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new wave of outdoor festivals- john

Administrator — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:24:04 +0000

So, there is that big DIY festival in Mexico that everyone’s favorite promoter/Brooklyn-type Todd P is orchestrating in late March called MtyMx. Its got Neon Indian, Dan Deacon and most of the bands playing SXSW that the “popular” “blogs” are talking about. It is an impressive lineup in it’s own regard for a multi-day festival but the big draw is that a lot of folks need an excuse to travel to Monterrey Mexico, drink tequila and dance in a field after traveling to Austin, drinking Lone Star and dancing in a gentrified tejano bar. 25 bands a day for 3 days is nothing to shake a stick (or “el palo”) at. And it’s all for 400 pesos. Get your tickets HERE.

THIS weekend there appears to be another festival with the same idea called Festival/NRMAL. Get your tickets HERE. This one features such PartyEnds approved artists as YACHT, The Death Set,Yellow Fever, Juiceboxxx,Yppah, Toy Selectah and more. It is also in a Mexican field, possibly the same one.

So- what is the deal with all this south of the boarder action right around SXSW? Are Austin’s breakfast tacos not cutting it anymore? That’s not what the New York Times says… I am a little worried that SXSW might throw it’s weight around and try to stop Mexico from holding festivals that take away from their attention . Maybe they will rent Mexico next year for an artist lounge for reunited 90s bands….

Whatever. Have you seen this wild and crazy Mess With Texas lineup yet? The whole scoop is HERE. There is an analogy about evolution in here somewhere but I’ll let you play independent music academic on that one. Have a good Thursday and watch Community tonight.

poof - luther

Administrator — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:47:40 +0000

There are a lot of things I’m excited about at our upcoming Dirty Work SXSW show, not the least of which is the wide array of dance-tastic DJ & hip-hop acts we have lined up, both inside and out, but one of the top picks for the day is the much hyped, P-fork loved rock stylings of Brooklyn’s Keepaway. I’ve yet to hear anything in their airy, indie repertoire that I wasn’t impressed with and to accompany one of their better tracks, Yellow Wings, is a humorous, but strangely appropriate new music video. An un-synchronized, seemingly un-ironic, totally Gob magic show, shot on not terrible, but certainly not flattering digital video, bounces and pirouettes atop the catchy, teetering, snare driven tune. Check it out:

From Pitchfork: TV

air laughs- john

Administrator — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:00:12 +0000

Austin facial hair enthusiast and comedian Chris Trew has been staying quite busy lately. In one short year The New Movement improv theater in East Austin has gone from just hosting classes to being open to the public and has even opened a venue in Dallas dubbed Dallas Comedy House! Under the Megaphone Comedy umbrella he spearheads with his comedy partner Tami Nelson, Trew is spreading subversive and downright hilarious long-form clowning around all around the Lone Star state that makes Del Close smile in his grave. Trew hosted the national tour of Air Sex World Championships and as a result somehow ended up on Bad Girls Club. Read the highly entertaining message board thread where Trew engages with his newfound female fan base at the Oxygen Network HERE. (My favorite comment regarding his Air Sex routine from user “me_not_you” is as follows, ahem: “If my man was trying to eat a pizza in the middle of sex I would rip his PPPPPPPP PPPPPPPPP right off!“)

I guess I could keep going on and on about Trew also performs under nerdcore moniker Terp 2 It who has an ultra-fun album out modestly titled My Wiener Touches the Ceiling. But let’s get down to business. Chris Trew is the first act to take the outside stage at a FREE upcoming DAY SHOW we are hosting on March 18th 2010. Before all the keyboards and laptops and drum kits get plugged in and turned to 11, Trew will be enlightening the beer line full of Thursday work skippers with stories, anecdotes and overall silliness. This will set the tone for an awesome day and we couldn’t be more happy to have a hometown beardo kick things off. Don’t miss this on Thursday at noon, oh, unless you hate Brooklyn Lager and laughing. Full lineup of the Dirty Work dayshow below.

the 2010 partyends day show: dirty work- john

Administrator — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:58:59 +0000

A ton of planning and blackmail has gone into this FREE day show that just so happens to be the same week as some music festival. Thanks to help from Raw Word Records, Bridge Club Music, Brooklyn Brewery, Artifact Workshop Records, Fake Four Inc, and of course the Iron Gate Lounge (located at 1111 East 6th in beautiful Austin TX) this will be a memorable day for all!

We are proud as proud pie to have some THE bands that we were excited about being in town that week on board a show we are involved with! Ladies and germs- I present to you two stages of day party mania:

outside:

12 Comedy from The New Movement’s Chris Trew
1 CUSTODIAN
2 Keepaway
3 Sole and the Sky Rider Band
4 Neiliyo
5 Das Racist

Everything is Terrible projections all day!

inside:

12 Orion + Prince Klassen
1 Manolo Black + Hobo D
2 Sonora
3 Mexicans with Guns
4 Pagame + Gnarlos + Omoxi
5 Panchitron
6 Cauze One + Dj Dus

walkout- john

Administrator — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:40:32 +0000

I’ve given you the hot tip on E-603 before. He is that other guy out there right now who is really apt at mashing things up like those guys and dolls from Glee. I just got turned onto a cool remix he did for the psychedelic electro group Southern Belle who hail from Boston (although, be careful. There also appears to be a DIFFERENT Southern Belle from Portland…) Most remixes these days tend to be straightforward party songs or exciting radio rap pop songs but here we have a highly danceable jam with downer subject matter of a relationship falling apart. Why not? E-603 didn’t actually use any samples that I could pick up on, instead we have handclaps and some other club-friendly effects to beef up the original a bit. Alas, there is no Ke$ha or Kid Cudi or anything like that on top of it all. Is it possible that E-603 is more than just a mashup wunderkind? Could he produce too?

Southern Belle has a cool My Bloody Valentine undertone to all their songs which really helps set them apart from the majority of keyboardy electro outfits. This is the sort of band that stands to benefit in this Post-Neon-Indian-on-Jimmy-Fallon world we are living in.

Download the original and the E-603 remix below guilt-free:

MP3: Southern Belle- Walk Out

MP3: Southern Belle- Walk Out (E-603 Remix)

nuke duke em- john

Administrator — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:11:01 +0000

Wouldn’t it be funny if I told you about that new Vampire Weekend being particularly good in my opinion? Boring. Pick up a magazine in an airport for that sort of thing for the next 4 months. Another especially great act of young men that hasn’t busted into the NPR lexicon just yet is the raw awesomeness of Dinowarlus. Part casio weirdness and part flashmob drumcircle; the band is straight up neo/psychedelic/space/garage/punk. Make sense? The album “%” came out in January and odds are these guys will be playing their Theremins and out-of-tune guitars at many a official and unofficial sxsw party. They will have you scratching your head while you try to sneak Sweet-o’s into your backpack.

MP3: Dinowalrus- Nuke Duke ‘Em
MP3: Dinowalrus- BEAD

game night recap- john

Administrator — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:18:45 +0000

I had such a good time at the Neiliyo Game Night release party that I am extra thankful to the Peen Scene for being on hand to provide photographic evidence of the shenanigans. The main thing that I recall is that everyone there were the most extroverted, good-humored and overall happy people in Austin. And that means, that believe it or not- the Game Night attendees were even more optimistic and fun-loving than the young uns next door at Mohawk to see the Appleseed Cast’s Low Level Owl played in it’s entirety. (sarcasm comes across on the internet still right? )

Club DeVille was hopping from the get go as Makers Mark was on site to offer up complimentary samplings of their fine product. Not one person complained. The Team Fabrication DJs dropped upbeat rock song anthems and tasteful electro hits , rinsed and repeated making for one of the more fun DJ sets I’d heard in a long time. A particular highlight came from the end of the evening when They Might Be Giants Man It’s So Loud In Here came on the PA.

Fizzy Dino Pop was essentially a solo project for the show as the female part of the act was overseas. Sharing the stage with FZP was another dude who concentrated on making sure that the projections that were going behind them stayed bizarre and trippy. Somewhere between the pizza spinning on a record player and Tron sped up about 500% it totally worked and helped make for a tone setting performance of merriment.

Onto the Neiliyo set…. this was his most energetic and outrageous performance yet. In addition to the usual upbeat dancing, sweating and falling on the ground, Neiliyo had the crowd completely engaged in a high stakes game of musical chairs, hopscotch and yes, even spin the bottle. I was amazed to see that inhibitions were left at the door when the slap bracelet (which included a link to download the new EP Game Night) went on everyone’s wrists.

It was a great night and if you need proof just ask anyone who woke up with a slap bracelet on or better yet - check out the pictures from the Peen Scene HERE.

don’ be playin games- luther

Administrator — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:11:54 +0000

Over the last few year’s we’ve all come to know and love Austin’s leading front man, one man band, hype machine, and all around dancetastic walking party Neiliyo. With more energy than a collective ‘the’ band combined and oozing savoir faire, he has captured the hearts of many, and raised their BPMs with his raging BPMs. Weather an impromptu jam at a house party, or killing the stage at Lollapalooza, I have seen few live shows from Austin bands that I feel have more potential to break out onto the musical world stage than Mr. Yo, and his new record, a concept album revolving around classic kitsch party games, is really starting to catch up. Capturing the incendiary quality of Neil’s presence on stage is a tall order, and possibly something that will never occur in full, but one tenth of that electricity could make a record great and Game Night, his new EP, is the experimental car battery in which it will be stored.

Saturday night find out for yourself at the “record” release party residing in the always chill Club DeVille where you’ll not only enjoy a live performance of Game Night in it’s entirety, as well as some additional tunes I should think, but also actual participation in the old school games around which the album revolves, like spin the bottle, musical chairs, and telephone. As if that weren’t enough, you’ll also enjoy the comparably nutz lo-fi electro-funk of Fizzi Dino Pop, and records spun by Austin fashionistas Team Fabrication. A nominal $8 gets you in the door, the evening of highly original entertainment, and a sweet-ass slap bracelet with a download code for the album (hence my earlier quotation marks around ‘record’, because this is way cooler than a CD).

Check out this teaser track from the EP:

MP3: Neiliyo - Hopscotch

never a better friday night- john

Administrator — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:00:50 +0000

For months, the very notion of Friday night’s show has made be a giddy. Red 7 is hosting the tour of P.O.S, Dessa and Astronautalis in Austin and there can be no doubt that this will be an stunning hip hop-esq concert.

Get there early because Astronautalis is the only artist in America currently performing songs about being stabbed to death on a first date, doughnuts with tupac AND Washington crossing the Delaware. Still supporting Pomegranate, one of the best albums of 2008, Astronautalis is never anything short of a completely enthralling and absorbing live show. Veins pop, sweat pours and neo-folksy anecdotes are told. If you are reading this and still not sold – I will leave you with this: I have seen a lot of live acts in my day, and Astronautalis is my favorite live performer alive. Boom.

This will be my first time to see the Minneapolis golden child and DoomTree wunderkind P.O.S. His latest release Never Better was one of the best albums of last year and the song Drumroll was my top number 8 song of the year. In theory, to see it done live is to have my face melted. I can’t wait.

On Pomegranate, POS is a special guest on the hidden song and on Never Better Astro returns the favor. If both or either of these tracks of performed live, it will be a very special evening. Who am I kidding, it will special evening no matter what. These are some of the most important indie-hip-hop artists in the world tonight and it special to know that they very well might end up right along side you at the Kabobalicious trailer after the show.

Get yo tickets HERE.

AND- check out this dope stack cup beat below!

la burrita de eliseo- john

Administrator — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:40:09 +0000

It is snowing in Austin and what better way to warm up that with some new cumbia tracks from hometown DJ hero Orion. Orion is an active member of the most up and coming DJ crews around called Peligrosa who are official SXSW artists this year after ripping up the Fun Fun Fun Fest stage as well as the PartyEnds sponsored Summer Extrav-0-ganza alongside Harlem on a boat last summer! The key to the warranted attention that they receive lies in their uniqueness. In a landscape of bloghouse and heavy DnB, Orion and the rest craft booties to shake using a palate of cumbia and salsa and sprinkle in elements of hip hop and electro to create something that listeners truly respond to, if nothing else, because it is different. Mad Decent commander in chief Diplo has had great success in digging into different musical cultures to bring the best of the best to the forefront of a digital culture, but what the Peligrossa boys are doing is more genuine. This is the music that they love and they would like to play it for you. They know you can handle and accordion if the right beat is underneath it. They know you will be forgiving of not being able to understand the words because very well might find yourself with a rose clenched between your teeth. This is material that can be listened to by most any generation and find appealing elements to it.

The collection of edits, remixes and originals is called Carajo Colombia and you can name your own price! So, anywhere between zero to a milli is acceptable. The link to Download the whole thing is HERE!

An appetizer:

MP3 : DJ Orion - La Burrita de Eliseo