Austin Sound

There’s a ton of great music this weekend, and among the events worth noting is that all through November, the Weird Weeds will be holding down a residency at Progress Coffee on East Fifth. The band has been writing songs for a new album, so you can expect to hear some new material, and they also have a new bassist on board with the seriously incomparable Lindsey Verrill from bands like Some Say Leland, the McMercy Family Band and several others around town. Check out the schedule for the WW’s below, along with who will be tagging along each week. Shows start at 8:00pm every Friday:

On Friday night, in an effort to warm up the crowd from the main event this weekend, the Austinist hosts their sixth “Local Music Is Sexy” at the Mohawk and, if we may say so, we think this one may be the sexiest yet. How do we know? Let’s count the reasons…

After seemingly endless searching to no avail, it seems we’ve lost the long list of Halloween puns we had prepared for this Halloween edition of our Weekend Preview. So guys and ghouls (except that one), you may have to insert your own.
Austin’s not a city known to lull before a storm, and now during this [...]

We missed our August edition of following Haunting Oboe Music’s EP a month series, but luckily they haven’t missed a beat. So this month we present you with two mp3s, one from their August EP and one from the newly released September offering.

This weekend proves the apparent lull between ACL and Fun Fun Fun Fest is hardly a lull at all. We have a festival’s worth of shows for you this weekend (including one small festival, actually), with bands of new and bands of old. Pompeii release their new album Friday at La Zona Rosa along with the support of The Soldier Thread, who we’re glad to see are playing shows more frequently again, though we expect the new album they’ve been working on to be well worth the wait. Our Sound Off band for the week, Frantic Clam, also play Friday at Trophy’s, and as you might guess we recommend checking out these relative newcomers and their new Celebrity EP. Saturday we have more releases compliments of Graham Weber’s decision to put rerelease his album Door to the Morning from earlier this year on vinyl - he’ll be playing for free at End of an Ear to mark the occasion. Also on Saturday, The Jungle Rockers play the Flamingo Cantina with Contra Coup. Then Sunday we bid a fond farewell to a true Austin venue, The Backyard, which will be closing its door for good this weekend. Willie Nelson headlines the huge show planned for Sunday, which starts at 3pm in order to fit in all the music. Ready or not, here this weekend comes.

The time has finally come for the Backyard to shutter it’s doors, but they’re going out with a band. The decision to close the Bee Cave venue announced earlier this year really isn’t a surprise, as the Exurban sprawl that has sprung up around it has pretty much killed it’s isolated charm. But still, we hate to see it go.

Did we leave the freezer open all night again, or are we getting some cool weather ’round these parts? We haven’t been outside in a week, so we can’t say for sure, but here’s hoping for the latter. Speaking of haven’t been outside in a week, it’s time for our weekly outing from the cave (colloquially known here as the week-end) and that means there’s music abound. This week we’re looking at a stimulus package worth of shows beginning with Friday, which brings us the Crack Pipes, the Strange Boys, the Teeners, Harlem and Cartwright, all in one place! Now that’s not a lineup you’ll see every day. Saturday we’ve got Hacienda back from a tour with Dr. Dog and Delta Spirit - they’ll be playing with The Hot Pentecostals. Then Sunday, Deer Tick, a band who has been featured on a number of local labels, play Emo’s with The Black, Mandarin Dynasty and Chris Paddock. Oh yeah, it’s the weekend alright.

With the weather tempting us with almost-cool temperatures and Austinites on a mass exodus to the Cotton Bowl, we can be sure of only one thing: It’s October, and it’s the weekend. This week we’ve got a new roundup of shows and album release parties to fill up the old social calendar and CD shelves. On Friday, La Snacks will finally be dropping their new full length, Newfangled, at the Mohawk in a show presented by Party Ends. The show also features a release by Transmography and a set by recent Sound Off graduates Follow That Bird. Saturday brings us solo shows at the Scoot Inn by Shawn Jones of The Lovely Sparrows, who have been all over our radar lately with their new album Bury The Cynics, along with The Wisdom Teeth and Dark Water Hymnal, whose sure-to-impress album we’re still waiting and salivating like Pavlov for. Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s roll through town on Sunday with their set of new albums, bringing David Vandervelde in tow. Think you can keep up? We’ll see, here’s our Weekend Preview.

How was the week of rest after ACL? Did you get all that dirt coughed up? Good, because it’s time to get back out there this weekend for this weekend’s special occasions: album release parties. Local bands Low Line Caller, Follow That Bird!, and The Calm Blue Sea will all be dropping new hits this weekend. We think you know as well as we do that somehow buying albums straight from the band’s merch table is more satisfying than rummaging through the understock at Waterloo. As if the manufacture-direct prices weren’t enough, the support at these shows includes The Boxing Lesson, Canopy, UME, The Midgetmen, and a whole lot more.

It’s Friday, here’s your Weekend Preview.

Well friends, another week has passed, and you know what that means: more government bailouts, and Austin City Limits. If you’re headed down to Zilker this weekend, we wish you a hearty good luck. Remember, it’s entirely possible to see every single band playing if you time it right, so get out there and make your ticket worth it. If you’re looking for some help getting your personal ACL schedule lined up, we suggest you try Sched’s ACL Schedule Widget.

But whether you’re geared up for the big show at Zilker or you’re just trying to avoid the extra traffic this weekend, we remind you not to forget to take advantage of all the great local shows going on this weekend. With Okkervil River back in town, Austin M+E hosting an “unofficial” after show staring Noise Revival Orchestra, The Black Angels at Stubbs, and hundreds of other bands from both in-state and out playing in Zilker and around town, we know it’s easy to feel a little overwhelmed! But never fear, we’ve got you covered with our selections for the weekend, ACL/Kiss-Your-Portfolio-Goodbye edition.

But whether you’re geared up for the big show at Zilker or you’re just trying to avoid the extra traffic this weekend, we remind you not to forget to take advantage of all the great local shows going on this weekend.