Hope to see you all at the Noise vs. House show tonight, but in other news here's a track from the hip-hop record I produced. It will be released next Saturday night at Lambert's.
Diamond Minds - Cavalier
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Showing posts with label House Show. Show all posts
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Friday, June 12, 2009
Leak!
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
SXSW Day Show Thursday
Lots of good bands. A few crossovers from the Rancho shows (Fiction, Reverse X Rays) and some other great Austin acts as well as a few out of towners. Come say hello.
o t i s
J.CHU
myspace.com/hellowhereisjchu
Canopy
myspace.com/ccanopyy
The Shakem Ups
myspace.com/shakeemups
Fiction
myspace.com/cantrememberthewords
Reverse X Rays
myspace.com/reversexrays
Mittens on Strings (Chicago)
myspace.com/mittensonstrings
Hearts of Darknesses (NYC)
myspace.com/heartsofdarknesses
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Charlie has a 2nd house show
I got no pics, but I played a show at Charlie's last night. I had a Spanish test this morning and pre-show was in his music room doing Spanish homework for a little bit. That dude (maybe + roommates) has a killer record collection. Anyways, it was his second show in 3 days. It rained for this one which killed turnout a bit, but the people that were there had a great time. I think (hope) he is going to start putting more shows like that together, hes got a great house for it, and especially if it is sunshiny and the living room gets moved outside.
I started the show, playing the first Ethan, Master of the Hawaiian Ukulele set since the Oneida show last June. It was solo and 75% cowboy love songs on a guitar but we wont let the facts get in the way of keeping the moniker. It was nice to do it in a living room. The moment I finished about 6 more people came through the door. I think I will probably do it again on Saturday at our house. Eric Archer and Oguz came but after I was done. They brought this semi-spicy trail mix which was delicious.
After me Martin Crane from Brazos played. I had never seen him before. I had heard good things and tried to go see them at Local Live last month, but they played during this torrential downpour and I woke up from a nap and saw it and went back to bed. Anyways, I didnt make it and was glad to finally see it. Martin played 4 songs on acoustic guitar: a Beck cover, a Mark Ashworth cover, and then 2 of his own. Im glad he played after me because hes got this great high voice and I dont like to play after people who have actual vocal talent. Maybe its standard insecurity, but I think as a general rule in Western Society people prefer higher voices. For every Johnny Cash there are about 20 Justin Timberlakes, not to say Martin sounded like that. Anyways, hopefully he will be able to play the show at my house on Saturday, Ive been busy with school so I havent really gotten around to confirming the acts yet and I have a feeling maybe 1 or 2 slots will open and close back up before its all said and done.
Anyways the last band to play was The Shift from Colorado. They were a heavy instrumental 3 piece and they were great, though even with ear plugs in i felt like i was going deaf. Candice said the drummer was the fastest shed ever heard. I didnt think he was especially especially fast but i did think he was realy original and really good. I wouldnt say he made it look easy, but he looked very comfortable making some very complicated changes. Those guys really met my criteria for an instrumental 3 piece in the sense that I could focus on any of the instruments and be impressed and they all worked together. The bass was shockingly funky considering how often they changed or played in weird time signitures. The guitarist was doing these crazy crazy arpeggios and making really strange shapes. I want him to take a video fo the fretboard while he plays and post it on youtube. I told those guys after the show that they would go over really well in San Antonio and I am definately going to alert Crotch on Fire to their presence. They dont sound like those San Antonio bands, but knowing what those guys flip out about they would really like this band. They were so tight and always sounded heavy first and proggy second, even though they were doing really wacky shit sometimes.
ALSO: on a blogging note we may have some new voices joining us here pretty soon, so get ready. :P
Monday, June 18, 2007
a long SUNSET
SUNSET played Local Live last night. My bold prediction for the future is that between his golden locks and pedal steels Bill is going to garner himself some "Sea Changes" era Beck comparisons sooner rather than later. My favorite one by theirs is the one that goes "My heart before my brain/I fight like Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens must have fought before." Im not sure it necessarily makes any sense, but when you got 5 guys playing acoustic guitar there seems to be some sort of specific images conjured, although I couldn't tell you exactly what outside of 5 guys playing acoustic guitar. One of the guitarists looked like Sting, which was awesome. They played 15 minutes over so we took licence to have a little fun with delay in the production booth at the end and it got really trippy. After setup (which was long but fun...last week White Denim brought one mic and insisted on only using that one, this week we used every mic we had, including one from the DJ booth) we went over to Hold in the Wall and I got the strangest Bloody Mary of my life. That girl did not know what she was doing ("Ive never had a Bloody Mary before, but I know how to make em!" No...no you dont...) Oguz has spread his Jagermeister disease over to the rest of the production crew. We hung out with a guy named Praveen who was shooting camera for the band and talked about the Battles record among others. Oguz has it but hasnt listened to it yet. He just got back from Turkey this week and is still jet lagged. He is going to love it in all its mathy glory. Those math doctoral students...
Were having a show 7-7-07. It was originally going to be called the Whose Who and Que since it was the 4th of July Saturday and we were going to BBQ, but once we realized it was 7-7-07 we had to change the name. I think its going to be called Lucky 7s or something. Danns booking the DJs, so far on the band end it looks like SUNSET will be playing as well as J Chu, The Satin Hooks (Houston) and Im working on an Effete/Ethan Master of the Hawaiian Ukulele hybrid set that should be fun as well.
Also the new White Stripes record comes out tomorrow!
Friday, June 8, 2007
Casa Vista Alt-Country Spurs Celebrational Show
So we called it before the game even started. Spurs in 4. No questions.
I don't really watch basketball but I bought a Kurtis Blow single at Amoeba Records last week called "Basketball" and it is the first game of the finals, so Ethan wanted his country evening to have a basketball theme. Julian brought 6 balls and threw them on the floor. I was supposed to make a sign attached to our broom that says "Spurs in 4" and wave it around.
But no one really gives a shit about basketball so I forgot to make the sign and no one seemed like they really wanted to hear Kurtis Blow.
Ethan played solo country stuff to a full capacity Blue Room. The radiator was humming a bit loudly but he turned up the twang and played some country songs.
Firewood played upstairs. Great all around set with some light drumming behind acoustic and electric guitars. A much fuller sound.
On the front porch Jason played two or three songs on acoustic guitar. Really soulful. Then Andrew played a good folk song or two. I feel like someone else jumped in but I don't recall.
Then WS Burn played inside.
NOTE: Edgar didnt finish writing this but im publishing it anyways. He would have said WS Burn kicked ass in some fashion.
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