Queen Victoria and Pocahaunted at L'Keg, 11/19/09

Queen Victoria

Were Jim Morrison
Fronting some Touch & Go band,
They'd compete for niche.

Pocahaunted

More haunted and poked
Than usual, their howls chilled
The bones of the space.

Red Sparowes at Vacation Vinyl, 11/13/09

Doomsday's hypnotists
Moving, both physically and
Emotionally.

Blues Control, Pocahaunted, and The 60 Watt Kid at Synchronicity, 11/11/09

60 Watt Kid

Assertive guitar
Acted as spinal cord for
Tangled ball of sounds.

Blues Control

Slack-jawed, we observed
Their calculated climax
And controlled genius.

Pocahaunted

They unleash all the
Unabashed white reggae
Dancing in us all.

The Fun Fun Fun Fest in Waterloo Park, Austin, TX (Day 2), 11/8/09

Atlas Sound

The one song we caught

Seemed to dry the rain with it's

Paradise promise

Youth Brigade

Quite well-named, this band,

For the high school boy in me

Drooled at their gumption

Why?

Conversational

And yet evocative, he

Is a puzzling man

Broadcast

Lone ambassador

Of the psyche scene, we welcomed

Her earth/space melding

Mission of Burma

Preface: I love them.

That being said, one couldn't

Tell they were them. Sad.

Buraka Som Sistema

Irritating to

A famous extent, even

Sans half-naked girl

Crystal Castles

As though someone skinned

Two cats and let them fight with

The poor microphone.

Of Montreal

Trannies and Santa

And Ninjas, oh my! More fierce

With every note played.

DANZIG

NAPOLEON GOD

BROUGHT THE KARAOKE BAR

AND BLACK DEATH RAIN CLOUDS.

The Fun Fun Fun Fest in Waterloo Park, Austin, TX (Day 1), 11/7/09

Times New Viking

Single-handedly

Redeemed by their talented

Sound board engineer.

Vega

Phoenix, as fronted

By Mexican MJ and

Slash, with hot dance moves.

Red Sparowes

Smaller setting band

But I could see potential

In some of those sounds

The Sword

DETHKLOK sans Nathan,

Austin homer band held court

For jocund minions

Dead Confederate

Emo lead singer

Awash in a sea of sound

Rendered quite pleasant!

Melt Banana

SARS masks and high speed

Lyric spitting looked fun, but

Also, annoying.

Death

Don't let the wedding

Band look fake you out. They

Seared off faces, son!

Neon Indian

As though divining

The next day's rain, tech trouble

Basically killed the set.

Yeasayer

We should have taken

The Madonna songs before

Old shows as warning.

Shearwater*

With an angel's voice,

He commanded us as his

Medieval army.

Face to Face

Yeah, I remember

All those songs from my rough high

School days.... what of it?

Jesus Lizard

"This is gonna be

SO GOOD," he assured us, and,

Well, dude didn't lie. :)

*Best set of the night.

The Dirty Projectors and Little Wings at the Jensen Rec Center, 10/31/09

Little Wings

He is much more of

A rocker than I ever

Anticipated.

Dirty Projectors

Ebullient and

Celebratory, but one

of those girls is SHRILL!

O.O

Built to Spill at the EchoPlex, 10/29/09

That set list was so

Mouth-watering that no one'd

Ever believe it.