So my bad luck is your good fortune!

Unfortunately I have a prior commitment and can't make it out to Matt Keating show at the Fairmont in Fort Worth this coming Monday (Sept 8th).

The good news is that I'm giving away my tickets to whoever would like them!

First person to email me will have two tickets waiting for them at Will Call! Second person to email me gets a free copy of Matt's new double CD, Quixotic. You can find my email over on the right side of the page, under About Lullabyes or use admin at lullabyes dot net.

I picked Quixotic up about a month ago - its packed full of poppy goodness, in the vein of Elvis Costello. Check out some videos below.

Good luck!
Matt Keating - Runaway Clown (live)


Matt Keating - Saint Cloud


Tour Dates:
September 7 - Hi-Tone Cafe - Memphis, TN
September 8 - The Fairmount - Fort Worth, TX

September 9- Scoot Inn- Austin TX
September 10 - Dan Electro's Guitar Bar - Houston, TX
September 11 - White Water Tavern - Little Rock, AR
September 12- Wonder Root- Atlanta GA
September 13- Common Grounds- Lexington KY
September 14- The Milestone- Charlotte NC
September 15- The Cave- Chapel Hill NC
September 19- NYC Housing Works Benefit- New York NY
September 21 - The Elevens - Northampton, MA
September 22- Hi-Fi Concert Club- Lakewood OH
September 24- The Frequency- Madison WI
September 25- Reggies- Chicago IL
September 26- 400 Bar- Minneapolis MN
September 27 - Sam¹s Saloon - Indianapolis, IN
September 28- Club Café- Pittsburgh PA
October 10 - Java Cabana - Memphis, TN
October 11- House Concert- Little Rock AR
October 23 - CMJ - New York, NY
November 2 - Zuzu's - Beacon, NY
December 6 - Mocha Maya's - Shelburne Falls, MA

Labels: fort worth, free concert tickets, tour dates

Shy Child -




The Faint

Welcome to your weekend (or weekday of your choice if you read this later!). Its been a great week around here, we got to see The Faint & Shy Child on Tuesday (more on that tomorrow) and Cary Piece & Patrick Ryan Clark last night (at a Border's opening no less), and we've got Bitter:Sweet coming up tomorrow.

And for those of you in the Dallas, DFW or North Texas area, don't forget that its KRLD Restaurant Week. A chance for you to take out your loved ones for a lovely 3 or 4 course dinner at some of the best restaurants in the city - and 20% of what you pay goes to charity.

But, enough of the present - here's a lovely little show from Casey Dienel, aka White Hinterland at the Hot Freaks! set at The Mohawk during the SXSW festival from earlier this year.

White Hinterland brought the most creatively-titled and diversely themed songs to this years Hot Freaks show. White Hinterlands fairly difficult to categorrize, but Casey's vocals invoke Regina Spektor and sit atop a bed of electronic piano, bass and drums to create preeminently jazz-flavored ditties. Good stuff - be sure to check out her latest record, Phylactery Factory to hear studio perfect versions of most of these tracks, on if you're in continental Europe, you can see her on tour this October.

Photo Credit: Gorilla vs Bear

Live MP3 MP3s:
Intro
Lindberghs + Metal Birds
The Destruction of the Art Deco House
Dreaming of the Plum Trees
Intro to...
Calliope
Hung on a Thin Thread
Napoleon At Waterloo
Vessels
Outro

Tour Dates:
10/02/08 Dudingen, Switzerland Bad Bonn
10/04/08 Geislingen, Germany Rätschenmühle
10/05/08 Zurich, Switzerland El Lokal
10/06/08 Frankfurt, Germany Mousonturm - Studio
10/07/08 Wien, Austria Szene
10/08/08 Munich, Germany Rote Sonne
10/12/08Berlin, Germany Cafe Zapata
10/13/08 Hamburg, Germnay Knust
10/14/08 Amsterdam, Netherlands Paradiso
10/26/08 Brussels, Belgium Ancienne Belgique

Labels: austin, indie, live mp3s, mohawk, soundboard mp3s, sxsw, tour dates

I'm not sure I actually need to write anything about this one, considering the spectacular amount of coverage it received. I've never been a huge Lou Reed fan, but it was crazy cool to see a dozen bands cover his songs, in their own styles, ranging from stripped down acoustic sets, to jam-band stylings, to noise rock.

Nothing beat the finale - seeing the man himself get up on stage, with Moby, to show everyone how it's done, and to play one of his best known tracks. Good times in Austin.

Live MP3 MP3s:
Intro
Femme Fatale
Intro to...
Walk On The Wild Side
Outro

Labels: austin, lievi fader fort, live mp3s, soundboard mp3s, sxsw

Okay, before I write about Johnathan Rice a quick announcement.

I'm adding word verification for comments on the blog. I remember the good old days before spammers figured out how to create fake Blogger accounts. Now, every day I get at least 5 comments that are nothing more than advertisements for online gaming crap. I've spent several hours now just deleting this dreg and yet every day there's more. The frustration has mounted and I've given up. The spammers seem to be especially drawn to the Magnet show from SXSW 2005, I have no idea why though Im sure it relates to some sort of highly searched term that they are targeting.

ARGH. Can you tell im frustrated? If anyone knows how to get rid of these leaches, please let me know and I'll turn comments back on. In the interim, feel free to drop me notes via email. Are we going to introduce some sort of capital punishment for spammers?

Now that I've gotten that off my shoulders onto something that actually brings joy into my life. Music.

So.. back to SXSW. I still have a bunch of shows from the 2008 SXSW festival that I need to get up. I've been working my way through them, mastering, cutting up, MP3ing, tagging - and through that I'm getting to revisit each one of these shows, and its reminding me how good they were!

Johnathan Rice played a couple of shows at SXSW, he opened up for REM at their show at Stubbs BBQ, then opened the Nylon Guess Lounge party the next day. It was an extremely cool psuedo-venue, with Nylon Guess setting up on the top floor of a downtown apartment complex.

Technically it was above the parking garage, where the resident pool was located. Fantastic views of the downtown Austin sky line, free drinks, free Guess jeans and sunglasses, all sorts of VIPs wandering through and lounging coaches everywhere. If you can't tell we had a great time, and wandered away with hundreds of dollars of free goodies courtesy of the sponsors.

Oh, and Johnathan Rice was awesome. I'd been been a big fan since I got his first EP, Extended Player 24-26 which basic served as a sampler for his first full length, Trouble Is Real. I'd waited patiently to see him live - and got to finally see him open for Ben Gibbard last May. Of course, the SXSW was much more intimate, in fact it was the first time I'd ever seen an artist while lounging on a couch, pool-side. (I love SXSW.)

Johnathan's set consisted of tracks from his second record, Further North - a much more Americana record which is a complete departure from his earlier more acoustic "old soul" singer songwriter styles. Of course, who enjoys bands who put out the same record over and over again? Though initially surprising, Further North grew on me after several listens, and I thoroughly enjoyed the rocking live versions. I just wish the show had been longer!

Photo Credit: Ryan Russell

Live MP3 MP3s:
Intro
Change In The Weather
Further North
The Ballad Of King Coyote
We're All Stuck Out In The Desert

Labels: austin, live mp3s, major, nylon guess, soundboard mp3s, sxsw

After seeing hundreds of shows over the last decade and a half I've grown accustomed to being impressed at startling acts of musicianship. One particular style that never fails to impressive (when used well) is looping.

Playing a piece of music live, looping it, then playing another over it, and another, and another - until you have mini symphonic epics in play from one artist. I've seen Howie Day, KT Tunstall and Final Fantasy perform some dazzling pieces live that use looping to perfection.

With that said, I've never seen someone pull off looping while playing an assortment of instruments and.. kitchen utensils. Check out this video for "Go to Hell" from David Ford, played live in one take. Then check out his video from "I'm Alright Now" where David plays the same song live in one take, four different times. Finally, check out his video for "I Don't Care What You Call Me", a beautiful and almost Damien Rice-esque like track, here.

Labels: indie, video

Ms Jenny Lewis. With the Watson Twins. And Jonathon Rice, Jason Boesel and Michael Runion = An amazing night of Music.

I found this show in my old "draft" folder. For whatever reason I meant to post it about 18 months ago and it never happened. It's an audience recording (no soundboards at this show), but still lovely.

I'm about to run out for the day, but I thought I'd put it out there in anticipation of her new record coming out in September. Looking forward to it!! Now where's that Dallas date I've been waiting on...

Live MP3s:
Intro
Long Black Dress (Run Devil Run)
The Big Guns
You Are What You Love
Melt Your Heart
The Charging Sky
Happy
Intro to...
Fernando
Rise Up With Fists!!
Carpet Baggers
Met Him On A Sunday
Into to...
When Jack Killed Mom
Born Secular
Encore Break
Acid Tounge
Handle With Care

Tour Dates:
Tue 09/16/08 Boulder, CO Fox Theatre
Wed 09/17/08 Denver, CO Ogden Theatre
Fri 09/19/08 Chicago, IL Epiphany Church
Sat 09/20/08 Omaha, NE Anchor Inn
Sun 09/21/08 Nashville, TN Ryman Auditorium
Mon 09/22/08 Knoxville, TN Bijou Theatre
Tue 09/23/08 Fayetteville, AR George's Majestic Lounge
Wed 09/24/08 Oxford, MS The Lyric Oxford
Thu 09/25/08 Tulsa, OK Cain's Ballroom
Fri 09/26/08 Austin, TX Zilker Park
Tue 09/30/08 Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse
Thu 10/02/08 Washington, DC Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
Fri 10/03/08 Wilmington, DE Grand Opera House
Sat 10/04/08 New York, NY Apollo Theater

Labels: audience mp3s, concerts, houston, indie, live mp3s, numbers, tour dates