The Warlocks swept on stage at Spaceland shrouded in scarlet-tinged smoke and dressed (mostly) in black. It was all very serious. No one spoke. People shifted from foot to foot expectantly. Throats cleared. Then the first droning notes from singer Bobby Hecksher’s guitar slithered between us like a python, heavy.

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While it’s arguable whether the band is truly trying to emulate the Raveonettes or if they just sounded similar out of coincidence, it’s clear that they have many of the same influences as the aforementioned band—Jesus and Mary Chain, Spacemen 3, Velvet Underground—and have came up with very close to the same result.

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Tweak Bird are prowling the streets of Austin (just like Audacity, who are so awesomely unsupervised the cops have stopped them twice!) and today they will be playing the Tee Pee day party at Club 1808 with Night Horse, the Warlocks and more. This archival interview by Chris Ziegler.

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