This Thursday, October 16,101X & C3 Presents bring YOU a 101X Special Weezer/Workforce ticket sale!

This Thursday, October 16, 101X & C3 Presents bring YOU a 101X Special Weezer/Workforce ticket sale! Starting at 10:15am, tickets are on-sale at the X-tra low price of $10.15 (convenience charges MAY apply) at Texas Box Office outlets; the Erwin Center Box Office (Red River); online at TexasBoxOffice.com ; or by calling (512)-477-6060. This is a ONE DAY sale and subject to availability (meaning get yours QUICK)! Weezer at The Theatre @ The Frank Erwin Center, Monday, October 20 – stay tuned to 101X to win free tickets, or grab yours at the low $10.15 ticket price, Thursday starting at 10:15am!

Magnetic Fields Doing Fancy Theatre Shows in Dallas and Austin

As if the Magnetic Fields finally coming to a city near you wasn't enough, now you get to see them from your own comfy seat that some sweet old ticket-checker-lady will lead you to by flashlight. Folks in Dallas have the chance to see them at the Vaudville era Majestic Theatre on Monday 10/13 and those in Austin can see them Tuesday 10/14 at The Paramount Theatre on Congress.

MF's four piece crew fronted by pop mastermind Stephen Merritt will be performing lots o' tracks from their most recent album Distortion, which, just a heads up, will be performed acoustic - sans distortion. Fans that want to track their tour which starts this Friday (10/10) can do so on their official tour blog here

My tip for these shows: put on your good pair of jeans and cleanest chucks and take that special someone out for tapas beforehand... perfect opportunity for an indie-riffic date with a touch of class

2nd night Ghostland Observatory Added

When returning home to a sold out crowd, there’s no reason to leave anyone out of the festivities. Ghostland Observatory has decided to add a second night at Stubb’s Waller Creek so that each and every one of you can come and join along in their electro-rock spectacular. The Duo has been out touring in support of Robotique Majestique, and can’t wait to bring it all home to Austin. See you there!

Saturday 11/15

Tickets on sale now online only thru www.stubbs.frontgatetickets.com

Ghostland Observatory - Just announced!!

This just in, blogosphere navigators and music junkies: I just recieved word, this morning no less, that Austin's own Ghostland Observatory are finally making their triumphant return to the ATX!!!! Dance Legions of A-town rejoice!

Aaron and Thomas will be tearing down the house at Stubb's Waller Creek Amphitheater on Friday, November 14th at 7pm, and tickets go on sale, online only, starting October 4th at the link below!! Be the first to get your tickets and be there, the last time these guys came through they sold out the Austin Music Hall in 3 weeks.


WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO




TICKETS TO THA SHOW

More PUSA

The Presidents of The United States' latest effort, "These are the Good Times People," has gotten a solid 4-star rating from All Music Guide, who have called the new disc "eclectic" and "satisfying," and have even selected three songs off the the album as AMG Track Picks. Check out the full review here, and don't miss the Presidents when they play Stubb's Wednesday, October 8th with The Black and White Years.

Diamonds in the ACL Rough, Pt 1: Friday AM- Early PM

With all the amazing artists coming to ACL this weekend (The Foo Fighters, Beck, Robert Plant & Allison Krauss, Manu Chao, John Fogerty, The Raconteurs, The Mars Volta, and Gnarls Barkley, just to name a few,) and with the sheer number of performers the festival is playing host to (130 artists across 8 stages,) and it inevitable that some lesser-known acts will be lost in the calamity of musical saturation that is Austin from Friday to Sunday. That being said, finding those acts which are just ahead of the game, those who are broadcasting the future in their 30-minute, sparsely attended set before blasting off into st

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26TH:

Dan Dyer, 11:45AM, AT&T Blue Room:


Dan Dyer sounds like Ben Harper or Maroon 5 with a quarter of the pop sheen and 5000 times the soul. Dyer has captured the smoothness of the 70's lounge movement, the ambience and good vibes of a cool summer evening off the coast of some treasure island of relaxation. The music is intellectually stirring, a hot cup of tea for your spirit with just enough sugar to perk you up, freshen your perspective on the world at large, smell all the roses, and set you gently back onto your carseat or sofa, ready and waiting for the next time you fly away through the speakers - which won't be long.

RIYL: Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals, Maroon 5, The Beach Boys, Stevie Wonder, The Bee Gees

Autamata, 12 noon, Austin Ventures Stage

Autamata may hail from the rain-drizzled valleys of Wicklow, Ireland, but Ken McHugh's brain must reside somewhere inside a nightclub inside a pirate ship inside an underground cave inside a jungle somewhere in an alternate dimension where the sun comes out whenever it feels like dancin. The "songwriter, producer, and mucho-instrumentalist" draws the line somewhere between Knightrider soundtrack if Hosselhoff was replaced by Rockwell, Built to Spill on disco steroids, and The Postal Service fronted by Nina Persson of the Cardigans. McHugh employs the services of a trio of pixies whose soft touches, along the lines of festival mates Flyleaf's Lacey Mosley's softer moments, add just the right amount of pop sensibility to the eclectic and provocative dance tracks underneath.

RIYL: Natalie Imbruglia, Chromeo, The Postal Service, Nine Inch Nails, Of Montreal, Feist, Broken Social Scene, Blue Monday, J Dilla

What Made Milwaukee Famous, 1:30PM, AT&T Blue Room



Considering the attention this group has been getting lately, they may almost be too well-known to go here, but their sound is so big and so familiar that if you measure these guys in reference to how known they could be, their current fame is but a dust speck on the Stereo of America.

RIYL: Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Trail of Dead, Coldplay, Third Eye Blind

The Pick of the Week: Sep 14th-21st

THE PARLOR MOB @ STUBB'S, FRI 09/19


I know this might be hard to believe, with all the great shows I have access to here at C3, but the Parlor Mob is the show I'v ebeen looking forward to this month out of any, save for ACL itself. I saw the Mob the last time they came through Austin, and they blew me away. They were polished, the came with tons of energy, they had plenty of blazing duel guitar ear candy, emotion in spades, and, above all else, watching the group gave me this feeling that I was a part of something special, an exclusive member of a diverse, yet small group of witnesses to a sleeping giant taking its first morning breaths and turning up the blistering rock radio before letting loose on the unsuspecting world. At that show, there were about 40 people in the audience. This time around, I expect there to be considerably more, now that there's been time for the word to spread, cus the witnesses, we've been talking.

If you're one of those people that doesn't like to see bands they've never heard before because they get disappointed by the usual lack of stage presence we in the off-radio music community so often deal with, this is your show.

If you're a ex-hard rock disciple who misses the golden days and thinks he's never going to hear the music he loves live again, this is the show for you.

If you play an instrument, any instrument, this is the show for you.

The Parlor Mob has something for everyone, and the price is so so right (only $8!?!?), which is why I'm making them my pick of the week.

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Honorary Mention: Dark Star Orchestra @ Stubb's Waller Creek Amphitheatre, Saturday 9/20