Mess With Texas

words & !!! @ the BrooklynVegan/MFM Day Party Saturday By the time Saturday rolled around in Austin, I was admittedly starting to tire of the massive crowd that had been occupying 6th Street since I arrived on Tuesday...

TV on The Radio at Roots Picnic 2009 (more by Tim Griffin) Tickets are still available for TV On The Radio's date with Radio City Music Hall on 4/13, and since we last spoke the band announce many more tour dates...

DOWNLOAD: Millenial Reign - Luminous Veil (MP3) A389 Records have released their new label sampler, downloadable to one and all, with some fierce and antisocial hardcore, a good portion of which is currently unreleased...

words & Wednesday - The Middle East @ Club DeVille (more by Tim Griffin) I started toward MtyMx about 4 hours after my last SXSW show, so I haven't had much time to reflect on what happened in Austin - but before they become too irrelevant, here are some quick pictures and words of my personal highlights at the fest...

Like Gwar, Mountain Dew billboard stars Neon Indian played the MWTX not-SXSW fest on Saturday (3/20). Two days later they played a set at MtyMx in Mexico...

In an announcement given to a "bunch of penguins", from the bowels of their Antarctic fortress, the worlds sickest band, the mighty GWAR, has announced the continuation of their 25th Anniversary with a public event of colossal proportion--The Crack-a-Thon...

live DOWNLOAD: The Thermals - Now We Can See (MP3) The Thermals (and their tour-mates The Shaky Hands) have added a Monday, May 11th Music Hall of Williamsburg show to their existing tour plans...

Act: Monotonix Where: "Mess With Texas" day party at Waterloo Park What It Was Like: Absolute insanity. The music itself is pretty good; punk-edged, sleazy hard-rock...

"We decide to go back to the small stage to see Japanther. They are a regular bunch of cut-ups, those Japanther kids. The two of them sing into reappropriated telephone receivers, although I wonder if they are actually real phones because they are singing into the earpiece end of them...

"...and the mighty Circle Jerks were on. The place was filled people, and Keith Morris started out with some funny anecdotes, after which the band took of...