jake l orrall
Lethos is Jake Latakas Orrall who wrote this six-part epic story of him being raised by oxen on the plains at his parents house in Nashville, TN. All done on 4 track. This album, Wood Ox, was released on Infinity Cat in 2006. We found CD 17 of 33 in the free bin of Austin coffee shop, The Hideout.
Seems like Jake may now be in the band, Jeff the Brotherhood.
nate grace
Nate Grace, Jesse Jenkins, and Austin Youngblood phone it in from the Natrix Natrix House in Austin, TX.
Pure ecstasy indeed. The kind of washed out, sun-bleached, reverbed to hell jams labeled ‘hypnagogic pop’ in the last issue of the Wire (we’ll see how long that one sticks) or ‘beach-punk’ elsewhere. Either way or neither way, PE take the same drugs as New Jersey’s Real Estate, creating the blissful soundtrack for an underwater BBQ or your memories of summer. So much mid-range it sounds the same over the phone as it does on record- absolutely fucking perfect, what Transparent Blog nailed as “what it would sound like if the Everley Brothers were the first heartbroken men on the moon.”
giant drag
giant drag is now going it alone which means “no money” which makes it hard to make an album…or eat dinner. if you’d like to donate towards the cause please click the donate button. if you illegally downloaded the first record and feel bad about it now is your chance to repent by donating. if you want to illegally download anything that’s been released thus far and then donate the cost you would have paid i am fine with that too because unless you buy it from me (giant drag ebay store now up, go to giantdrag.com for the link or search “giantdragstore” on ebay members) that money goes to the record label that dropped me and not to me and that sucks. thanks!
grady
Gordie Johnson recently stated in an interview with Guitarist UK, “We’re trying to find the common ground between punk, metal and gospel. I like to think we sound like Motorhead just got the job of backing up John Lee Hooker.”
As reviewed in L.A. magazine Access: “GRADY has enough low end buzz and slide guitar to shake down the walls of the Alamo.”
hrz
After being murdered by a strange woman and her equally unusual family, four rock musicians rise from the grave and perform the concert they were scheduled to play before their untimely demise. They’re the Hard Rock Zombies, and they’re just dying to perform!
weight liftin'
Open is Nepo is a rock and roll band formed by G. Matt Nicholson, Michael Moode and Josh Rios. This song was written exclusively for Business Deal Band Lotto 2.
comp album cover
This compilation is a chronicle of the get togethers, group intoxications, and one-time projects that have happened at Bundyhill Recording Studio since it began in 2006. No plans were made for any of these songs and you’ll see the same names come up in many different combinations. For the most part these songs were conceived, written, played and recorded in one session.
redschox
REDSCHOX wurde 2002 gegründet, ganz einfach so: Frau mit Drums und Mann mit Gitarre machen Rock bis Punk pur! Slide-Gitarre bringt den Blues und Cello setzt klassische Akzente. Alles noch mit ein paar Synthie-Sounds garniert und fertig. Die sehr persönlichen Songtexte (englisch) geben Gefühle, Stimmungen, Erlebnisse und Impressionen wieder, enthusiastisch, skurril, manchmal auch melancholisch. Bei REDSCHOX live geht die Post gut ab. Nach vielen Club- und Festival-Gigs in Deutschland traten REDSCHOX 2006 in Houston und Austin, Texas, auf, und 2008 in Lake Worth und Melbourne, Florida/USA.
matthew snow
Mathew Snow is from Akron, OH. After roughly a 5 or 6 year period of nothing, he began writing songs again around November 2008. After being invited by fellow Astoria musician and founder of Two Seconds to Midnight, Ziggy Payton, to play a solo show in January 2009 in Astoria, Queens, Josh and Marc offered up their talents in March ’09. They performed as a trio until Matt met Greg in June ’09 and invited him to sit in on a few rehearsals. Now a 10 song LP entitled Mathew Snow & the Way It Was is currently in the works at Serious Business Studios in SoHo, NYC and is expected to be complete by January 2010 available on vinyl and digital download.
horse + donkey
When a female horse meets a male donkey, the pitter-patter of little mule hooves often follows. Yet the offspring have an odd number of chromosomes, which nearly always means that they are sterile and can’t reproduce.
But a female mule in Colbran, Colo., has recently become a mother, and her owners are trying to figure out how it happened.
In late April, Laura and Larry Amos discovered that a mule called Kate had a newborn foal. The Amos family runs a wilderness outfitter and owns a large herd of mules.
Laura Amos tells Robert Siegel that she and her husband realized the birth was a rare event and knew that there would be skeptics.
monkeytown
The story thus far. After moving to Denton in 1997 i started a one man band called MonkeyTown. I released two albums on my own while living there MonkeyBlood & Departure. After coming back to Austin in 2001 i released three more albums independently Shut In, the Cubic Trilogy, and the Death of MonkeyTown. In 2005 Meandering Way released Anthems for a Numb Tomorrow. In 2007 my good friends Rhett Hubertus and Michael Barnes joined me as a three piece. We just finished recording our seventh album Still Life with MonkeyTown. It will be available in 2009.
This song is called “New Moon” from their 2004 Meandering Way release.
Cavedweller Tape Cover
About Cavedweller 1995:cavedweller recorded their first tape in a room while several people were sleeping. 1997: cavedweller played their first show @ The Argo in Denton TX. 2002: cavedweller moves to Austin, TX.
Cavedweller recently released a new 7 inch split with Shapes Have Fangs and will release a new tape of songs w/ Instincto Records. this month.
P. Dukes of The Wyndyms
The Wyndyms are T.W. Bond and Preston Dukes from Athens, Texas. Somewhere near the monkey cages, the underground pentagrams and RH Lee Park a slew of songs were derived from lore and locals. Now residents of Austin, Texas they continue to work on a host of projects in around the style of the infamous Wyndyms.
the baptist generals
The Baptist Generals are an American indie band from the music town of Denton, Texas.
The Baptist Generals was formed in 1998 by songwriter/guitarist Chris Flemmons and drummer Steve Hill. Originally they played for beer money as a street act on Denton’s infamous Fry Street, but later moved from the street to playing house and club shows nationally and abroad. Over the years the band has grown to include a rotating cast of Denton and former Denton musicians. Hill left the band in 2007.
They Shoot Horses, Don't They
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? present us with a dark and violent world where people are readily exploited for the pennies that they might bring in from a viewing audience. Marathon dances last for weeks, even months, draining their participants of self-respect and gradually turning them into the walking dead. TSHDT are from Vancouver, Canada.
The Morakestra
Founders and key creative minds David and Will Mora are twin brothers who were proudly born and raised in the West Texas border city, El Paso, Texas. Fellow El Pasoan Jim Ward contributed to the rebirth of Morakestra via production and recording of the band’s latest album, Witness to Connection, released in June 09 on indie label Stratking Records.
We found this album @ The Hideout in downtown Austin in the free section.
The Domesticated
The Domesticated is the baby of Erik Bradford, a Washington D.C. transplant living in Austin. He currently plays with Danny Mee, drummer of Houston band, The Jonx. The Domesticated is an amalgamation of styles, generally channeled through the spaghetti western twang of various Fender equipment. Doom, gloom, and psychedelic mushrooms. It’s all there. Prog, frogs, and Dock Boggs, it’s there as well.
The song, Antithetical, was recorded in the summer of 2008 at Bundyhill Studios in Austin, Texas, and is as of yet unreleased. Hear more at www.myspace.com/thedomesticated
Chris Stroffolino
Chris Stroffolino is SHORT and has been in bands with TALL Front men (David Berman–Silver Jews; Sir Lord Von Raven, Brett Eugene Ralph, Brian Glaze), so he tends to think of TALL people as OLDER than him. Oh yeah, Stroffolino also wrote a lot of books of poetry, and they made NOTHING happen! Glorious Nothing! And music/cultural criticism, etc. Chris lives in Oakland, California.
Cavedweller
Cavedweller recently released a new 7 inch split with Shapes Have Fangs and will release a new tape of songs w/ Instincto Records.
Chef
One night, a long time ago @ Chef’s house Walt, Preston, Gene, Smokey, Tim and possibly others gathered in a small kitchen in a close proximity of many neighbors and recorded songs all night. Feeling trapped and unable to turn their instruments up to full volume they recorded a song about their dream: To become a rowdy and loudly obnoxious band.