Crust: band formed from Bontempi Brothers—used to have following some ten years ago, seemingly gay middle-aged lead posed as reverend and praised country/Bush and asked up to open our hymnals, quality punk with lots of variety (I was enjoying until the beer struck me ill after three of them), threw bread at the crowd [...]
Entries from May 2004
May 22, 2004: Crust, Room 710, Austin TX
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May 22, 2004: The Bontempi Brothers, Room 710, Austin TX
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liked them better this time, no-talent does have some, skinny one is appealing in a Jason Fuller way
Tags: Psychedelic · Punk
May 15, 2004: Jim Ivey and the Jinx Street Band, Farmer’s Market
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jazzy, unobtrusive, perfect for a small-town family market Saturday
Tags: Jazz
May 15, 2004: Fence Sitters, Brewer’s Festival, Austin TX
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bluegrass, felt I’d seen them before most certainly, sound was awful—tinny and brassy—so unfair to judge them
Tags: Bluegrass
May 15, 2004: Sharon Jones with the Dap Kings, The Continental Club, Austin TX
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from New York, two saxes, trumpet, bass and two other guitars, drummer, put on an excellent show, continual stream of mildly gimmicky stage moves, all instrumentalists were attractive and of undisclosed ethnic background (NY) but could have stood to appear to be enjoying themselves, lead singer was a short fury of a black woman who [...]
May 15, 2004: Waxploitation, The Continental Club, Austin TX
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70s funk DJs (they weren’t seen but MyHero says there’s usually a guy with mic on stage ripping on people in crowd), people love this stuff, it is a new resurgence or has forever been loved?
Tags: Funk
May 7, 2004: Barbie, Hickory Street Bar and Grille, Austin TX
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his friend from the Wednesday night dinner party, decidedly unpleasant looking girl (long natty curly brown hair and bushy eyebrows and ruddy glistening face) with a horribly cheesy grin, but great confident voice and decent guitar, I could be her
Tags: College Rock
May 7, 2004: Ben Mallot Band, Hickory Street Bar and Grille, Austin TX
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4 waxen willowy woozy boys, some combo of Collective Soul and Bob Schneider, easy listening radio music, I kind of liked them—refreshing after indie inundation
Tags: Pop
May 7, 2004: Midlake, The Parish, Austin TX
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from Denton, annoyingly childish and 60s psychedelic, mix of James and the Beatles, could have grown to like them if they hadn’t had supremely distracting and annoying film footage playing behind them throughout their entire set, Chronicle says “indie space rockers”—I love the indie music nowadays
Tags: Indie Rock · Psychedelic
May 7, 2004: Dead Whale Tide, The Parish, Austin TX
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we liked them a lot, had the sonic background of my favorite instr rock genre but a lighter forefront, Chronicle describes as “dreamy dance” and BestFriendsExHusband describes as “spacey Guided by Voices”
Tags: Indie Rock