Bruise Cruise Festival 2012 / The Togas

Bruise Cruise offers true music fans a chance to witness their favorite bands in a unique, intimate, rock festival atmosphere while being whisked away to exotic locales on board a cruise ship for three days of tropical mayhem. Only 500 guests will be able to attend BC2. Amazing goings-on from the first cruise include: one bass guitar being launched into the Atlantic, one successful marriage proposal during a Ty Segall set, one couple meeting, falling in love, and getting engaged, one Black Lips video being made, and two documentaries being filmed.

Bruise Cruise 2 will include multiple concerts at sea, a party in Nassau, Bahamas, open-bar cocktail hours, a soul dance-off with cash prizes, comedy shows, lectures, workshops, and a puppetry breakfast hour with Miss Pussycat. Amenities featured on board include: A casino, resort-style pools, hot tubs, miniature golf, water parks, fine dining, all-you-can-eat buffets, and more. The price of one ticket will cover all entertainment, lodging, meals, limited-edition vinyl, Bruiser gift bags, and even some drinks.


And of course what I'm most excited about: The ultimate cover band The Togas featuring Ty Segall, Phillip of Strange Boys, Shannon of Shannon and the Clams and Lance of Reigning Sound make their debut on Bruise Cruise 2012! Get your tickets ya'll!


More information / Buy Tickets: www.bruisecruisefestival.com

Allah-Las - Catamaran / Long Journey

Easily becoming one of my favorites the Allah-Las are a jangly garage four-peice from San Francisco. Definite psychedelic garage-surf with fuzzy harmonies comes to mind. Their first and only 7" single is out via Pres Records, and is unfortunately (for me and you) sold out! Check out their videos below

Their Tumblr - Link
Their Bandcamp - Link

Sasquatch Music Festival 2012 on sale Friday 11/25

http://sasquatchfestival.com/

Sasquatch Music Festival will be held on May 25-28th at The Gorge Amphitheater, near the Columbia River, in George, Washington. They will be releasing a limited number of 4-day tickets this Friday (11/25/11). The 4-day tickets will cost you $290, which includes camping. Holders of the 4-day passes will be granted re-entry between the campground and the festival grounds (during the festival) for the first time ever! Unfortunately no news of the schedule/attending bands yet. Get on it!

Other Lives - For 12

With all the excitement of Radiohead touring (and coming to Austin) I'm sure you all have forgotten to check out the accompanying opening band Other Lives. Some fairly enjoyable Folkish-"Indie"-Pop. Is it March yet?

Cloud Nothings Announce Tour

Cloud Nothings will be heading out on a lengthy US tour starting in Feburary. They will be supporting their new sophomore album entitled: "Attack On Memory," which is out January 24th on Carpark Records. Tour dates below, including an Austin date.

02-16 Chattanooga, TN - JJ's Bohemia
02-17 Atlanta, GA - The Earl
02-18 Birmingham, AL - Bottletree
02-20 Orlando, FL - Backbooth
02-21 Tallahassee, FL - Club Downunder
02-23 Houston, TX - Fitzgerald's
02-24 San Antonio, TX - Ten Eleven
02-25 Austin, TX - Red 7
02-26 El Paso, TX - Lowbrow Palace
02-27 Tucson, AZ - Club Congress
02-28 Phoenix, AZ - The Crescent Ballroom
02-29 San Diego, CA - Soda Bar
03-01 Costa Mesa, CA - Detroit Bar
03-02 Los Angeles, CA - Echo
03-03 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill
03-05 Portland, OR - Holocene
03-06 Seattle, WA - The Crocodile
03-07 Vancouver, British Columbia - The Media Club
03-8 Boise, ID - Neurolux
03-9 Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court
03-10 Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge
03-12 Kansas City, MO - The Riot Room
03-17 McAllen, TX - Simon Sez
03-20 Nashville, TN - The End
03-21 Louisville, KY - Zanzabar
03-22 Cincinnati, OH - MOTR Pub
03-24 Montreal, Quebec - Casa del Popolo
03-25 Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall
03-26 Providence, RI - Fete Lounge
03-30 Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's
03-31 Washington, DC - Red Palace
04-01 Baltimore, MD - Ottobar
04-02 Buffalo, NY - Ninth Ward @ Babeville
04-03 Pittsburgh, PA - Brillobox
04-04 Detroit, MI - Magic Stick Lounge
04-05 Cleveland Heights, OH - Grog Shop
04-06 Chicago, IL - Schubas Tavern
04-07 Columbus, OH - Outland Live

New Black Lips Video - "Raw Meat"

Black Lips - "Raw Meat" from Urban Outfitters on Vimeo.

FFF Festival Recap Video

First round of SXSW 2012 bands announced!

It's never too early to start planning for SXSW!


Akina Adderley & The Vintage Playboys (Austin TX)
Against Me! (Gainesville FL)
Agent Fresco (Reykjavík ICELAND)
Ambition (Halifax CANADA)
ANR (Miami FL)
Antoine Reverb (Guadalajara MEXICO)
Avalanche City (Auckland NEW ZEALAND)
Balthazar (Gent BELGIUM)
Bare Wires (Oakland CA)
BeatauCue (Caen FRANCE)
Bestial Mouths (Los Angeles CA)
Big Deal (London UK-ENGLAND)
Big Scary (Melbourne AUSTRALIA)
The Black and White Years (Austin TX)
Black Books (Austin TX)
The Black Ryder (Sydney AUSTRALIA)
Michael Guy Bowman (Los Angeles CA)
Cashier No.9 (Belfast UK-N. IRELAND)
Class Actress (Brooklyn NY)
Cloud Nothings (Cleveland OH)
Com Truise (Princeton NJ)
Delay Trees (Helsinki FINLAND)
Delhi 2 Dublin (Vancouver CANADA)
Marianne Dissard (Tucson AZ)
Duck Fight Goose (Shanghai CHINA)
The Ettes (Nashville TN)
Fanzine (London UK-ENGLAND)
Fat Tony (Houston TX)
FEAR (Los Angeles CA)
Free Blood (Brooklyn NY)
THE GRANNIES (San Francisco CA)
Guadalupe Plata (Andalusia-Ubeda SPAIN)
He's My Brother She's My Sister (Los Angeles CA)
Howler (Minneapolis MN)
Ice Choir (Brooklyn NY)
I Got You On Tape (Copenhagen DENMARK)
il abanico (Bogota COLOMBIA)
Matthew Perryman Jones (Nashville TN)
Jonquil (Oxford UK-ENGLAND)
Just A Band (Nairobi KENYA)
Marit Larsen (Oslo NORWAY)
Letting Up Despite Great Faults (Los Angeles CA)
Library Voices (Regina CANADA)
Love Inks (Austin TX)
Maxim Ludwig & The Santa Fe Seven (Silverlake CA)
Mahogany (Chicago IL)
Marmalakes (Austin TX)
The Men (New York City NY)
Mind Spiders (Forth Worth TX)
Motopony (Seattle WA)
Mujeres (Barcelona SPAIN)
Musikanto (Chicago IL)
My Education (Austin TX)
Niki & The Dove (Stockholm SWEDEN)
Not In The Face!! (Austin TX)
Of Monsters and Men (Reykjavík ICELAND)
120 Days (Oslo NORWAY)
Outfit (Liverpool UK-ENGLAND)
The Parlotones (Johannesburg SOUTH AFRICA)
Parlovr (Montreal CANADA)
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals (Waitsfield VT)
Pure Love (Brooklyn NY)
Molly Rankin (Charlottetown PE)
ROGe (Rio De Janeiro BRAZIL)
Peter Rosenberg (New York NY)
Rosie and Me (Curitiba BRAZIL)
Royal Canoe (Winnipeg CANADA)
Gabriel Santiago Quintet (Rio de Janeiro BRAZIL)
Sauti Sol (Nairobi KENYA)
Say Hi (Seattle WA)
The Scoundrels (Las Vegas NV)
Shout Out Out Out Out (Edmonton CANADA)
Skewby (Memphis TN)
Skinny Lister (London UK-ENGLAND)
Soft Metals (Los Angeles CA)
Some Community (Sao Paulo BRAZIL)
Something Fierce (Houston TX)
Sore Losers (Lancaster TX)
SPEAK (Austin TX)
Spectrals (Leeds UK-ENGLAND)
Spycatcher (London UK-ENGLAND)
Sudakaya (Quito ECUADOR)
Talking To Turtles (Leipzig GERMANY)
Team Me (Elverum NORWAY)
Telebit (Bogotá COLOMBIA)
Thee Oh Sees (San Francisco CA)
THULEBASEN (København V DENMARK)
Timbuktu (Toronto ON)
Truth Universal (New Orleans LA)
Turbogeist (London UK-ENGLAND)
Uncle Bad Touch (Montreal CANADA)
Uncle Lucius (Austin TX)
UV POP (Doncaster UK-ENGLAND)
Vampillia (Tenjinmachi JAPAN)
V for Volume (Bogota COLOMBIA)
VHS or Beta (Brooklyn NY)
WAX (Dunkirk MD)
We Are The Ocean (London UK-ENGLAND)
We Barbarians (Brooklyn NY)
The Wedding Present (Brighton UK-ENGLAND)
Chelsea Wolfe (Los Angeles CA)
Young Magic (Brooklyn NY)
Yukon Blonde (Vancouver CANADA)
Yuksek(Paris FRANCE)
The Zoltars (Austin TX)

Radiohead in Austin!!!!

Subculture

American Juggalo from Sean Dunne on Vimeo.

A captivating piece about the Insane Clown Posse subculture. You will meet drunk people, high people, smoking pregnant people, naked people, and figure out exactly why they love eachother, (drugs???). Enjoy!

Video Premiere : Pure X - Surface

One of my favorite Austin bands. Some Pychedelic Lo-Fi smoothness.

Pure X - "Surface" from Malcolm Elijah on Vimeo.

Check out another..

Pure Ecstasy - Alexandria [part 2 of 3] from Yours Truly on Vimeo.

Mark Sultan (BBQ) @ Mohawk 11/15/11 & New Album's - Also New King Khan Solo Record!

Mark Sultan recently played at The Mohawk on 8/12/11 with The Dum Dum Girls, The Night Beats, & The UFO Club, but he's back again to support his TWO! new album's entitled "Whatever I Want" & "Whenever I Want". If you missed him the first time around here is your chance! On Tuesday the 15th A Giant Dog and DJ Richard Henry will be accompanying. 


The two new album's, out now on In The Red Records, are both available on vinyl or buy the CD with both of the album's on it. To make it complicated, for those elitist's, they all have different pictures on the covers. If your still hungry for more BBQ you have THREE! more new 7" records to choice from. A solo (Mark Sultan) 7", A King Kahn & BBQ Show 7", or a 7" of his other side project "The Ding Dongs". These are all limited to 650 on black wax/ 350 on white wax, and are available on Mark's new label Sultan Records. Damn, get out your wallet!

Arish Ahmad Khan aka King Khan of: King Khan and the Shrines, Tandoori Knights, and formerly of King Khan and the BBQ show, just released a solo album: "Scion A/V Presents: The King Khan Experience." This is his first release since the 2009 album with BBQ entitled: "Invisible Girl". You can purchase and listen to the new album at Scion Audio Visual Records. You should probably listen to it first. Kinda disappointing for the King!