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Live Music Review: Bartees Strange at Empire Control Room

December 15, 2022 Christina DeStefano 456 Views Bartees Strange, Empire Control Room, live music, Pom Pom Squad, post-punk, rap, They Hate Change

Bartees Strange, Pom Pom Squad, and They Hate Change performed an intimate set at Empire Control Room November 29.

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Live music preview: Marcus Rezak returns to Austin with Truth in Sound

July 30, 2021 Greg Ackerman 337 Views Empire Control Room, live music, Marcus Rezak, new music, Phish, preview, Rancho Relaxo, Russ Lawton, Tony Markelis, Trey Anastacio, Truth in Sound

Denver-based guitarist, Marcus Rezak returns to Austin this evening in support of his second EP, Truth in Sound at Empire Control Room and Garage with percussionist, Nikki Glaspie of Nth Power on drums, Chantil Dukart on keys and Tim Philpot on bass. EP features Russ Lawton, Ray Paczkowski, and the late Tony Markellis of Trey Anastasio Band and Kalyan Pathak on percussion and tabla. Rezak appears at Rancho Relaxo Saturday evening with his high-octane Grateful Dead cover band, Shred is Dead to celebrate Jerry Garcia’s birthday with the Rancho crew to complete the one-two, Austin punch. Tickets to tonight’s show can be purchased in advance here.

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Live music preview: The Bird Barn booked killer bill at Empire Control Room Saturday

August 15, 2019 Greg Ackerman 339 Views Amplified Heat, Austin, Being Dead, Billy King and the Bad Bad Bad, Blood band, Empire Control Room, experimental, jazz, live music, preview, psych-rock, punk, Rickshaw Billie's Burger Patrol, rock n roll, The Bird Barn

To that end, we’ve chosen to highlight The Bird Barn’s killer psych-rock, punk and straight up rock n roll lineup at Empire Control Room Saturday. The stacked, all-local bill features Billy King and the

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Live music review: Ambient Artistry by Bayonne at Empire

June 5, 2019 Brian Hillsman 542 Views ambient, Austin, Bayonne, concerts, dream pop, electronic music, Empire Control Room, Roger Sellers, snyth wave, techno

In a crowded Empire Control Room last Thursday the already warming, Texas heat and humidity of the late Spring /

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

August 7, 2018 Greg Ackerman 438 Views album release, concerts, Darkbird, Empire Control Room, live music, new music, preview, Rival Waves, rock and roll

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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