Austin Music Monkey

we had few real-time updates for friday night, cellular data service was really flaky yesterday. the influx of leather-jacketted greasy a&r types on their RAZR-z probably overloaded the system.

Firday Night Highlights

Gemma Hayes @ Soho
Jello Biafra's Alternative Tentacles showcase @ the Jackalope:
- Turn Me On Dead Man
- Zolar X (from Pluto and the past)
- eX-Girl (dancing lobsters with guitars rock)

Long hair NZ boys in da house

Hard rockers from jersey

recoking-era REM meets Robyn Hitchcock

Day

Elf Power @ Sound on Sound Records 2:30pm
Mean-Eyed Cat (Forward Russia, Longcut, Dirty Pretty Things)
Red Eyed Fly (Brian Jonestown Massacre 4:30pm, She Wants Revenge 5:30pm)

Night

• 8pm
  The Flairz (australia) @ Caribbean Lights
  The Klezmatics (NY) @ Cedar Street Courtyard
  Mum DJ Set (icelnad) @ 7:45pm Fox and Hound
  The Brunettes (new zealand) @ Red Eyed Fly
  Polysics (japan) @ Zero Degrees
• 9pm
  Billy Bragg @ 9:30pm Cedar Street Courtyard
  Princess Superstar (NY) @ Elysium
  Storsveit Nix Noltes (iceland) @ Fox and Hound
  Oppenheimer (UK) @ Friends
• 10pm
  The Revs (ireland) @ Caribbean Lights
  Afriampo (japan) @ Flamingo Cantina
  Gemma Hayes (ireland) @ Soho Loungs
• 11pm
  OK GO (chicago) @ Dirty Dog Bar
  Animal Alpha (norway) @ Drink
  Zolar X (pluto) @ 11:30pm The Jackalope
• 12am
  Brian Jonestown Massacre (LA) @ Bourbon Rocks
  zZz (netherlands) @ Dirty Dog Bar
  Veto (denmark) @ Drink
  eX-Girl (japan) @ 12:45am THe Jackalope
  Arctic Monkeys (UK) @ La Zona Rosa
  Ted Leo & the Pharmacists (NJ) @ 12:30am Red 7
• 1am
  Quit Your Dayjob (sweden) @ Drink
  Rogue Wave (CA) @ Red Eyed Fly

Pop-y-rock-tastic

Surf-rock-esque

Banging on washing machines for you auditory pleasure

Dr Spock hard fuckin' rocks my goddamed world . . . with rubber gloves and without pants

Yes Mildred, there does exist non-Beastie white rap

So begins Nordic night, slow and earnest was the lone swan on the piano

Chin Up Chin Up and The Ponys