mothers Gong (including original Gong member Daevid Allan), Acid Mothers Temple & the Incredible Strange Band adn finally Kawabata Makoto & the Mothers of Invasion (who have been known to play under the appropriate name of 'What?').</p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/CcQTSEWbGyI" width="420" height="420" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:50:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/63591<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/12/00/medium.b04439govg08.jpg" /><br /><p>Sunday, February 19th, 2012.</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://www.transmissionentertainment.com/" target="_top">Transmission Events Presents:</a></p> <p>Scott Kelly (Neurosis) + Eugene Robinson + Ancient VVisdom</p> <p>Doors: 9pm // Show: 10pm</p> <p>Ticket Price: $10 ADV // $12 DOS</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=63041&eid=71571" target="_top">Buy Tickets Now @ http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/</a></p> <p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Scott Kelly</span></strong> is one of three founding members of Oakland, California, United States experimental metal band <a class="artist" href="http://pc-pdx.com/bands/Neurosis">Neurosis</a>. Has been writing and publishing music since 1985 with <a class="artist" href="http://pc-pdx.com/bands/Neurosis">Neurosis</a>, <a class="artist" href="http://pc-pdx.com/bands/Tribes-Of-Neurot">Tribes Of Neurot</a>, <a class="artist" href="http://pc-pdx.com/bands/-Blood-and-Time">Blood and Time</a> and his solo acoustic project. He has contributed guest vocals on three <a class="artist" href="http://pc-pdx.com/bands/Mastodon">Mastodon</a> recordings, <a class="bbcode_track" href="http://pc-pdx.com/bands/Mastodon/_/Aqua-Dementia" title="Mastodon Aqua Dementia">Aqua Dementia</a> from the album <a class="bbcode_album" href="http://pc-pdx.com/bands/Mastodon/Leviathan" title="Mastodon - Leviathan">Leviathan</a> (2004), <a class="bbcode_track" href="http://pc-pdx.com/bands/Mastodon/_/Crystal-Skull" title="Mastodon Crystal Skull">Crystal Skull</a>, from <a class="bbcode_album" href="http://pc-pdx.com/bands/Mastodon/Blood-Mountain" title="Mastodon - Blood Mountain">Blood Mountain</a> (2006) and the title-track off <a class="bbcode_album" href="http://pc-pdx.com/bands/Mastodon/Crack-the-Skye" title="Mastodon - Crack the Skye">Crack the Skye</a> (2009).<br /> <br /> Currently he's still writing, recording, and performing with <a class="artist" href="http://pc-pdx.com/bands/Neurosis">Neurosis</a> and all of the related projects as well as being part owner of <a class="artist" href="http://pc-pdx.com/bands/Neurosis">Neurosis</a>' record label <a class="external" href="http://www.neurotrecordings.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Neurot recordings</a>.<br /> <br /> <a class="external" href="http://www.myspace.com/bloodtime" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.myspace.com/bloodtime</a><br /> <a class="external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Kelly_" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Kelly_</a>(musician)</p> <p></p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ux6v5iIn5NA" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 09:20:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/57311<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/13/04/medium.el85d5aiq0nc.jpg" /><br /><p>Monday, February 13th, 2012.</p> <p>Transmission Events Presents:</p> <p>Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra</p> <p>Doors: 6:30PM // Show: 7:30PM<br /> Ticket Price: $12 ADV // $14 DOS</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=61995&eid=70446" target="_top">Buy Tickets @ http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/</a></p> <p>Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra (previously A Silver Mt. Zion, The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-La-La Band with Choir and Thee Silver Mountain Reveries) are a Canadian band which formed in 1999, originating from Montreal, Quebec. They use a number of different variations of the name on different releases, but the group use the shorthand SMZ and their name is most often simplified to Silver Mt. Zion (as they are referred to hereinafter). Since inception, the group has undergone almost yearly personnel changes. The band currently has five members following the resignation of three in late 2008.</p> <p>The band has released six studio albums and one EP, publishing them through the influential record label Constellation. Their debut album He Has Left Us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms was released in 2000 andwith the exception of two tracksis a purely instrumental record. As other records were created, their sound and membership progressively changed from a sequestered trio to a boisterous quintet. By the release of Horses in the Sky, the group became overwhelmingly vocal in its style.</p> <p>Their most recent album, Kollaps Tradixionales, was released in February 2010. It consists of seven songs, three of which previously debuted at live performances. Several members of the band are also working on a live album tentatively titled Fuck You Drakulas. A mid-summer 2007 release was planned but did not materialize as the band are still working on it "when time permits".</p> <p>Silver Mt. Zion's music has been described as "post-rock", though the band members are hesitant to use the term. Singer and guitarist Efrim Menuck identifies with punk rock ethos and aesthetic.</p> <p> <object width="560" height="315"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/l8TcBEh_UCM?version=3&hl=en_US" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/l8TcBEh_UCM?version=3&hl=en_US" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed> </object> </p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:00:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/52871<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/10/07/medium.mu4mm9k2484c.jpg" /><br /><p>Saturday, February 11th, 2011.</p> <p>Transmission Events Presents:</p> <p>The Lemonheads (Performing "It's A Shame About Ray")</p> <p>Doors: 8PM // Show: Deets TBA</p> <p>Ticket Price: $15</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=61094&eid=69500" target="_top">Buy Tickets @ http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/</a></p> <p><span class="bandname">The Lemonheads:</span><br /> Evan Griffith Dando formed The Lemonheads with two high school buddies in late winter '86, in their senior year at Boston's tiny Commonwealth School. A few months later, they spawned what is now one of the most sought-after punk relics of the 80s, the indie EP Laughing All the Way to the Cleaners. Boston-based Taang! Records immediately picked up on The Lemonheads, with three college radio pleasers to follow: the LPs Hate Your Friends (1987), Creator (1988), and Lick (1989). In 1990 Atlantic Records took notice of the massively expanding Lemonheads fanbase in Europe (where they toured in 1989) and America by signing the band and releasing their well-received (in Cambridge, Massachusetts) fourth LP, Lovey.</p> <p>Even by this time, The Lemonheads lineup had been volatile: more than a dozen different configurations over a period of just five years, all sorts of bit parts and reshuffles, with Dando as the only constant. At one point it got so confusing that an ex-drummer, just a week after getting kicked of the group, answered The Lemonheads' ad to replace himself. By a conservative estimate, the band has had more than ten bass players and at least a dozen drummers over the years.</p> <p>But out of this primordial chaos came a veritable Golden Age for The Lemonheads. A 1991 tour brought Evan to Australia, where by chance he met songwriter Tom Morgan and future Lemonheads bassist Nic Dalton. Their collaboration made all the difference for the next Atlantic release, It's a Shame About Ray (1992), a concentrated blast of pure pop perfection that clocks in at just under 30 minutes. Thanks to songs such as "Confetti", "My Drug Buddy", "Rudderless", and "Ceiling Fan in My Spoon", Dando hit a whole new audience ("they're getting younger," he confessed to Kathie Lee Gifford at the time).</p> <p>Mainstream media hype of The Lemonheads shifted into high gear, with lots of wild speculation as to the exact nature of the relationship between Dando and long-time friend Juliana Hatfield (who played bass and sang on Ray). It also didn't hurt when a 1993 People magazine spread devoted a full page to Evan as one of the fifty most beautiful people in the world. That news came to Evan in New Zealand, on his 26th birthday. When a magazine rep called to tell him he was among the "fifty dishiest people", Dando recalled, "I thought she said busiest". And I thought, 'kin right!" With all the traveling, I was busy!"</p> <p>Atlantic released a smash follow-up, Come on Feel The Lemonheads, in October 1993. The album brought Dando a genuine charting single ("Into your Arms") as well as instant classics such as "Great Big No", "Down About It", "Being Around", and "You Can Take it with You." In winter 1993/1994 Evan Dando was in your living room, thanks to live appearances on the Letterman and Leno late night network TV shows. Inevitably, in Warrington, Pennsylvania, a 20-something named Jeff Fox published the first issue of his backlash 'zine Die Evan Dando, Die.</p> <p>Two years of brutal touring for The Lemonheads followed, which Evan punctuated with some high-profile personal meltdowns on various continents that caught the imagination of a press ever eager for negative copy. Still The Lemonheads (now with Boston friends John Strohm on guitar and Murph on drums) managed to crank out a defiant 1996 release Car Button Cloth, with some of their best melodic pop/punk to date: "It"s All True", "If I Could Talk I"d Tell You", and "Tenderfoot". After a year promoting the record, Dando announced at the 1997 Reading Festival that he was disbanding The Lemonheads. Atlantic released a Best of The Lemonheads album in 1998, and a lot of geezers surmised that that was that.</p> <p>"I just decided to duck out for a while", explains Dando of his self-imposed exile from the scene. "I didn't have it in me. It took until I met my wife in 1998 until I got back into making music." That would be Elizabeth Moses, Newcastle-born English supermodel and musician. Once married in 2000, Dando started to come alive again like Frampton, first with a 2001 live album Live at the Brattle Theater/Griffith Sunset, and then in 2003 with a well-received solo LP, Baby I"m Bored.</p> <p>In 2004 Evan Dando found himself fronting the MC5, the most incendiary rock band of 1960s America, as lead vocalist in a 41-show tour. And it was hard to miss Dando during 2005 and early 2006, as he toured widely in North America and Europe with various bass players (Juliana Hatfield and Josh Lattanzi) and drummers (Bill Stevenson, Chris Brokaw from Come, George Berz of Dinosaur Jr), and occasionally as a one man electrical wrecking crew. Memorably, in September 2005, Dando, Stevenson, and Lattanzi played two instantly sold-out shows in London as part of the Don"t Look Back series, where they rocked through It"s a Shame About Ray from start to finish.</p> <p>In 2006 came The Lemonheads, released on Vagrant records and recorded with Bill Stevenson and Karl Alvarez of The Descendents. Stevenson co-produced with Dando, and wrote or co-wrote three of its eleven songs, while long-time collaborator Tom Morgan added another two. There were cameos from bassist Josh Lattanzi ("Poughkeepsie", "Rule of Three", "In Passing"), Garth Hudson (of The Band, who plays keyboards on "Black Gown" and "December"), and some real foot-on-monitor guitar work by Dinosaur Jr's J. Mascis ("No Backbone", "Steve's Boy").</p> <p>"We started out in Jam and Buzzcocks territory," explained Dando at the time, "We got some psyched-out country on there as well, but all of it is squarely in The Lemonheads tradition."</p> <p>Following a Rhino reissue of ...Ray in 2008, complete with stripped-down demos, next up for The Lemonheads was a covers LP, Varshons. The idea for the bands new covers record was inspired by Gibby Haynes, ringmaster of the Butthole Surfers, who for years has made mixes for Dando, a longtime friend. Making a good mix is an art, and Gibby has it down, says Dando. I thought it would be fun to share these songs with other people like he shared them with me. So I picked the greatest hits from his mixes and covered them, along with a few other songs I always wanted to play.</p> <p>Varshons was produced by Haynes and features Dando along with Vess Ruhtenburg (bass) and Devon Ashley (drums). The collection is filled with strange bedfellows - from G.G. Allin to Texas troubadour Townes Van Zandt and garage rockers The Green Fuz. The Lemonheads make each track their own, with help from actress Liv Tyler, singing back up on Leonard Cohens Hey, Thats No Way To Say Goodbye, and Kate Moss, who sings over the dance groove of Arling & Camerons Dirty Robot, which also features lead guitar by John Perry on loan from The Only Ones.</p> <p>Varshons unearths a pair of psychedelic treasures with a song recorded in 1969 by the group Sam Gopal featuring future Motorhead bassist Lemmy Kilmister and Dandelion Seeds from July, record collectors Registered Landmark Band. For Up With Linda, the band filters Allins cold-blooded tale through the swaggering country-honk of The Stones Dead Flowers.</p> <p>Filled with obscure nuggets, the tracks on Varshons cut a wide swath, jumping from early British psychedelic to Dutch electronica and like all good mix tapes, you never know what is coming next.</p> <p> <object width="420" height="315"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zvMFm5nKeUc?version=3&hl=en_US" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zvMFm5nKeUc?version=3&hl=en_US" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed> </object> </p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:40:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/52151<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/11/05/medium.h9izgmwl7w1c.jpg" /><br /><p>Friday, February 10th, 2012.</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://www.transmissionentertainment.com/" target="_top">Transmission Events Presents:</a></p> <p>The Octopus Project</p> <p>Doors: 8pm // Show: 9pm</p> <p>Ticket Price: $10 ADV // $12 DOS</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=63685&eid=72278" target="_top">Buy Tickets Now @ http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/</a></p> <p><strong>"The Octopus Project</strong> is an experimental <a class="bbcode_tag" href="http://www.last.fm/tag/electronic" rel="tag">electronic</a> band based in Austin, Texas and formed in 1999. The band has a unique sound, blending pop and <a class="bbcode_tag" href="http://www.last.fm/tag/experimental" rel="tag">experimental</a> elements, is a combination of digital and electronic sounds and noises (including drum machine, keyboard/ synthesizers and other strange devices) and analog equipment (including guitars and live drums). Their music is mostly instrumental, except for tracks like <a class="previewbutton " href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Octopus+Project/_/Queen" rel="nofollow"><img class="icon preview_icon" src="http://cdn.last.fm/flatness/clear.gif" border="0" width="16" height="16" /></a><a class="bbcode_track" href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Octopus+Project/_/Queen" title="The Octopus Project Queen">Queen</a>, <a class="previewbutton " href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Octopus+Project/_/Moon+Boil" rel="nofollow"><img class="icon preview_icon" src="http://cdn.last.fm/flatness/clear.gif" border="0" width="16" height="16" /></a><a class="bbcode_track" href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Octopus+Project/_/Moon+Boil" title="The Octopus Project Moon Boil">Moon Boil</a> and <a class="previewbutton " href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Octopus+Project/_/Wet+Gold" rel="nofollow"><img class="icon preview_icon" src="http://cdn.last.fm/flatness/clear.gif" border="0" width="16" height="16" /></a><a class="bbcode_track" href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Octopus+Project/_/Wet+Gold" title="The Octopus Project Wet Gold">Wet Gold</a>.<br /> <br /> On April 30, 2006, the band played the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. They were offered the opportunity after a fan, unbeknownst to the band, entered them in a contest held by the festival on MySpace in which voters were to nominate their favorite band for an open slot at the festival.<br /> <br /> All members are known to switch instruments live (for instance, Josh Lambert playing drums while Toto Miranda plays guitar, or Yvonne Lambert playing guitar while Josh Lambert operates the electronics), but each member can be said to play a primary instrument.<br /> <br /> Yvonne Lambert is one of the few modern rock musicians to consistently play the theremin on recordings and in performances. The instrument appears on many of the bands tracks. The theremin is an early electronic musical instrument controlled without discernible physical contact from the player. It is named after its Russian inventor, Professor Lon Theremin, who patented the device in 1928. The controlling section usually consists of two metal antennas which sense the position of the players hands and control oscillators for frequency with one hand, and amplitude (volume) with the other, so it can be played without being touched. The electric signals from the theremin are amplified and sent to a loudspeaker."</p> <p>http://www.last.fm/music/The+Octopus+Project/+wiki</p> <p></p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/SDeTv12mulo" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:05:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/57121<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/01/06/medium.s3rl8mbim2g9.jpg" /><br /><p>Monday, February 6th, 2012.</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://www.transmissionentertainment.com/" target="_top">Transmission Events Presents:</a></p> <p>The Jealous Sound + TBA + Pswingset</p> <p>Doors: 9PM // Show: 10PM</p> <p>Ticket Price: $8 ADV // $10 DOS</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=63038&eid=71568" target="_top">Buy Tickets Now @ http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/</a></p> <p>Relationships are hard work. Whether it be for love or love of musicgetting together with that special someone isn't an easy task. Luckily, The Jealous Sound have seemingly beat the odds and come together from their diverse pasts to create some musical gems. The Jealous Sound is made up of singer/songwriter/guitarist Blair Shehan of the now defunct Knapsack, guitarist Pedro Benito, formerly of Sunday's Best, drummer Michel Bravine, formerly of the Killingtons and John McGinnis, formerly of Neither Trumpets Nor Drums, on bass. Here we have the formula for a torrid dalliance with this disparate cast of characters. <br /> <br /> Blair Shehan had an intense love affair with his last project, Knapsack. In it from the beginning of '94 and seeing the relationship through three releases that were coined successes by the adoring public, Blair became accustomed to people reacting to his most unique voice that could be recognized within a millisecond throughout the indie-rock, collegiate masses. And while Blair's duty in Knapsack solidified his place in the indie-rock yearbooks, The Jealous Sound is a vehicle in which Blair can drive further and faster by way of its texture and style. <br /> <br /> On this EP, Blair is able to showcase his own neverending passion for music, gracing the listeners with five tracks of blistering complexity in songwriting and movement. The songs are intense and hardhitting overtop Blair's signature voice. The songs complexity is furthered by the benefit of Pedro's indie rock sensibilities that signature the Sunday's Best guitar sound. Joining the Jealous Sound just weeks before the Holiday Matinee tour comes Michel Bravine, formerly of the Killingtons. Michel brings power and intense energy. You'll understand if you see him live.John's history as guitarist and singer in the Los Angeles' based eclectic indie pop band, Neither Trumpets Nor Drums, helps round out this diverse group. We wouldn't call this an all-star cast, as the past-life references are there as just references. This is a marriage of talented musicians, here to pool their skills and develop a relationship for the love of music.<br /> <br /> What we have on this EP is an ode to the days when music courted listeners with sheer, unabashed ingenuity and still remembered to open the car door for us. Already playing scores of shows on the west coast with such lavish (and as the band itself, diverse) luminaries like At the Drive In, Death Cab for Cutie, Sensefield, Samiam or The Weakerthans, The Jealous Sound is ready to seriously romance the world.</p> <p>- http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/The-Jealous-Sound-Biography/D7E0B5406B95606948256C4E000E0210</p> <p></p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/4y_ylxnnl5o" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 09:10:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/57301<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/15/12/medium.l3e44ubk88e8.jpg" /><br /><p>Sunday, February 5th, 2012.</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://www.transmissionentertainment.com/" target="_top">Transmission Events Presents:</a></p> <p>RIOTGOD + Dixie Witch + Modok + Bay of Pigs</p> <p>Doors: 9pm // Show: 10pm</p> <p>Ticket Price: $10 ADV // $12 DOS</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=64077&eid=72706" target="_top">Buy Tickets Now @ http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/</a></p> <p>October 2011: Riotgod has released their new album on Metalville Records, "Invisible Empire" Available in Europe 10.21.11.</p> <p>In 2007 Monster Magnet's Bob Pantella and Jim Baglino forged a new alternate universe -- inviting guitarist Garrett Sweeny and vocalist Mark Sunshine to come with them -- their goal to create, over time, some of the most energetic, recognizable, high quality hard rock possible.</p> <p>Signing with Metalville Records out of Germany in March 2010, Riotgod's album is out in stores and online worldwide.</p> <p>Their second CD "Invisible Empire" will be released in Europe on 10.21.2011.</p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/L0U5QshPoug" width="420" height="420" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 13:45:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/58201<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/00/01/medium.0zt0e8n8wf90.jpg" /><br /><p>Sarurday, February 4th 2012.</p> <p>Transmission Events Presents:</p> <p>King Khan & the Shrines // SOLD OUT //</p> <p>Doors: 8PM // Show: 9PM</p> <p>Ticket Price: $11 ADV // $13 DOS</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=63034&eid=71563" target="_top">Buy Tickets Now @ http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/</a></p> <p>"Who is this manic Master of Ceremonies who openly confesses to the two grand black bohemians said to be lunatic Sun Ra and George Clinton, and whose stagings certainly remind us of a young Herman Sonny Blount and his Solar Arkestra? In 1995 Khan leaves the frosty soil of the city of Montreal playing the bass for the International-Underground-Legends THE SPACESHITS. The band is produced by Mike Mariconda with a special guest appearance from the Fabulous Andy G (Devil Dogs). Khan founds the secret lodge of the KUKAMONGAS. During the oncoming years Khan tours across the States. Detroit, New Orleans, New York City, LA, San Francisco, Dallas, Tijuana etc. Khan doesnt return from the first Spaceshits-Europe-Tour in summer of 1999. In Germany the young 22-year old Canadian founds a Psychedlic-Soul-Big-Band THE SENSATIONAL SHRINES. The first line-up includes Ron Streeter (live-percussionist of Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder, Al Jarreau and other Soul-Legends), as well as a horn section of rowdy teenagers, and a rhythm section which can only be called a german/french version of the Freak Brothers. Khan meets Fredovitch (Bordeaux's wildest organ player) wearing a silverstudded gogo dress, matching cowboy hat and sporting a full beard. He dubs him into shrinehood only one week before recording their first album in Toe Rag Studio in London. THREE HAIRS & YOURE MINE is produced by Liam Watson. THE SHRINES grow into an all-star international movement. Their first concert in London is suspended by the police. The band escapes through the back-door. Numerous gigs will follow all across Europe, among others with the Demolition Dollrods, Mr.Quintron and Ms. Pussycat, an after-party for 50 cent, even a legendary stint at the Roskilde festival. In 2003 Khan encounters the Hazelwood-producers-team Gordon Two Horses Friedrich and Wolfgang Gottlieb, who stage the second longplayer MR. SUPERNATURAL in the beginning of 2004."</p> <p>http://www.hazelwood.de/kingkhan/index.php</p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/DDmxHDx0SBQ" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 13:55:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/57111<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/01/03/medium.3a726894s7m3.jpg" /><br /><p>Thursaday, February 2nd, 2012.</p> <p>Transmission Events Presents:</p> <p>Anthony Green (Circa Survive) w/ very special guests The Dear Hunter.</p> <p>Doors: 7PM // Show: 8PM</p> <p>Ticket Price: $15-$19</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=62849&eid=71355" target="_top">Buy Tickets Now @ http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/</a></p> <p></p> <div id="wiki">Anthony Green, born April 15, 1982 in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, is the lead vocalist for the band <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Circa+Survive">Circa Survive</a>. His first solo album, <a class="bbcode_album" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Anthony+Green/Avalon" title="Anthony Green - Avalon">Avalon</a>, was released on <a class="bbcode_label" href="http://www.last.fm/label/Photo+Finish+Records">Photo Finish Records</a> in 2008. A follow-up entitled <a class="bbcode_album" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Anthony+Green/Beautiful+Things" title="Anthony Green - Beautiful Things">Beautiful Things</a> is planned for later this year.<br /> <br /> Anthony is well known for his impressively high vocal range. In addition to his position in Circa Survive, he is the former lead vocalist of <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Saosin">Saosin</a> and member of <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Sound+of+Animals+Fighting">The Sound of Animals Fighting</a>, a <a class="bbcode_tag" href="http://www.last.fm/tag/experimental%20rock" rel="tag">experimental rock</a> band featuring members of <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/RX+Bandits">RX Bandits</a> and <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Finch">Finch</a>. Other projects he has been involved in throughout his career include <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/High+and+Driving">High and Driving</a>, <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Audience+of+One">Audience of One</a>, <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Zolof%2Bthe%2BRock%2B%2526%2BRoll%2BDestroyer">Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer</a> and <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Jeer+At+Rome">Jeer At Rome</a>. He has been featured as a guest vocalist or backup vocalist in many bands, such as <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Fear+Before+the+March+of+Flames">Fear Before the March of Flames</a>, <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Receiving+End+of+Sirens">The Receiving End of Sirens</a>, <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Envy+on+the+Coast">Envy on the Coast</a>, <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Spill+Canvas">The Spill Canvas</a>, <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Say+Anything">Say Anything</a>, <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Good+Old+War">Good Old War</a>, <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/A+Trunk+Full+of+Dead+Bodies">A Trunk Full of Dead Bodies</a>, and <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Like+Lions">Like Lions</a>. Green also played four acoustic sets opening for <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Color+Fred">The Color Fred</a> in late December 2005, as well as two benefit shows in December 2006.<br /> <br /> In 2003, Anthony Green moved from <span class="bbcode_unknown" title="Unknown place">Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</span> to <span class="bbcode_unknown" title="Unknown place">Southern California</span> in order to pursue a future with Saosin. Saosin would release only one EP with Green, <a class="bbcode_album" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Saosin/Translating+the+Name" title="Saosin - Translating the Name">Translating the Name</a>, before he departed to form Circa Survive. The band immediately gained the support of <a class="bbcode_label" href="http://www.last.fm/label/Equal+Vision">Equal Vision</a> and within a year had released a limited edition tour EP entitled <a class="bbcode_album" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Circa+Survive/The+Inuit+Sessions" title="Circa Survive - The Inuit Sessions">The Inuit Sessions</a>. They went on to release two full-length albums, <a class="bbcode_album" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Circa+Survive/Juturna" title="Circa Survive - Juturna">Juturna</a> and <a class="bbcode_album" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Circa+Survive/On+Letting+Go" title="Circa Survive - On Letting Go">On Letting Go</a>, before moving on to <a class="bbcode_label" href="http://www.last.fm/label/Atlantic">Atlantic</a> and releasing a third, <a class="bbcode_album" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Circa+Survive/Blue+Sky+Noise" title="Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise">Blue Sky Noise</a>, and another EP, <a class="bbcode_album" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Circa+Survive/Appendage" title="Circa Survive - Appendage">Appendage</a>. Anthony Green considers Circa Survive his only band, and has labeled his other ventures, including his solo career, as <br /> <br /> Anthonys song <a class="bbcode_track" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Anthony+Green/_/I%27ve+Been+Dying+To+Reach+You" title="Anthony Green I've Been Dying To Reach You">Ive Been Dying To Reach You</a>, was recorded in 2003 with Justin Shekoski of Saosin at <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/John+Feldman">John Feldman</a> of <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Goldfinger">Goldfinger</a>s home studio. It was later rerecorded and released as <a class="bbcode_track" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Anthony+Green/_/Dear+Child+%28I%27ve+Been+Dying+To+Reach+You%29" title="Anthony Green Dear Child (I've Been Dying To Reach You)">Dear Child (Ive Been Dying To Reach You)</a> on <a class="bbcode_album" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Anthony+Green/Avalon" title="Anthony Green - Avalon">Avalon</a>, along with other tracks that Anthony had played throughout the years but had not released. Anthony has acoustically covered songs by artists such as <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Good+Old+War">Good Old War</a>, <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/+noredirect/Bjork">Bjork</a>, <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Pink+Floyd">Pink Floyd</a>, and <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Monkees">The Monkees</a>. A spoken version of his poem <a class="bbcode_track" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Anthony+Green/_/Jesus+And+The+Sharp+Electric+Star" title="Anthony Green Jesus And The Sharp Electric Star">Jesus And The Sharp Electric Star</a> appears in the book Revolution on Canvas.</div> <div>http://www.last.fm/music/Anthony+Green/+wiki</div> <p> <object width="560" height="315"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GsvqtTp2Bx8?version=3&hl=en_US" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GsvqtTp2Bx8?version=3&hl=en_US" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed> </object> </p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 08:45:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/52141<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/12/11/medium.88lvto6dqi6o.jpg" /><br /><p>Monday, January 30th, 2012.</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://www.transmissionentertainment.com/">Transmission Events Presents:</a></p> <p>A Lull + Deleted Scenes + Tape Deck Mountain</p> <p>Doors: 8PM</p> <p>Set Times: 9PM // 10PM // 11PM</p> <p>Ticket Price: $8</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=62848&eid=71353">Buy Tickets Now @ http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/</a></p> <p>Chicagos A Lull is nearly impossible to describe without qualifiers. Equal parts mystical and primal, the music crafted by these five multi-instrumentalists gathers the recognizable traits of a half dozen indie micro-genres, tosses out all but the stem cells, then adds the calculated, percussive verve of a half dozen rhythm sections on top of beautifully crafted songwriting to result in a sound that is as unique as it is memorable. A Lull blurs the lines between the synthesized and organic. The evocative lyrics and vocals of Nigel Evan Dennis are engulfed with music elements that live on the barriers between guitars, electronics, and effects, then (with each member of the band having at one point in his career been a drummer) covered with endless layers of percussion. Recording the music themselves, the band is not confined to traditional studio techniques or time constraints, and the obsessive attention to detail shows. Employing anything available to create beats, melodies, textures and layers of sound, A Lulls sonic landscape is experimental in the ways that it takes form, yet at the same time inherently musical.<br /> <br /> A Lull plans to release Confetti in early 2011 and the band will continue to tour, with local and national dates scheduled throughout the rest of the year. - http://www.last.fm/music/A+Lull/+wiki</p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/HhZy_o9_uR8" width="450" height="315" frameborder="0"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:05:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/57291<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/14/03/medium.255xoqc18e42.jpg" /><br /><p>Sunday, January 21st, 2012.</p> <p>Transmission Events Presents:</p> <p>Twin Sister + Ava Luna // SOLD OUT //</p> <p>Doors: 9PM // Show: 10PM<br /> Ticket Price: $10 ADV // $12 DOS</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=61803&eid=70248" target="_top">Buy Tickets @ http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com</a></p> <p>Long Island, New York-based indie pop quintet <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/twin-sister/2663236">Twin Sister</a> make music that is dreamy, yet danceable. The five members of the group -- vocalist <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/andrea-estella/5135562">Andrea Estella</a>, bassist <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/gabe-damico/5135643">Gabe D'Amico</a>, drummer <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/bryan-ujueta/5135650">Bryan Ujueta</a>, keyboardist <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/dev-udbhav-gupta/5131159">Dev Gupta</a>, and guitarist (sometimes vocalist) <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/eric-cardona/5135644">Eric Cardona</a> -- crossed paths while playing in their respective bands, ultimately befriending each other and forming <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/twin-sister/2663236">Twin Sister</a> in 2008. Their first EP, <a href="http://music.aol.com/album/vampires-with-dreaming-kids/5023191">Vampires with Dreaming Kids</a>, was self-released that year. After their first live show out of town, at SXSW, they toured with <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/tune-yards/918641">tUnE-YarDs</a> and <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/xiu-xiu/1477529">Xiu Xiu</a> before putting the final touches on their second EP, <a href="http://music.aol.com/album/color-your-life/1616655">Color Your Life</a>, which followed in 2010. In 2011, <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/twin-sister/2663236">Twin Sister</a> signed to Domino Records and released their first full-length, <a href="http://music.aol.com/album/in-heaven/5047455">In Heaven</a>, that September. ~ Jason Lymangrover, Rovi</p> <p><iframe></iframe></p> <p> <object width="560" height="315"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3yn0PISCGpg?version=3&hl=en_US" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3yn0PISCGpg?version=3&hl=en_US" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed> </object> </p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 08:15:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/52121<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/00/06/medium.5158811pu30e.jpg" /><br /><p>Wednesday, January 25, 2012.</p> <p>Transmission Events Presents:</p> <p>Graveyard + Radio Moscow + Eagle Claw</p> <p>Doors: 6:30PM // Show: 7:30PM<br />Ticket Price: $10 ADV // $12 DOS</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=61802&eid=70247" target="_top">Buy Tickets @ http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/</a></p> <div id="player-bio"> <div class="bio"> <p>A throwback rock band much in the vein of Witchcraft or Priestess, Gothenburg, Sweden's <a href="http://mog.com/artists/mn406941/graveyard">Graveyard</a> formed in late 2006. Original members Joakim Nilsson (guitar and vocals), Truls Mrck (guitar and vocals), Rikard Edlund (bass), and Axel Sjoberg (drums) were moved by the legacy of giants such as Cream and Black Sabbath, and quickly recorded their first demo. Rather quickly thereafter, the band scored a dual distribution deal with both Tee Pee Records and Transubstans Records. Their debut album, simply entitled <a href="http://mog.com/artists/mn406941/graveyard">Graveyard</a>, was released in early 2008. Following the recording of said collection, the band saw the replacement of guitarist Sjoberg with Jonathan Ramm, after the former called it a day.</p> <p>~ Chris True, Rovi</p> </div> </div><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 11:20:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/55641<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/08/08/medium.912hmycfeg14.jpg" /><br /><p>January 1st - 8th 2012.</p> <p>Transmission Event Presents:</p> <p>FREE WEEK @ MOHAWK.</p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: ">* FREE MILKSHAKES every night at midnight from our homies at Handshakes *</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: ">(Click on STAGES for more info.)</span></p> <p>SUN. 1ST // Curse The Heavens + <a class="ilnk" href="http://mohawkaustin.com/events/75081" target="_top">BANDS OUTSIDE.</a> +<a class="ilnk" href="http://mohawkaustin.com/events/76381">BANDS INSIDE.</a></p> <p>MON. 2ND // Vagabond Collective Presents:<a class="ilnk" href="http://mohawkaustin.com/events/75101" target="_top"> BANDS OUTSIDE.</a> +<a class="ilnk" href="http://mohawkaustin.com/events/76391">BANDS INSIDE.</a></p> <p>TUE. 3RD // Giant Steps Presents: <a class="ilnk" href="http://mohawkaustin.com/events/75111" target="_top">BANDS OUTSIDE.</a> +<a class="ilnk" href="http://mohawkaustin.com/events/75121">BANDS INSIDE.</a></p> <p>WED. 4TH // Austin Surreal Presents:<a class="ilnk" href="http://mohawkaustin.com/events/76401"> BANDS INSIDE.</a></p> <p>THU. 5TH // Manejo Beto + BOY + <a class="ilnk" href="http://mohawkaustin.com/events/75141" target="_top">BANDS OUTSIDE.</a> +<a class="ilnk" href="http://mohawkaustin.com/events/75151">BANDS INSIDE.</a></p> <p>FRI. 6TH // Switched On Presents: <a class="ilnk" href="http://mohawkaustin.com/events/75161" target="_top">BANDS OUTSIDE.</a> +<a class="ilnk" href="http://mohawkaustin.com/events/75171">BANDS INSIDE.</a></p> <p>SAT. 7TH // T-Bird and the Breaks + <a class="ilnk" href="http://mohawkaustin.com/events/75181" target="_top">BANDS OUTSIDE.</a> +<a class="ilnk" href="http://mohawkaustin.com/events/75191">BANDS INSIDE.</a></p> <p>SUN. 8TH // Broken Gold + <a class="ilnk" href="http://mohawkaustin.com/events/75201">BANDS INSIDE.</a></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p>Tickets on Sale Now.</p> <p></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:15:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/54351<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/15/03/medium.18c1c0b2lk7c.jpg" /><br /><p>Saturday, December 31st, 2011.</p> <p>Transmission Events Presents:</p> <p>Big Freedia + Turquoise Jeep. // SOLD OUT //</p> <p>$15 Advance ($20 Day of Show).</p> <p>High Life Champagne (of Beers) Toast at Midnight.</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=62637&eid=71124" target="_top">Buy Tickets @ http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/</a></p> <p>Big Freedia (pronounced ) is the undisputed Queen Diva of Bounce Music, and performs six or more times a week in various venues throughout her home town of New Orleans.<br /> <br /> Bounce Music is an original urban music rising up from the challenging yet fun-loving nature of the New Orleans housing projects which dominate the citys street culture, and Freedia performs a derivative of Bounce reserved for self-proclaimed (a locally used name for biological men with varied and ambiguous sexual identities) that has risen to prominence in recent years and features explicitly gay and cross-dressing musicians and themes. Big Freedia, like other artists, has achieved mainstream success with several New Orleans hit singles such as Gin in My System and Azz Everywhere! from her albums An Ha, Oh Yeah (1999) and Queen Diva (2003). Freedia began her musical career almost 15 years ago at the Walter L. Cohen High School in New Orleans, where she was enlisted as choir director from her Sophomore to Senior years. She sees her performance as a Bounce artist as an extension of this work, often interacting in a call and response/teacher and student fashion with her audiences.<br /> <br /> While also running a successful decorating business (for which she has counted the Mayors office as a client), Freedia has begun traveling outside the city regularly with her dancers, The Divas, and live DJ, Rusty Lazer, playing to sold out audiences from the East to the West Coast alongside (or onstage with) artists such as Spank Rock, Ninjasonik, Monique, The Rapture, 7 Seconds, Snoop Dogg and many more. 2011 has been a banner year for the Queen Diva as she's begun to travel to Europe and beyond, headlining shows in Paris (Social Club), Amsterdam (Valtifest), Milan (Nike Stadium) and London. Freedia will perform at Meredith Festival in Australia this December, followed by a 4 city Austalian tour, then returns to the Big Easy to put the finishing touches on her next album which will include collaborations with New Orleans' most prominent rappers and beatmakers alongside the work of unique producers and performers from around the world.</p> <p> <object width="560" height="315"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2iTc2vtjxXk?version=3&hl=en_US" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2iTc2vtjxXk?version=3&hl=en_US" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed> </object> </p> <p> <object width="560" height="315"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zsF7Yl2PGZs?version=3&hl=en_US" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zsF7Yl2PGZs?version=3&hl=en_US" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed> </object> </p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:10:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/54341<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/02/12/medium.w4x2kkb2gixz.jpg" /><br /><p>12.01.11</p> <p>The Mohawk Presents:</p> <p>"Season's Drinkings" from the Mohawk!</p> <p>We just wanna Party with You! Come book your Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanza, Winter Solstice, "Escape-From-Your-Family", Corporate or Birthday Parties now for December.</p> <p>"It is better to drink than to receive." - Patrick Waites. Mohawk Events Promoter.</p> <p> <object width="560" height="315"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Jdyo4evwMxU?version=3&hl=en_US" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Jdyo4evwMxU?version=3&hl=en_US" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed> </object> </p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://mohawkaustin.com/event" target="_top">BOOK EVENTS NOW.</a></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 20:00:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/50421<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/13/11/medium.bqf4671i50tn.jpg" /><br /><p>Sautrday, December 24th & 25th, 2011.</p> <p>Warm greetings and thanks to you all for supporting us through the years. We hope this weekend finds you happy, healthy & in the company of loved ones. Be Safe, Be Merry, Give Thanks & Enjoy your Traditions - whether they be sacred or profane.</p> <p>We'll be in a yurt, carving a whale-bone & smoking a herring - listening to Skynrd.</p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 19:00:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/54331<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/05/13/medium.7yg2k629u6wk.jpg" /><br /><p>Thursday, December 22nd, 2011.</p> <p>Transmission Events Presents:</p> <p>ISHI + Soldier Thread + The Burning Hotels + Bali Yaaah.</p> <p>Doors: 9PM // Set Times: 9:30PM / 10:30PM / 11:30PM / 12:30AM<br /> Ticket Price: $5.00</p> <p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 15px;">The Soldier Thread is an indie pop-rock quintet hailing from Austin, Texas. Having been only patched together since late 2007, the ensemble has already undergone quite an alteration in style. Todd Abels (guitar, keyboard) and Justin McHugh (keyboard, guitar, backup vocals) set out from ambient origins to weave in the missing pieces. Close ties to Patricia Lynn (lead vocals, keyboard) and Drew Vandiver (drums) allowed for an easy joining of loose ends. With Chance Gilmore (bass guitar) eventually completing the chain, the group began to play shows in and around Austin, as well as throughout Texas. The release of In Spades in 2010 marked a shift from true indie sound to more polished, pop-driven tunes. The band went on their first national tour in May 2011, opening for Blue October, and landed the 101X Staff Pick with self-released single "Anybody." The integration of producer Dwight Baker served as the anchor stitch to complete the composite the group currently finds themselves in. Rumors of this particular trend unwinding further are validated by TST's present live set. Additionally, the band just recently recorded a new EP, expected to be released in early 2012.</span></span></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:05:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/52601<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/05/14/medium.4677sh81k506.jpg" /><br /><p>Saturday, December 17th, 2011.</p> <p>Transmission Events Presents:</p> <p>Auto Body w/ Learning Secrets + DJ Geoff Millions (of Fresh Millions)</p> <p>Doors: 7PM // Show: 8PM<br /> Ticket Price: $12 ADV, $15 DOS ($12 DOS w/ costume)</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=62052&eid=70504" target="_top">Buy Tickets @ http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/</a></p> <p>Adventurous indie rockers Autobody formed in Brooklyn in 1995, taking their cue from the warped, lo-fi artiness of <a id="itxthook0" class="itxtrst itxtrsta itxthook" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; text-decoration: underline; border-bottom: 0.075em solid #e98a02; padding-bottom: 1px; color: #e98a02; background-color: transparent;" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.artistdirect.com/#"><span id="itxthook0w0" class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: #e98a02;">bands</span></a> like Pavement and Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, as well as rock avant-gardists from Captain Beefheart to the Residents to Sonic Youth. Founder Nicolas Chaikin first recruited multi-instrumentalists Jim Abramson (guitar, bass, vocals) and David Abel (bass, guitar, trombone, tapes, vocals), but departed quickly to move to France with his girlfriend. Autobody carried on with two more members, Sheila McCarthy (drums, tapes, vocals, keyboards) and Eric Marc Cohen (drums, vocals, trumpet, tapes). All four members were active in other bands: Abramson and Abel played together in Fly Ashtray and the Wharton Tiers Ensemble, while Abramson also drummed for Dymaxion. McCarthy was a veteran of Cattle Prod, and would go on to found the percussion ensemble Drumhead, with whom Cohen sometimes gigged. Autobody debuted on record in 1997 with the Black Angus EP, issued on the Haunted Toast label. Their first full-length, Vanilla Impressions, followed later in the year. A move to the better-distributed Silly Bird label preceded their second album, 1999's Autobody. Confusingly, it was followed by another eponymous release -- this time a five-song EP -- on the Old Gold label in 2001. Their third album, Xelp, was released on CD-R only, and was accompanied by a CD-R collection of outtakes titled Black Angus, Vol. II. ~ Steve Huey, All Music Guide</p> <p> <object width="420" height="315"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/WjWei1DWrnM?version=3&hl=en_US" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/WjWei1DWrnM?version=3&hl=en_US" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed> </object> </p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:25:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/52131<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/10/15/medium.f6w1yr37lsfe.jpg" /><br /><p>Friday, December 16th, 2011.</p> <div><span>BLOOD MONEY DRIVE.</span></div> <div><span>Doors @ 6PM. // Price: $6 Advance/ $8 DOS.<br /></span></div> <div><span><br /></span></div> <div><span></span>OUTSIDE // Live Music + Art Performances + Light-Strava-Ganza.</div> <div><span></span><span><span>INSIDE // Live Music + </span></span><span>2 Story Silent Art Auction.</span> <div><span><br /> </span></div> </div> <div><span>Back Alley Music Review </span></div> <div><span><span>Krum</span> Bums</span><span></span><span> + Scorpion Child + Boy + Kite + </span>El Abuso + <span>Dolls from the Crypt + </span>Others.</div> <div> <div><span><span> </span></span><span>Local Vendors</span></div> <div><span><br /></span></div> </div> <div> <div><span>Live Painting By:</span></div> <div><span><span>Sloke</span></span></div> <div><span>Jason Ice</span></div> <div><span><br /></span></div> <span></span></div> <div>Local Austin Artists</div> <p><span><span>Special</span> Effects Face Painting.</span></p> <div><span>Raffle with Prizes from:</span></div> <div><span>Alamo <span>Drafthouse</span>, I Luv Video, Vulcan Video,<span> DoveTail</span> Tattoo, Topaz Salon, Antone's Records and others.</span></div> <div></div> <div><span>Viewing of Trailer on Massive O<var></var><span>utside</span> Projection (horror movies playing on silent during acts)</span></div> <p><span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/postmodernundead" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/<wbr></wbr>postmodernundead</a></span></p> <p><span><a href="http://postmodernundead.com/" target="_blank">http://postmodernundead.com/</a></span></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:25:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/52171<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/03/13/medium.pg2rx8o3vbcj.jpg" /><br /><p>Thursday, December 15, 2011.</p> <p>Transmission Entertainment Presents:</p> <p>DEVIN THE DUDE.</p> <p>Doors: 7PM. // Show: 8PM.</p> <p>Price: $17 ADV, $20 DOS</p> <p><a class="ilnk" href="http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/choose.php?a=1&lid=60704&eid=69053" target="_top">Buy Tickets @ http://transmission.frontgatetickets.com/</a></p> <p>Devin Copeland, aka Devin the Dude, was born in St. Petersburg, FL, and moved to Texas while in the fourth grade. As a child he went back and forth from New Boston and Houston and finally settled in the latter after he graduated high school. In the late '80s, Devin met Rob Quest, a blind rapper and producer who was part of a Houston crew called the Coughee Brothas. Later on, the duo formed a group named the Odd Squad and recruited Devin's longtime <a id="itxthook0" class="itxtrst itxtrsta itxthook" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; text-decoration: underline; border-bottom: 0.075em solid darkgreen; padding-bottom: 1px; color: darkgreen; background-color: transparent;" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.starpulse.com/Music/Devin_the_Dude/Biography/#"><span id="itxthook0w0" class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: darkgreen;">friend</span></a> Jugg Mugg and a local DJ named DJ Screw. Screw (who was later replaced by DJ Styles) took the group's demo tape to Rap-A-Lot Records CEO James Smith, who quickly signed the group in 1992. Their debut album, Fadanuf fa Erybody!!, was released in 1994 with "I Can't See It" as the lead single and video. <br /> <br /> Although hip-hop fans praised the effort put out by the Odd Squad, their album was not as commercially successful as they hoped. While the group went back to the drawing board, Rap-A-Lot franchise artist Scarface approached Devin to be a part of his new group, Facemob. Facemob released one album in 1996, <a id="itxthook1" class="itxtrst itxtrsta itxthook" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; text-decoration: underline; border-bottom: 0.075em solid darkgreen; padding-bottom: 1px; color: darkgreen; background-color: transparent;" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.starpulse.com/Music/Devin_the_Dude/Biography/#"><span id="itxthook1w0" class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: darkgreen;">The</span><span id="itxthook1w1" class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: darkgreen;"> </span><span id="itxthook1w2" class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: darkgreen;">Other</span><span id="itxthook1w3" class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: darkgreen;"> </span><span id="itxthook1w4" class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: darkgreen;">Side</span></a> of the Law, and then broke up due to internal problems. At this time, Devin decided to work on his debut solo album, The Dude, with the help of Smith and Scarface. <br /> <br /> The Dude was released in 1998 with virtually no video and little radio play. The Dude was a smoothed-out, funk-laden album and an ode to wine, women, and weed. Regardless, the album built a large underground following and even caught the attention of veteran hip-hop producer <a id="itxthook2" class="itxtrst itxtrsta itxthook" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; text-decoration: underline; border-bottom: 0.075em solid darkgreen; padding-bottom: 1px; color: darkgreen; background-color: transparent;" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.starpulse.com/Music/Devin_the_Dude/Biography/#"><span id="itxthook2w0" class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: darkgreen;">Dr.</span><span id="itxthook2w1" class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: darkgreen;"> </span><span id="itxthook2w2" class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: darkgreen;">Dre</span></a>. He contacted Devin in 1999 and asked him to be a part of the 2001 album on the track "Fuck You." This single appearance made Devin a hot commodity, earning him appearances on songs with De La Soul, Raphael Saadiq, veteran rap group UGK, and a solo track on the Oz soundtrack. <br /> <br /> His anticipated sophomore LP, Just Tryin' ta Live, was released in the summer of 2002 and featured appearances from Nas, Xzibit, and <a id="itxthook3" class="itxtrst itxtrsta itxthook" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; text-decoration: underline; border-bottom: 0.075em solid darkgreen; padding-bottom: 1px; color: darkgreen; background-color: transparent;" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.starpulse.com/Music/Devin_the_Dude/Biography/#"><span id="itxthook3w0" class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: darkgreen;">Raphael</span><span id="itxthook3w1" class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: darkgreen;"> </span><span id="itxthook3w2" class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: darkgreen;">Saadiq</span></a> with production from Dre, DJ Premier, and his Coughee Brothas. To tha X-Treme arrived two years later and was followed in 2007 by Waiting to Inhale, his first album to crack the Top 40 on Billboards album chart. A year later, Landing Gear became his first album for the Razor & Tie label. Suite 420 followed in 2010 and had the honor of being released on the stoners holiday of April 20th (4/20). Quibian "Q" Salazar-Moreno, Rovi</p> <p><iframe></iframe></p> <p> <object width="420" height="315"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Fo_2TE6C56Y?version=3&hl=en_US" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Fo_2TE6C56Y?version=3&hl=en_US" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed> </object> </p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 10:10:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/49531<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/09/11/medium.c12ifa1nw744.jpg" /><br /><p>Wednesday, December 14, 2011.</p> <p>Transmission Entertainment Presents:</p> <p>The Couch (CD Release) + Zlam Dunk + Little Radar</p> <p>Doors: 6:30PM. Show: 7:30PM. Price: $6 ($8 minors)</p> <p>On Wednesday, December 14th, come down for <a href="https://www.facebook.com/thecouchmusic" target="_blank">The Couch</a>s <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/167991883299879/" target="_blank">CD Release show</a> at <strong>The Mohawk</strong>. You can check out their new single The Way You Came <a href="http://thecouch.bandcamp.com/track/the-way-you-came" target="_blank">via BandCamp</a>. The talented local outfit formed in San Marcos during the founding members time at <strong>Texas State University</strong>. Now based out of Austin, they recorded <em>Old and Touchin Blue</em> with <strong>Lars Goransson</strong> at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sounds-Outrageous-Studio/142809562425612" target="_blank">Sounds Outrageous Studio</a>. Theyll be preceded on stage this evening by fellow San Marcos transplants <a href="https://www.facebook.com/zlamdunkmusic" target="_blank">Zlam Dunk</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/littleradar" target="_blank">Little Radar</a>. Doors at 8p.m.; cover is $6 ($8 for minors).</p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 10:35:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/49551<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/02/02/medium.frx60iri983l.jpg" /><br /><p>Thursday, December 8th, 2011.</p> <p>Transmission Entertainment Presents:</p> <p>THE SEA AND CAKE + My Education.</p> <p>Doors: 7 PM. Show: 8 PM. Price: $15.</p> <p>The Sea and Cake are a post-rock supergroup of sorts, comprised of luminaries from the Chicago independent scene. The band is led by singer/guitarist Sam Prekop, who, along with bassist Eric Claridge, was an alumnus of the frequently brilliant Shrimp Boat. After that group's dissolution, Prekop and Claridge were offered the opportunity to embark on a new project and hastily recruited ex-Coctails guitarist Archer Prewitt and Tortoise drummer John McEntire before entering the studio. Originally intended as a one-off project, the musicians decided to continue performing together, and after selecting the name the Sea and Cake -- derived from McEntire's misinterpretation of the Gastr del Sol song "The C in Cake" -- they issued their eponymous 1994 debut, an enigmatic collection highlighting Prekop's stream-of-consciousness wordplay and singular fusion of pop, jazz, blue-eyed soul, and Krautrock styles. <br /> <br /> In 1995, the group returned with two more LPs, the intricate Nassau and the shimmering The Biz. After the release of The Fawn in 1997, the band took a break while both Prewitt and Prekop released solo albums. Finally, in 2000, the Sea and Cake released their fifth album, Oui, followed three years later by the delivery of their most elegant album yet, One Bedroom. By this point, the group's repertoire had swelled to include African-inspired riffs, Brazilian influences, and guitar-based indie pop, and they hit a wellspring of creativity as the decade wound to a close. Everybody and Car Alarm were released in quick succession, with Everybody appearing in 2007 and Car Alarm arriving in 2008. An EP, The Moonlight Butterfly, followed in 2011, as did a round of recording sessions for the band's tenth studio album. Jason Ankeny, Rovi</p> <p></p> <p> <object width="560" height="315"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Qd1-pkdi5BI?version=3&hl=en_US" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Qd1-pkdi5BI?version=3&hl=en_US" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed> </object> </p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 08:20:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/43021<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/15/03/medium.y035lmfm75a3.jpg" /><br /><p>Saturday, November 26, 2011.</p> <p>Transmission Entertainment Presents:</p> <p><em><strong>Scott H. Biram</strong></em> w/ Joe Buck + Molley Gene One Whoaman Band.</p> <p>Doors: 9PM. Show: 10PM. Price: $10 ADV, $12 DOS</p> <p>Rock Roll aint pretty and neither is Scott H. Biram. The self proclaimed Dirty Old One Man Band successfully, and sometimes violently, lashes together blues, hillbilly and country precariously to raucous punk and godless metal.</p> <p>Biram aint no candy-ass singer/songwriter either, sweetly strumming songs about girls with big eyes and dusty highways. <span class="caps">HELL</span> NO!!! His singing, yodeling, growling, leering and brash preachin and hollerin is accompanied by sloppy riffs and licks from his 1959 Gibson guitar and pounding backbeat brought forth by his amplified left foot. The remainder of this one-man band consists of an unwieldy combination of beat-up amplifiers and old microphones strung together by a tangled mess of guitar cables.</p> <p>Years of non-stop touring have honed his assault to a fine edge; his wide-eyed throw downs in the First Church of Ultimate Fanaticism routinely lead giddy followers to a fiery baptism.</p> <p>Scott H. Biram wont die. On May 11th, 2003, one month after being hit head-on by an 18-wheeler at 75 <span class="caps">MPH</span>, he took the stage at The Continental Club in Austin, TX in a wheel chair I.V. still dangling from his arm. With 2 broken legs, a broken foot, a broken arm and 1 foot less of his lower intestine, Biram unleashed his trademark musical wrath.</p> <p>When Scott H. Biram took the stage at his 2004 <span class="caps">SXSW</span> festival showcase right after Kris Kristofferson he was quoted as growling They said that was a hard act to followm a hard act to follow motherfuckers!! The stunned crowd looked on.</p> <p><em>s self described dirty old one-man band had a captivating immediacy that big rock shows rarely reach. On stage Scott is a man possessed, spitting and snarling like a Mississippi juke-joint shouter on a moonshine bender.</em> Eben Sterling, Thrasher</p> <p><em>He has a true stage presence that could be fairly compared to that of Clint Eastwood on film. The dudes more dude than most other dudes you will ever meet.</em> Austin Columnist</p> <p><em>An impassioned multi-instrumentalist unleashing a brutal cacophany with the fury of someone whose check from the Devil finally cleared. Half dirty blues, half underground punk, half honky-tonk, half revival meetingoh shut up about the math. Youll see the light.</em> Dayna Papaleo, Rochester City News</p> <p><em>His barbarous exorcism of Depression-era blueswith a bedrock of frantic flatpicking, foot stomps into a floor mike, and gutteral growls through a distortion mikehas made Biram a rising star in Austin.</em> Brian T. Atkinson, No Depression</p> <p><em>Biram is the kind of guy you dont laugh at all the way just in case he really is crazy. We all wanna be entertained, but nobody wants to get stabbed in the head with a screwdriver.</em> Frank de Blase, Rochester City News</p> <p><em>With a raw immediacy that recalls Hasil Adkins and Bob Log <span class="caps">III</span>, Biram specializes in a twisted hybrid of gutbucket, hillbilly and godless metal. Hell praise the virtues of moonshine and titty bars one minute, then tongue-lash city slickers and hippies the next.</em> John La Briola, Houston Press</p> <p><iframe></iframe></p> <p> <object width="560" height="315"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/WIa7rH350rM?version=3&hl=en_US" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/WIa7rH350rM?version=3&hl=en_US" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed> </object> </p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:55:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/49521<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/15/12/medium.h4fbs1i77ubk.jpg" /><br /><p>Friday, November 25th, 2011.</p> <p>RIGHT ON! DJ Captain Jim.</p> <p>Time:5PM-8pm. // Price: FREE</p> <p>BLACK (SABBATH) FRIDAY.</p> <p>Time: 8PM - 2AM. // Price: NO COVER.</p> <p>Today Sabbath Has Begun - Materialists Everywhere Are Worshipping At The Altar of Consumption. It is Bedlam.</p> <p>Come Laugh At the Madness With US - as we celebrate Balck (Sabbath) Friday, proper, with the Gods of Rock, and their thralls, Jameson + Lonestar (or the "Moonpie," if you prefer). It's a fire-sale on booze, with Happy Hour All Day, DJing Classic Rock + Metal, Fire-Place-a-roaring & Hammerschlagen.</p> <p></p> <p> <object width="560" height="315"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MsSSn3vaPJI?version=3&hl=en_US" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MsSSn3vaPJI?version=3&hl=en_US" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed> </object> </p> <p></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:05:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/52791<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/06/15/medium.p123dfkshx6t.jpg" /><br /><p>Thursday, November 24, 2011.</p> <p></p> <p>"Happy Thanksgiving." - Mohawk. <br />We'll be busy stalking, hunting & surviving in the yearly war of Man v Turkey. Ramble (or shuffle) your way in Friday for NO COVER, warm fires, cheap booze & boss music. Survive. Eat Well. And Live to tell us the Tale on Friday.</p> <p> <object width="420" height="315"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/NZyVZFJGX5g?version=3&hl=en_US" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/NZyVZFJGX5g?version=3&hl=en_US" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed> </object> </p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:00:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/52761<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/02/10/medium.x6185f3egtw0.jpg" /><br /><p>Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011.</p> <p>Transmision Events Presents:</p> <p>Future Islands + Ed Schraders Music Beat + The Sour Notes + Knifight</p> <p>Doors: 9PM // Set Times: 10PM * 11PM * 12AM * 1AM</p> <p>Ticket Price: $9 ADV // $11 DOS</p> <p>Too many bands in the era of buzz and the blog are taken before their time. The spotlight hits hard and finds a group who has not yet developed, not yet put in the work to find their sound and hone it and make themselves better, and just as quickly theyre gone. Future Islands are not one of those bands.</p> <p>J Gerrit Welmers, William Cashion and Samuel T Herring have been making music together since 2003, and as Future Islands since 2006, putting in the work. Formed as college friends in Greenville, NC, Future Islands relocated to Baltimore after becoming friends with Dan Deacon, an early and avid supporter of the band. Theyve released a handful of CD-Rs, tapes and limited vinyl releases, and their debut album Wave Like Home came out on UK label Upset the Rhythm in 2008. Theyve toured extensively in the US and Europe, including the Baltimore Round Robin tours and opening for and performing in Dan Deacons large ensemble.</p> <p>For their effort, Future Islands have mastered their style, which Rolling Stone describes as, adding punishing heft to simple pop melodies, making blippy electropop sound oddly confrontational. Future Islands calls is taking in part from the emotional fragility of New Wave and coupling it with the power and drive of Post-Punk.</p> <p>Future Islands music is spearheaded by Welmers, whose layers of synths and drums create the landscape for Cashions punching-strum bass guitar, that pulses and fights, creating noise and bliss. Herring, who has been called one of the most magnetic frontmen in indie rock, finds his space in between. Carving through the music, at times, with a whispering croon, and at others, with a deathly wail.</p> <p>http://www.conspiracyrecords.com/booking/artist/future-islands/</p> <p><iframe></iframe></p> <p> <object width="560" height="315"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9GhtZt2HYkM?version=3&hl=en_US" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9GhtZt2HYkM?version=3&hl=en_US" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed> </object> </p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:05:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/52111<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/07/10/medium.5p771lxz5ksq.jpg" /><br /><p>Saturday, November 19th, 2011.</p> <p>Transmission Entertainment Presents:</p> <p>OUTSIDE // MELT BANANA + 400 Blows.</p> <p>INSIDE // Prince Rama + Indian Jewelry.</p> <p>Doors: 8 PM. // Show: 9 PM. // Price: $10 ADV & $12 DOS.</p> <p>Japanese noise rock band <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/melt-banana/1171475">Melt Banana</a> found more success in the U.S. and the U.K. than in their own country, gaining a small but dedicated fan base among American and European punk rock fans. Although their music sounds noticeably different from any sort of traditional punk, it contains some punk elements: shrieking vocals, overdriven guitars, and one-and-a-half-minute songs. <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/melt-banana/1171475">Melt Banana</a>'s unique style, however, comes as a result of the distinctly piercing vocals of lead singer <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/yasuko-o/1462971">Yasuko O.</a>, as well as the frenzied, effect-charged playing of guitarist <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/agata/1451606">Agata</a>. Searing, intense, and mind-blowingly fast are perhaps the first adjectives that come to mind when listening to <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/melt-banana/1171475">Melt Banana</a>'s music. Try to imagine an even more energetic incarnation of <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/the-boredoms/1003161">the Boredoms</a>. But, for many, the appeal of <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/melt-banana/1171475">Melt Banana</a> is not entirely limited to their music. <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/yasuko-o/1462971">Yasuko O.</a>'s lyrics and song titles reflect a Japanese pop culture that is fascinating and strange, yet attractive to many non-Japanese fans. <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/melt-banana/1171475">Melt Banana</a> has capitalized on this phenomenon heavily, in their merchandising as well as on their albums. As time passes, their overshadowing influence is becoming more and more evident within the cultish following of the noise-core movement. However, it is the band's incredible severity and furious sound that has gained them the most recognition. Their shockingly intense live shows are that of sheer legend, with many fans leaving sweaty and exhausted, and <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/yasuko-o/1462971">Yasuko O.</a> often persevering through nosebleeds. <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/agata/1451606">Agata</a> and <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/o/1462971">O.</a> joined bassist <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/rika/470383">Rika</a> in 1992, and they played as a trio until later that year when drummer <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/sudoh-toshiaki/1348002">Sudoh Toshiaki</a> joined the group. In 1994 they signed with British label Chocolate Monk, and that label released one title, <a href="http://music.aol.com/album/cactuses-come-in-flocks/397665">Cactuses Come in Flocks</a>, which was made available at first only on cassette tape. They later signed to Skin Graft and released their second album that year, <a href="http://music.aol.com/album/speak-squeak-creak/220659">Speak Squeak Creak</a>, followed by <a href="http://music.aol.com/album/scratch-or-stitch/220658">Scratch or Stitch</a> in 1995. <a href="http://music.aol.com/album/scratch-or-stitch/220658">Scratch or Stitch</a> was recorded and mixed by Chicago avant-garde masters <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/steve-albini/1037012">Steve Albini</a> and <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/jim-orourke/1090755">Jim O'Rourke</a>, and showcases some of <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/melt-banana/1171475">Melt Banana</a>'s best work. After releasing a large number of split releases on various labels, late in 1997 <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/melt-banana/1171475">Melt Banana</a> started their own label, A-Zap Records. <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/toshiaki/1348002">Toshiaki</a> quit the band the following month and was later replaced with Oshima from Satanic Hell Slaughter. In 1998, the band released <a href="http://music.aol.com/album/charlie/330164">Charlie</a>, with <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/albini/1037012">Albini</a> acting as producer again, and elected to up the ante by adding a variety of guests (including <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/mr-bungle/1004263">Mr. Bungle</a>'s <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/mike-patton/1092623">Mike Patton</a> and <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/trevor-dunn/1056696">Trevor Dunn</a>). This attracted the attention of fellow <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/bungle/1004263">Bungle</a> noise experimentalist <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/john-zorn/1117501">John Zorn</a>, who captured one of their wild shows for his label Tzadik that year, just before <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/melt-banana/1171475">Melt Banana</a> returned to the studio to record the typically crazed <a href="http://music.aol.com/album/teeny-shiny/459346">Teeny Shiny</a> in 2000. Six more split records and a <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/peel/1092985">Peel</a> session later, they released 2003's <a href="http://music.aol.com/album/cell-scape/586745">Cell-Scape</a>, which focused more on slowly building the wailing screeches into a rocketing ferocity. After their longest recording break, <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/melt-banana/1171475">Melt Banana</a> returned in 2007 with <a href="http://music.aol.com/album/bambis-dilemma/1186716">Bambi's Dilemma</a>, which reverted back to even shorter, faster blasts of musical adrenaline. ~ Ben Tausig & Jason Lymangrover, Rovi</p> <p></p> <p> <object width="420" height="315"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TAdC2GtvgRA?version=3&hl=en_US" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TAdC2GtvgRA?version=3&hl=en_US" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed> </object> </p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:05:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/43001<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/12/12/medium.hi7723e2dvki.jpg" /><br /><p>Friday, November 8th, 2011.</p> <p>Transmission Events Presents:</p> <p>"LANGUAGE FOR ALL" // A CONCERT TO BENEFIT THE SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF.</p> <p>Fresh Millions + The Dark Water Hymnal + Gold Beach + The Great Nostalgic + The Pons + The Sour Notes + One Hundred Flowers + Anam Mila</p> <p>Doors @ 7PM. // Doors @ 8PM. // $10 = 18 & Up.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: 11pt;">A Benefit Concert for Texas School for the Deaf</span></em></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Texas School for the Deaf (TSD), the oldest continuously operating, publicly funded school in Texas, announced today, as part of their ongoing<em>Language For All</em>campaign, a benefit concert Friday, November 18^th, 2011 at The Mohawk. The line-up features some of Austins best local talent across two stages.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Event details are as follows:</span></p> <ul style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Friday, November 18^th, 2011 at The Mohawk</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Doors open at 7 P.M. Music begins at 8 P.M.</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">18 and over</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">$10 donation/entry fee</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Outside stage:<strong> Fresh Millions, The Dark Water Hymnal, Gold Beach, The Great Nostalgic</strong></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Inside stage:<strong> The Pons, The Sour Notes, One Hundred Flowers, Anam Mil</strong></span><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span></strong></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Entry includes a free music download card with songs donated by the bands</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Music signing provided by LotuSIGN</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Plinko with prizes from local sponsors, including Amys Ice Cream, End of an Ear Records, Triple Crown Tattoo, Maria Maria, Thunderbird Coffee, Bacon and Frank.</span></li> </ul> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Language For All</span></em></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Campaign<br /><br /></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">With budgets dwindling, deaf and hard of hearing students access to language is being threatened. TSD is embarking on an ambitious campaign to inspire Texans to support a cause that ensures the availability of this fundamental right to all of its citizens. Through a diverse and creative series of community activities, TSD is embarking on a relentless crusade to fight for<em>Language For All.</em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">TSD kicked off its<em>Language For All</em>campaign on September 1^st, 2011 at First Thursday on South Congress Avenue with the announcement of the Austin City Limits Music Festival raffle winner at the TSD booth.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Other campaign activities include:</span></p> <ul style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">New<a class="external" style="color: #196b7b;" href="https://www.facebook.com/LanguageForAll" target="_blank">Facebook page</a>with information on TSD events, promotions and students</span></li> </ul> <ul style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Twitter campaign</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">First Thursday booths</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Promotional pieces t-shirts, flags, stickers, etc.</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Sponsorship kit</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><em><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Language For All</span></em><span style="font-size: 10pt;">event series</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">PSAs</span></li> </ul> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">About Texas School for the Deaf<br /><br /></span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Educating deaf and hard of hearing students since 1856,The Texas School for the Deaf (TSD) is also anoutreach and educational resourcescenter for students, their families and professionals in the field throughout Texas. Overlooking the hill country, across the river from downtown Austin, TSD is one of the most recognized and beautiful campuses in all of Texas. It is our educational excellence, our belief in a culture and community that embraces deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing individuals alike, and our commitment to helping each child reach his or her potential that drives our mission to provide an environment where deaf and hard of hearing children can learn, grow, and belong.For more information about the Texas School for the Deaf, visit<a class="external" style="color: #196b7b;" href="http://www.tsd.state.tx.us/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">www.tsd.state.tx.us</span></a>.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">http://do512.com/event/2011/11/18/language-for-all-benefit-concert-event<br /></span></p> <p></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 07:45:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/52101<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/08/01/medium.99wflwki85dc.gif" /><br /><p>Monday, November 14, 2011.</p> <p>Transmission Entertainment // Scoremore Presents:</p> <p>IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE + KILLER MIKE.</p> <p>Doors: 6:30 PM. Price: $20</p> <p>STAY TUNED FOR DEETS.</p> <p><em>Immortal Technique:</em></p> <p>Felipe Andres Coronel (born February 19, 1978), better known by the stage name Immortal Technique, is a Peruvian rapper, and an urban activist. He was born in Lima, Peru and raised in Harlem, New York. Most of his lyrics focus on controversial issues in global politics. The views expressed in his lyrics are largely a mixture of socialist commentary on issues such as class hierarchy, poverty, religion, government and institutional racism.<br /> <br /> Immortal Technique has voiced a desire to keep control over his production, and has stated in his music that record companies, not artists themselves, profit the most from mass production and marketing of music. He claimed in an interview to have sold close to 200,000 units of his three official releases.</p> <p><em>Killer Mike:</em></p> <p>OutKast associate Killer Mike earned his own hit in 2003 with "A.D.I.D.A.S." He debuted two years earlier on "The Whole World," from the greatest-hits <a id="itxthook0" class="itxtrst itxtrsta itxthook" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; text-decoration: underline; border-bottom: 0.075em solid darkgreen; padding-bottom: 1px; color: darkgreen; background-color: transparent;" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.starpulse.com/Music/Killer_Mike/Biography/#"><span id="itxthook0w0" class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: darkgreen;">Big</span><span id="itxthook0w1" class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: darkgreen;"> </span><span id="itxthook0w2" class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: darkgreen;">Boi</span></a> and Dre Present...OutKast. After signing to Columbia, his first single, "A.D.I.D.A.S.," hit the pop charts in March 2003, and the subsequent album, Monster, debuted in the Top Ten. In 2006 he released the first volume of his mixtape series I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind. Two years later a second volume appeared and then, in 2011, the series graduated to status when the third volume, PL3DGE, landed on the SMC label.</p> <p><iframe></iframe> <iframe></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 09:35:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/49511<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/06/06/medium.m29g27067gvu.jpg" /><br /><p>Wednesday, November 9th, 2011.</p> <p>Transmission Entertainment Presents:</p> <p>PHANTOGRAM + Reptar + TBA</p> <p>Doors: 6:30 PM. Show: 7:30 PM. Price: $10 ADV, $12 DOS // SOLD OUT //</p> <p><a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/phantogram/2404453">Phantogram</a> is an electronic rock duo from upstate New York whose music incorporates psychedelic pop vocals, <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/j-dilla/2162707">J Dilla</a>-style hip-hop beats, and shoegazing sensibility. Founded in 2007 and based in Saratoga Springs, NY, the duo is comprised of longtime friends <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/josh-carter/2618184">Josh Carter</a> (guitar, vocals) and <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/sarah-barthel/2618214">Sarah Barthel</a> (keyboards, vocals), who originally hail from the nearby small town of Greenwich, NY. Originally known as Charlie Everywhere and associated with the local independent label Sub-Bombin Records, the duo released the eponymous Phantogram EP in March 2009 and sparked widespread interest with two songs in particular, "Mouthful of Diamonds" and "When I'm Small." <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/phantogram/2404453">Phantogram</a> subsequently released the Running from the Cops EP in May 2009 on the international label BBE Records. The duo finally made its full-length album debut with <a href="http://music.aol.com/album/eyelid-movies/1564817">Eyelid Movies</a> (2010), an 11-track album featuring the four previously released EP songs "Mouthful of Diamonds," "When I'm Small," "Running from the Cops," and "Bloody Palms." The album was released internationally by BBE Records, domestically by Barsuk Records, and on vinyl by Ghostly International. ~ Jason Birchmeier, Rovi</p> <p></p> <p><iframe></iframe> <iframe></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 08:15:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/43011<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/12/04/medium.zp36z76xn0c7.jpg" /><br /><p>Sunday, November 6, 2011.</p> <p>Transmission Entertainment // FFF 2011 Presents:</p> <p>ZERO BOYS + Night Siege + Rituals (Ex-You People).</p> <p>Admission FREE with FFF Fest Wristbands.</p> <p>DOORS @ 9PM. Price: FFF Wristbands Only.</p> <p>***EARLY-BIRD LIMITED CASH ENTRY - $10 AT DOOR.***</p> <p>INSIDE:</p> <p><em><strong>Zero Boys</strong></em> // 12:15-1:00</p> <p>Night Siege // 11:15-12:00</p> <p>Rituals // 10:30-11:00</p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 09:00:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/49501<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/13/09/medium.k201w9j8fy7j.jpg" /><br /><p>Friday, October 4, 2011.</p> <p>Transmission Entertainment // FFF Fest 2011 Presents:</p> <p>GLASS CANDY + COLD CAVE + Big Freedia + Fat Tony + BBF (Djing) + Brandt Brauer Fricke (DJing) + Others.</p> <p>Admission FREE with FFF Fest Wristbands.</p> <p>Doors @ 9:00PM. Price: FFF Wristbands Only.</p> <p>***EARLY-BIRD LIMITED CASH ENTRY - $10 AT DOOR.***</p> <div style="background-color: transparent;"> <div style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; background-color: transparent;"><em>OUTSIDE:</em></div> <div style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; background-color: transparent;"><em>Glass Candy // 11:15-12:00</em></div> <div style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; background-color: transparent;"><em>Cold Cave // 10:30-11:00 <br /> </em></div> <div style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; background-color: transparent;"><em>DJs Performing Throughout Night. </em></div> <div style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; background-color: transparent;"><em><br /></em></div> <div style="background-color: transparent;">INSIDE:<br />Big Freedia // 1:00-1:30</div> <div style="background-color: transparent;">BBF djing again // 12:30-1:00</div> <div style="background-color: transparent;">Fat Tony // 12:00-12:30</div> <div style="background-color: transparent;">Brandt Brauer Fricke djing // 11:00-12:00</div> </div> <p></p> <p></p> <p><iframe></iframe> <iframe></iframe> <iframe></iframe> <iframe></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 23:30:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/49471<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/02/02/medium.pin731u723yw.jpg" /><br /><p>Saturday, October 5, 2011.</p> <p>Transmission Entertainment // FFF 2011 Presents:</p> <p>THE FELICE BROTHERS + Gill Landry + Old Man Markley +Delicate Steve + Pat Jordache + ANR + Delicate Steve + Others.</p> <p>Admission FREE with FFF Fest Wristbands.</p> <p>DOORS @ 8:30PM. Price: FFF Wristbands Only.</p> <p>***EARLY-BIRD LIMITED CASH ENTRY - $10 AT DOOR.***</p> <p>OUTSIDE:</p> <p>The Felice Brothers // 11:10-12</p> <p>Gill Landry (Old Crow Medicine Show) // 10:15-10:55</p> <p>Old Man Markley // 9:30-10:00</p> <p>INSIDE:</p> <p>Delicate Steve // 2:00 - 3:00</p> <p>+ DAYLIGHT SAVINGS PARTY</p> <p>Pat Jordache // 1:00 - 2:00</p> <p>ANR // 12:00 - 1:00</p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 08:45:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/49481<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/15/15/medium.xhvqrkj67rft.jpg" /><br /><div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"> <p>Thursday, November 3, 2011.</p> </div> <div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"> <p>Transmission Entertainment // FFF Fest 2011 Presents:</p> </div> <div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"> <p>Ty Segall + The Coathangers + The Young + Underground Railroad To Candyland + Ghostknife & Others</p> </div> <div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"> <p>Admission FREE with FFF Fest Wristbands.</p> </div> <div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"> <p>Doors @ 7:30PM. Price: FFF Wristband Only.</p> <p>***EARLY-BIRD LIMITED CASH ENTRY - $10 AT DOOR.***</p> </div> <div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"> <div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"> <p>OUTSIDE:</p> </div> <div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"> <p><em><strong>Ty Segall</strong></em> // 10:15-11:00</p> </div> <div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"> <p>The Coathangers // 9:20-10:00</p> </div> <div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"> <p>The Young // 8:30-9:05</p> </div> <p></p> <div style="background-color: transparent;"> <p>INSIDE:</p> <p><em><strong>Underground Railroad To Candyland</strong></em> // 12:45-CLOSE</p> </div> <div style="background-color: transparent;"> <p>Ghostknife // 11:45-12:30</p> </div> <p>Come And Take It // 11:00-11:30</p> </div><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 08:15:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/49461<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/00/02/medium.612nyl494thr.jpg" /><br /><p><span class="gI"><span class="ik">Monday, October 31, 2011.</span></span></p> <p><span class="gI"><span class="ik">Transmission Entertainment Presents:<br /></span></span></p> <p><span class="gI"><span class="ik">White Ghost Shivers w/ Clyde & Clem's Whiskey Business + BOOMTOWN!</span></span></p> <p><span class="gI"><span class="ik">Doors @ 7:30PM / Show 8PM. Ticket Price: $15 ADV, $20 DOS.</span></span></p> <p><span class="gI"><span class="ik">Join us in celebrating Halloween with </span></span><span class="gI"><span class="ik">White Ghost Shivers, Clyde & Clem's Whiskey Business & BOOMTOWN! for a "Blue" Themed party at the Mohawk. http://www.whiteghostshivers.com/home/index.php</span></span></p> <p><span class="desc">White Ghost Shivers have been peeling faces off of the unexpecting for nine years now. They revel in string band music from the 20's and 30's, mixing early jazz, hokum, vaudeville, ragtime, western swing, and hillbilly, while at the same time unleashing the gutterous underbelly of a pseudo-rock world gone wrong.</span></p> <p><span class="desc"></span><span class="gI"><span class="ik">Halloween photo booths, costumes, booze + more at this Mohawk Creative Event.</span></span></p> <p><span class="gI"><span class="ik"><img src="http://youtu.be/tN_maRkUl1M" alt="" /><br /></span></span></p> <p><iframe></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:30:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/49441<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/05/10/medium.ojg690p9vui6.jpg" /><br /><p>Saturday, October 29th, 2011.</p> <p>Transmission Entertainment Presents:</p> <p>ZOLA JESUS + Xanopticon. Show is Inside w/ Crystal Antlers + Boy.</p> <p>$13. Doors @ 8pm. Show @ 9pm.</p> <div id="player-bio"> <div class="bio"> <p><a href="http://mog.com/artists/mn786696/zola-jesus">"Zola Jesus</a> is the project of Madison, Wisconsins Nika Roza Danilova, who crafts dark music dominated by her operatic vocals and keyboards. Danilova showed an interest in singing early on, buying voice lesson tapes and opera sheet music at age seven; soon after, she began working with a vocal coach for the next decade. Anxiety and the competitive nature of opera caused her to stop singing for a couple of years, but missing that form of expression spurred her to begin <a href="http://mog.com/artists/mn786696/zola-jesus">Zola Jesus</a>. Inspired by high-school favorites like Diamanda Gals, Lydia Lunch, Throbbing Gristle, and the Swans, Danilova made cathartic home recordings using keyboards, drum machines, and anything else she had on hand. Her first officially released music included a couple of 2008 7"s: the Poor Sons EP on Die Stasi and Soeur Sewer on Sacred Bones. In 2009, <a href="http://mog.com/artists/mn786696/zola-jesus">Zola Jesus</a> became one of the most talked and blogged-about underground artists, and her release and touring schedule reflected that: along with the full-length The Spoils, she also released the Tsar Bomba EP on Troubleman, New Amsterdam on Sacred Bones, and an untitled, limited-edition vinyl album and a split release with Burial Hex on Aurora Borealis. For her live band, she recruited her cousin Dead Luke to play synths, bassist Lindsay Mikkola, and drummer Max Elliott. Danilova also played in the group Former Ghosts, which featured Xiu Xius Jamie Stewart and Freddy Ruppert. She remained just as busy in 2010, touring with Fever Ray and the xx and releasing the cleaner-sounding Stridulum, Stridulum II, and Valusia EPs. The following year she collaborated with Prefuse 73 on The Misanthrope Meditation Mix and released her third full-length, Conatus, which found Danilova continuing to move away from her lo-fi roots and toward experimental electronic pop."</p> <p>~ Heather Phares, Rovi</p> </div> </div> <p></p> <p><iframe></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/46201<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/05/02/medium.29o0b5728yj9.jpg" /><br /><p>Friday, October 28th, 2011.</p> <p>Transmission Entertainment Presents:</p> <p>GIRL IN A COMA w/ Agent Ribbons + Beat Dolls.</p> <p>Doors: 8 PM. Show: 9 PM. Ticket Price: $10, $12 (minors)</p> <p>Naming themselves in homage of the Smiths' song "Girlfriend in a Coma," Girl in a Coma started in San Antonio, TX, with bassist Jenn Alva and drummer Phanie Diaz, two best friends who bonded thanks to a shared interest in Nirvana and the Smiths. The duo endured several failed experiments in both band lineups and musical styles before discovering that Nina Diaz, Phanie's younger sister, possessed talent as a singer, guitarist, and songwriter. Though Nina was only 12 when she performed her first song for them, both Alva and Diaz recognized her potential. After recruiting the younger Diaz, Girl in a Coma spent five years writing, performing, and touring before coming to the attention of label reps and tour managers in the summer of 2004. One of the managers sent a homemade demo tape to Morrissey music director Boz Boorer; after hearing it, Boorer invited the trio to London to record its first demo. Soon after returning, Girl in a Coma found themselves featured in a <a id="itxthook0" class="itxtrst itxtrsta itxthook" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; text-decoration: underline; border-bottom: 0.075em solid darkgreen; padding-bottom: 1px; color: darkgreen; background-color: transparent;" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.starpulse.com/Music/Girl_in_a_Coma/Biography/#"><span id="itxthook0w0" class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: darkgreen;">television</span></a> documentary about emerging Latino bands. As part of the show, the group went to New York City for a show at the Knitting Factory and a surprise meeting with Joan Jett. While on camera, Jett and her producing partner Kenny Laguna praised the trio's set -- and invited the band to join the Blackheart Records label. Girl in a Coma accepted and released their debut album, Both Before I'm Gone, in May 2007. Katherine Fulton, Rovi</p> <p></p> <p><iframe></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 08:45:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/43061<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/02/09/medium.l589752f33a4.jpg" /><br /><p>10.01.2011</p> <p><strong>October Home-Brewed Events & Happy Hours at the Mohawk. Oh... + Drink Specials. Every TUE - FRI this October.</strong></p> <p>TUE // Mike & The Moonpies Presents:" Different local favorites & jams - hand-picked by our hometown heroes. Live Music & Specials.</p> <p>WED // "Bear To Live." Bike Happy Hours @ Mohawk. Motorcycles & Cyclists Have A Happy Hour w/ deals & plenty of bike parking = new bike racks & motorcycle parking inside club.</p> <p>THU // "DJ Big Easy" on the Big Deck. Vinyl. Sno Cones. Patio Benches. Roofdeck Party.</p> <p>Thu 20th // "Heavy Petty:" A Tribute + Birthday Party for Tom Petty. Live Music Inside.</p> <p>FRI // "Right On!" Happy Hour DJs w/Afro Soul Funk Boogaloo Breaks Rare Grooves.</p> <p>SAT 15TH // OKTOBERFEST! Club Deville, Red River Flats & Mohawk Team-Up to create a collaborative event with authentic German food, live music & great Deutsches Bier.</p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 19:15:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/48651<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/03/15/medium.65v1n4j84wx4.jpg" /><br /><p>Friday, October 21st, 2011.</p> <p>Proper Entertainmnt// Knuckle Rumbler Present:</p> <p>TALIB KWELI. (Limited/Early Bird Tix $17)</p> <p>$20 ADVANCE. $25 DOS.</p> <p>Doors @ 8pm. Show @ 8:30pm.</p> <p>"<span class="desc">Ever since emerging as a member of Black Star in the late 1990s, Talib Kweli is one of the few artists making commercially viable music that matters. The Brooklyn bred rapper's hard-hitting music has been able to educate and entertain simultaneously. So it is no wonder that at the peak of their fame, both Jay-Z and 50 Cent named Talib Kweli as one of their favorite rappers. </span></p> <p>With Ear Drum, his first album released on his own Blacksmith Music and his sixth album overall, Kweli has delivered his career-defining work, a polished collection showcasing his advanced lyricism and his penchant for picking music that resonates long after the song ends. "The image of the ear and of the drum are powerful enough by themselves, but when you put them together, it's an instrument that's in your body that helps you hear," he explains. "They're also two very simple, yet powerful words. I wanted to focus on finding a sound that makes you move, and that's where the word 'Ear Drum' popped in my head."</p> <p>Throughout Ear Drum, Kweli delivers powerful music that sparks your intellect and makes your body move. He teams with Reflection Eternal partner Hi-Tek on "More Or Less." Over pounding drums and a minimalistic groove, Kweli makes brash declarations on how to improve music specifically and American society in general. "A statement like, we need 'more rap songs that stress purpose/With less misogyny and less curses/Let's put more depth in our verses,' I haven't made bold, blatant statements since that like 'Manifesto.' There are fans of mine that really appreciate those statements because there are times when those statements need to be made."</p> <p>An equally bold Ear Drum moment comes on "Country Cousins," which features Kweli trading verses with UGK and Raheem DeVaughn. Over a soulful beat accented by brassy horns, Kweli, Bun B and Pimp C talk about the reality of their experiences growing up in New York and Texas, respectively. "People have the perception of what an East Coast artist sounds like, who he's supposed to be listening to and what he likes, and what a Down South artist sounds like," Kweli explains. "There's preconceived notions and that's really what the song with Bun and Pimp C is about, the preconceived notions between East Coast artists and Down South artists."</p> <p>Throughout Ear Drum, Kweli makes a point to explore new topics, collaborate with a variety of artists and rap over distinctively innovative production. It is part of Kweli's growth as an artist and as a person. "We need to challenge our audience but we also need to challenge ourselves to know that whatever our new experiences are, we can write about them, be creative and bring that to an audience without them feeling alienated," he says.</p> <p>Long-time Talib Kweli followers will say the same thing about him. Since his stellar debut with Mos Def as Black Star, Kweli has been one of rap's most exceptional and consistent artists. Released in 2000, Reflection Eternal, the RIAA-certified gold album with Hi-Tek, was one of the most acclaimed albums of the year. In 2002, smash single "Get By," the biting political commentary "The Proud" and the insightful examination of America's gun culture on "Gun Music" made Quality a landmark recording and Kweli's second gold album. Subsequent recordings in 2004 (The Beautiful Struggle) and 2005 (Right About Now) solidified his status as one of rap's most talented and important voices.</p> <p>Now, after establishing himself as a rap visionary, Kweli along with long-time manager Corey Smyth launched Blacksmith Music. The pair signed an exclusive deal with Warner Bros. to market, promote, and distribute the music of Blacksmith artists. Following Kweli's release on Blacksmith/WBR there will be a new solo album from Jean Grae, the critically acclaimed South African-born female rapper who is among the most respected female rappers in the history of the genre. Rolling Stone called her "the best kept secret on New Yorks indie hip-hop scene," while XXL, Spin, Village Voice, URB and others have labeled her an artist to watch. Strong Arm Steady, a forthcoming Blacksmith/WBR release, is a super group whose members are platinum rapper and Pimp My Ride host Xzibit, Los Angeles underground star Phil The Agony, lyrical assassin Krondon and San Diego rap pioneer Mitchy Slick. Strong Arm Steady has been one of the few West Coast acts to build a rabid fanbase through mixtapes.</p> <p>Kweli hopes Blacksmith will create a movement with Jean Grae and Strong Arm Steady, much as his own music has. "With Blacksmith, I want it to be a flag that everyone can wave," he says. "I want to be packing shows and I want people to feel like they were up on Jean Grae and Strong Arm Steady before anybody else was."</p> <p>In the mean time, the lyrically and sonically potent Ear Drum demonstrates that strong, powerful messages can serve as the backbone for music at its best. "The vast majority of my subject matter focuses on black self-love, black self esteem, black self worth," Kweli says. "That translates to other communities because if you're a human being, it doesn't matter what color you're talking about. You've been through some sort of struggle and you can apply it to your own life."</p> <p>Especially after listening to Ear Drum." - http://www.jambase.com/Artists/11288/Talib-Kweli/Bio</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p><iframe></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:00:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/45741<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/11/00/medium.q9d2cebo1v5v.jpg" /><br /><p>Thursday, October 20th 2011.</p> <p>Transmission Entertainment Presents:</p> <p>ASTRONAUTALIS w/ Telegraph Canyon, Playdough.</p> <p>$8 Advance ($12 Day of Show) Doors @ 7pm. Show @ 8pm</p> <p>"It was only after having chosen the name <a class="dlink" href="http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,3325199,00.html">Astronautalis</a> for himself while in high school in Jacksonville, FL, that the rapper (born Andy Bothwell) began to make himself heard in the local circuit, winning battles and competing at the Scribble Jam. Though he was known for his witty freestyling, <a class="dlink" href="http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,3325199,00.html">Astronautalis</a>' musical influences and interests fell outside the hip-hop realm, as well, and he performed on the Warped Tour for three years. It was his rhyming, however, that he pursued while studying theater at college in Dallas, and in 2003 he self-released his debut, You and Yer Good Ideas (which was sold only at his live shows), with production help from friend and fellow musician <a class="dlink" href="http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,2526546,00.html">Ben Cooper</a> (from Radical Face). It wasn't until two years later that the album was picked up by Orlando-based Fighting Records (who signed him after seeing him perform), which reissued it and then in 2006 released his follow-up, Mighty Ocean and Nine Dark Theaters, a record that found <a class="dlink" href="http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,3325199,00.html">Astronautalis</a> moving away from rapping and more toward shoegazer-inspired <a id="itxthook0" class="itxtrst itxtrsta itxthook" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; text-decoration: underline; border-bottom: 0.075em solid #e98a02; padding-bottom: 1px; color: #e98a02; background-color: transparent;" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.artistdirect.com/#"><span id="itxthook0w0" class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: #e98a02;">indie</span><span id="itxthook0w1" class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: #e98a02;"> </span><span id="itxthook0w2" class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: #e98a02;">rock</span></a>. ~ Marisa Brown, All Music Guide"</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p><iframe></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:35:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/48641<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/15/04/medium.h3s5p4uo3i9v.jpg" /><br /><p>Monday, Ocober 17th, 2011.</p> <p>Transmission Entertainment Presents:</p> <p>WASHED OUT + Sleep Over.<span></span></p> <div class="description">$10 Advance ($12 Day of Show) Doors @ 6:30. Show @ 7:30.</div> <p>Ernest Greene had been involved in a number of musical endeavors by the time he started putting together a series of recordings as <a href="http://mog.com/artists/mn837991/washed-out">Washed Out</a>. Leading up to his first <a href="http://mog.com/artists/mn837991/washed-out">Washed Out</a> recordings in the summer of 2009, Greene had worked on a similarly noisy and computerized (albeit far more guitar-heavy and fast-paced) bedroom recording project called Lee Weather. He had also worked on a series of dance music recordings with a local band in Columbia, SC called Bedroom. <a href="http://mog.com/artists/mn837991/washed-out">Washed Out</a>'s initial offerings -- drowsy, distorted, dance pop-influenced tracks that brought to mind Neon Indian and Memory Cassette -- would reflect the influence of both of these projects. Mexican Summer digitally released <a href="http://mog.com/artists/mn837991/washed-out">Washed Out</a>'s debut EP, Life of Leisure, in mid-2009; the EP was released on vinyl in October of that year. A limited-edition, cassette-only release, the High Times EP, was released on Mirror Universe that September. In 2011, Greene signed on with Sub Pop, releasing his first full-length as <a href="http://mog.com/artists/mn837991/washed-out">Washed Out</a>, Within and Without, later that year.</p> <div id="player-bio"> <div class="bio"> <p>~ Margaret Reges, Rovi</p> </div> </div> <p></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 12:35:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/43721<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/10/04/medium.c40s0l62cbs9.jpg" /><br /><p>Saturday, October 15th 2011.</p> <p>Mohawk, Club Deville and Red River Flats Presents:<br /> <br /> 3pm-7pm. $5 cover benefiting St. Jude's.</p> <p>A Mohawk Collaborative "Block-Party:" Sauerkraut Eating Competition. Food Vendors. Hammerschlagen @ the Mohawk on the Mezzanine. Three Bands + Two Clubs + One Great Cause = Fun & Food Four Everyone.<br /> <br /> 3:00 @ Club DeVille - TBA<br /> 4:00 @ Club DeVille - Forever Overhead<br /> 5:00-7:00 @ Mohawk - The Motts</p> <p><br />Featuring "The Best in Oktoberfest Food Vendors:" Daily Press, Best Wurst, Coolhaus Austin</p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 11:15:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/48841<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/00/12/medium.50s3lzh06ut5.jpg" /><br /><p>Saturday October 15th, 2011.</p> <p>Transmission Entertainment Presents:</p> <p>Bob Log III + Mr Free and The Satellite Freakout!<span></span></p> <div class="description"> <p>$8 Advance ($10 Day of Show) Doors @ 9pm. Show @ 10pm.</p> </div> <p>Tucson, AZ-based blues-punk primitive Bob Log III first surfaced a member of the art-noise group Mondo Guano, later serving as one half of the duo Doo Rag. While appearing in support of Ween, Doo Rag percussionist Thermos Malling abruptly quit the tour, leaving Log to finish out the remaining dates as a solo act; wearing his now-trademark motorcycle helmet onstage for protection from crowds, he proceeded to hone a cacophonous, Delta blues-inspired noise distinguished by Latin-styled drum machine beats and vocals processed through telephone microphones. In the summer of 1998, Log signed to Fat Possum to issue his solo debut, School Bus; Trike, the second release in his ongoing "Vehicle Series, " followed a year later. Jason Ankeny, Rovi</p> <p></p> <p></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 10:25:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/39441<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/01/05/medium.41d4yzb1t25x.jpg" /><br /><p>Wednesday, October 12th, 2011.</p> <p>Transmission Entertainment Presents:</p> <p>CIRCA SURVIVE + Maps & Atlases + States. (SOLD OUT)</p> <p>$20 (All Ages) Doors @ 6:00. Show @ 7:00.</p> <p><span class="text_news"> </span></p> <p>There are things we see in movies that serve for most people more as idealized romantic notions than actual reality: the pivotal scenes where people turn their backs on a life choice to follow their hearts instead and the consequences be damned. But on occasion, these things do happen in real life, and Circa Survive is the product of just such an extraordinary decision.</p> <p>From an outside perspective, Anthony Green had it made in early 2004. He was fronting Saosin, a California-based band that was rapidly on the rise. He had felt strongly enough about the group to relocate from his native Philadelphia to the West Coast, and now major touring and a debut album were on the horizon. But something just wasnt right. Even after a year on the other side of the country, the scenario didnt click. I constantly thought about what it would be like if I was in a band and I was in my hometown and if I was making music that I had more control over, recalls the singer. I was wondering if there was a possibility that Id be able to pull something together and have people that Id really like to work with working with me.</p> <p>Things with Saosin were moving too quickly to stop, though. Or so it seemed. In need of space, Green flew back to Philadelphia for some conveniently timed oral surgery. I scheduled getting my wisdom teeth out so that I would have to fly home and hang out for a little bit, he admits. Also on the agenda was spending some quality time with his old friend Colin Frangicetto.</p> <p>Frangicetto had been dealing with upheaval in his life, as well, following the split of his own band, This Day Forward a popular Philly hardcore act that had been on the scene for seven years. He had been in the group since high school, meaning it was pretty much all he had known as an adult. It was the first time in a while that I had absolutely no idea what was going to happen in my life, he remembers. So, while weighing the options, he re-enrolled in school and set about making demos of his own material. I was really never expecting to even put anything out with Anthony, says the guitarist, thinking back on Greens visit. I was just enjoying hanging with my friend and didnt want to get my hopes up, even though we were writing and jamming every day, regardless of my schoolwork. It was so exciting and inspiring to work with someone likeminded; he was just as driven as I was to just go and not stop.</p> <p>The reality check came soon enough, however, with Green expected back out West to get things rolling with Saosin. Despondently, he headed for the airport and thats when things kicked into big screen mode. We had spoken seriously about him quitting and us doing a real band for the first time the day before, remembers Frangicetto. But it was almost in a wishful, fantasy type way. Then I was in class, and he left me a message saying that he didnt want to leave, and that our story wasnt over. I rushed to call him, and when I finally got him on the phone, he said, I cant talk right now, were gonna take off. Ill call you on my layover in Arizona.</p> <p>I had a layover in Phoenix before I got to LA, explains Green. I was freaking out. It was such a weird turning point. I just felt like, if somethings going to happen, Im going to have to do it. I hadnt had to do anything really hard in the last year. I had just been in this band, and on tour. I was so nervous to make any kind of decision. So I actually was totally just going to go back to California and do those tours, and then try and do a side project with Colin. But when the truth hit him, it hit hard. Green never even got on the next plane. At that moment, in that Arizona airport, everything changed. I went to the lady at the front desk in Phoenix and was like, I made a mistake. I need to go back, he reveals. She must have thought I was a runaway or some messedup kid.</p> <p>Frangicetto, meanwhile, was experiencing what he can only describe as utter shock and disbelief. As he relates, I definitely did not to expect to get a call that went something like, m gonna need you to pick me up at Philly International around 6:00 a.m. Im not going back. I just called and quit. Im not even getting my clothes back. Reunited that early morning, under the most surreal of circumstances, the pair drove back home as the sun came up over the city. The next day they commemorated the event by composing a track appropriately titled Handshakes at Sunrise.</p> <p>Things fell into place relatively easily over the next few months. The two already had the support of Equal Vision Records, who were excited enough by their demo material to offer them the backing they needed to get everything well and truly moving. Guitarist Brendan Ekstrom was the next to sign up for the cause. An obvious choice to help expand the sound of what would soon become Circa Survive, Ekstrom had played with Frangicetto in This Day Forward since 2001, and the two both got on well and inspired each other musically. I was blown away by Brendans presence and guitar playing from the start, says Frangicetto. I had always known that if I were to ever start another band I would need and want him with me.</p> <p>Working together to further define the sonic attributes of their rapidly gestating musical project, the three set about recruiting the rest of the group. A drummer search resulted in Steve Clifford taking a seat behind the kit, while bassist Nick Beard pulled a reverse of Greens original stunt, relocating from California where he played in Taken to Philly to join the newly formed outfit. Nick was the dude in Taken that had it all together and rocked like a madman. He definitely keeps our band sane and pleasant, explains Frangicetto. We met Steve through Vadim Taver of Marigold. He knew we were looking for a drummer and gave Steve my number. He jammed with us for a week and from there it was on. Hes the young funny guy of the band. He makes us laugh.</p> <p>With the lineup thusly solidified, the music really started to take shape, as well. What started out as a two-man collaboration quickly grew into something more. It has become something organic, Frangicetto explains. Something completely co-owned. Before it was Anthonys and my baby. When the other guys joined that all changed. All of the music represented a collective effort no egos, no bullshit not to mention some serious talent.</p> <p>To hone things down, the group rented a house in the area, moved in, and came up with the material that would make up their debut album, Juturna, due April 19th on Equal Vision. A mind-bending amalgamation of influences ranging from prog-rock to art-metal, it reflects both the diverse backgrounds and the common bonds of the five unique individuals who make up Circa Survive. Marked by intricate arrangements and the pristine production of Brian McTernan (Thrice, Bane, Cave In), the disc displays a band-wide chemistry that radiates from every track. It also boasts a stunning lead single in the epic Act Appalled, along with such emotionally weighty songs as Holding Someones Hair Back and Stop the Fucking Car, both of which match the visceral qualities of their titles with their content.</p> <p>Clearly, fans of any of the members former bands will be surprised in a very good way. s definitely a lot more straight up rock and roll, less metal-y kind of stuff than Saosin, offers Green. I definitely sound different than Ive ever sounded, but I dont entirely know why that is. Maybe its because Im a little bit older. Its delicate music, but its not too passive. Its got all this bulk to it. Theres a sick amount of groove.</p> <p>We really just want to bring back that quality that was extremely present in the music of the 60s and adds Frangicetto. That urgency; the feeling that a note could change the world. Thats one extreme. Another is just simply to be an artist that isnt contrived or a trend follower. Based on the story so far, of course, it would be impossible to accuse this band of being anything other than purely heartfelt. And the same can be said for their music. So, yes, this is the kind of story usually reserved for the silver screen. But this is reality and it should serve as an inspiration to us all.</p> <p></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 08:35:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/43051<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/09/11/medium.1mzhpplp5x78.jpg" /><br /><p>Saturday October 8th, 2011.</p> <p>Transmission Entertainment Presents:</p> <p>Toro Y Moi + Unknown Mortal Orchestra + Bass Drum of Death. (SOLD OUT)</p> <p>$14 Advance ($16 Day of Show) Doors @ 8pm. Show @ 9pm.</p> <div class="bio_content"> <p>Born and raised in Columbia, South Carolina, 24-year-old Chaz Bundick (aka Toro Y Moi) has been toying with various musical projects since early adolescence. Having spent his formative years playing in punk and indie rock acts, the protean Toro Y Moi project has been his vessel for further musical exploration since 2001. In his latter years studying graphic design at the University of South Carolina, Chaz became increasingly focused on his solo work, incorporating electronics and allowing a wider range of influencesFrench house, Brian Wilsons pop, 80s R&B, and Stones Throw hip-hopto show up in his music. By the time he graduated in spring 2009, Chaz had refined his sound to something all his own, and music journals across the board touted his hazy recordings as the sound of the summer.</p> <p>Chaz started off 2010, which would prove to be Toros flagship year, by releasing his debut, Causers of This, in February. He toured extensively in support of the album, adding two more membersa bassist and drummerto his live show, and steadily accrued more supporters and acclaim. Summer saw the release of the Leave Everywhere 7, and in fall he issued a 12 single under his house music moniker, Les Sins. Always a prolific creator, Chaz used the sparse downtime between tours to prepare and record his sophomore album.</p> <p>Having spent the year listening to film composers like Franoise de Roubaix and Ennio Morricone, Chaz returned to his parents home in Columbia, the birthplace of many Toro tracks of yore, to bring his new ideas to fruition. The result of these sessions is Underneath the Pine, a deeply personal album that sees him putting down the samples and electronics and relying completely on live instrumentation.</p> <p>Out on February 22, Underneath the Pine is a record evocative of R. Stevie Moores homespun ruminations, David Axelrods sonic scope, the spacey disco of Mandre, and the pervasive funk of his first record. Its a new phase for an artist whose diverse curiosities make his music difficult to classify.</p> </div><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:50:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/38911<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/11/10/medium.hli5cia61qyn.jpg" /><br /><p>Friday, October 7th, 2011.</p> <p>Transmission Entertainment Presents:</p> <p>MICHAEL IAN BLACK.</p> <p>STAY TUNED FOR DEETS.</p> <p>Michael Ian Black was born in Chicago, Illinois, but his family moved to Hillsborough, New Jersey, when he was young. His parents divorced when he was 3. When he was 7, his father died during neurological surgery following a mysterious assault.<br /> <br /> Michael attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts but left before graduation. It was there he met and joined the core group of the comedy group "The State", who had a short run with their own MTV show, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0130421/">"The State"</a> (1993), before attempting a move to CBS in the mid-1990s; their make-or-break Halloween special fell short of expectations, and a CBS series never came into fruition. Since then Black has appeared as a regular on Comedy Central's <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0370194/">"Reno 911!"</a> (2003) starring <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0502073/">Thomas Lennon</a>, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0304830/">Robert Ben Garant</a> and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0448486/">Kerri Kenney</a>.<br /> <br /> In addition to his regular television appearances, he also performs in the comedy group <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443409/">"Stella"</a> (2005) with fellow State alumni <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0795290/">Michael Showalter</a> and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0906476/">David Wain</a>.</p> <p></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:30:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/43031<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/07/08/medium.j74g38vsnn4r.jpg" /><br /><p>Monday October 3rd, 2011.</p> <p>Transmission Entertainment Presents:</p> <p>GANG GANG DANCE + Prince Rama.</p> <p>Aftershow = Viva Voce + The Parson Red Heads + The Midgetmen</p> <p><span></span>$11 Advance ($13 Day of Show). Doors @ 6:30.</p> <div class="description"> <p>Gang Gang Dance are a shape-shifting, genre-defying collective from New York City whose experimental, electronic, percussion-based music has echoes of tribalism and primitivism, whilst being definably 'futurist'. Across four albums, Gang Gang Dance have fashioned a wholly unique form of forward-minded music that has no reverence to any specific era or genre.</p> <p>"Youll never catch any of us putting on a Stones record or anything like that," multi-instrumentalist Brian DeGraw once spat. "That s**t makes me sick to my stomach."</p> <p>"We have a hard time with classifications because we really don't fit in anywhere," vocalist Lizzi Bougatsos told <em>Innerview</em>. "Our direction comes from a confusion of our eclectic musical tastes, and we consider it a positive thing."</p> <p><strong>Background</strong></p> <p>Gang Gang Dance's beginnings are somewhat amorphous. Formed in "about 1999", initially under the swiftly-abandoned handle Death and Dying, they kicked off as a loose collective, formed around Bougatsos, a New Yorker spoken-word artist, and two former members of Washington, DCs spastic neo-no-wavists The Cranium, Degraw and drummer Tim DeWit.</p> <p>Beginning making improvised noise music at "a practice space which [they] shared with Black Dice and Animal Collective," Gang Gang Dance were an art project more than a band. Their lineup was fluid enough that their pals, guitarist Josh Diamond and vocalist Nathan Maddox, would drop in on recordings, and come on stage in live-sets. Whilst Gang Gang Dance would play shows around Brooklyn, they were never something so prosaic as a .</p> <p>"We used borrowed equipment," Bougatsos recounted, to <em>Identity Theory</em>, "but we were banging on anything that we could make a beat on, whether it was the floor, a chair, a garbage can, etc. Our shows when we first formed were also improvisation, 'anything goes' style. I think we hated each other as a result, but it took a lot of guts to meet up and not rehearse, then play a show."</p> <p>In between these performances, their members often focused on other musical outfits: Diamond wielded his axe in psych-jammers Jackie-O Motherf***er, Bougatsos and DeGraw played in painter Rita Ackermann's black-metal project Angelblood, and DeWit did time in the backing-band of smarmy "tenor-songwriter" Cass McCombs.</p> <p><strong>Beginnings</strong></p> <p>The evolution of Gang Gang Dance into full-time concern occurred, strangely, with the death of Maddox, who was struck by lightning whilst standing on a New York rooftop in 2002.</p> <p>"He had always wanted to be struck by lightning," DeGraw later wrote, "[and] when this particular storm rolled into the city, he made a point of going to the roof and offering himself to the sky, as he always did, and this time the sky obliged."</p> <p>For the remaining quartet, the obvious way to make their one-time singer's "energy and spirit" live on was through their music. Maddox's death also instilled in the band a new desire: to make permanent the formerly intangible, and actually document what they'd been doing.</p> <p>Though they'd already existed for half-a-decade, 2004 marked Gang Gang Dance's embrace of being an actual band. That year, they released their first two LPs in quick succession: <em>Revival Of The Shittest</em> and <em>Gang Gang Dance</em>. These bore the hallmarks of the outfit's improvisatory beginnings, largely consisting of free-form noise and abstract deconstructivism, with only their heavy percussive elements and Bougatsos's buried wails hinting at what was to come.</p> <p><strong>Arrival</strong></p> <p>In 2005, Gang Gang Dance released the record that redefined what they stood for: <em><a href="http://altmusic.about.com/od/2000s/fr/gang-gang-dance.htm">God's Money</a></em>. Intensely rhythmic and driven by percussion, the album's careening, tribalist songs earned comparisons to <a href="http://altmusic.about.com/od/artists/a/animalcollectiv.htm">Animal Collective</a>, and showed the scope of their influences.</p> <p>"We wanted the sound to be more of bass heavy and sharp, percussion-oriented thing," DeGraw admitted to <em>Cyclic Defrost</em>, "like something that could fit sonically or production wise into the playlist of hip hop radio."</p> <p>With its emphasis placed on songform and its dancefloor-friendly fashion, <em>God's Money</em> took the album took the band from their insular, improvised New York scene to a slowly-growing audience. "After <em>God's Money</em> came out, it was the first time we were out there in a more public manner, where people actually cared what we did," recounts Diamond.</p> <p><strong>Developments</strong></p> <p>If <em>God's Money</em> had provided an opportunity for Gang Gang Dance to capitalize on their new-found interest, they didn't capitalize on it. Recording their follow-up album took the band three years. Three attempts at making the album were abandoned, three different studios were used. There were "band conflicts going on that never really got resolved." DeWit decreed that he didn't want to play drums anymore. The band ran out of money, time and again, and had to break and tour to earn some cash. Each time they came back to the studio, they felt like starting over.</p> <p>After releasing a live album (2005's <em>Hillulah</em>), a stop-gap EP (2007's <em>Rawwar</em>), and a DVD (2007's Retina Riddim) to fill in the gap, finally Gang Gang Dance returned, in 2008, with <em>God's Money</em>. Released for English electro imprint Warp, it instantly became the band's biggest record, buoyed by a collaboration with Grime MC Tinchy Stryder.</p> <p>"Id like to think that our music can travel between all kinds of different worlds," Diamond told me, of that collaboration. "Id like to think that people who dont necessarily read <em>Pitchfork</em> every day might like our music."</p> </div> <p></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 10:05:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/39421<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/02/10/medium.k6o9r6syulyz.jpg" /><br /><p>Thursday, September 29th - Sunday, October 2nd, 2011.</p> <p><strong><span style="font-size: 16pt;">THE MOHAWK ANNOUNCES 4 DAY EVENT TO CELEBRATE ITS 5 YEAR ANNIVERSARY W FRIENDS & FANS</span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 14pt;">FEATURING: LES SAVY FAV, LUCERO, GRUPO FANTASMA, LOCALS ONLY, DJs AND MANY MORE</span></em></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong>AUSTIN, TX (September 26, 2011)</strong> Austins Favorite Live Music Venue will be celebrating its 5th Birthday this weekend with the likes of New York Citys indie punk veterans Les Savy Fav, the Grammy winning locals Grupo Fantasma, southern rocker alt country favorites Lucero,locals The Arm, Moonlight Towers, Canoe, Christian Bland, Golden Bear, My Education, Soul Happening DJs, Transmography, Marriage, Frank Smith, Peligrosa, and more -plus a Free Sunday bill entirely dedicated to local Austin musicians that have been with the Mohawk since its inception in 2006.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The Anniversary celebration will be a 4 day event, beginning on September 29th, and will feature live music, food, and custom thank you gifts from the Mohawk. Tickets will be available at Front Gate tickets for each individual event and discounted 4 day passes will be available for Mohawk fans and regulars. The preliminary schedule starts by presenting 3 popular veterans of Austins Fun Fun Fun Fest, and is as follows:</p> <p style="margin-left: 0.5in;" class="MsoNormal">SCHEDULE:</p> <p style="margin-left: 0.5in;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Thursday, September 29th<br /> LES SAVY FAV<br /> The Arm<br /> Canoe<br /> Christian Bland & The Revelators<br /> Shapes Have Fangs<br /> The Vitamins<br /> Johnny Hottub<br /> <br /> Friday, September 30th<br /> GRUPO FANTASMA<br /> Soul Happening DJs<br /> Master Blaster Sound System<br /> Peligrosa All Stars<br /> <br /> Saturday, October 1st<br /> LUCERO<br /> Moonlight Towers<br /> Frank Smith<br /> Mike & The Moonpies<br /> East Cameron Folkcore<br /> <br /> Sunday, September 29th<br /> LOCALS ONLY (FREE SHOW)<br /> MY EDUCATION<br /> Transmography<br /> Marriage<br /> Golden Bear<br /> Lean Hounds</strong></span></span></span> <!--EndFragment--> </strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal">A series of shows will be booked for both the outside and inside stages, along with a different style of DJ for each event (see: Johnny Hottub). Fans are encouraged to get their tickets early at <a href="http://mohawk.frontgatetickets.com/">http://mohawk.frontgatetickets.com</a> . Expect the bottles to be poppin, especially the Champaign of Beers.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong>ABOUT THE MOHAWK AUSTIN</strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The Mohawk Austin booked its first set of acts in September of 2006 in the historic Red River district of downtown Austin. Since that day, the Mohawk has maintained its motto of All Are Welcome, continually featuring the best and broadest range of up and coming rock and roll, hip hop, metal, punk, indie rock, latin alternative, folk, nerdcore, electronica, alt country, and garage rock musicians.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Now in its sixth year, The Mohawk continues to be recognized as one of the best places to discover new and independent music in the United States, ranked by Esquire Magazine as One of the Best Bars in America, the Austin Chronicle as Austins Best Live Music Venue in 2011, and voted by Austin American Statesman readers as Austins #1 Outdoor Live Music Venue in 2010.<span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong>CONTACT:</strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Matt Mandrella / Transmission / <a href="mailto:matt@transmissionentertainment.com">matt@transmissionentertainment.com</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Adi Anand / Transmission / <a href="mailto:adi@transmissionentertainment.com">adi@transmissionentertainment.com</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Cody Cowan, GM / Mohawk / <a href="mailto:cody@mohawkaustin.com">cody@mohawkaustin.com</a></p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3_VGcXmTDFo" frameborder="0" height="345" width="420"></iframe> <iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/JwT5bUZm2a4" frameborder="0" height="345" width="560"></iframe> <iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0Y_bXs4uOg" frameborder="0" height="345" width="560"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 09:20:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/45951<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/08/04/medium.8e42305r6c1a.jpg" /><br /><p>Tuesaday, September 27th, 2011.</p> <p>Transmission Entertainment Presents:</p> <p>Junior Boys</p> <p>$12 Advance ($14 Day of Show) Doors @ 6:30pm.</p> <p>A Hamilton, Ontario-based electronic pop group, Junior Boys began as a duo with its duties split between Jeremy Greenspan and Johnny Dark. Influenced by a number of music sectors -- including arty synth pop, minimal techno, U.K. garage, and contemporary hip-hop -- the two made a demo with no positive results. Dark opted to leave the group (he would go on to release solo material and form one half of the duo <a style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; text-decoration: underline; border-bottom: 0.075em solid darkgreen; padding-bottom: 1px; color: darkgreen; background-color: transparent;" class="itxtrst itxtrsta itxthook" id="itxthook0" href="http://www.starpulse.com/Music/Junior_Boys/Biography/#" rel="nofollow"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: darkgreen;" class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" id="itxthook0w0">Stereo</span></a> Image), but former Warp employee Nick Kilroy heard the songs and became interested enough to start the KIN label with Junior Boys as its first artist. Engineer Matt Didemus joined Greenspan, and together they recorded enough material for a full-length. Prior to the 2004 release of the resulting album, titled Last Exit, a pair of 12" singles were released; one included a remix from Fennesz, while the other featured a remix from Manitoba. Three months after Last Exit's initial U.K. release, Domino picked up the album for distribution in the U.S. The Domino version added a bonus disc with B-sides and remixes from the 12" releases. The relatively slick So This Is Goodbye followed in 2006. Two years later, they provided the sixth volume of the Get Physical label's Body Language mix series, and Begone Dull Care -- inspired by illustrator and director Norman McLaren and jazz pianist Oscar Peterson's collaboration of the same name -- followed in 2009. It's All True, the JBs' lightest and most playful album (from a sonic standpoint), was released two years later. It's closing track, "Banana Ripple," was remixed by the Field and disco pioneer Tom Moulton. Andy Kellman, Rovi</p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/BiI-3uRfaSc" frameborder="0" height="349" width="425"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 17:15:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/42981<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/05/07/medium.600yx0y05574.jpg" /><br /><p>MONDAY. SEPT. 13TH, 2011.</p> <p>Transmission Entertainment Presents: Two Gallants</p> <p><span> Doors @ 9pm. Show @ 10pm.</p> <p>"After a two year break, the San Francisco guitar-drum duo TWO GALLANTS will begin touring again this summer across the North America and Europe. The well needed time off came after 6 years of incessant touring and the release of 3 full length studio albums and an acoustic EP. The band consists of childhood friends Tyson Vogel and Adam Stephens who met on their elementary school playground at the age of 5. Despite an initial disagreement and ensuing scuffle over the supremacy of White Lion vs. White Snake, the two have been best friends ever since. They have been playing music together in some capacity since 1994, when their parents made the mistake of giving them both electric guitars for Christmas. Around 2002, the two college dropouts found themselves with some time on their hands and silence to kill; and so with an acoustic guitar and a trap set they formed TWO GALLANTS in the basement of the Vogel residence. In an ongoing unspoken competition to out do one another, the intervening years have seen the two-piece increase their volume and gear ten-fold. The bands' sound is somewhat of a syncretism of American old-timey roots music with the grunge and east bay punk of Tyson and Adam's formative years. The last show they played together was headlining The Fillmore in their hometown in December 2008. In the two years since, both have released solo material under The Devotionals and Adam Haworth Stephens, respectively. But now they are looking forward to getting back to the haranguing strident noise that fuelled them across the world for 6 years. Come see TWO GALLANTS perform in a town near you this summer and look forward to a new album in the not too distant future."</p> <p> <object width="480" height="390"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2AWCRkcCKm8?version=3&hl=en_US" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2AWCRkcCKm8?version=3&hl=en_US" height="390" width="480"></embed> </object> </p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 10:20:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/36641<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/02/03/medium.mk49m1asdn5f.jpg" /><br /><p>Saturday September 17th, 2011.</p> <p>Transmssion Entertainment Presents:</p> <p>Ty Segall + Mikal Cronin + OBN III's.</p> <p><span></span>$8 Advance ($10 Day of Show) Doors @ 8pm. Show @ 9pm.</p> <div class="description"> <p>Lo-fi musician Ty Segall first garnered public acclaim as the lead singer of Orange County, CA, garage rock revivalist band the Epsilons. With that band, he practiced a rawer, snottier take on Strokes/Vines/White Stripes-style rock, occasionally delving into more retro territory. On his solo album, Lemons, however, Segall delivered a much more traditional sound, studiously re-creating '60s guitar tones and drenching his tracks in old-school reverb. The stomping results bore a striking resemblance to early garage masters such as the Sonics and the Standells, as well as proto-punks the Stooges and bedroom folk antecedent Alexander "Skip" Spence. He returned in 2010 with Melted. 2011 was a busy year for him, with two albums -- Live in Aisle Five and Goodbye <a style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; text-decoration: underline; border-bottom: 0.075em solid darkgreen; padding-bottom: 1px; color: darkgreen; background-color: transparent;" class="itxtrst itxtrsta itxthook" id="itxthook0" href="http://www.starpulse.com/Music/Ty_Segall-P973802/Biography/#" rel="nofollow"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; color: darkgreen;" class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxthookspan" id="itxthook0w0">Bread</span></a> -- scheduled for release. Pemberton Roach, Rovi</p> </div> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ccU7ZfVUDzc" frameborder="0" height="349" width="425"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:55:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/39411<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/03/06/medium.etwqn453vi00.jpg" /><br /><p>Friday, Septmeber 16th, 2011.</p> <p>Proper Entertainment//KnuckleRumbler//AttalRecords Present:</p> <p>"BIG BOI w/Special Guests"(After party during ACL)</p> <p>$20 ($25 - minors) Doors @ 8:30pm. Show @ 9:30pm.</p> <p>Outside his primary roles as <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/andre-3000/1453189">Andr 3000</a>'s partner in <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/outkast/1091591">OutKast</a> and as one of the central members of <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/the-dungeon-family/1449098">the Dungeon Family</a>, <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/big-boi/1325700">Big Boi</a> (born <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/antwan-andre-patton/1325700">Antwan Andr Patton</a>) appeared on tracks by <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/missy-elliott/1183183">Missy Elliott</a> ("All N My Grill"), <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/trick-daddy/1381217">Trick Daddy</a> ("In da Wind"), <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/jay-z/1166745">Jay-Z</a> ("Poppin' Tags"), <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/killer-mike/1436016">Killer Mike</a> ("A.D.I.D.A.S."), <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/beyonce/1317807">Beyonc</a> ("Hip Hop Star"), <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/brooke-valentine/2214697">Brooke Valentine</a> ("Girlfight"), <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/sleepy-brown/1429493">Sleepy Brown</a> ("Margarita"), and <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/fantasia/1759451">Fantasia</a> ("Hood Boy"). As a solo artist, the MC had a minor hit in 2005 with "Kryptonite (I'm on It)," one of the year's best rap singles; it was the lead single from the officially released showcase for his Purple Ribbon label, the eclectic <a href="http://music.aol.com/album/got-purp-vol-2/990337">Got Purp?, Vol. 2</a>, which featured the likes of <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/killer-mike/1436016">Killer Mike</a> and <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/sleepy-brown/1429493">Sleepy Brown</a>, as well as prot? <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/janelle-monae/358211">Janelle Mone</a>. Also involved in film (ATL, <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/outkast/1091591">OutKast</a>'s Idlewild, Who's Your Caddy?) and even the stage (he worked with the Atlanta Ballet in 2008), <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/big-boi/1325700">Big Boi</a> prepped his first solo album, Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty, which was released on Def Jam in 2010. ~ Andy Kellman, Rovi</p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/rWsvkW6rKkQ" frameborder="0" height="349" width="560"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:00:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/43741<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/00/04/medium.6l04208586e6.jpg" /><br /><p>Friday, September 2, 2011</p> <p>Hardproof Afrobeat, La Guerilla, Los Skarnales</p> <div class="description"> <p>Doors @ 8pm. Show @ 9pm.</p> </div> <p>The task of any Afrobeat ensemble is to first prove that they're well-versed in the classics and then bring something new to the conversation. Austin ninepiece Hard Proof Afrobeat does exactly that on a stirring self-titled debut that kick-starts with 30 seconds of hard funk fury and closes with a mournful jazz melody over sparse percussion that only loosely operates within the framework of Nigerian Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti. From the dark psychedelic marauding of "Stolen Goods" to the Ethiopique groove of "Jimma," Hard Proof crafts moody instrumentals that lean more toward Budos Band than Antibalas. A rumbling baritone sax churns the hypnotizing crawl of "Mahout," while the brass (which splits time with Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears) blows hard on "No Consideration" and freaks out on "M.E.N.D." The best of the band's brooding grooves border prove Afrobeat is alive in Austin. This debut is <em>Hard Proof</em>.</p> <p>http://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2010-11-19/hard-proof/</p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/aReWvDiBQEI" frameborder="0" height="349" width="425"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:50:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/42961<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/09/03/medium.56sh9x343lmq.png" /><br /><p>Wed. August 31st, 2011.</p> <p>Transmission Entertainment Presents:</p> <p>Olivia Tremor Control w/ The Music Tapes</p> <p>Doors @ 6:30PM. Ticket Price 10adv/12dos.</p> <p>The Olivia Tremor Control was an Athens, Georgia, USA psychedelic rock band in the mid- to late 1990s which, along with <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Apples+In+Stereo">The Apples In Stereo</a> and <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Neutral+Milk+Hotel">Neutral Milk Hotel</a>, was one of the three original Elephant 6 projects. The band was founded by the remnants of the group <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Synthetic+Flying+Machine">Synthetic Flying Machine</a> (Jeff Mangum, Bill Doss, and Will Cullen Hart) in 1994 and disbanded in early 2000.<br /> <br /> The bands distinct sound is a mixture of Doss and Harts experimental tendencies. This chemistry is evident in their albums given that some tracks are 2-3 minute pop songs, while others are electro-acoustic collages ranging in length from 2 seconds to 10 minutes, and differing in content from vibrant horns to near silence. Furthermore, the band released a record of experimental electro-acoustic music, The Late Music, Volume One, under the name <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/+noredirect/The+Black+Swan+Network">The Black Swan Network</a>, in 1997. Another Black Swan Network release, a 7 EP on the Happy Happy Birthday to Me label, appeared in 2000, though it did not feature Bill Doss. In October 1997, a LP between The Olivia Tremor Control and The Black Swan Network was released, originally as a tour-only item, and later put out as a CD by <a class="bbcode_label" href="http://www.last.fm/label/Flydaddy">Flydaddy</a>, which gave the record the title, The Olivia Tremor Control Vs. The Black Swan Network, though the band had never wanted the record to be named as such. The band was influenced by the odd quality inherent in dreams and asked their listeners to send in tapes describing their own, examples of which can be heard in the final track of Black Foliage and the OTC-BSN collaborative LP.<br /> <br /> The members of The Olivia Tremor Control embarked on a variety of different projects before and after the band broke up. <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Eric+Harris">Eric Harris</a> released a record under the name <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/+noredirect/Frosted+Ambassador">Frosted Ambassador</a> and later two CD-R releases under his own name on <a class="bbcode_label" href="http://www.last.fm/label/Cloud+Recordings">Cloud Recordings</a>, the label founded by Fernandes and Hart in the wake of OTCs demise. Pete Erchick released two records, Individualized Shirts and Special Fanfare For Anything, under the name <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Pipes+You+See%2C+Pipes+You+Don%27t.">Pipes You See, Pipes You Dont.</a> Bill Doss followed OTC by putting out records as <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Sunshine+Fix">The Sunshine Fix</a>, a name he had used years before. The Sunshine Fix has evolved from a recording project to a formal working band. Harts post-OTC project, <a class="bbcode_artist" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Circulatory+System">Circulatory System</a>, has taken a similar route. The self-titled 2001 LP continued the melding together of pop and experimental traditions the OTC had worked on and won high accolades from the press. While the follow-up is still in the works, the band continues to play live shows in Athens and occasionally elsewhere.<br /> <br /> In 2005, the Olivia Tremor Control temporarily reunited, solely for live shows, at the behest of the All Tomorrows Parties festival. They appeared at a UK version of the festival, preceded by warm-up shows in Athens and London; that summer, they again played Athens, at the Orange Twin Conservation Community, as well as gigs in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and L.A.</p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/P6hkVXpQYYg" frameborder="0" height="349" width="425"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:55:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/42921<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/01/07/medium.4jge87s85a7u.jpg" /><br /><p>Tuesday August 30th, 2011.</p> <p>Transmission Entertainmnet Presents:</p> <p>MISTER HEAVENLY (Honus of Man Man, Nick of Islands, Joe of Modest Mouse)</p> <p><span></span>$11 Advance ($13 Day of Show) Doors @ 6:30. Show @ 7:30.</p> <div class="description"> <p>"Mister Heavenly is a band, a threesome as charming and, sometimes, as tricky to pin down as their moniker suggests. They sing a theme song in which one voice pledges undying devotion, and another cheerfully asserts that hell never be Mister Heavenly. Dont think of it as a conflict; its more of a yin-yang thing. Mister Heavenly finds harmony in unexpected places.</p> <p>Mister Heavenly is comprised of indie rock veterans Nick Thorburn (Islands/The Unicorns), Ryan Kattner (Man Man), and Joe Plummer (Modest Mouse). Their mutual admiration society was in place before Mister Heavenly took shape. Modest Mouse and Man Man toured together repeatedly, starting in 2007. Nick and Ryan met in Philadelphia in the final days of The Unicorns, or maybe the early days of Islands. Theyre not sure, but they hit it off instantly. They bonded over a lot of thingsmusic, cough syrup, being signed to the same labelbut it was one of their fundamental differences that inspired Ryan aesthetically. I always thought that the two of our voices together would make an interesting contrast since they occupy very distinct ends of the vocal spectrum, he says.</p> <p>Mister Heavenly is a trio of men who love dogs.</p> <p>Mister Heavenly is at the forefront of doom wop, which is a state of mind rather than a nitpicky micro-genre. It is born from a shared love of 1950s vocal-based R&B classics by ensembles like the Penguins, the Platters, and the Moonglows, and also a fascination with ill-fated romance. The album title, Out of Love, is both a nod to passion as a motivator (I did it out of love) and also the absence or dissolution of same (She fell out of love with me): two seminal lyrical themes in the annals of pop music. As it happens, the actual Mister Heavenly song Doom Wop owes as much to grunge and art-punk as it does 50s pop. When you mint your own style you can take such liberties.</p> <p>Mister Heavenly is a songwriting collaboration, a creative push-and-pull. Sometimes Nick wrote a chorus, Ryan provided the verse, and then they hammered out the final product together. They only had three ground rules: a) Keep it short; b) Keep it simple; and c) Keep it rooted in some semblanceharmonic, lyricalof classic doo-wop. d never had the opportunity to bounce songs off another person, especially one who I trusted would carry his weight, and it was very refreshing, admits Ryan.</p> <p>Mister Heavenly is pretty sure the ghost of Elvis Presley was hanging around Bear Creek Studio in Woodinville, WA, where they recorded the album with Ryan Hadlock (The Gossip, Ra Ra Riot, Love of Diagrams). Either that or somebody plugged in a discreet peanut-butter-and-banana-scented air freshener before they arrived. Regardless, the King wouldve appreciated that Mister Heavenly does things the old-fashioned way, and recorded live to tape. The band recorded and mixed the entire album in 12 days.</p> <p>Mister Heavenly is open to chance. Initially, the participants werent even sure their collaboration would be a band, per se. We floated around getting different people to sing on each song, or making only one song, or making no songs at all but continuing to talk about Mister Heavenly as though it were a real thing with its own genre, discloses Nick. Dubious of signing on for all the rigmarole a full-time band entails, they started with modest goals: Make one seven-inch single, maybe just post a couple songs on the internet. But after a couple of songwriting sessions, Nick and Ryan had enough material for several 45s, perhaps even a whole album. Nick and Joe had never met before Joe flew out to rehearse with them in a Brooklyn basement, but they both took a what-the-hell attitude. Everything about how this band came together kind of falls under that category, says Ryan.</p> <p>Mister Heavenly is very excited by the prospect of their music being used in a big-screen, teen romantic comedy, which seems appropriate for a band that describes their music as post-apocalyptic Valley Girl meets the American Graffiti soundtrack.</p> <p>Mister Heavenly is greater than the sum of its parts. From the outset, the participants realized they had something unique on their hands. The songs were dark and strange but oddly addictive, says Nick. They really sounded like a mash-up of our styles but at the same time a wholly new entity. This many-headed beast produced beguiling novelties such as the percussive rock-at-a-cultural-remove of Pineapple Girl, a mix of sweet and unsavory inspired by the unlikely correspondence between 10 year-old Michigan resident Sarah York and ruthless Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, and the swelling synth-pop/surf-rock fusion of Harm You. Reggae Pie started out when Ryan attempted to pen a ditty in the style of American R&B singer Gino Washington but somehow migrated into burbling dub territory except for the midsection contributed by Thorburn, which suggests a more-than-passing familiarity with Paul McCartney and Wings.</p> <p>Mister Heavenly is pretty open and abstracted, and its future is undetermined, which is the way we all like it.</p> <p>Mister Heavenly is excited to hear what you think."</p> </div> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/G4oMcojzeDI" frameborder="0" height="349" width="560"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 13:55:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/39171<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/01/11/medium.k8qr66nd6gg4.jpg" /><br /><p>Sunday, August 28th, 2011.</p> <p>Mohawk Presents: BEACH PARTY.</p> <p>5pm-10pm. All ages $3/$5.<br /> <br /> 6pm-9pm - The Motts (outside stage)</p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-7glgw7eCK4" frameborder="0" height="345" width="420"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 14:50:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/44431<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/03/12/medium.28zo0z3k93z2.jpg" /><br /><p>ALL AUGUST MON-THU @ HAPPY HOUR THE MOHAWK PRESENTS // 5PM-8PM</p> <p>TUESDAYS (5, 12, 19 & 26TH) // MIKE & THE MOONPIES @ INSIDE ROOM.</p> <p>THURSDAYS (7, 14, 24 & 28TH) // THE AMERICAN SPIRIT @ INSIDE ROOM.</p> <p>FRIDAYS (1, 8, 15, 22 & 29TH) // "Right On" Happy Hour Friday w/ Captain Jim (Heart&Soul Soundsystems) & Skinny Scotty (Apollo 67 Soundsystem) @ INSIDE ROOM.</p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 19:30:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/36591<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/03/05/medium.6ykd0o6pu485.jpg" /><br /><p>SATURDAY. AUG. 27TH, 2011.</p> <p>Transmission Entertainment Presents: Mother Falcon, Marmalakes, Little Lo, Hello Wheels</p> <p>$10 ($5 - Students).<span> </span>Doors @ 7pm. Show @ 8pm.</p> <div class="description"> <p></p> </div> <h1 class="title">About Mother Falcon</h1> <div class="content"> <p>Mother Falcon is led by Nick Gregg, who directs an ever-shifting flock of classical musicians in a soundscape of strings, brass, and drums with a modern sensibility. For more info, the Austin Chronicle has a very detailed article <a href="http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:1063480" target="_blank">here</a>.</p> <p>The membership of Mother Falcon is quite large, but not everyone plays every show. Mother Falcon can play with anywhere between 10-20+ members.</p> <p>The following is a list of people who currently play with Mother Falcon:</p> <p><a href="http://www.candied.net/motherfalcon/user/16">Laura Andrade</a> - Cello<br /> <a href="http://www.candied.net/motherfalcon/user/20">Rita Andrade</a> - Viola<br /> <a href="http://www.candied.net/motherfalcon/user/17">Diana Burgess</a> - Cello<br /> <a href="http://www.candied.net/motherfalcon/user/22">Kira Bordelon</a> - Violin<br /> <a href="http://www.candied.net/motherfalcon/user/10">Clara Brill</a> - Violin<br /> <a href="http://www.candied.net/motherfalcon/user/19">Nick Calvin</a> - Cello<br /> <a href="http://www.candied.net/motherfalcon/user/18">Maurice Chammah</a> - Violin<br /> <a href="http://www.candied.net/motherfalcon/user/1">Yun Du</a> - Violin<br /> <a href="http://www.candied.net/motherfalcon/user/4">Nick Gregg</a> - Vocals, Cello, Mandolin, Guitar<br /> <a href="http://www.candied.net/motherfalcon/user/9">Austin Harris</a> - Violin<br /> <a href="http://www.candied.net/motherfalcon/user/5">Tamir Kalifa</a> - Vocals, Accordion<br /> <a href="http://www.candied.net/motherfalcon/user/13">Matt Krolick</a> - Trumpet<br /> <a href="http://www.candied.net/motherfalcon/user/12">Gilman Lykken</a> - Bassoon<br /> <a href="http://www.candied.net/motherfalcon/user/15">Josh Newburger</a> - Violin<br /> <a href="http://www.candied.net/motherfalcon/user/11">Claire Puckett</a> - Vocals, Guitar, Piano<br /> <a href="http://www.candied.net/motherfalcon/user/6">Matt Puckett</a> - Vocals, Saxophone, Glockenspiel<br /> Dusty Rhodes - Bass<br /> <a href="http://www.candied.net/motherfalcon/user/21">Luke Stence</a> - Bass<br /> <a href="http://www.candied.net/motherfalcon/user/7">Isaac Winburne</a> - Saxophone, Percussion, Piano</p> <p>Additionally, Mother Falcon would like to recognize certain staff they have worked with extensively:</p> <p><a href="http://www.candied.net/motherfalcon/user/23">Ryan Graham</a> - Sound & Lighting Engineer<br /> Odile Kane - Merchandising & Web Support<br /> <a href="http://www.candied.net/motherfalcon/user/24">Harry Roberts</a> - Sound Engineering Consultant<br /> Zoe Cordes Selbin - Public Relations & Booking</p> </div> <p> <object width="480" height="390"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/G9VqGg5jqNA?version=3&hl=en_US" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/G9VqGg5jqNA?version=3&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="390" width="480"></embed> </object> </p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:20:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/36581<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/07/01/medium.i742fp10f314.jpg" /><br /><p>FRIDAY. AUG. 26TH, 2011.</p> <p>Transmission Entertainment Presents: Handsome Furs</p> <p><span></span>$11 Advance ($13 Day of Show) Doors @ 8pm. Show @ 9pm.</p> <p>"The Montreal-based duo Handsome Furs formed in 2005 around the talents of Vancouver transplants Dan Boeckner (frontman of Wolf Parade) and Alexei Perry. The husband-and-wife team released the atmospheric Plague Park in 2007, utilizing drum machines and world-weary melodies to distinguish the band's debut from Wolf Parade's own output. Plague Park earned accolades for its electronic twist on indie rock, with Rolling Stone likening the band to "a dingy version of the Cure rocking some hipster dive bar," and the growing buzz prompted Handsome Furs' return to the studio in late 2007. Despite initially planning to cut an EP, the inspired duo recorded an entire album instead, drawing upon its recent Eastern European tour for lyrical cues. The resulting Face Control was issued in March 2009. Andrew Leahey, Rovi" - http://www.starpulse.com/Music/Handsome_Furs/Biography/</p> <p> <object width="640" height="390"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MS5mbeXHOmo?version=3&hl=en_US" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MS5mbeXHOmo?version=3&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="390" width="640"></embed> </object> </p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 19:05:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/36571<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/13/01/medium.5558748sj2zi.jpg" /><br /><p>Sunday July 17th, 2011.</p> <p>Doors @ 5:30pm. $10 General Admission. $15 FRONT ROW.</p> <p>www.<strong>anarchychampionshipwrestling</strong>.com/</p> <p>http://www.youtube.com/user/AnarchyTelevised?blend=21&ob=5</p> <p></p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1fLaTHvnCh8" frameborder="0" height="349" width="560"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:05:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/39801<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/07/11/medium.839dqug61kmm.jpg" /><br /><p>Saturday August 20, 2011.</p> <p>Transmission Entertainment Presents:</p> <p>EL TEN ELEVEN + The Globes</p> <p>$10 Advance ($12 Day of Show) Doors @ 8pm. Show @ 9pm.</p> <p>"El Ten Eleven is a Los Angeles-based instrumental indie rock duo consisting of Kristian Dunn and Tim Fogarty. They officially formed in 2003, but Dunn and Fogarty have been working together musically for years in bands such as The Softlightes (first American band signed to Australias Modular label) and The Incredible Moses Leroy.</p> <p>The densely textured, atmospheric instrumental sounds of their first two full-length albums (the self-titled debut El Ten Eleven and their follow-up Every Direction Is North) have been praised alongside the work of such post-rock elite as Tortoise, Explosions in the Sky, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Mogwai and Sigur Rs. With their third album, These Promises Are Being Videotaped, the duo took a leap in a new musical direction. "I just became obsessed with electro music, Dunn explains. d been going to a lot of DJ events and listening to music by artists like Boys Noize, Justice, and Digitalism. A lot of that music is really digital and created on computers. It was challenging for us to try to create that style of music live with real instruments and looping pedals. There arent many bands doing it." The end result, while in the vein of their aforementioned post-rock brethren, is more akin to the work of their contemporaries who are really pushing the dance-rock envelope such as Ratatat and Soulwax.</p> <p>But what really separates El Ten Eleven from their musical peers is that they are only two musicians on stage creating pounding landscapes of sound with no laptops or sequencers. Kristian Dunn switches off (sometimes mid-song) between a double-neck bass/guitar, and a fretless bass, while his feet dance on an extensive floorboard of looping devices and effects pedals. He plays everything live, loops himself and juggles all of the layers of tracks on top of each other. Drummer Tim Fogarty switches between traditional acoustic drums, roto toms and electronic drum-pads, usually within each song. To add to the insanity, Fogarty will occasionally loop himself as well.</p> <p>To date, the group has only performed shows within the United States and Canada, but their music has been heard loud and clear across the globe. We have so many fans from all over the world, exclaims Fogarty. We get emails from Moscow, Estonia, Australia, Malaysia, Japans amazing! This is due in part to the many placements of their music into the realms of television, film, and commercials. Of significant note are two PBS documentaries - and - which were both nominated for Independent Spirit Awards. These films, directed and produced by Gary Hustwit, were scored by Dunn and prominently feature El Ten Elevens music.</p> <p>This is a duo of road-warriors who have built up their fan-base the old fashioned way: by getting out on the road and touring their asses off. They have looped around America more times than they can remember and at each show, new members of the El Ten Eleven faithful are conceived."</p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/UBTUAHGpQqE" frameborder="0" height="349" width="425"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:45:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/39161<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/13/08/medium.cutbj6284933.jpg" /><br /><p>Friday, August 19th, 2011.</p> <p>Transmission Entertainment Presents:</p> <p>$10 DOS. Doors @ 8PM.</p> <p> 8:55-9:40 - The Orbans<br /> 9:55-10:40 - All The Elements<br /> 10:55-12:00 - Wheeler Brothers</p> <p>Formed in Austin, Texas, Wheeler Brothers have quickly emerged as oneof Austins most exciting up-and-coming bands. The five-pieceindependent folk-rock act combines the indie vibe of Austin with thetwang of Texas folk. Brothers Nolan, Tyler and Patrick met DannyMatthews at LSU where they spent much of their time picking guitarsand swapping stories in the bar rooms of Baton Rouge and New Orleans.Once back in Austin their magnetic sound was completed by the additionof lifelong friend and singer/songwriter A.J. Molyneaux. Each memberbrings his own ideas and sounds to the group, with styles blendingindie rock, blues and folk.Wheeler Brothers have been selling out major venues and climbing thecharts of radio stations in The Live Music Capital Of The World,Austin, TX. Their first LP is slated for release prior to their Summer2011 tour.</p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/lYfL4giC6pQ" frameborder="0" height="349" width="560"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 14:05:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/42871<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/00/06/medium.w94km978m2s4.jpg" /><br /><p>Sunda,y August 14th, 2011.</p> <p>Kiddie Pools, Beer Pong, Snow Cones, Grub, Summer Drinks, Beach Balls, Speedos, Yacht Rock, Wet Beards and more. Ticket giveaways and prizes. All at the Upstairs patio/bar. 21+. 5-9pm.</p> <div class="gE iv gt"> <table class="cf gJ"> <tbody> <tr> <td class="gF gK"> <table class="cf ix"> <tbody> <tr> <td></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> <td class="gH"></td> <td class="gH"></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p>Sponsored by Dulce Vida Tequila. Frozen Margarita specials.</p> <p>Burgess Meredith playing on the outside stage at 7:30.</p> <p></p> <p>Red River Flats providing free food from Frank.</p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 17:55:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/36541<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/09/08/medium.f24hvw4tvizy.jpg" /><br /><p>Saturday, August 8th, 2011.</p> <p>Transmission Entertainment Presents:</p> <p>Foot Patrol + Magnifico + Daniel Hart + Whalers<br /> Doors @ 8. Ticket Price $10.</p> <div id="description" style="display: block;"> <p>Foot Patrol is a band from Austin, Texas. Its core members are Hung Nguyen and TJ Wade. The sound is reminiscent of 80s Minneapolis funk, thick with keyboards and drum machines. The lyrics play on TJ Wades obsession with womens feet.</p> The name of their first album is "Toetry In Motion" followed by the "Foot Worship Queens" ep and the second full length album "Smellabration." In 2008, a third full-length, "No Small Feat" was released. Other projects are the hardcore rock band: Terroristic and the hardcore rap outfit: MC Terroristic. Foot Patrol shows have developed into a full-fledged funk juggernaut, complete with costumes and feetastic choreography from the Toe Deputy Dance Squad. <br />The Foot Patrol is yet another manifestation of the prolific production team of Hung Nguyen and TJ Wade. It's a departure from the angry hardcore edge of their other projects and highlights their playful side. The sound is reminiscent of 80's Minneapolis funk, loaded with keyboard sounds and drum machines. It features the blatant abuse of the pun and funky beats that will get your ass shaking til your socks fly off. Before you know it you will want to get frisked by these guys. The name of their first album is "Toetry In Motion." And yes, she blinded me with foot odor. Our other projects are Terroristic and MC Terroristic.</div> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/aYAtLcP-swE" frameborder="0" height="349" width="425"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 14:25:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/42911<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/04/12/medium.0g14kwv8bg3j.jpg" /><br /><p>Sunday August 14th, 2011.</p> <p>Happy Hour Beach Party : TBA + Burgess Meredith @ OUTSIDE STAGE.</p> <p><span></span>$3 ($5 - Minors) 5pm - 9pm.</p> <div class="description"> <div class="description">Kiddie Pools, Inflatable Beer Pong w/ Prizes, Snow Cones, Catering from Frank, Frozen Drinks, Beach Balls, Speedos, free games, ticket giveaways and MORE!</div> $4 snow cones.</div><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 08:10:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/41201<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/04/14/medium.x408180e18il.jpg" /><br /><p>Friday, August 12th, 2011.</p> <p>Transmission Entertainment Presents:</p> <p>Dum Dum Girls (Duo), Mark Sultan, Night Beats, The UFO Club</p> <p>Doors @ 8. Ticket Price 13/15 day of show.</p> <p>outside<br />DDG (11:30<br />Mark Sultan (10:30<br />Night Beats (9:30<br /><br />inside<br />The UFO Club (12:30</p> <p>Since they emerged at a time when C-86-inspired acts like <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/vivian-girls/804274">Vivian Girls</a> and <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/the-pains-of-being-pure-at-heart/695401">the Pains of Being Pure at Heart</a> were in vogue, its little wonder that Californias <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/dum-dum-girls/900139">Dum Dum Girls</a> -- a group whose '60s-inflected lo-fi pop brings to mind acts like <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/black-tambourine/1171345">Black Tambourine</a> and <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/dolly-mixture/1013418">Dolly Mixture</a> -- became something of a sensation on the indie circuit soon after the release of their first single. In 2008, lead singer Kirstin Gundred (aka <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/dee-dee/2620714">Dee Dee</a>) began making solo recordings as <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/dum-dum-girls/900139">Dum Dum Girls</a>, deriving the name both from <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/the-vaselines/1022427">the Vaselines</a> album <a href="http://music.aol.com/album/dum-dum/1502787">Dum-Dum</a> and from the <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/iggy-pop/1004441">Iggy Pop</a> song Dum Dum Boys. Over the course of the next year, <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/dee-dee/2620714">Dee Dee</a> released a couple singles (a 7" single on Hozac, a four-way split single on Art Fag), a 12" EP (Yours Alone, released via Captured Tracks), and a compilation disc appearance (on Art Fags Blissed Out cassette comp). Thanks to the high level of buzz surrounding <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/dee-dee/2620714">Dee Dee</a> (and, of course, the quality of the records), Sub Pop signed <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/dum-dum-girls/900139">Dum Dum Girls</a> in 2009. <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/dum-dum-girls/900139">Dum Dum Girls</a>' first Sub Pop single, "Jail La La," was released in early 2010, with the debut album <a href="http://music.aol.com/album/i-will-be/1568667">I Will Be</a> following soon after. Both recordings were mostly done by <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/dee-dee/2620714">Dee Dee</a> at home (with some help from <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/nick-zinner/921675">Nick Zinner</a> and <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/crocodiles/936408">Crocodiles</a><a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/brandon-welchez/1707592">Brandon Welchez</a>) and then expertly produced in the studio by <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/richard-gottehrer/1064469">Richard Gottehrer</a>, who had formerly worked with <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/the-go-gos/1063729">the Go-Go's</a> and <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/blondie/1003119">Blondie</a>. Before the album's release, <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/dee-dee/2620714">Dee Dee</a> teamed up with guitarist Jules, bassist Bambi, and drummer <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/frankie-rose/816325">Frankie Rose</a> (formerly of like-minded groups <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/crystal-stilts/825360">Crystal Stilts</a> and <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/vivian-girls/804274">Vivian Girls</a>) to form a live band. <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/rose/816325">Rose</a> left the band in June of 2010 and was replaced by a drummer named Sandy, who was with the band when its fall tour of the U.S. was canceled due to the passing of <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/dee-dee/2620714">Dee Dee</a>'s mother. After spending some time regrouping, the band began playing more shows as the year drew to a close. In 2011, the <a href="http://music.aol.com/album/he-gets-me-high/1718527">He Gets Me High</a> EP was released. Recorded just before her mother's death, the record was cut by <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/dee-dee/2620714">Dee Dee</a> without her band, and was produced again by <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/gottehrer/1064469">Gottehrer</a> with help from <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/the-raveonettes/1491816">the Raveonettes</a>' <a href="http://music.aol.com/artist/sune-rose-wagner/1500890">Sune Rose Wagner</a>. A full-length sophomore album, <a href="http://music.aol.com/album/only-in-dreams/5041294">Only in Dreams</a>, appeared later that year. ~ Margaret Reges, Rovi</p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:20:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/42891<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/00/14/medium.a914za6scc55.jpg" /><br /><p>FRIDAY. AUGUST 5TH, 2011.</p> <p>Transmission Entertainment Presents: Woods w/ White Fence & Holy Wave.</p> <p>$10 Advance ($12 Day of Show) Doors @ 8pm. Show @ 9pm.</p> <div id="bio"> <p class="text">"A lo-fi indie folk-pop band from Brooklyn, NY, <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/woods-p867889">Woods</a> feature members of the indie rock band <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/meneguar-p702678">Meneguar</a> and are associated with the Woodsist label. Founded as a side project for <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/meneguar-p702678">Meneguar</a> bandmembers <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jeremy-earl-p823049">Jeremy Earl</a> and <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/christian-deroeck-p823047">Christian DeRoeck</a>, <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/woods-p867889">Woods</a> made their recording debut in 2005 with <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/how-to-survive-inin-the-woods-r1240445">How to Survive In/In the Woods</a>, a double-cassette release on the Fuckittapes label. In 2007 there was a series of <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/woods-p867889">Woods</a> releases including the limited-edition 7" vinyl single Ram on Gilgongo Records; the full-length album <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/at-rear-house-r944444">At Rear House</a>, released on the Woodsist label in association with the Shrimper label; and a CD reissue of <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/how-to-survive-inin-the-woods-r1240445">How to Survive In/In the Woods</a>, also on Woodsist/Shrimper. Among this series of releases, <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/at-rear-house-r944444">At Rear House</a> was particularly well received, earning lots of positive write-ups on the Internet. The successive full-length <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/woods-p867889">Woods</a> release, Woods Family Creeps (2008), released on Time-Lag Records, marked the inclusion of new bandmembers <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jarvis-taveniere-p823054">Jarvis Taveniere</a> (also of <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/meneguar-p702678">Meneguar</a>) and G. Lucas Crane. A 7" vinyl single, Sunlit (2008), was released around the same time on Captured Tracks. Follow-up album <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/songs-of-shame-r1556393">Songs of Shame</a> (2009), released on Woodsist/Shrimper, was another well-received effort by the band from a critical standpoint. Most notably, upon its release <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/songs-of-shame-r1556393">Songs of Shame</a> was championed by tastemaking indie website Pitchfork as some of the year's "Best New Music," a high-profile accolade that generated widespread buzz about <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/woods-p867889">Woods</a>. The singles Dark (released on Captured Tracks) and To Clean/Rain on Radio (issued by the U.K. label Half Machine) appeared later that year. Ever busy, the group released their third album, <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/at-echo-lake-r1746124">At Echo Lake</a>, in late spring of 2010 and followed it up a year later with Sun and Shade." - by Jason Birchmeier</p> </div> <p> <object width="640" height="390"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tyjcFKl86Oo?version=3&hl=en_US" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tyjcFKl86Oo?version=3&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="390" width="640"></embed> </object> </p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 18:35:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/36561<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/08/14/medium.h8o90032clt9.jpg" /><br /><p>Monday August 1st ,2011.</p> <p>Whisker Wars Premier Happy Hour feat: The Austin Facial Hair Club, DJs, and Dave Mead</p> <p>Come ramble with our very own world-class beardos at Happy Hour in celebration of the new IFC series "Whisker Wars," love of cheap booze & general mayhem!</p> <p>"The battle of the beardsmen is chronicled in a new docu-comedy on IFC called "Whisker Wars," that begins airing on IFC on Aug. 5.</p> <p>The series follows the path of several follicularly endowed fellows from last summer's first-ever national competition in Bend, Ore., through to the recent world championship in Trondheim, Norway.</p> <p>The cast is heavy on Californians, including the whiskered wizard of Walnut Creek -- two-time full beard natural champion Jack Passion (whom we profiled in May 2009 in the run-up to the world championships in Anchorage, Alaska) -- Aarne Bielefeldt, who hails from Willits, Calif., and who took top honors in the full beard category in Bend, and Phil Olsen, who serves as the self-appointed captain of <a href="http://beardteamusa.org/" target="_blank">Beard Team USA</a>(BTUSA). Rounding out the regulars are Myk O'Connor from New York City and the good old boys of the Austin [Texas] Facial Hair Club, a crew that includes Bryan Nelson, Allen Demling and Miletus Callahan-Barile.</p> <p>Following around a pack of guys who want to grow the world's greatest whiskers could be dull as dishwater, and while the show isn't exactly adrenaline-pumping, the show manages to serve up enough behind-the-scenes drama to interest even those who couldn't care less who wins in the pursuit for hirsute bragging rights, including a budding romance (did you know there are beard groupies?), charges of favoritism, internecine intrigue (the Austin club mulls over secession from BTUSA) and everyone's love-him-or-hate-him obsession with Jack Passion who, with an ego seemingly as large as his beard, seems bent on parlaying his status as reigning champion into a full-time, well-paying profession, complete with endorsement deals. (In a way he already has; both Passion and Olsen are listed in the show credits as consulting producers.)</p> <p>The three screening episodes provided by IFC managed to capture much of the quirkiness of the competitive bearded bunch, as well as answer some of those nagging practical questions like how to eat sloppy barbecue (hair clips help pin back the beard) and how to coax your facial hair into a perfectly formed circle (a beer can and hair spray does the trick). And for those reasons alone it's worth tuning in to see where the rest of the season leads.</p> <p>Oh, and there's one more reason: Aarne Bielefeldt ,who starts out as almost an accidental champion who stepped out of the woods of Northern California and onto the stage in Bend, Ore., and ends up becoming a kind of lederhosen- and feathered-hat-wearing heart, soul and spirit guide of the whole bearded bunch. "</p> <p>"Whisker Wars" premieres Friday, Aug. 5 at 11 p.m./ 10 p.m. Central on<a href="http://www.ifc.com/" target="_blank"> IFC</a>.</p> <p>-- Adam Tschorn // LA Times // http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/alltherage/2011/07/in-pursuit-of-the-hirsute-ifcs-whisker-wars-starts-aug-5.html</p> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/NC1g8NRSplk" frameborder="0" height="349" width="560"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 07:50:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/41191<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/12/11/medium.d56p2ia0p8qn.jpg" /><br /><p>YOU KEEP COMIN' & WE'LL KEEP IT REAL.</p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 09:50:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/38861<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/08/05/medium.r59781au1247.jpg" /><br /><p>Sarurday July 23rd, 2011.</p> <p>Transmission Entertainment Presents:</p> <p>BROWNOUT! + CHINGO BLING</p> <p><span></span>$10 Advance ($12 Day of Show) Doors @ 8pm. Show @ 9pm.</p> <div class="description"> <p>Before forming the Latin rock/salsa band <a class="dlink" href="http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,2811104,00.html">Grupo Fantasma</a>, guitarists <a class="dlink" href="http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,3852588,00.html">Adrian Quesada</a> and <a class="dlink" href="http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,4527835,00.html">Beto Martinez</a>, bassist <a class="dlink" href="http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,4686776,00.html">Greg Gonzalez</a>, trumpeter <a class="dlink" href="http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,2806589,00.html">Gilbert Elorreaga</a>, sax player <a class="dlink" href="http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,4527845,00.html">Josh Levy</a>, trombonist <a class="dlink" href="http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,4527836,00.html">Leo Gauna</a>, drummer <a class="dlink" href="http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,4527848,00.html">Johnny Lopez</a>, and conguero <a class="dlink" href="http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,4527843,00.html">Matthew "Sweet Lou" Holmes</a> were in all in an Austin, TX, funk band called the Blimp. In 2003, shortly before <a class="dlink" href="http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,2811104,00.html">Grupo</a>'s <a class="dlink" href="http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,3299970,00.html">Movimiento Popular</a> came out, <a class="dlink" href="http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,3852588,00.html">Quesada</a> suggested starting up a funk outfit again, mostly with the intention of simply playing covers and having fun. Culling inspiration from groups like <a class="dlink" href="http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,466403,00.html">Santana</a>, <a class="dlink" href="http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,426236,00.html">Earth, Wind & Fire</a>, and <a class="dlink" href="http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,433431,00.html">P-Funk</a>, and calling themselves <a class="dlink" href="http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,4350652,00.html">Brownout</a>, the octet members realized they sounded good enough to release a 7" in 2005 on England's Freestyle Records, a single that ended up doing so well -- and garnering so many follow-up requests -- that soon a 12" was issued too. This was all enough to convince the friends that <a class="dlink" href="http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,4350652,00.html">Brownout</a> should be a serious thing, and their full-length debut, <a class="dlink" href="http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,4527615,00.html">Homenaje</a>, was released in January 2008. That same year, <a class="dlink" href="http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,4350652,00.html">Brownout</a> won an Austin Music Award for Best Latin Contemporary Band (beating out themselves, as <a class="dlink" href="http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,2811104,00.html">Grupo Fantasma</a>, for the honor) and made appearances at the annual SXSW festival. ~ Marisa Brown, All Music Guide</p> </div> <p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/7AIGabZaRbY" frameborder="0" height="349" width="425"></iframe></p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 10:25:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/38891<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/10/09/medium.0h3h32b3s4k2.jpg" /><br /><p>Friday July 22nd, 2011</p> <p>The Mohawk & Transmission Entertainment Present: Mission of Burma, Ume & Daniel Francis Doyle.</p> <p><span></span>$15 Advance ($17 Day of Show) Doors @ 8pm.</p> <div class="description"></div> <p>In their first go-round in the early 1980s, Mission of Burma were equal parts innovation and perspiration. Their muscular post-punk was groundbreaking, but it also had a workman-like quality. Maybe that's what made them unique-- Roger Miller, Clint Conley, and Peter Prescott always had their noses to the grindstone even when they were being visionary. Since reforming in 2002, Burma haven't been nearly as pioneering. But their hard-toiling side has not only persisted, it has expanded to fill in the gap." - Pitchfork</p> <p> <object width="480" height="390"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gzMu6ugTNfA?fs=1&hl=en_US" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gzMu6ugTNfA?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="390" width="480"></embed> </object> </p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 23:20:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/29311<br /><img src="http://mohawk.s3.amazonaws.com/media/00/05/medium.nx3t236ao610.jpg" /><br /><p>WED. JULY 2OTH, 2011.</p> <p>Transmission Entertainment Presents: Wooden Birds, ((sounder)), tba</p> <p>doors @ 9p// show @ 10pm.</p> <p>$10 advance. $12 day of show</p> <div class="content-container"> <p>The American Analog Set toed the line between sleepy and dreamy so closely that it was easy to take the group for granted. When the band worked at its peak, it operated in a sort of twilight haze, and the ease with which one got lost in its beauty played a large part in determining what one got out of it. Factor in their more or less lasting hiatus (recent SXSW reunion aside), and the American Analog Set legacy hangs in a sort of hazy purgatory. Did the band exist, or did we merely imagine it?</p> <p>The ghostly memory of the AmAnSet lingers near leader Andrew Kenny's new project the Wooden Birds as well,but it hardly hovers over it. If anything, Kenny, never a howler, is even more hushed here, with the Wooden Birds' debut <em>Magnolia</em> sounding as if it were recorded under extenuating circumstances-- a sleeping baby upstairs, say, or a sensitive neighbor-- only for Kenny to discover he liked how those muffled results turned out.Kenny and his new cohorts David Wingo, Lymbyc System drummer Michael Bell, and American Analog-vet Leslie Sisson seem to relish working within these spare constraints, where every note counts and nothing slips in to clutter to the songs. That precision and the process seem to have pushed Kenny in an interesting musical direction, too, seeing as so much of <em>Magnolia</em> recalls Lindsey Buckingham at his least manic, specifically the strange little ditties that fill Fleetwood Mac's <em>Tusk</em> and <em>Mirage</em>, nestled between the bigger hits. The resemblance is almost uncanny on songs such as "False Alarm", "Hailey", and the brief "Hometown Fantasy", which contains a heart-grabbing minor turn that's a perfect counter to its initial country feel.</p> <p>"That loose country vibe pervades tracks like "The Other One", "Quit You Once", and "Never Know" as well, each relatively interchangeable but so tasteful and uncomplicated their redundancy doesn't hurt, especially when Sisson starts chiming in with some breathy harmonies that fit the limited musical field like the last piece of a (simple) puzzle. After that it's back to songs like "Anna Paula" and "Seven Seventeen", the latter a deceptively sweet meet-cute number, and each with Sisson again playing a subdued Stevie Nicks to Kenny's mellow-mode Buckingham.Like much of <em>Magnolia</em> before it, the songs lope along quiet, lazy rhythms in no particular hurry to get where they're going. But while the Wooden Birds never quite arrive anywhere special, that's not to say Kenny isn't pointed that general direction. If <em>Magnolia</em> is a disc tinged with innocence and nostalgia, it's tinted by a hint of shadowy dread drawn from someplace more mysterious than Kenny is willing to reveal just yet." - Pitchfork</p> </div> <p class="credits"> <a href="http://pitchfork.com/staff/">Joshua Klein</a>, May 21, 2009</p> <p> <object width="640" height="390"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/N31lPGArTG4?fs=1&hl=en_US" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /> </object> </p> <p> <object width="640" height="390"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TUR3foEwmwI?version=3&hl=en_US" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TUR3foEwmwI?version=3&hl=en_US" height="390" width="640"></embed> </object> </p><p>From <a href="http://www.mohawkaustin.com/">www.mohawkaustin.com</a></p>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:00:00 -0800http://www.mohawkaustin.com/news/30851