Next week's show will feature the songs of The Velvet Underground. This week enjoy some youtube videos from some of the bands played on this weeks show. The Play List: 1. The Cramps - Save It 2. Awesome Color - Transparent 3. Billy and The Kids - Say You Love Me 4. Beatpack - My Baby Left Me 5. The Haunted - 1-2-5 (Original Version) 6. Mark Sultan - Status 7. Lost Patrol - Kinda Sorta Miss Home 8. Johnny Thunders - You [...]

Good night for garage rock — Japandroids [pictured] hit the Echoplex, and Awesome Color are the main attraction at Spaceland. ... Hole plays a sold-out show at the Fonda Theatre. ... Good lineup of L.A. bands at the Troubadour, where Princeton headlines and Active Child and Pocahaunted support. ... The Bronx do double duty at the House of Blues Anaheim, headlining in their punk in carnation and also playing an opening set as Mariachi El Bronx. ... Shelby Lynne plays the Roxy supported by [...]
Sunday, April 11, 2010 MAJOR LAZER Mainroom / 8:00 pm / 18+ with RUSKO $13.00 adv | $15.00 door Pon De Floor featuring Afro Jack & VYBZ Cartel from Mad Decent on Vimeo . Radio K presents... OWEN PALLETT at Varsity Theater / 8:00 pm / 18+ with SNOWBLINK $13.00 adv | $14.00 door AWESOME COLOR 7th Street Entry / 8:00 pm / 18+ with HAIR POLICE $8.00 adv | $8.00 door
Awesome Color came by our backyard to play us a little ditty entitled "Mexico," a locale they've yet to visit. What's funny is that our backyard was but one stop on the way to Mexico, where they were set to play some pre-SXSW shows. They were excited. They had never been before. And when we ran into them in Austin, they reported very stoically that the trip was "awesome." They're like longhaired, Zeppelin-loving Zach Condons! Or something.
No foolin', April's gonna be WILD. There are over 20 shows going in just under two weeks, and there is at least one every day from April 2 to April 12. Here are your options: Friday, APRIL 2 The Two Koreas (Toronto, ON), Love Is All (Sweden), and Japandroids (Vancouver, BC) at Il Motore [ $15 ] Delorean (Spain) and Miike Snow (Sweden) at Club Soda [SOLD OUT] [...]

Now, I've never been to Detroit, but that doesn't mean I haven't heard things. Things like the astounding number of vacant homes, and how the bears are beginning roam freely within city limits. With the abandonment from the auto industry, it seems like there would be plenty of time to sit around and drink beer. I don't know much about the background of Awesome Color , but it certainly seems a viable direction - for three grizzly, grimy dudes to decide to channel their collective energy wrought from the gray, dreary city into [...]
Enjoy their positively brilliant performance of 'IOU' in the feature below. MP3: Awesome Color - Transparent
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Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News As a statement of purpose, it was concise: "We're a cover band," Sonic Youth 's Thurston Moore barked, opening the late-night SXSW set by Demolished Thoughts , his side project with J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr . and Andrew W.K. at Austin's Red 7. Andrew W.K., who gave Spinner the band's entertaining pre-festival interview , didn't actually show -- he "got lost," Moore said. So Jonah Falco from Toronto [...]
Can't Stop The Bleeding presented The Spits and Awesome Color today at Beerland. The Spits are a super dirty, noisy-punk band, maybe the closest thing to The Ramones ever to come out of Seattle. Tonight they were wearing the most bad-ass matching denim vests. Detroit's Awesome Color keep it pretty psychedelic and fuzzy, two things that equal awesome in my book. Loads more fun photos coming this way from SXSW 2010 Day 1.

So, as of this here post no mysterious benefactor has emerged to finance a last minute jaunt down to Austin. Hence, I am not going to SXSW . I already went through Part 1 of the Unofficial SXSW 2010 Showcasing Artists torrent , you can see the results of that... here . Here is a selection of mp3s from bands featured in Part 2 . This time I was able to whittle down the list to 28 songs. Some of these tracks will probably be familiar to you, while others not so much. Listen. [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , Exclusive Lots of SXSW shows are comprised of smaller, newer bands, but classic punk cover act Demolished Thoughts is made up of plenty of familiar faces. Headed up by Sonic Youth 's Thurston Moore , Demolished Thoughts' all-star lineup consists of Andrew W.K. , Don Fleming , J Mascis (of Dinosaur Jr .) and Awesome Allison (of Awesome Color ). Bassist Andrew W.K. caught up with Spinner to talk about playing with Demolished Thoughts, his [...]
The Morning Benders echo brutal bricks.This week on The Needle Drop, it's the latest album from California's The Morning Benders, Big Echo. This LP takes a big hint from the early days of rock and roll, but not the dirty underbelly of the genre. Rather, it's the high-production end, influenced by guys like Phil Spector. Grizzly Bear member Chris Taylor gets some co-production credits on Big Echo,
A list of shows that you don't want to miss this week
Download 'Transparent' at bottom. Massa Hypnos will see daylight on 4/6. Visit Awesome Color on MySpace. MP3: Awesome Color - Transparent

Okay. Are you PSYCHED for the WEEKEND?! Snow days, Valentine's Day, President's Day... heck, just any old Friday is cause for celebration. For awesome music. Free music. Even in the face of Google shutting down music blogs without warning (aka #Musicblogocide2k10 ), we here at EAR FARM feel it's high time for another dose of 100 percent free and legal tunes (we think) from our inboxes direct to your ears. Seriously, we're calling these 100 percent free and legal tunes because they're sent to us by record labels and bands themselves with the [...]
Just a reminder. Sonic Youth is in Dallas tonight (7/15) at House of Blues . Tickets are/were available through Ticketmaster, which means you'll have to sell a kid or a kidney to afford to go. I bought a general admission ticket at $25.50. After Ticketmaster got done fisting me, my total came to $40.21. Fuck you very much. And of course I'll also have to pay $10 to park. I miss Denton. But... it's Sonic Youth! So I guess I'll just have to do less cheese . Awesome Color open.

Below, TWO interviews for the price of one. Call it a recession special, an early Independence Day gift, an informational overload, whatever you prefer, here's EF contributor Victoria Lebron with Le Rug's Ray Weiss and Awesome Color's Allison Busch... Le Rug I sat down with Ray Weiss—lead singer and driving force behind the band Le Rug —in his home, The Market Hotel. We discussed the joys of two drum sets on stage, his ideal backing band (since he is currently without one), his label, Tamur [...]

"And it rained all night", as Thom Yorke would say. On second thought, make that "all weekend". Our spirits have not been dampened, though, despite even the slightest suggestion of sun here in New York this past spring. No, instead, when it rains, we rock! When the New York Night Train (aka famed soul DJ Jonathan Toubin) promoted show/party, featuring Detroit's Awesome Color and LA's HEALTH (headlining), was rained out of 979 Broadway Backyard , it was promptly relocated to The Market Hotel [...]

Monday 6/15 * The Dead Science, Bobby Conn, Monica Bou Bou, Zs @ The Studio at Webster Hall ( MP3: "Make Mine Marvel" by the Dead Science) * Bachelorette, Lichens, Pikelet @ Cake Shop Tuesday 6/16 * Jonathan Richman, Vic Chesnutt @ Bowery Ballroom [EF Pick of the Week] * Spanish Prisoners, Sleepy Ghosts @ Glasslands ( MP3: Los Angeles [...]