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The brainchild of novelist and performer Neal Pollack, Austin's The Neal Pollack Invasion appeared suddenly 10 years ago and disappeared just as suddenly. With the re-release of their album, they're hoping to appear agai…

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Talk about a tumultuous decade. Since 2001, Steven Stubblefield of Starlings, TN has seen it all: epic natural disasters, personal demons, nervous breakdowns, the death of a mentor and friend, the severing of a great mus…

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Austin, Texas band Moonlight Towers (taking its name from the tall vintage streetlights that illuminate Austin’s nights) is a genuine band that does what comes naturally: writing, recording and playing real rock n’ roll …

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“When fedora-wearing, experimentation-loving punk rockers get fed up with the status quo, anything can happen...” – Austin Chronicle Macabre + Cabaret = Macabaret. It's a word that had to be coined, because how does …

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This newest love/hate letter from Atlanta's Tiger! Tiger! features 15 new songs that capture the shifting moods of a waterfront tavern with floors of sawdust and broken teeth. Cut Them Where They Bleed (March 13th, Chick…

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For two decades, The Woggles have marched forth from Georgia like Sherman in reverse, leveling nightclubs with their hip-shaking, windshield-steaming garage rock fusillade” (Austin Chronicle). Combine a whole lot of 60’s…

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Hailing from the Z area of Planet Peelander (but now based in New York City by way of Japan), action comic punk band Peelander–Z has been vacationing on Earth long enough to make six albums and tour the land at a practic…

SOUNDS UNDER RADIO's second full-length album Where My Communist Heart Meets My Capitalist Mind takes the bands creation of vast soundscapes to a new level with a dynamic confluence of pop anthems that push against progr…

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“The Whole Is Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts” – Aristotle The pedigree of Pushmens parts are impressive to begin with. This in turn makes the ‘whole’ a brutalizing result with years of experience, style and attitu…

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Singer Steven Battelle "For me there is a huge difference between being in a band and BEING a band. The latter of which means your general well being, where your whole existence is in fact a tapestry woven with the thre…

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“Nobody ever paid money to see Harry Houdini escape being buried alive” says My Jerusalem founder and singer Jeff Klein. “They wanted the small chance of seeing him killed by the weight of the earth on top of him.” Be…

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Scott Lucas is best known as the singer/guitarist for the two-man, Chicago rock band Local H. But recently, he has broadened his musical scope and greatly expanded his lineup, pulling together a collective of musicians -…

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Great pop music can be many things, it can be escapist, euphoric, it can be about love and loss. It can also be about the everyday, the magic in the mundane, the soundtrack to real life - a modern urban folk music. It…

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The Lighthouse and the Whaler is a band from Cleveland, Ohio, though its name alludes to the waters off the coast of Massachusetts. Inspired by a theme from Moby Dick, the band's name alone is enough to make underpaid Li…

It’s not easy to stand out in the proliferating indie rock cliché – a cesspool of mediocrity and forced emulation. Turtle Giant gives any reference of cliché a roundhouse kick to the face. Formed in 2009, Turtle Gian…

Hearkening back to the sounds of early nineties college radio is bearhug, a five-piece from Sydney, Australia. Jesse Bayley (guitar), Mitchel Cumming (bass), Nicholas Mabbit (drums), Ryan Phelan (vocals, guitar), and Kyl…

BOY - a contagious confection that has spread across the internet like wildfire. The Hamburg-based duo gets your toes tapping, mind playing, feet moving, emotions travelling, head thinking, hips jerking. But above all, t…

darwin deez Born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina to Maher Baba disciples, Darwin studied and performed as a tap dancer from age 8 to 18. His first compositions were guitar pop songs that he wrote aged 11 after his fath…

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Lindsay Pitts and Clifford John make dark, enchanting dream pop that floats along in warm, shimmering waves. The duo weaves a web of male and female harmonies, slow pulsing beats, reverb-laced guitars, and lush synthesiz…

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Zak Waters, a Los Angeles native, emerged in early 2011 and arrived on the scene oozing with confidence, sex appeal, and charismatic vocal ability. His creations are perfectly crafted pop songs infused with contagious da…

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Tashaki Miyaki was born out of a late night jam in early 2011. Since then they have recorded two EPs, and a single as well as toured the world. They are currently in the midst of recording their debut full length.……

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Formed in 2009 by vocalist / drummer Gretta Rochelle and guitarist Jack Armondo, My Gold Mask conjure a feeling rather than a simple sound. Their music is part art-pop, part sonic poetry, and part personal chemistry. The…

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Listen through the ethereal haze that Brass Bed has created on The Secret Will Keep You, and you will find a soulful band suspended in a moment of frustration and anxiety. It's the sort of frustration that comes from gro…