It’s official, our little festival is all grown up. Can’t make it to the hottest ticket in town this weekend, but want to catch some of the action? You are one lucky pup.

FOUR STREAMS PROVIDE A DIFFERENT MUSIC EXPERIENCE CATERED TO YOUR FAVORITE GENRES – FROM INDIE, METAL AND PUNK TO HIP HOP, ELECTRO, & MORE

AUSTIN, TX (October 31, 2011) – Fun Fun Fun Fest and Pitchfork announced today that the 6th annual festival in Austin, Texas will be streaming live on pitchfork.com November 4 – 6, 2011. This will be the first time ever that the music of Fun Fun Fun Fest, one of the most progressive independent music festivals in the country, will be available to those outside of Austin, and live.

Unlike other music festivals with similar live streams, Fun Fun Fun Fest will present 4 separate streams with each tailored to different musical tastes, streamed live on one of the most widely read music websites in the world that reaches 3.3 million unique visitors each month. Like the Fun Fun Fun Fest stage setups, each stream will provide a different musical experience, from punk and metal to indie rock and electronica, from bounce and hip hop to competitions and comedy. Fans will be able to toggle the streams to cater to their favorite styles of music, thanks to smart, the quirky, irreverent car.

When asked about the new partnership, Pitchfork had this to say: “Fun Fun Fun Fest has absolutely become one of the great festivals in the country, one that shares the same spirit of adventurous booking and music- and fan-community focus that we bring to our own Pitchfork Music Festival and our other events,” said Pitchfork President Chris Kaskie. “Pitchfork has produced a number of live streams in recent years, and we’re thrilled to be producing the Fun Fun Fun Fest live stream this year, for the first time bringing the festival to music fans outside of Austin.”

Pitchfork Fun Fun Fun Fest Live Stream Schedule

• Friday, Nov 4th at 12:20pm Central
• Saturday, Nov 5th at 12:10pm Central
• Sunday, Nov 6th at 12:15pm Central

To check out the Fun Fun Fun Fest live stream on Pitchfork, go to www.pitchfork.com. The stream will begin at these times:

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Who doesn’t love Superchunk? How can you not? Don’t be Foolish.

Happy Halloween from Superchunk via the band offering up a cover of the Misfits “Where Eagles Dare”.

The band says, “Happy Halloween everyone! An omelet of disease awaits your noontime meal! In the tradition of doing something we did last year, we’ve got another Misfits cover for you. We recorded it with John Plymale at Overdub Lane. Everyone sings! So it’s festive.

MP3> Superchunk ‘Where Eagles Dare’ (Misfits cover)

I honestly felt that Girls were going to be one of those bands that put out one interesting album, exploring their creativity to the max with that album, and slowly fade into the indie-rock sunset. Gladly, I was wrong. The band continues to craft catchy, pill induced, California dreamin songs that lay claim to the fact that their creativity has only begun to peak. The bands most recent release Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is a shining example of this. Tapping into his personal experience with the Children of God cult, songwriter Christopher Owens explores a wide spectrum of themes musically and lyrically.

Girls play the Orange Stage Sat 11.5 @ 6:30

With the coolest festival of the year just a mere 2 1/2 weeks away, the tools to start planning your weekend at Fun Fun Fun Fest are now in your hands. Looks to be an epic weekend of music appealing to all tastes, creeds, genders, religion, and species…

Can’t read the tiny print? Go HERE

Not to start with one of the more obvious picks for this year’s Fun Fun Fun Fest, but the opportunity to see this outfit founded by French artist Anthony Gonzales called M83 doesn’t come very often in these parts of the woods. A band that fuses ambient electronic soundtrack ready sounds with rock ambition, and the occasional electric guitar, M83 have stood strong for 10 years. The band just released what might be their most ambitious and inspired collection of recorded material on Oct 18th titled Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming. Gonzalez describes the newest tracks as darker and “very, very, very epic.”

“Midnight City”, the first track from the album is a definite booty shaker. My interest in this live show grows day by day…

M83 play the Orange Stage on Sat 11. 5 (Time TBA).

Local band Ume released their 2nd full-length recording Phantoms back in August and continues to receive critical acclaim in indie circles. Encompassing frontwoman Lauren Larson’s frenetic guitar style with a melodic sense, Phantoms is the move that the band needs to move them from Austin’s little secret to indie-rock darlings. mtvU just set loose their video for “Captive” and here you have it….

Not nearly as frightening as the name might suggest, UK’s The Horrors kicked of a U.S. tour early this month in support of their most recent release Skying, that will find them taking to the beloved Parish stage in Austin on 9/21. If you’ve had your fill of the electronic bleep blip, dj riddled, get so friggin happy scene, like myself, The Horrors inspire memories of Bauhaus, Peter Murphy, and even Echo and The Bunnymen at times. It’s okay to wallow in darkness every now and then. That’s why we have Prozac.

The Horrors w/The Stepkids opening things up at The Parish. Doors @ 8p.m. TICKETS

MP3> The Horrors ‘Moving Further Away’

The Horrors US tour:

9/21 – Austin, TX – The Parish
9/23 – St Louis, MO – The Firebird
9/24 – Minneapolis, MN – Triple Rock
9/25 – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
9/27 – Toronto, ON – Lee’s Palace
9/28 – Montreal, QC – Cafe Campus
9/30 – Washington, DC – Black Cat
10/1 – Asbury Park, NJ – ATP
10/2 – Philadelphia, PA – World Cafe Live
10/3 – Allston, MA – Brighton Music Hall
10/4 – New York, NY – Webster Hall

I have been in quite the Yuck mood lately, and that’s a good thing. Something about the band’s sound reminds me of a time years ago when bands like Sebadoh, Superchunk, and Sonic Youth dominated the modern rock scene.

Check out this episode of Room 205 featuring Yuck performing “Milkshake’ visually hinting at that time as well.

This is one band that is high on the list of  “must see” this weekend’s ACL Festival. Elbow is that band that you fell in love with years ago, yet somehow manages to sit quietly in the background only to give you that reminding poke that they are still making great music years later. A band that has achieved little more than cult status in the US, they have maintained a solid following in the UK, continuing to record award winning albums that chart well. The band’s most recent release Build A Rocket Boys demonstrates a band’s necessity to grow it’s music as they grow in years.  Beautifully layered multi-instrumental progressive rock perfectly accented by Guy Garvey’s image evoking lyrics and recognizable vocal style. A rare opportunity to see a band riding a lengthy wave of success in an arena of turn and burns.

Elbow: Sunday at 5:30 on the Google+ Stage

The recent wildfires around the Austin area have devastated the land, the communities, and the lives of many. Tomorrows East 6th Street benefit is one of many ways to help out with rebuilding these lives and communities, and is an easy one. Just visit your local haunts on East 6th and your money spent will go to a great cause.

The ‘East 6th Street Bastrop
Wildfire Relief Benefit’ is being promoted in a very general way so
that we can all come together as a business community, yet each
participate in whatever way we feel comfortable. The idea is simply
to let as many people as possible know that whatever business they
choose to go on Wednesday September 14th, they will be
able to contribute to the relief fund.

Participating businesses include: Cheer
Up Charlies, Shangri-La, Birds Barbershop, Fast Folks, Violet Crown,
East Side Kings, Way South Philly, East Side Show Room, Sputnik, Papi
Tino’s, Rio Rita, The Brixton, Volstead, Nuevo Leon, The Eastern,
Trailer Perk, Regal Ravioli, Liberty, Grackle, Graze, La Pearla,
Gypsy Lounge, Miso Hungry, and Bijou Tattoo. An awesome list!

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Phosphorescent, the moniker under which Matthew Houck records these days, should receive a warm response from fans at this year’s ACL Fest. Making friends with Texas legend Willie Nelson certainly doesn’t hurt, especially when you’ve penned a tribute album for said legend. Titling your latest album Here’s To Taking It Easy bodes well with the mentality of Austinites as well.

Having to work within the confines of a 45 min set is the only drawback that I can find about this pending performance as Phosphorescent are definitely capable of putting together a performance that feels like a never ending party in your backyard with your closest friends. Don’t be surprised if you catch me singing the words to “Mermaid Parade” with cold beer in hand and a huge smile on my face..

Phosphorescent: Saturday 2-2:45 on the AustinVentures Stage

Austin’s The Calm Blue Sea recently had their self-titled album reissued by Austin’s own Modern Outsider Records on Aug 2nd. While mostly an instrumental piece, the album does feature one track with minimal vocal tracks titled “Literal”, and today IFC premiered the video for that track. Directed by Paul Beck who animated Richard Linklater’s films “Waking Life” and “A Scanner Darkly”, the video combines real film footage accented by cartoon heads and blotted out faces.

Beck on the video:

“As I was making the video, listening to the music, I wanted images in the video to challenge the viewer by asking, ‘Are we living the good life?’” Beck asks. “‘Are we living the nightmare?’ ‘What character are we?’ ‘What tabloid-media-mash up comforts us through the long night?’”

The National playing live in Austin..YES! Playing at the Austin Music Hall…BOOOOOOOO! Once written up in a magazine article during SXSW a few years ago as “the place where good music goes to die”, the Austin Music Hall is one of my least favorite venues in town. You would think that spending the millions that they did on the remodel, something decent would have resulted, but not the case. Either way, its the National and they are bringing indie darlings Local Natives along for the ride.

Dec 4th is the date and tickets will be selling HERE.

If you haven’t bought into the idea that the sounds of the 80′s New Wave have permeated much of today’s modern music, then Twin Shadow will surely change that. It’s a good thing though.

Operating under the Twin Shadow name, George Lewis Jr. weaves hazy electronic tinged pop tethered to R&B rhythms, that feels at home in the current music climate and would coexist nicely in the 80′s pop scene. Twin Shadow’s most recent released full length titled Forget, produced by Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor set legal last Oct, but is still garnering attention.

Twin Shadow is currently smack dab in the middle of it’s Clean Cuts Tour which features a clean cut for each city on the tour, except Austin…boo.

Twin Shadow: Saturday @ 1 p.m. on the Google + Stage

TWIN SHADOW “SHOOTING HOLES” from Yours Truly on Vimeo.

Shortly after landing himself on the Matador Records label, Kurt Vile began to generate a slow buzz in the music community, capturing the attention of Sonic Youth member Kim Gordon along the way. Gordon mentioned in an interview that Vile’s Childish Prodigy had become a guilty pleasure for her, guilty because she listened to it too much. Vile has followed up the 2009 Childish Prodigy release with this year’s Smoke Ring For My Halo, which continues and builds on Vile’s style of music ranging from soft acoustic driven songs to tracks that are capable of bringing the noisy Crazy Horse crunch. Tours with Thurston Moore, Dinosaur Jr, and Bright Eyes indicate that Vile and company put on a show worthy of complimenting some of the best in the industry.

Kurt Vile and the Violators play the Austin Ventures Stage @ 5 p.m. Friday