Brazos

As mentioned, Brooklyn’s Empress Of are going on a tour this year which includes SXSW and many dates supporting Jamie Lidell. Since we last spoke, that tour has been expanded and now includes another NYC show, which BrooklynVegan and Gorilla vs…

Onetime Austinites who now call NYC home, Brazos, will release their second album, Saltwater, on May 28 via Dead Oceans. You can watch the video for first single, “How the Ranks Was Won,” below…

DOWNLOAD: The Spinto Band – Shake it Off (MP3) Wilmington, Delaware’s Spinto Band are indie survivors. Having formed int the mid-’90s under the seemed-funny-at-the-time moniker Free Beer, the band switched to the current name at the dawn of the ’00s and saw some success with 2005’s terrific Nice and Nicely Done…

(via @julesdumdum) Sufjan Stevens tickets are on sale too. Tickets for the Cat Power show at Terminal 5 go on sale today at noon. Tickets for the Alt-J show at Terminal 5 go on sale today at n…

Savages at BV-CMJ 2012 (more by Dominick Mastrangelo) Last month, SXSW revealed its first round of artists for their 2013 festival, which happens from March 12-17, and now they’ve revealed a second announcement with way more arti…

(MORE) At first I thouht this might be a ‘too many cooks in the kitchen’ situation. Then I freaked out a little when I found out there was an RSVP, and that it wasn’t working that well…

This September I’ll be returning to Austin for my first-ever visit to the annual three-day Austin City Limits Festival (see previous post for talk of the lineup)…

Tickets are now on sale for yet another show by another UK band (March 22, Mercury Lounge) They’re called the Fratellis, and what I’ve heard so far is not that pleasurable, but here are their credentials: * NME writes about them * Up for a Brit Award * Playing the Brit Awards * in iTunes ads * IGIF says they are bigtime * Stereogum is watching them * Modern Age liked them one day * They rock Cleveland * Fratellis Top of the Pops They’re also playing SXSW, and The Troubadour in LA on March 19th…