photos by @griffinshot - Tim Griffin

Cat Power / Baroness / UME @ FPSF, 6/2/2013

While Chaos reigned in Austin, another festival was happening over in Houston, with the Free Press Summer Festival which was celebrating its fifth year. Day 2 (6/2) featured TV on the Radio, Baroness, Social Distortion, Cat Power, Gogol Bordello, , Austin's UME and lots more and pictures are in this post.

Among the highlights: Houston Mayor Annise Parker stopped by to introduce gospel and soul legend Mavis Staples; and the excited crowd for Matt & Kim broke down the barricade which was later repaired with steel struts. That'll hold 'em.

Pics from day 1 are here, and more from Sunday are below...

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photos by Glen Brown

Octopus Project & A Place To Bury Strangers

The final day at Fun Fun Fun Fest on 11/4 at Auditorium Shores was more than just large and sweaty vocalists (we already posted Turbonegro & Fucked Up pics HERE). It also featured appearances from Balmorhea, A.Dd+, Fang Island, Bleached, A Place to Bury Strangers, Class Actress, Japandroids, The Octopus Project and many more on some of the other stages. Some of those bands are pictured in this post.

Browse all our FFF Fest pics HERE. More in this post, below...

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Passion Pit @ The Backyard - 9/15/2012

Though earlier in the Summer they hit some bumps-in-the-road forcing show cancellations, Passion Pit have not lost their stride. They came to Austin and The Backyard in support of their latest album 'Gossamer' (released in July), and there was no shortage of energy for the show, both on stage and throughout the audience. Michael Angelakos' vocals sounded great, and the new songs translated extremely well live.

Their 17-song set, listed after the pictures below, included an even split between albums 'Manners' and 'Gossamer', with a few tracks from the 'Chunk of Change' EP rounding out the performance. If you haven't given 'Gossamer' a listen yet, you really should. I'm doing just that on Spotify as I write this.

Austin's own The Octopus Project and tour mates SoCal's Pacific Air (formerly KO KO) opened the show.

More pictures from all three bands and full Passion Pit setlist below.

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The above-pictured tweet by Austin band YellowFever was posted in November. Last week they posted just two words to their Facebook Wall, and those two words were "Deep Time" which happens to be the name of the band opening for Octopus Project at Mohawk on 2/10 (it also says "formerly YellowFever" after their name on the bill). Legal problems solved.