According to the Giant Drag website, Annie Hardy of our favorite My Bloody Valentine-referencing, shoegazey, post-punk solo/duo band will be recording a new, as of yet untitled EP. The tracklist will include live favorites such as “Swan Song” and “White Baby” as well as tracks “Heart Carl” and “Stuff to Live For”. This is a welcome change for Hardy who was unceremoniously dropped from Interscope following her first awesome LP Hearts and Unicorns. Hardy and other GD contributors are hard at work slamming out a new record but in the meantime visit her Ebay Store so you can donate to the cause of saving Giant Drag from obscurity. Seriously, this is one of my favorite bands in recent memory and definitely deserves to get the opportunity to make more music, so check it out. Also, here’s a sample of “Swan Song” taken live from a Giant Drag show in Paris.
******************************************************************** PREY FOR SLEEP TOUR CANCELLED!
“Due to issues with our booking agent we’ve been forced to cancel our upcoming nationwide summer tour”, says lead singer Hunter Townsend of awesome Austin metal act Prey For Sleep. Apparently the booking agent was unable (or too lazy!) to secure spots for PFS and the band was forced to call it off due to monetary issues. In the meantime though Hunter and the boys would like to know what Austinites or any of their fans want from the band now. Their latest Myspace bulletin reads:
“Here’s a thought.
What do you want from Prey for Sleep in the next few months?
T-Shirts? Lighters? Hoodies? DVDs? Lunch boxes?
Let us know what you need to spread the word.”
So there you have it, let Prey For Sleep know what you need from them by contacting them at their Myspace. A PFS lunchbox sounds pretty rad to me that’s for sure.
The band will be heading up to Cleveland in August to record an as of yet untitled EP, then plans to attempt a nationwide tour in January. Good luck guys! ******************************************************************** SUMMER SHOWS IN AUSTIN – CC CALENDAR
Here’s a rundown of some upcoming shows in Austin that Cannibal Cheerleader will definitely be attending:
Hey to all of the readers/users of Waffles.fm, the best replacement ever for Oink.cd in my opinion. Thanks for swinging by the blog and reading the ‘Converge’ piece posted on the front page of Waffles. If you don’t know what Waffles is you should read this article about file-sharing and see if the Oink/Waffles movement is right for you. Until next time, comment people!
Sorry about taking a break for Memorial Day guys, hope this monster post makes up for it! See you tomorrow!
Pink Nasty’s show Saturday night at the Mohawk was sadly, sparsely attended. However, that didn’t stop PN and her excellent backing band from delivering the hits, from Mold the Gold favorites like “Away Message” to new tracks like the garage-rock goodness of “Curses”. Sounding more like an alt-country songstress than her lo-fi recordings give her credit for, Pink Nasty was in rare form and definitely deserves all the attention she gets in Austin. Look her up now folks before she blows up into full-blown rockstar mode. More pictures below. ******************************************************************** BECK, LIKE THE BEER
Since Beck will be playing this year’s Cat Power, we figured we post a few of his little-known rarities to build the excitement up.
The mini-album Beck, Like the Beer is a rare demo tape circulated around the Internet after the artist gave the songs to a friend. Recorded in 1992 the album features psyched-out acoustic tracks that recall Mellow Gold and One Foot in the Grave, with a bent towards Beck’s more comic elements. Check these tracks out!
According to this Pitchfork articleTom Waits is embarking on his first nationwide tour in several years. The tour will be passing through Texas via Dallas and Houston so you know we’ll be there at one of them. Here’s a video of the ‘press conference’ Waits gave to announce the tour.
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According to this Stereogum article MTV has finally discovered what we bloggers have known about all along – that lo-fi music is the (horse)shit. This video (featuring a terribly aged John Norris) features CC faves like Psychedelic Horseshit, Times New Viking, Tyvek, and more. Definitely give it a look over as it’ll be the only worthwhile thing MTV will do all year.
******************************************************************** TACKS, BOY DISASTER RECORDING NEW ALBUM
According to their Myspace, Tacks, the Boy Disaster are recording a new album. Plus, they have a video by yours truly up on their page! Go check it out, this band rocks!
Although Kanye West’s “Glow in the Dark” tour is purported to be probably the biggest, most earth-shaking tour of 2008, I’ve yet to see any pictures of the shows on any blogs. Here’s a few my friend Taylor Y. snapped at West’s show at the Frank Erwin Center last night! While I sadly couldn’t attend I heard the show definitely lived up to West’s reputation. The pictures show a massive screen, a wild array of lights, and a line of DJs in front of the stage. Looks like quite the production, check it out. ******************************************************************** TIMES NEW VIKING COMING TO AUSTIN
Our favorite lo-fi fuzzers Times New Viking are heading to Austin on their summer track so says this article. Definitely check out this band and their newest release Rip It Off. You’ll be reminded why listening to albums on cassette tapes was so much damn fun. ******************************************************************** TERROR THURSDAY: THE BEAST WITHIN
This week’s Terror Thursday movie The Beast Within at the Alamo Drafthouse here in Austin was a definite improvement over last week’s. The sheer amount of gore and grossness in the movie was more than enough to ratchet it up my nerdy-horror film scale. However, the film also features not just one but two creature rapes. That’s right. Raped. By a monster. Nice. Because of this I have to give The Beast Within four out of five bloody pon-poms. It would be five based on grossness and cool-effects/acting/direction/gore alone, but if you took a date to this movie you’ll never speak with her again. Seriously though, check out the trailer below and you’ll still only get a hint of the grossness in this movie. It really takes the time to show the agonizing details of person to monster transformation, yikes!
PS. Yes I did stay during the last thirty minutes and yes, it was nasty. ******************************************************************** VIDEO FOR THE WEEKEND: DYNAMITE BOY Ending the week here’s another video I did for Austin legends Dynamite Boy. Here’s “Guide to Living Dead”, the first song off the band’s new bsides album Time Flies. Check it.
Leave some “feedback” folks over the weekend! Seeya Monday!
