Austin Sound

UME - Photo: Anthony Rathbun

A day late but no less jam-packed with events, it’s Weekend Preview.

Two super lineups dominate the weekend beginning with UME, Ringo Deathstarr, Haunting Oboe Music and more at the Monarch Event Center. Then Sunday, KOOP plays host to a fundraiser where you have the chance of winning a scooter, and the guarantee of good music, compliments of The Bellfuries, La Snacks, Peel, and Foot Foot.

It’s difficult to listen to Ringo Deathstarr without recalling the likes of My Bloody Valentine or the Jesus and Mary Chain, which nearly everyone that has tangled with the quartet’s debut EP has noted. And that’s just fine with us. For while that influence pervades their sound, the group has brought some power to bear on Austin’s resurgent shoegaze scene. The narcotic haze that lulled locally with the Trance Syndicate/ Texas version of the genre (Bedhead, American Analogue Set, and more recently For Those Who Know, the Swells/Seaholm Electric) still lingers, but Ringo Deathstarr unleashes a wave of ear-ringing reverb and distortion that is anything but subdued (and why we assume they answered below in all CAPS.) The Beaumont-bred band is the project of Elliott Frazier, and has in the past year steadied its lineup to tour and produce their excellent eponymous debut EP. You can catch Ringo Deathstarr this Thursday headlining the Parish with All in the Golden Afternoon, Soundpool from New York City, and She, Sir.