ST 37, Miss Moonlight, Space Quake, and Whale Watch @ Beerland - Wed. 11/30, 10pm

ST 37, Miss Moonlight, Space Quake, and Whale Watch

@ Beerland

711 1/2 Red River

Austin, TX

Wed. 11/30/11, 10pm

Legendary Texas space rockers ST 37 highlight an unusual mid-week night of psychedelic, improvisational and experimental rock @ Beerland on Wednesday, November 30, 2011. 

Where to begin?... ST 37 has been rocking the planet since the 80s, and remain stellar.  Miss Moonlight has often been described as a nocturnal psychedelic dream rock goddess.  "The Grateful Dead of improvised electronic music" Space Quake opens, and adventurous prog rock quartet Whale Watch closes the experimental music night's quest with visual accompaniment by Vidkidz. 

  

$5 cover 21+. Doors open at 9:00, with live music starting at 10:00.

RSVP @ Do512 (for a chance to win free tickets) and Facebook.

'Black Friday Solo Massacre' w/ Messy Sparkles, Smokey Emery, XPPR5-9, R. Lee Dockery, Shardz, and Andy Hendrix & The Skwaarmalar Machine @ Red 7 - Fri. 11/25, 8pm

The day after Thanksgiving, shop at locally owned businesses, but don't shop 'til you drop so you can enjoy an extraordinary night at Red 7's "Black Friday Solo Massacre". 

The lineup of unique music composers and performers includes:

Eclectic electronic dance/tropical pop artist Messy Sparkles, who brings the party to Austin, Texas via Fayetteville, Arkansas.  Smokey Emery is Daniel Hipolito, a prolific experimental composer of ambient arrangements.  Self-described "borecore" music artist XPPR5-9 sets sociopolitical observations to enjoyable acousmatic tape music that traverses genres - from country to lounge pop.  Respected sound maker R. Lee Dockery (Kendra Steiner Records) brilliantly performs on acoustic and electronic instruments.  Shardz is also known as Joey Reyes of Whale Watch, concert and improv/prog rock cellist who performs ethereal solo sets with f/x pedals.  Andy Hendrix & The Skwaarmalar Machine produces ambient waves of noise described as a colorful, psychedelic experience. 

Plus visual performances:

Vidkidz, bedazzlers of the night astrally project, and Fresh Fuckerman (better known as Stephen Fishman of Total Unicorn), projects mind-blowing visions.   

The solo showcase begins on the inside stage of Red 7, 611 E 7th St. in Austin, Texas at 8:00 pm, Friday, November 25, 2011. This is an all ages event. The cover charge is $5 and $7 for ages under 21.

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Get Animated After Comic Con With Destroyed For Comfort, Total Unicorn, Low Red Center, Boonesboro, World Racketeering Squad, The Cocker Spaniels, and DJ Stephy B @ Skinny's Ballroom - Sat. 11/12, 7pm

On Saturday, November 12th, Get Animated! Experience an all-night costume optional event which happens after Austin Comic Con. seven diversely talented live music acts—plus one DJ who boldly traverses genres—will perform at Skinny's Ballroom and Radio Station, near the Austin Convention Center. 

Comic book lover & artist Eric Michener returns to Austin with his amazing indie pop band Fishboy, and local comic book writers and artists will also be featured performers: Delightfully quirky indie characters Boonesboro and outstanding nerdwave rockers World Racketeering Squad. Showstopping 8-bit cyber/steampunk Destroyed For Comfort, otherworldly improvisational ensemble Low Red Center, and visceral video music jockeys Total Unicorn highlight the animated night of music, which begins with legendary party starter The Cocker Spaniels. KAOS Radio Austin DJ Stephy B adds eclectic excitement to the live music mix. (You are invited to click on the links to listen to and/or download music by these participating artists.) 

Cosplay encouraged! After comic con, attendees may stay dressed up or get dressed up as a favorite sci-fi/fantasy, steampunk, anime, animated, video game, superhero, or original character and enjoy colorful local sights and sounds at a great downtown bar—just one block west of the convention center. Doors open at 6pm, and live music starts at 8pm. Please note: Sharp and blunt weaponry costume accessories will prohibit entry. Complimentary baked goodies will be available while they last, in addition to drink specials! 

Austin Comic Con's verified ticket holders, participants, and volunteers get in free, while guests 21 years of age and older pay a $6 cover for an amazing audio and visual experience presented by Anti-Gravity Agency, which promotes Austin's extraordinary talent and events. 

RSVP @ Do512, Facebook, or Plancast. 

Directions & Map to Skinny's.


Update: Due to unfortunate circumstances, Fishboy will not be performing. Look for them to return to Austin during SxSW.


8:00 - The Cocker Spaniels
9:00 - World Racketeering Squad
10:00 - Boonesboro
11:00 - Low Red Center
12:00 - Total Unicorn
1:00 - Destroyed For Comfort
DJ Stephy B plays music between bands. 

The Escatones surf back to Austin! Sun. 10/23 @ Red Eyed Fly

Psychedelic surf/garage trio The Escatones return to Texas to celebrate the recently released "The Ghost of High Island", apparently named after High Island, Texas, a town known for its supernatural haunts. The Tulsa and Stillwater, Oklahoma (via Galveston & Houston, TX and Detroit, MI) based rockers return to Texas to perform a series of shows, which includes a night in Austin with The Cocker Spaniels, The Rich Hands (San Antonio, TX), and Mad Comrades – Sunday, September 23rd at Red Eyed Fly.

After releasing a split EP with Darwin's Finches in April of this year, The Escatones released "Live From High Island" (HomeSkool Rekordz), featuring an eclectic mix of 60s psychedelic, surf, and garage rock, now available on iTunes. The Escatones have been busy, making live appearances at music venues throughout the mid-west US, and on radio and TV, including a June appearance in "The Garage" on WOAI Channel 4 (NBC): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgYVZyUbM_8. Expect a lively set of psychedelic and surf rock sounds – and the possibility an awesome cover of a song by Texas rock icons The Judys. 

"Crunk rocker" Sean Padilla performs insightful and (body) moving autobiographical songs solo as The Cocker Spaniels.

San Antonio, Texas based youthful yet old school soulful garage rockers The Rich Hands are currently recording new music, and playing spirited shows across Texas, and return to Austin to support their favorite surf rock band from Oklahoma. 

Opening folk/punk duo Mad Comrades are the yin and yang of indie rock in Austin.  

Doors open at 7pm, and live music starts at 8pm. Cover: $5 adults/$8 minors

RSVP @ Do512 or Facebook.

Thanks for your consideration of our event. 

Sincerely,

Danna Williams

"Dog Days of Summer" Tour In Austin w/ The Cocker Spaniels: Dogbreth, Hello the Mind Control, and Press Forward - Thursday, August 11th

Three of Arizona's finest d-i-y pop and punk bands – Dogbreth, Hello The Mind Control, and Press Forward, have embarked on a U.S. tour, and will be performing in Texas - at historic east Austin's Club 1808, Thursday, August 11, 2011. Local rocker and merrymaker The Cocker Spaniels highlights the touring show.



Dogbreth is quirky yet simpatico Phoenix based Tristan Jemsek and Alex Cardwell, who describe their sound as “pup punk”. Youth culture and individual experiences ranging from the clear to the abstract are reflected brightly in their lyrics, underscored by the upbeat playfulness of each track from the duo’s debut LP released this summer, Chookie.



Hello the Mind Control is what happens when young talented individuals gather and mobilize for the greater good of indie rock. The Mesa ensemble performs danceable pop and surf rock inspired music that is as smart as it is fun. Check out their video, which pays homage to the 80s:





PRESS FORWARD is Samson Swanick and musical guests. Samson’s veracious songwriting, accompanied by a mélange of lo-fi American and Asian folk and d-i-y/punk music and culture, make for entertaining and socially conscientious live music events.



The Cocker Spaniels is renowned Austin, TX resident and party starter Sean Padilla, whose music can be heard on indie rock compilations and mixtapes of DJs and music critics. His ingeniously personal, nothing sacred songwriting, and chamber music instrumentation has produced two stellar full-length albums, which he prodigiously translates into engaging live performances.

Presented by Anti-Gravity, the event dubbed “Dog Days of Summer Tour” in Austin is free, with the exception of a $5 cover for those under 21. Club 1808 is an 18 years or older music venue.

RSVP @ Facebook.

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Darwin's Finches and The Escatones in Austin - Independence Weekend!

Bike Problems, The Nouns, The Hearts and The Minds, The Escatones and The Bell Riots at ND

Click "I Like It" @ Do512 for a chance to win a pair of free tickets!

On The Fringe: Ralph White, John Wesley Coleman, Christina Carter @ Mohawk Austin

The show has relocated to make room for 80s pop nostalgia.

Ralph White & Friends Sit In @ Cheer Up Charlie's Wed. 4/27

Ralph White & Friends Sit In:

Ralph White · Venison Whirled · Jonathan Horne · T Putnam Hill

Cheer Up Charlie’s

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

9pm-12am

Avant-garde outsider music collage artist Ralph White performs and sits in with talented experimental musician friends, Venison Whirled, Jonathan Horne, and T Putnam Hill for a noteworthy mid-week night of music. Four remarkable musicians, one remarkable improvised set.

As a self-taught master of many instruments, from American and world folk traditions, Ralph White infuses an experimental approach to original songs, and the arrangement of covers. Featured in the Austin Chronicle Music Anthology, White is best known in Texas music history as the fiery fiddler from the Bad Livers, but he has been blazing another trail, touring across the U.S. and Europe as an unusually entertaining interpreter of traditional folk songs who also enjoys the art of experimental and improvisational music.

Venison Whirled is most familiar and comfortable creating another world of sound that requires an active listening passport to traverse beyond familiar comfort zones. Ambient noises can be heard from common to unusual objects during a Venison Whirled trip, guided by the musician also known as Lisa Cameron (ST 37, The Devil Bat).

Jonathan Horne is a colorful and versatile Austin music character. Horne practices the art of music improvisation as a multi-instrumentalist, but he’s best known for eclectically stellar jazz/rock fusion guitar performances, as a soloist and with Plutonium Farmers, which will soon release a debut album engineered by Steve Albini.

T Putnam Hill recently relocated from San Diego, where he started composing electronic/acousmatic/dub music, and he's still producing some of the most unique and entertaining collaborations with traditional folk stylists, and experimental noise and theatrical performers in Austin.

When Ralph White sits in with friends, expect the unexpected – and expect to be entertained by the finest musical improvisers.

Ralph White & Friends Sit In is a free event at Cheer Up Charlie’s on Wednesday, April 27^th, presented by Anti-Gravity. Doors open at 8:00, and music starts at 9:00.

RSVP @ Do512, Facebook, or Plancast.

San Francisco's Ethereal Electro Pop Meets Austin's Otherworldly Synth Rock @ Cheer Up Charlie's - Wed. 3/30

Anti-Gravity is pleased to announce that San Francisco's ethereal electronic pop composer and performer Bones is on a limited spring tour, and arrives in Austin to perform a show with local bone shaking analog/8-bit synth "hacker punk" Destroyed For Comfort, exploratory and improvisational quartet Whale Watch, and electro art-rocker Lost Cat Magnet. Projectionists VIDKIDZ provide the illuminating visuals to make an exciting mid-week night of electronic music at Cheer Up Charlie's - Wednesday, March 30.

The electro music showcase is free, all ages welcome event, but starts late - 9pm. Donations will be accepted for Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami Relief.

Bones/Destroyed For Comfort/Whale Watch/Lost Cat Magnet

Cheer Up Charlie's

1104 E 6th St

Austin, TX 78702

Anti-Gravity has left the short-lived "Electro Sexy" series of 2009 behind, but not the love for electronic based or incorporated music. We're already planning a summer showcase!

GREEN HOUSE Pre-Opening Party - Sunday, 3/20

After a 5-day unofficial SXSW party binge, musicians with a flair for experimentation perform at an in-store pre-opening party for GREEN HOUSE.

GREEN HOUSE is the future of Austin shopping - a community art space, mini-gallery, and shop selling unique handmade and upcycled art, clothing, accessories, and gifts. Add free live music, a puppet show, and a donation bar before the official store opening, then you have one of the coolest unofficial closing parties for SXSW.

The lineup: Indie rock duo You Are An Airplane (Austin, TX), one-man dance/hip hop/house party from dance in da pants!!! (New Orleans, LA), transcendental jazz troupe Cliff Hines Quintet (New Orleans, LA), solo songstress and musician nerdkween (Atlanta, GA), electro-keyboardist duo Brass Crab & Beef Chip (Austin, TX), The Cocker Spaniels (Austin, TX crunk rock artist), Summer People (NY anarchic/melodic rock band), LOST CAT MAGNET (electro art-rock from Austin, TX), and the possibility of a premiere GREEN HOUSE puppet play by Thunder Puppet Productions.

The store will be open for a preview and presale - and will feature the first art installation - work by cartoonist M. Austin Bedell.

RSVP @ Do512 and Facebook - and see you there - Sunday, March 20 at 6pm.

Anti-Gravity Presents: Indie Radio Rocks The World, Wed. 3/16 @ Cherrywood Coffeehouse

At Noon on Wednesday, March 16 @ Cherrywood Coffeehouse, Anti-Gravity presents Indie Radio Rocks The World, an all-day and all-night party featuring 30 talented and diverse acts performing on 2 stages - all celebrating indie music on indie radio - including Janka Nabay, Ralph White, Tôg, Giana Factory, CALLmeKAT, and Black Kettle. Indie Radio Rocks The World is sponsored by AIR (Austin Independent Radio), student run KVRX 91.7 FM, world indie music portal Radio Casbah, and all natural and delicious Texas Tea.

RSVP at one of your favorite unofficial SXSW party sites:

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