'Indie Radio Rocks The World 2' Parties Announced: Tuesday, March 13 and Wednesday, March 14 @ Bernadette's Bar

Click to read the press release.

Since semi-retiring from booking events, I thought everyone was satisfied with unofficial gig referrals for this year's SXSW Music Fest, but fate and determination to showcase (and party with) the artists I appreciate conspired to create Indie Radio Rocks The World 2!

We have 24+ confirmed music acts from overseas, out-of-town, and in your neighborhood bringing the rompus (rock + rumpus) to Austin for two days during SXSW! Join us for a second year of presenting indie music - on and off the radio.

For performances and schedules (TBA soon), go to the official unofficial SXSW event blog: indieradiorocks.tumblr.com.

Unofficial SXSW showcase and party attendees also have event planning options to take the confusion out of attending showcases and parties - and not miss on free events and extras, like complimentary drinks and food. Here are links to our event, where you can also do your other party attendance planning:

• Sched, a favorite app (that doesn't require installation), celebrates 5 years of unofficial SXSW event scheduling. Don't forget to add Day 1 and Day 2 of Indie Radio Rocks The World 2 to your sched. Hint-hint...

•  With Eventbrite, you have the option of printing a ticket for you and friends, but no real need to, because if your name is registered as a guest for our event and you're one of the first 50 ticket registrants, you will receive one extra complimentary bottle of Honest Tea (one bottle per name only). 

• Do512 is another helpful way to keep up with events. 

• The social network Facebook also serves as an event hub for those who want a quick glance and RSVP.  

Follow Indie Radio Rocks The World 2 party updates, and other unofficial party updates: @AntiGravityATX and @IndieRadioRocks on Twitter.

Thanks to our sponsors: Radio Casbah, Fetch Muzik, and Honest Tea.

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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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.