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Entries from May 2004

May 22, 2004: Crust, Room 710, Austin TX

May 22nd, 2004 · No Comments

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 [...]

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Tags: Art Rock · Punk

May 22, 2004: The Bontempi Brothers, Room 710, Austin TX

May 22nd, 2004 · No Comments

liked them better this time, no-talent does have some, skinny one is appealing in a Jason Fuller way

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Tags: Psychedelic · Punk

May 15, 2004: Jim Ivey and the Jinx Street Band, Farmer’s Market

May 15th, 2004 · No Comments

jazzy, unobtrusive, perfect for a small-town family market Saturday

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Tags: Jazz

May 15, 2004: Fence Sitters, Brewer’s Festival, Austin TX

May 15th, 2004 · No Comments

bluegrass, felt I’d seen them before most certainly, sound was awful—tinny and brassy—so unfair to judge them

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Tags: Bluegrass

May 15, 2004: Sharon Jones with the Dap Kings, The Continental Club, Austin TX

May 15th, 2004 · No Comments

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 [...]

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Tags: Funk · Soul

May 15, 2004: Waxploitation, The Continental Club, Austin TX

May 15th, 2004 · No Comments

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?

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Tags: Funk

May 7, 2004: Barbie, Hickory Street Bar and Grille, Austin TX

May 7th, 2004 · No Comments

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

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Tags: College Rock

May 7, 2004: Ben Mallot Band, Hickory Street Bar and Grille, Austin TX

May 7th, 2004 · No Comments

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

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Tags: Pop

May 7, 2004: Midlake, The Parish, Austin TX

May 7th, 2004 · No Comments

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

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Tags: Indie Rock · Psychedelic

May 7, 2004: Dead Whale Tide, The Parish, Austin TX

May 7th, 2004 · No Comments

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”

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Tags: Indie Rock