Ringo Deathstarr

APTBS @ MHOW 2012 (more by Chris La Putt) A Place to Bury Strangers are putting the finishing touches on their fourth album which should be out late summer / early fall 2014…

Austin trio Ringo Deathstarr released Gods Dream last month, their latest slab of ethereal glide guitar sludgepop. The album’s opening track, “Bong Load,” just got the video treatment courtesy the band’s drummer, Daniel Coborn, which includes an inadvertent tribute to late Vandelles/Dead Leaf Echo guitarist Christo Buffam…

Austin shoegazers Ringo Deathstarr will release their new album, God’s Dream, on March 25 (it came out in Japan last year) and the band are currently crushing eardrums on the East Coast in support of it…

Austin pedal-stompers Ringo Deathstarr have a new record, Gods Dream, which came out at the end of 2013 in Japan and will be out in February in North America…

It’s now 2014, which means Free Week is about to be underway in Austin. Like in years past, a bunch of mostly local bands will be playing free shows in local venues from January 2-January…

Ghost BC @ Coachella 2013 (more by Wei Shi) The Orwells @ Bowery Ballroom on Thursday (more by Dominick Mastrangelo) today in NYC * Opera On Tap @ Barbes * Tim Berne/7 @ The Stone * Trixie Whitley @ Maxwell’s * TEETH @ Secret Project Room * Plastic Plates, DJ Sober @ Le Bain * Zeke Healy & Karen Waltuch @ Barbes * Purity Ring, Mas Ysa @ Bowery Ballroom * Ghost BC, Ides of Gemini @ Webster Hall * Dark Star Orchestra @ The Wellmont Theatre * Twin Sister, Empress Of, RElyse @ Silent Barn * Eddie Money, Glenn Symmonds @ City Winery * Foster Care, Games, Mexico Beach @ Union Pool * Duke Dumont, JDH & Dave P @ Le Poisson Rouge * Lady Lamb The Beekeeper, Slothrust @ Glasslands * Gold Panda, Voices of Black @ The Knitting Factory * Howling, Riot Fox, The Luna Laval @ The Rock Shop * Sir Sly, Little Daylight, The Griswolds @ Brooklyn Bowl * DIIV, X-Ray Eyeballs, DJ Dog Dick @ Mercury Lounge * Star Rover, Indigo Street, Aye Aye Rabbit @ Big Snow * Mudhoney, Pissed Jeans @ Music Hall of Williamsburg * Nova Social, Balthrop, Alabama, Chris Mills @ Littlefield * Sleepies, Fat Creeps, Zebu, Turnip King @ Death By Audio * Girl Toy, Graffiti Sunshine, Dog Water, Fume @ Muchmore’s * Drunken Sufis, Pretty & Nice, Noxious Foxes @ Cameo Gallery * inc., Autre Ne …

Speedy Ortiz at WBAR-B-Q in April (more by Amanda Hatfield) As mentioned, Northampton, MA’s Speedy Ortiz have signed to Carpark Records and will release their debut album, Major Arcana, on June 9 via their new label…

Wrapping up a week of Red Bull Sound Select shows in Austin during SXSW (but not part of SXSW), Smashing Pumpkins played Saturday night (3/16) at with The Sword, Girl in a Coma and Austin’s Ringo Deathstarr opening…

We already knew that The Monochrome Set would be performing at this year’s NYC Popfest (May 30 – June 2) but now the rest of the line-up has been announced and it’s pretty great with appearances from New Zealand Flying Nun legends The Bats, two bands who featured on NME’s legendary C-86 cassette (Scotland’s Close Lobsters and London’s The Wolfhounds), and long-running California band The Orange Peels; plus newer bands like Wales’ The School, UK group Flowers, Hobbes Fanclub and Tigercats, Sweden’s Alpaca Sport and Azur Blue, Norway’s Making Marks, and Spain’s Zipper; and American groups Ringo Deathstarr, Math & Physics Club, Literature, Ski Lodge and more…

We’ve got less than a week to go and if you’re still getting your New Year’s Eve plans together, here is a number of concert options in Austin…