You know sometimes when you don't see someone for a long time and then you do and you're like, 'damn their awesome', Friday was sort of like that. Black Joe Lewis and the Honey Bears played to a packed house at the Parish. It had been a while since I had seen them play- still [...]

Hey, Skateboard Man, you should check out Skate Or Rock in Grand Prairie tomorrow. So you already know about tonight's mariachi-meets-country show at Dan's in Denton and Dallas Dub Assembly at the Green Elephant , tomorrow's Baboon , Smokin' Joe and Dave Matthews Band performances, and the Cex show at Rubber Gloves on Sunday . And our Night + Day pals filled you in on tonight's Joe Firstman show . That's just the tip of the iceberg, though. After [...]

Black Joe Lewis Download (Rick-Click Save As): MP3: Black Joe Lewis - Gunpowder MP3: Black Joe Lewis - DC Killa MP3: Radiohead - On the Beach (Rare) MP3: Radiohead - Scatterbrain (Acoustic) MP3: The Black Keys - I'll Be Your Man MP3: The Black Keys - If You Ever Slip MP3: The Kills - Wait MP3: The Kills - Fuck The [...]

Monday (8/11) : The Faint, Jaguar Love, Shy Child at La Zona Rosa [Buy Tickets] $30 Wednesday (8/13) : Yndi Halda, My Education, The Non at The Mohawk (inside) [Tickets at the door] Thursday (8/14) : Bee vs Moth, La Snacks, Hollywood Gossip, We Were Wolves at Emo's [Tickets at the door] [...]

Ah, there it is. Tha familiar all-over body soreness that can only mean two things. Either a) I've been moving to a new apartment all day or b) I've been at a music festival. Luckily for me, tonight's soreness is due to Option B as I spent the whole day trolling around Grant Park in downtown Chicago as Day 1 kicked off Lollapalooza 2008. By noon I was already wandering around, soaking in the atmosphere. I was also already soaking in my pants, which were a poor decision despite their [...]
What Made Milwaukee Famous Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears @ Phoenix Hill Tavern (32nd Anniversary Week), 8/5 $5 in advance or $8 at the door (you can pick'em up at ear x-tacy for $1 extra) WMMF- Resistance St. Black Joe Lewis- Gunpowder

Tonight at Off Broadway is a super-great bill: Besides locals Gentleman Auction House, Lou faves What Made Milwaukee Famous (touring behind the new album What Doesn't Kill Us ) and Austin's Black Joe Lewis . Roy Kasten interviewed the latter in this week's paper and described Lewis thusly: Black Joe Lewis is the black sheep of a soul revival led by accomplished veterans like Sharon Jones, Bettye LaVette and Charles Walker. He's young (27), has never had anything close to a hit [...]

Here's a quick hit list of things to see and do in Austin for the next few days. If I had more time I'd go into a lengthy description of why you need to see and do these things, but for now this will have to do. You can get more descriptions, info, tix & etc. for all of these events right here . Go Lakers. Tonight ::Firewater puts on a "world-punk" showcase at Emo's. Firewater - "Borneo" [...]

black joe lewis - gunpowder black joe lewis comes from austin, texas. the lineage of his sound, however, is more diverse: james brown, chuck berry, the beatles (here the echoes of " revolution " in that opening guitar riff?), otis redding and so on. though his sound may occasionally be more explosive, at least on the aptly named track above, his music takes [...]

posted by Matt: Lets face it folks, the romance is over. What once was a steamy romance between me, Andrew and a wordpress account has now faded into the occasional post...and even then, it's out of habit more than anything else. I'm not ready to give up though, I've decided that it's time to really give ol' TFD another shot...so here's my first effort...I've painstakingly gone through the entire internet and found the best songs on the whole thing at the moment. Here's what I found... It's fairly well known [...]
The Good: Jay Reatard - "Always Wanting More"; Jay Reatard kicks off his series of 7"s for Matador with a kick ass tune that incorporates a little more of a synthetic, almost new wave like sound to it. I say almost, because it doesn't cross over into Killers territory, but it does occasionally remind me of a little Andrew W.K.. It's a good tune and a nice way to kick off an interesting idea for a

Black Joe Lewis & The Honey Bears were one of the really fun, live suprises of SXSW 2008 for me. I had heard mention of this band when they were out opening for Spoon last year, but had yet to hear the recorded work or see a live show. The Club DeVille set was full of big, bold soulful grooves that had everyone dancing. With his soul revival sound, James Brown-esque yells, a fresh face and a big smile, Black Joe Lewis was very easy to love. Gunpowder is [...]

Het online popmagazine Austin Sound kwam onlangs met een compilatie album waarop 21 bands uit Austin zijn verzameld. Niet geheel toevallig natuurlijk, Austin was immers afgelopen dagen het middelpunt van de muziekwereld vanwege het SXSW festival . En voor wie nog steeds denkt dat ze in Austin, Texas louter country muziek gemaakt wordt, loont het de moeite om deze verzamelaar down te loaden. Want hier vliegt hier van de beat van The Black naar slowcore ( Balmorhea ) en zelfs moderne opzwepende soul, gebracht door de fantastische Black Joe Lewis . [...]
Yes, I'll just come right out and say it: Hello my name is Heather. I am a blogger, and I am not at SXSW this week. If you are like me find yourself constrained by money, or work, or life (or a combination of the three) and are not partaking in the musical bacchanalia on the streets of Austin right now, let's find something to salve our wounds, shall we? The good people over at Austin Sound have put together a quality 21-song sampler [...]

Aw shit! Better pack up those earplugs, Immodium, and Emergen-C's because the 2008 SXSW Music Festival is just 2 days away. I'm pussing out for the second year in a row, but in classic form, Nghia, Paul, and Theo will be representing FRICTION NYC down in Austin this year (I wouldn't expect too much coverage though - HA!). I think this is Nghia's like umpteenth year in a row or something, seems like the fool has been going since he was a toddler. Anyway, insead of highlighting the typical buzzed about indie/blog/cock/ rock acts [...]

( photo Nash Cook ) Everybody's talking about Black Joe Lewis . "i heard he sounds like Jimmy Hendrix." "i heard he works at a fish market." "i heard he is dating Britt Daniel." The buzz is pretty high about this Austin based blues brother who has a hard edge and a wicked horn section backing him up. We've got the debut track from their upcoming Jim Eno (spoon) produced full length which will surely make the out of towners [...]

Here's a musician that if you dig the Black Keys and James Brown and The Yardbirds and Sam & Dave and the North Mississippi All-Stars and Jon Spencer/Blues Explosion you'll flip over - Black Joe Lewis from Austin, Texas. I mean, look at how freakin' cool he looks. BJL can seriously rock it and can temper it with the slow grind blues, and guess what? While you were out freakin' to the indie-rock band of the second last year and forgetting how cool it was until you danced onstage with Yo Majesty, Lewis was [...]