Rural music recedes from the Urban Achievers Brass Band, a soccer-team-sized collection of horns playing New Orleans' style tunes with a Texas tilt. Wood & Wire, a string band quartet with deadly musicianship, tight harmonies, and classic songwriting bats cleanup. Afterward, cerebral songwriter Ramsay Midwood leads his band through a set of psychedelic country blues from a witty, dark comedy perspective. Glass, a sharp-dressed picker with a deep microphone moan that will make you want to move here just for his Tuesday night residency. Then comes one of Austin's best guitarists, Mrs. Country singer/songwriter Noel McKay opens with Hill Country ballads ranging from sincere to playful. Each of these six Austin acts are regulars on the small corner-pocket stage of the popular Eastside honky-tonk where whiskey shots are downed by guys with neck tattoos and girls in cowboy boots and skirts. In the overflowing clusterfuck of a SXSW Saturday night, out-of-towners can enjoy what we locals would hear on a normal visit to the White Horse. Geddes Gengras and reggae vocal legends the Congos. As headliner Sun Araw, Cameron Stallones dropped both The Inner Treaty (Drag City), a work of spaced-out synths and strobing drum loops, and Icon Give Thank, an avant-dub collaboration with composer M. Formerly known as YellowFever, Deep Time achieved maximum results with minimalist restraint on the Austin duo's eponymous effort for Hardly Art, angling K Records bounce with girl-group sway, earworm melodies always shifting like a Rubik's Cube.
Must-see act Protomartyr comes cut from the same Detroit punk scene as Tyvek, while Spray Paint's been drawing rave reviews locally for its two-guitar pileup of Trance Syndicate noise, no wave intensity, and psych-eval lyrical assessments. This showcase runs the gamut from WTF noise ( Shit and Shine) and sexy garage rock ( Kay Leotard) to the heavy drone of Thousand Foot Whale Claw's Dope Moons Volume One, with Warm Climate and Expo '70 to boot.
Multimedia publishing house Monofonus Press prints small runs of carefully packaged literary works and various LP oddities, with a catalog that runs the gamut from Tim Kerr paintings to weird interactive video games on YouTube. Wonder if Austin's legitimately weird and who's keeping it so? Park here.
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