But then right when it was about to get sentimental, a sax groove came out from the little guy, an insistent beat like your tongue would do on a woman you really loved: “Bum BUUM bum bum-be-dum, Bum BUUUM bum bum-be-dum!”

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Behold! It’s floppy, it’s flexi, it’s free to anyone who wants to wander in to our Gories / Spits / Oh Sees / Kid Congo / Cheap Time / Total Slacker show tonight at Emo’s in Austin and it’s got two-minutes-and-then-some of thee mighty Reigning Sound playing live at Alex’s Bar in your very own [...]

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Daze of Heaven impressed me the most, if for nothing else because this guy approached loop-driven music from the exact opposite perspective of most one-man bands that might play Pehrspace or the Smell. Instead of creating beats with his mouth or a machine and then using that as a platform to make noise atop the beats, Daze of Heaven sets up his soundscape first, blasting his clarinet into the mike, then putting sounds from his mouth and from found feedback (I’m talking serious crackle, the kind of hiss that sounds like rain hitting drywall) into the mix. When he’s all done setting up the sound, this dude jumps into his drumset, which he plays standing up, in attack mode, almost at random and yet synced somehow with the swirling noise mess he’s cocooned around himself.

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Thee Oh Sees I revisited Eagle Rock for another FYF/ERMF collaboration, in which they presented Daylong Valleys of the Nile, Dom, and Thee Oh Sees. Daylong kicked it off with an audience seeming mostly unfamiliar, with this Lavender Diamond side project. They’re heavily new wave, and their love for music is both audible and visible [...]

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Day 4 of SXSW was perhaps the most fun of all, and it began with the most delicious vegan peanut butter cup I’ve ever had. I washed it down with an agave wheat beer at the Spider House, where Norwegian noisers the Megaphonic Thrift rocked me back to the early nineties with their can’t-quite-put-my-finger-on-it nostalgic [...]

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One of the main peeps behind L’KEG Gallery [which caught fire in 2010!], D.I.Y. curator and show organizer Walt! Gorecki shares his top 10 picks for the Best Album Art Released In 2010: 1. Kyle Ranson – Warm Slime (Thee Oh Sees) Walt Gorecki: Kyle Ranson’s work is extremely visceral making him a perfect fit [...]

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OFF!, THEE OH SEES, NOBUNNY, AND WHITE SHIT ON FRIDAY DEC. 17TH AT THE SEX, 816 SOUTH SANTA FE AVENUE, LOS ANGELES. 8:00PM/ FREE/ ALL AGES.

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What goes on in the minds of the bands that you love? Find out through these Rorschach Tests conducted by Vanessa Gonzalez at FYF Fest 2010. Brian Stewart, Growlers, Drums: Pelvic bone Kyle Schuster, Growlers, Keyboards & Guitar: devil Scott Montoya: Growlers, Bass: Scarab Brooks Nielsen: Growlers, Vocals: Lil’ Clownie Warren Thomas, Growlers, Bongos: Pelvic [...]

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KSCR FEST 2010 4:15-4:45 The Smiles 5:00- 5:30 Trolley Station 5:45- 6:30 Princeton 7:50- 7:35 Rumspringa 8:15-9:00 The Growlers 8:00-9:20 Dublab 9:20- 10:05 The Entrance Band 10:05-10:25 DJ Set- Dublab 10:25- 11:15 Thee Oh Sees

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