![]() Since then, the label (along with its subsidiary, Sub City) has released full-length albums, compilation videos, and even a book. HOPELESS RECORDS/SUB CITY SHOWCASE: Van Nuys, Calif.-based punk/ska label Hopeless Records was founded in 1993 by video director Louis Posen to release a 7-inch by Guttermouth. Life is a banquet, come join the feast! (Speakeasy, 9pm) - David Lynch Currently putting the finishing touches on their debut, Tamasha Africana make your hips move. Led by the two Nairobi, Kenya natives, vocalists Ben Simiyu and Jackie Odanga, the soukous group also includes guitarists Russell Scanlon and Brad Schultz and Rio de Janeiro percussionist Luiz Carlos Coutinho. TAMASHA AFRICANA: They may not have much competition, yet Tamasha Africana is more than Austin's only African dance band. movies and for good reason: It's a fine slice of pop songwriting that has adult alternative radio written all over it. The title track has landed in two new Freddie Prinze Jr. SETTIE: This Western Massachusetts singer-songwriter performs as a duo with multi-instrumentalist Brain Fellows, and recently signed a deal with Iguana for their I Know A Girl EP. The group's earnest harmonies are ever so slightly unpolished, which ultimately adds to their distinction. Quasi Qua's sound has a roots-oriented veneer, but this is a pop band at heart. QUASI QUA: This Cleveland-based quartet was formed four years ago by guitarist-vocalist Jesse Bryson (son of Raspberries' guitarist Wally Bryson) when he was 16. Instead, he comes out like a man with a Jeff Buckley jones, whose songs tend to grow into a polished mass of the plunky guitar charm. (Red Eyed Fly, 9pm) - Ken LieckĮVREN GÖKNAR: If L.A.-based Evren Göknar had taken fewer lessons and used fewer studio toys, he might have invented a new genre on his Burning the Tulips (Spill Records) - that of indie light rock. Check out their Love Hurts EP on Junk Records if you don't believe me. RIVER CITY RAPISTS: This all-star punk outfit, sporting current and former members of the Butthole Surfers, Motards, Didjits, and GWAR often find themselves picketed by feminist groups, and yet still they revel in lowbrow songs like "Go Down on Me," "Asshole," and "Fucked Again." Simple, ugly punk rock is what it is, end of story. Expect dead puppies to rain from the sky. Austin's first, best, and finest purveyors of industrial crunch and aural agony return with, well, a whole lotta switchblade, switchback slaughter. TERMINAL 46: When I was a young boy, I asked my mother "Why?" She just pointed at the sun and said " - !" And then the wolves came. One of the few rocanroll bands that regularly plays Austin, this H-town fourpiece has been working their solid Principio y Fin for a couple of years now, so somebody better be ponying up some pesos for a follow-up. (Emo's Jr., 9pm) - Jerry RenshawĭE SANGRE: Houston's de Sangre proves you don't have to be young, white, or stupid to be an angry youth. Their debut Man's Ruin CD Equator is a dream come true for all old-school headbangers. No, wait - think two girls, one guy, all from San Francisco. Think cowbells, long sweaty hair, big medallions, mustaches, riffs grinding like medieval millstones. LOST GOAT: The more things change, the more they stay the same. Kicking down stalls with their self-titled Man's Ruin debut, these post-punk rebel rousers cross Mudhoney with the Molly Hatchet buried in your skull. (Cactus Cafe, 8pm) - Jim CaligiuriĭRUNK HORSE: Oakland, California is a hard place, even if Jerry Brown is mayor. His latest release, Zeke and the Wheel (Koch), alternately boisterous, insightful and disturbing is a fascinating look at spirituality. Morris is not only a gifted singer-songwriter, but a poet, playwright, and a performance artist as well. ![]() MORRIS: A renaissance man for the 21st century, Knoxville, Tennessee's R.B. ![]() IV on Peek-a-Boo Records has showcased a more self-assured side of the delicious Silver Scooter canon. Super XX Man began as an outlet for Garred's unreleased home recordings, and the recent release of Vol. SUPER XX MAN: As frontman for local power pop sensations Silver Scooter, Scott Garred has distinguished himself with his delicious whine and penchant for heart-tugging tales of alienation, revelation, and longing. It's alternately silly and sophisticated, but it's all pop Babylon, all the time. THE PEENBEETS: How about geekcore? Has that one been coined yet? Watching Austin's Peenbeets on stage is akin to watching some bizarro hybrid of Saturday morning cartoons and Freedom of Choice-era Devo.
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