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Entries from January 2004

January 19, 2004: The Thrills, Waterloo Records, Austin TX

January 19th, 2004 · No Comments

a blooming pop-indie band from Scotland?, not my genre of choice but they are a fine example from the genre, depth and professionalism evident, all cuties in that fey British look, sound like MusicGod’s Onus B Johnson during one song which is good, lucky to see them free and with free beer so no complaints

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Tags: Britpop

January 18, 2004: DJ Baby G and DJ Mel, Miguel’s La Bodega, Austin TX

January 18th, 2004 · No Comments

the DJs that are Everywhere in Austin, just dance spinners

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Tags: Trip Hop

January 18, 2004: Brownout!, Miguel’s La Bodega, Austin TX

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a large collection of white boys—lots of brass, knew how to work the music to work the crowd, breakdowns, had the white hippie boys dancing

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Tags: Funk

January 18, 2004: D-Madness and the D-Funk All-Stars, Miguel’s La Bodega, Austin TX

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two girls put this event (Freaks the Funk Party) on to support their website and “community” of performers (white girl?), D-Madness is purportedly an Austin legend—plays drums, guitar, harmonica and sings at nearly the same time, him and a funk bassist

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Tags: Funk

January 10, 2004: Honky, Emo’s, Austin TX

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swear it was the sound guy from Continental Club I always adore, confirmedly the bassist from Butthole Surfers (JD Pinkus), those trashy goatee beards—glorifying the cursedness of being southern white trash, was enjoying their humor and speedy hard rock but then sang a song called “Don’t put your dick in me”—too genuine honky for [...]

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Tags: Rock and Roll · Southern Rock

January 10, 2004: The Naysayers, Emo’s, Austin TX

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from San Francisco, don’t know how to classify music anymore, neu-metal?, solid, nothing special

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Tags: Heavy Metal · Rock and Roll

January 10, 2004: Deadend Angels, Saxon Pub, Austin TX

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lots of variety but all lame and flat, weird blend of drugs and religion references, obviously a recovering addict who was probably better when he was an addict

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Tags: Country · Folk · Rock and Roll

January 10, 2004: Drew Smith, Saxon Pub, Austin TX

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saw last song of set, average but with an interesting jazz twinge

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Tags: Indie Rock · Jazz

January 3, 2004: Cornell Hurd, The Broken Spoke, Austin TX

January 3rd, 2004 · No Comments

like 20 guys in the band—most stand around looking bored the majority of the time, boys have experience and it shows, dancing music—two step, jitterbug, waltz and other things I don’t want to know about

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Tags: Country