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Ringo Deathstarr (joined by Jason Reece) @ Frontier Bar - 8/18/2012

Ringo Deathstarr, who recently released a new song, are about to head overseas for a tour, but on Saturday, 8/18, they played a hometown Austin show at Frontier Bar with Spiritual Wives, Residual Kid, The Boxing Lesson, and The Well. Pictures of the first two are in this post (more pics from the show HERE).

Spiritual Wives features members of Tia Carrera (Erik Conn), Pack of Wolves (Trey Ramirez), Curse the Heavens (Alec Padron), and ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead (Jason Reece). (Speaking of ...Trail of Dead, they're going on tour too.)

Ringo Deathstarr's Elliott Frazier, Daniel Coborn, and Galexy Gehring put on a great show (Jason Reece joined for a song, too), and now head down to Brazil for the first leg of their international tour - then Japan. They'll be back in the states in September for more touring, but this was likely the last Austin performance until December 2012. All dates, and more pictures, below...

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Scenes from Fun Fun Fun Lucky Lady Bingo via Adi Anand's Instagrams 7/11/2012

While we've had some teasers in the last few weeks - Wednesday night was the night for BINGO - and the full Fun Fun Fun Fest reveal.

On 7/11 (Happy Slurpee Day!) Fun Fun Fun held their bingo-to-reveal-the-artists event, and while we already knew about Run DMC reuniting and some others, there were quite a few surprises in the massive list of musical acts and comedians announced (Public Image Ltd., Youth of Today, De La Soul, X, Bob Mould, Saul Williams, and Hannibal Burress to name a few).

The headliners (in addition to the aforementioned Run DMC reunion) are an electic-but-looked-forward-to group: Santigold, Refused, and for Comedy David Cross.

Three-day and PIP passes go on sale on Thursday at 10AM CST and will no doubt move fast. Get them here once the clock passes 9:59...

See the full line-up below.

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The Belmont

This weekend The Belmont at 305 W. 6th Street (where we held one of our official SXSW parties) celebrates its official Grand Opening starting with Mike Relm with All My Friends (A Tribute to LCD Soundsystem) on Friday, 4/13. It's FREE with RSVP, and the celebration continues Saturday with ...Trail of Dead - also FREE with RSVP (both via Do512). More details and some videos below...

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