Since seeing frontman Nathan Williams’ strong attachment to the venue, he likes to end each Mohawk appearance with a backflip into the crowd from the venue’s 2nd level overlooking the stage left, I was sure never to miss another show, including last week’s tour stop at Mohawk.
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Louisville natives White Reaper rocked Scoot Inn on Tuesday, stopping in Austin in support of January release, Asking for a Ride. The record is perhaps the band’s best. That’s say something as their previous release produced their most popular song thus far, “Might Be Right.”
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The Final Club X show presented by Mas Music, of their month long residency at 13th Floor Bar comes to a close tomorrow with a lineup that on the surface looks unassuming until you know that Pagogo features Ellie English of L.A. Witch
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Covered in tattoos, usually sporting a band shirt from the early 2000’s hardcore scene, today’s interview subject, Dizasterpiece is a passionate, creative, realism-driven lyricist and hip-hop emcee from New Jersey, with deep roots in the punk and hardcore community.
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Friday evening three female-powered acts played inside the remodeled Hotel Vegas bar which has been rebuilt. The event was a fundraiser for The Lilith Fund, sponsored by Women That Rock, a music curation & discovery platform with a mission to spotlight & celebrate the best rising women in music. Appropriately, the group booked three female-led acts, Van Mary, Lola Tried and Little Mazarn.
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Upstart hardcore punks User Unauthorized are set to drop their second EP, Watch Them Fall December 18 on Rabbit Rabbit Records (Chicago).
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The town also home to what might be the most socially-conscious, politically-aware rock band on the planet, IDLES. Many have referred to the group as hardcore punks, but they do not see themselves as exclusively punk, but something more versatile and fluid. On September 26, the quintet released their third studio release, Ultra Mono.
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Austin pop-punks The Blowies have released a timely single, “There May Never Be Another X-Mas (All I Want for X-Mas is Impeachment) as the U.S. House of Representatives have voted to send two articles of impeachment of President Trump to the Senate for trial. The fact that it’s done in classic garage punk style fits the raw, unrefined approach of President Trump. It’s the right genre for a radical political crisis.
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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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Meanwhile, the indoor stage at Barracuda offered a relentlessly stacked show featuring Tacocat with support from L.A.’s Paranoyds and Cosmic Chaos. Three bands that know how to attack a crowd like an angry swarm of Texas mosquitoes.
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The self-proclaimed “Lords of Shit City” have graced various Austin stages for nearly a decade. With several regional US tours under their belt, the Austin four-piece, Leche has found themselves smack-dab in the middle of the modern Austin punk scene.
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