Showing posts with label Wild Flag. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wild Flag. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Shivvy's Best of 2011

This was my first complete year of not working in radio, but I got back into music in a big way. In the months that followed WOXY's demise, I honestly tuned a lot of music out. I was never big on indie buzz and the flavor of the month style way that indie bands are consumed these days, but I was exposed to pretty much all of it while working for the station. Now, with a rekindled passion in my heart, I find that my biggest sources for discovering music are Austin Bloggy and Spotify.

While I have friends who swear up and down that Rdio and other services are better, I subscribed to Spotify when it finally launched here the states earlier this year. Now that I'm working a more traditional office job, I have plenty of time to listen to whatever I want. I put my headphones on and listen to everything from old faves to the the newest releases. I can say that, as a result, my listening has moved back more to being album-based. My preference is always to support my local indie record stores by buying as much vinyl as I can. There is a happy medium there for me - I stream at work and in the car and play records at home.

However you are discovering new music, please make an effort to support the artists that create it. If possible, do it at the local stores that we want to thrive in our communities for a long time. For me, Record Store Day is a year-round event. If you aren't fortunate enough to live close to a great store like End Of An Ear or Waterloo Records here in Austin, there are links embedded here to buy from the artists/labels or from Insound.



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Thursday, October 27, 2011

Wild Flag This Saturday

There are so many great shows this Saturday night, I have to start highlighting them on Thursday morning. I wanted to start with the Wild Flag show at La Zona Rosa because I feel like it's the show most likely to sell-out before Saturday. So, before you continue reading get your tickets. I'll be here when you return.

As you may know, this Wild Flag show was, originally, booked at Emo's outside stage but was moved to La Zona after the outside area of Emo's was boarded up. For those of you who already bought tickets to see Wild Flag at Emo's you will have to exchange those tickets at the La Zona Rosa box office. Presumably, that can be done the day of the show so don't fret, just plan accordingly.

Wild Flag - Electric Flag video via YouTube

For those of you who don't know, Wild Flag is an indie-rock super-group the likes of which we may never see again. Ok, so that's a bit dramatic but so is their debut album. The group itself consists of Carrie Brownstein, Rebecca Cole, Mary Timony, and Janet Weiss. Perhaps you don't know these individuals names (although you should) but you certainly know the bands they have played in, including: Sleater-Kinney, Helium, Quasi, The Minders, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks among others. If this group were to fill out applications for the job of indie-rock legends their resumes are fucking stacked. Mr. S. is in love with their album and I expect to find it on his best LPs of 2011 year-end list. Even if you're not familiar with Wild Flag's music as you read this, you should check out the show simply because there won't be very many opportunities to see them perform. That's the thing about super-groups, they really don't have to tour their records and they may not make a 2nd one, so you if they come to your town you best get your ass to the show.

Wild Flag - Romance video via YouTube
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