Austin Sound

This month in our ongoing blog swap with Dallas-based blog We Shot JR and Houston’s The Skyline Network, we check back in with WSJR who delivers an awesome mix of North Texas oldies in a new series they’ve started up. Below you’ll find 13 tracks for download from artists ranging from Plastic Idols and Telefones to Skuds and Nervebreakers, songs that have slipped through the cracks and been gratefully recovered for your enjoyment. Follow the link on each title to download the song. This will be a continuing series on We Shot Jr., so be sure to check in on their blog regularly for more great music from the archives, as well as the best of what’s going on with our northern neighbors. And keep up to date on Houston’s scene with Skyline!

This week we are excited to debut a new monthly feature with help from our friends at the Dallas/Ft. Worth blog We Shot JR and Houston’s the Skyline Network that offers some incite into what’s hot in their hometowns right now. We Shot JR takes the pulse of the North Texas scene better than any publication around, and the Skyline Network consistently uncovers the best of Houston before it breaks. Each month, Austin Sound will alternate checking in with each to see what bands are making waves in their neighborhoods and that we in Austin should be on the lookout for. In our first installment, We Shot Jr. offers up four local bands that have recently impressed them: Darktown Strutters, Bad Sports, Sunnybrook, and Febrifuge. Next month, we’ll check in with the Skyline Network to see what’s turning heads in Houston, but we recommend you keep up with both sites for the best that those towns have to offer.