The ACL Breakdown | Friday

OFFICIAL AFTER-SHOWS:

Devotchka, Los Amigos Invisibles at La Zona Rosa [Purchase Tickets] $21

STS9 at Stubb's (outside) [Purchase Tickets] $27.50

The Virgins at Stubb's (inside) [Purchase Tickets] $15

The Raveonettes, Here We Go Magic at The Parish [Purchase Tickets] $20

!!!, Harlem, Neon Indian at Emo's (outside) [Purchase Tickets] $20

Deer Tick, Henry Clay People, Alberta Cross at Emo's (inside) [Purchase Tickets] $15

AFTER-PARTIES:

ULTRA8201 SPONSORED:

Learning Secrets / Ultra8201 / Austin is Burning Presents…
Loyaute Soundsystem, Voxtrot, Survive, and More!
Beauty Bar
Friday, October 2nd
$5 with RSVP / $8 at the door
Free drinks for first 100 people
http://learningsecretsmusic.com/rsvp/
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Rare Magazine & WOXY.com’s Live at Seaholm
Free ACL after-party featuring Broken Social Scene at Seaholm Power Plant (aka the best building in Austin)
Friday, Oct. 2. 10pm-4am (they’re going to throw another party on Saturday night, but no details have been released thus far)
RSVP only! Free booze & Sweet Leaf Tea
http://www.liveatseaholm.com/
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Imeem Live ACL After-Party
Free ACL after-party at The Independent, featuring The Knux, Bird Peterson, Table Manners Crew and DJ Sober, plus a free photobooth with pictures by Annie Ray
Friday, Oct. 2, 9pm-2am
Entry is RSVP only. Arrive early as space is limited; RSVP doesn’t guarantee entry.
http://blog.imeem.com/imeemlive/

The ACL Breakdown | Thursday Kick Off Party | Art Disaster 9

We have our breakdown of the entire ACL Festival all ready with Friday's preview coming today at noon. We kept it clean and basically put our schedules out there with streaming audio so everyone could give each band a listen and broke it down from hour to hour. Below that you will find all the necessary links to both "official" After-shows as well as the "less than official" After-Parties. But before we get in to all that we wanted to take one last opportunity and invite everyone out to Beauty Bar to help us kick off this weekends festivities in style.

This year City on Fire, Knuckle Rumbler and Beauty Bar teamed up with some of Austin's finest bloggers (ourselves included) and put together an amazing line up of bands. This will be the 9th Art Disaster and while it has already established a reputation we think this year will take to the next level. If you haven't RSVP'd we suggest you hurry. The list is at well over 700 people now and Beauty Bar isn't that big! So we suggest everyone gets there early for two reasons. 1. To ensure that you get in without the wait and 2. FREE DRINKS. Lets get to know the bands....

Outside Stage:

1:15 - DJ Tweedy

With a foundation in Salsa, hip hop and electronica, Orion's reportoire has expanded to include the toughest dancehall riddims, Cumbia y Merengue, mash-ups, grime, baile funk, dubstep, jazz, minimal techno, bassline and most things in between.

12:30a - The Lemurs

"This five piece from Texas' BBQ-loving capitol city is ready to burst out onto the national stage...This shit has alternative "radio hit" written all over it" -TheTripwire.com

11:30p - The Steps

The Steps were bred under the influence of life and culture in Austin, the live music capital of the world. Ranging from ages 18-20, they’ve already managed to chisel out an acclaimed sound and stage presence that’s wise beyond their years.

10:30p - Speak

Avid students of pop through the ages, the band distills greatness from classic and modern influences. Forever questing for innovation, SPEAK invoke timeless melodies in energetic, synth-laden anthems.

9:30p - Wallpaper

Partway through recording his debut LP as Wallpaper., Eric Frederic lost his shit. The Oakland artist was neck-deep in a series of isolated studio all-nighters to put him in the mood, when the song "Doodoo Face" pushed him into the beyond. Boxed in by layers of percussive funk, dark synthesizer blurt and crushing bass, Frederic lost himself inside of Ricky Reed, the character he'd long ago conceived as Wallpaper.'s frontman.

DJ Tweedy between sets

Inside Stage:

1:00a - DJ Orion

With a foundation in Salsa, hip hop and electronica, Orion's reportoire has expanded to include the toughest dancehall riddims, Cumbia y Merengue, mash-ups, grime, baile funk, dubstep, jazz, minimal techno, bassline and most things in between.

12:15a - Bright Light Social Hour

Born out of a university art-rock collective, The Bright Light Social Hour has evolved into an unabashedly wide-screen rock act, melding classic rock energy with indie, experimental, and soul influences.

11:15p - The White White Lights

Formed by members of Lomita and Monster Girl, The White White Lights write love songs to ghosts lost in a spectral wonderland. "Little of this, little of that, little loud, little eerie, little cutesy, little sexy, little angry, little thoughtful, little vicious, little dance-y, little hardcore, and a lot awesome." - Austin Chronicle

10:15p - The Authors

With a mix of danceable beats supplied by drummer Angela Stroud and bass heavy melodies by Jon Haben, The Authors have created a sound that they can call their own. Singer/guitarist Justin Prater writes lyrics with social a conscious and a wounded heart, while guitarist/keyboardist Ben Meza weaves a sonic tapestry of reverb drenched guitars and haunting keys.

9:15p-Whitman

Whitman is an indie rock band from Austin, Texas that has worked to establish the perfect blend of catchy melodies and loud, biting rock and roll. A mix of narrative songwriting, driving guitars, ever shifting backing beats, and haunting organ whorls create this quartet’s signature sound.

DJ Orion between sets

[RSVP NOW!!!]

The xx :: "You've Got The Love" (Florence and the Machine Cover)

We're still haven't been able to take The xx's debut album out of our ears yet and now we get their stripped down version of Florence and the Machine's "You've Got the Love" (listen to the original), even leaving a few of the original vocals (although remixed) in. Looks like we're gonna stay obsessed. Take a listen down below.



Don't forget The xx will be performing at the Mohawk (outside) on Nov. 19th, opening up for Friendly Fires as they tour North America. Definitely not a show to be missed, so be sure to circle it on those calendars!

Scion presents Toxic Avenger CD Release/ACL After Party on Sunday (10/4)

Go ahead and put the final touches on the ACL weekend by finishing things off at this party. It will serve as a release party for Toxic Avenger's latest and it's all going down at Beauty Bar. We also have some exclusive tracks for you to download as you prep for the show. Did we mention the show was FREE? All you have to do is RSVP.

Scion Radio 17: Toxic Avenger WMC Interview from Scion A/V on Vimeo.

[RSVP]

[Download Tracks]

Transmission Entertainment Presents [ACL Afterparty] : N.A.S.A., VEGA at Mohawk (Oct. 3rd) :: w/ RSVP Info

If you weren't lucky enough to get tickets to the Grizzly Bear show at Emo's or any of the other ACL aftershows, there's still plenty of FREE stuff going on this Saturday. Take for instance, the N.A.S.A. and VEGA show at the Mohawk. Like we mentioned before, it's FREE, all you need to do is RSVP down below. Starts at 8pm, goes all the way until 2am.

[RSVP HERE]

Fantastic Fest presents the Triple 3D party on Wednesday (9/30)

Everyone is talking about Highball these days and deservedly so. The people that brought us the Drafthouse opening a high end bowling alley with various themes? Yes please! They have already been hosting some events during Fantastic Fest this past week and are throwing a "Soft" Opening Party on Wednesday. It will also serve as a pre pre ACL party for us. The cool part of it is that it is a Triple 3D party with projections you don't need glasses for, a 3D dance floor! and music provided by 3 (ahh) of Austin's finest DJ's Mel | Doneski | and Manny. Don't miss this one.

HIGHBALL Soft Opening Party
11pm-2am
No RSVP needed (Get there early!)
Located next door to Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez to release Xenophanes

Renown guitarist and musical mastermind Omar Rodriguez Lopez is set to release perhaps his most melodic and revealing album to date worldwide on November 10th, 2009 via his own Rodriguez Lopez Productions, with European release on September 28th. The disc, titled Xenophanes the first to feature lead vocals from the Grammy-winning guitar legend -- and we don't use the word "legend" lightly, Rolling Stone hails him among their "Greatest Guitarists of All Time", placing him on that issue's cover. Check out the first MP3, "Mundo De Ciegos" [HERE]

Wikipedia tells us that Xenophanes was a Greek philosopher, poet, and social and religious critic of the 5th century BC. His pantheistic conception of the Universe supposed that everything in existence has always existed. He rejected his contemporaries' notions of an anthropomorphic "god" (or hierarchy of gods) in favor of a concept not the least bit irrelevant to our 21st century mindset, that of a singular (and hence, all-encompassing) global consciousness. His unorthodox concepts were not widely acknowledged until many hundreds of years after his death, and suffice to say, their material concerns are primarily those which humans wage war over two-and-a-half millennia later. Little surprise, then, that this iconoclastic anomaly of a man should lend his name to a new concept album by The Mars Volta's hyper-prolific mastermind, Omar Rodriguez Lopez.

Xenophanes tracklisting:

1. Azoemia
2. Mundo De Ciegos (MP3)
3. Ojo Al Cristo De Plata
4. Amanita Virosa
5. Sangrando Detrás De Los Ojos
6. Desarraigo
7. Asco Que Conmueve Los Puntos Erógenos
8. Oremos
9. Perder El Arte De La Razón Sin Mover Un Sólo Dedo
10. a) Flores De Cizaña
11. b) Maria Celeste

Last Night: The Horrors at Emo's

Mates of State Playing A Free Show at the Texas Union Ballroom

Seems Mates of State will be playing a show at the Texas Union Ballroom (capacity 1000) on Wednesday, Sept. 30th (Show @ 7) for FREE no less. Well, there are a few strings attached. First, you must be a valid UT student or faculty member and second you have to pick up a ticket beforehand. You can pick up one of these at the Events & Info Desk in the Texas Union (UNB 4.300) anytime from 8am-5pm. For more info, go here.

Mates of State - My Only Offer (mp3)

Austin City Limits Reveals 35th Season TV Schedule

We're excited ACL (the festival) is finally upon us this weekend but as you may or may not know it all started with the TV show. The 35th season of Austin City Limits is set to debut this Saturday on KLRU with a performance by Dave Matthews Band. It was a real pleasure to be able to attend two of the tapings (M. Ward, St. Vincent) this year. Take a look at the full schedule down below. (via)

October 3, 2009 Dave Matthews Band
October 10, 2009 Ben Harper and Relentless7
October 17, 2009 Kenny Chesney
October 24, 2009 Andrew Bird / St. Vincent
October 31, 2009 M. Ward / Okkervil River
November 7, 2009 Elvis Costello / Band of Heathens
November 14, 2009 Willie Nelson & Asleep at the Wheel
November 21, 2009 Pearl Jam
November 28, 2009 – January 2, 2010: Encore episodes
January 9, 2010 Allen Toussaint
January 16, 2010 Mos Def / K’Naan
January 23, 2010 TBD / Heartless Bastards
January 30, 2010 Steve Earle / Kris Kristofferson
February 6, 2010 Madeleine Peyroux / Esperanza Spalding
February 13, 2010 Them Crooked Vultures

Austin Weekend Concert Reminders | 9/25 - 9/27

We put up our concert recommendations earlier in the week, but we thought we'd remind you about all the great concerts going down this weekend.

Friday (9/25):

• The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Depreciation Guild, Cymbals Eat Guitars at Mohawk (outside) [Purchase Tickets] $10 | Doors @ 8, Show @ 9
• Monotonix, Pong, White Rhino at Emo's (outside) [Purchase Tickets] $15 | Doors @ 9, Show @ 10
• Datarock, Esser at Emo's (inside) [Purchase Tickets] $14 | Doors @ 9, Show @ 10
• Langhorne Slim at Waterloo Records [FREE In-Store] Starts @ 5
• Experimental Dental School, El Paso Hot Button, Experimental Aircraft at Mohawk (inside) | Show @ 10
• Peelander-Z, The Birthday Suits, Woodgrain, HUG at Red 7 | Show @ 9
• Paul Green School of Rock Presents A Tribute to U2 at Red 7 | Show @ 7 (For ticket info call 512-670-2360)
• Rob Dickinson, Lost Werks, Buttercup, Stereo is a Lie at Mixx
• Bankrupt and the Borrowers, Van Buren Boys, White Dress, The Big Wheel Stunt Show at Trophy's
• The Monarchs, Sad Accordions at Lambert's [$5 cover] Show @ 10:30
  

Saturday (9/26):

• The Horrors, Crocodiles, Woven Bones at Emo's (outside) [Purchase Tickets] $12 | Doors @ 9, Show @ 10
• Learning Secrets Present: Annie Mac at Barcelona [RSVP for $7 entry] Starts @ 10
  
• Asobi Seksu, Cave Singers, Lightning Dust at Mohawk (outside) [Purchase Tickets] $8 | Doors @ 8, Show @ 9
• Low Line Caller, Loxsly at Mohawk (inside) | Show @ 11:55
• Neiliyo, ...Music Video, Scorpio Rising at Beauty Bar
  
• Paul Green School of Rock Presents A Tribute to U2 at Red 7 | Show @ 7 (For ticket info call 512-670-2360)
  

Sunday (9/27):

• Sky Saxon Benefit w/ Golden Dawn, Shapes Have Fangs, Danny B. Harvey, The Strange Attractors, DJ Scorpio at Mohawk (outside) | Show @ 9
• Birds of Avalon at Beauty Bar

Phoenix performs "Lisztomania" on Jimmy Fallon

Having seen Phoenix at ACL in 2006, I can definitely tell you there will be a bunch more people when they play at this year's festival. I also love how you can really tell Jimmy Fallon is a genuine fan of the band when he introduces them and then seeing how excited he is after the performance.

Previously:

• Monolith Fest Recap: Phoenix
• Phoenix :: "Lisztomania" (A Fight For Love & 25 Hours A Day Remix)

Learning Secrets Presents [ACL Afterparty] : Loyauté Soundsystem, Voxtrot, Survive, & More at Beauty Bar (Oct. 2nd) :: w/ RSVP Info

Thanks for waiting patiently! We're proud to announce the ACL Afterparty that we're co-sponsoring at Beauty Bar on Friday, Oct. 2nd with Learning Secrets and Austin is Burning we alluded to a few days ago now has an RSVP. For more info watch the video down below of our friend's Ian and Jeramy from Learning Secrets.

[RSVP HERE]

Monolith Fest Recap: The Mars Volta

Hope you all have enjoyed seeing all of our recaps from the Monolith Fest weekend. We saved the best for last and we truly mean it. Be sure to check out all six videos we took down below.

Intro to show + "Inertiatic"



"Eunuch Provocateur"



"Drunkship of Lanterns"



"Goliath"



"Viscera Eyes"



"The Widow"