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Live music review: Hi How Are You Day benefit concert featured Flaming Lips, Built to Spill and lots more

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Tuesday evening in Austin the Flaming Lips, Bob Mould, The Black Angels, Built to Spill, Yo La Tango were among

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Festival review: Second Saturnalia Festival gets mixed weather, lots of psychedelic music

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[ngg src=”galleries” ids=”24″ display=”basic_slideshow”] The second Saturnalia Festival took place last weekend at The Sahara Lounge and neighboring Webberville Baptist

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Festival Review: Iconic artists mix with future stars at Austin City Limits Festival

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Last weekend’s Austin City Limits Music Festival (ACL Fest) featured legacy acts Paul McCartney, David Byrne and Metallica along with upcoming stars, Janelle Monae, St. Vincent and Austin’s own Shakey Graves. We’re partial to female-fronted acts and we’ll take this opportunity to point out it was the many talented female fronted acts along with legends Sir Paul and Byrne who garnered the most attention over the three-day event held at Austin’s Zilker Park. 

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Live music preview: Waterloo Music Festival launches three nights of The String Cheese Incident this weekend

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Austin welcomes progressive new grass jam band The String Cheese Incident and friends back to Texas for the first annual Waterloo Music Festival. September 7-9th at the beautiful Carson Creek Ranch which sits on the banks of the Colorado River near downtown Austin, will be occupied by veteran national act jam bands as well as local acts to help keep the party going.

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Live music preview: Rival Waves to drop debut album Friday at Empire Control Room

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Austin rock band Rival Waves are dropping their first full-length album, Transducer this Friday, August 10 at Empire Control Room. The group was voted Artist of the Month by The Deli Austin readers in July. The band recently provided support for Young Rising Sons at 3TEN Austin at ACL Live. Cosmic Clash Presents even had the Joel De La Garza-led act on one of our bills before they unfortunately had to bow out last minute. We’re happy to have a hand in announcing their record release this week as a consolation prize. As a bonus, one of our local favorites, Darkbird perform with Midcentury rounding out the bill. It’ll be an energizing night of rock n roll for local music fans. 

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Live music review: Lee Fields and Tameca Jones put soul in Austin Ice Cream Fest After Dark party

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Hosting an ice cream-centered event during the unbearable hot months of summer here in Austin is a great idea. Complimenting the family-friendly daytime event with an After Dark program featuring soul singer Lee Fields & the Expressions with Austin’s reigning Queen of Soul Tameca Jones brought the popular fest to  a whole, new level as the Austin Ice Cream Festival did on Saturday at Fiesta Gardens in East Austin.

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Live music review: LSD and the Search for God at Cheer-Up Charlie’s

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