If you haven’t yet heard lore of Shakey Graves then pay heed. Toting only his beat up six-string, vintage microphone and suitcase kick drum, the Austin-based artist has in a little over a year both carved out his own genre of vagabond folk and redefined the term “one-man band.” Shakey Graves rarely, if ever, plays a song the same way twice, drawing off crowd energy, the tempo of his play and even octave of his voice to vacillate between schmaltz and boot stomping rock. His live performances are a sight to behold, and next Tuesday, June 25th you will have [...]
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Marmalakes - Wells I had the pleasure of catching Austin's own Marmalakes as well as Wild Child open the other night for Shakey Graves – and let me tell you, it was a night for the books. Shakey was everything I'd hope he'd be, and the new sounds from Wild Child were absolutely stellar – and along with that I made some new friend with the dudes of Marmalakes while enjoying their solid music making. If you happen to find your city on the other leg of this tour you absolutely [...]

I will always look for an excuse to post about Mr. Alejandro Rose-Garcia, also known by the moniker Shakey Graves. He'll be playing this Sunday evening, June 16th, in Kansas City down at the Riot Room. For a mere $8 you can catch some of the best music originating from the heart of Austin right here in Kansas City as he'll be playing with Wild Child and Marmalakes. You can see the whole gang play a song in the first video below. Your idiot captain of a blogging ship will be there, probably singing terribly off key along [...]
Hello, I'm Brynn. I've been in love with and obsessed with music and musicians since pre-k. I went to school for it, I play piano, compose and sing my heart out on the daily. I'm here to introduce you to some sounds I live for and the people who make them-because what good is it all if you can't share it? I came across this one-man band recently, and have had his voice stuck in my brain ever since. With all the gimmicks and fancy stuff artists are throwing at you today, it's reassuring to discover a man [...]
We're not always about entertaining your ears, we know you have eyes too – so check out this new batch of music videos streaming now. First up is Shakey Grave's new video for "Unlucky Skin" – it's terrifying, odd, and great all at once. He'll be coming in town here in Kansas City in a little less than a month – absolutely something you shouldn't miss. The excellent kids of Room 125 Production at Lawrence High School did a session with Water Liars [...]
Watch videos from longstanding MM faves Murder By Death who have a brilliantly animated film for Lost River and Shakey Graves who has a slightly disturbing one for Unlucky Skin . There is an appropriately sparse film to accompany Nathan K.'s wonderfully plaintive track Bob Seger and we finish with Wolf Alice's new video for their top notch recent single Bros . Download Murder By Death – Lost River mp3 (from Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon) . [...]
The video was made as part of the Fool's Road project, a traveling music video collaboration that drove around the country to film videos with seven different bands in their home towns, which were planned and shot within only 8 days of having met. For the Shakey Graves installment, things get dark quickly as you [...]

I actually found out about Shakey Graves and Wild Child at the same time. It was a week before SXSW and I was in Austin for business. I had a big night the night before and I was hungover on the pot at the Omni. There beside me was a magazine spotlighting SXSW. In that magazine were two local acts that really stuck out - Shakey Graves & Wild Child. I was lucky enough to catch both acts during SXSW. Now you'll be lucky enough to catch them together as they are heading on tour together. Shakey Graves [...]
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Undeniably one of the most talked about artists out of Austin right now, Shakey Graves has announced his upcoming tour with fellow indie folk artists Wild Child and Marmalakes . They've dubbed it the "Outside City Limits" tour, and to celebrate the announcement, all three artists got together and shot a cover of The Kinks "Dead End Street". So far, the artists have announced the following dates: 6/12 - Ft. Worth, TX @ The [...]
We made it. I made it. Winter could not take us. I want to both berate nature for having inflicted all those cold, hellish months on me and thank it profusely for having whisked them away with chirping birds and blooming iris' and sunshine. This is the conundrum of the Midwest clime and it is one that baffles me every damn year, despite 30 of them here. Here, when it turns cold, you grit your goddamn teeth and steal yourself against the wind and you pray it's one of those [...]

Tickets to the Governors Ball after-party with Japandroids at Music Hall of Williamsburg go on sale today at noon. Tickets to see New Order with Holy Ghost! at Williamsburg Park go on sale today at noon. The Roots and Jim James ' Celebrate Brooklyn! show at Prospect Park has changed dates from June 19 to June 18. These tickets go on sale [...]
Click to view slideshow. The final day of SXSW and I'm on a quest. Phosphorescent play their last show today and I have tried and failed to get into four previous ones already. So it is the long walk away from downtown and up to the San Jose Hotel day party, I arrive hot, bothered and five hours early...but I'm in! No matter either because Shakey Graves is on and he has been a longtime fave on MM, with an easygoing line in between song banter and exuding good natured bonhomie he [...]

Before shifting its focus to music, SXSW encompasses Internet/technology and film. As you might expect, the tech portion has grown in importance in the last few years and those here for that part of SXSW cast mocking glances in my direction whenever I make use of my Blackberry. This Tuesday afternoon, it's interesting to walk around downtown Austin as the festival starts to shift its focus to its noisiest and rowdiest component. The gigantic Dominos stage that irked Father John Misty last year is in the process of being built and many of the outdoor stages still look [...]

Graphics By Madeline Rosemurgy Screw Christmas, March is the most wonderful time of the year. Once again, we're preparing for the annual exodus down to sunny Austin to see what amazing new music and tacos await us. With all these incredible artists making their way down to Texas’ most spectacularly great city, we decided to put together a little list of the bands we're most looking forward to seeing. Everything from electro to rock to avant-guard pop will be there to feed hungry music fans, but these are the ones you have to make sure [...]

A chance encounter with Asheville bluegrass quintet Town Mountain and their twangy, countrified cover of I'm On Fire at this weekend's Joe Val Bluegrass Festival - a dark and yet surprisingly charming version of the Bruce Springsteen classic song that chugs along like a train through the psyche - reminded me how deeply this particular classic is embedded in our national songbook. And a check back at our own archives confirms it: in the last twelve months alone, we've posted no less than four separate covers of the song, from Shakey Graves ' bedraggled [...]
It's about time. Enjoy this new mix tape, and use it well. Play it in your car, at work, at a party - hell, give it to your girlfriend for Valentine's and tell her you made it. Won't offend me - just name the baby you make after me. As always, if you like what you hear, go buy the rest of the record. I've provided links to do such. Vol 2. - Cold Bones - Download // 8tracks // Spotify* 1. [...]

Sometimes, the world just works in your favor: after a long bout of pneumonia left me with a backlog of mailbag delights and otherblog passalongs, along comes a blizzard of historic proportions to trap me home for a four-day stretch, leaving ample opportunity to spin the discs and downloads into a sticky, stellar web of sound sure to tickle your ears out of their post-Grammy stupor. Underground Austinite Shakey Graves looks young enough in pictures, but he can’t be that new to the scene – though the other albums it contains date [...]

Sometimes, the world just works in your favor: after a long bout of pneumonia left me with a backlog of mailbag delights and otherblog passalongs, along comes a blizzard of historic proportions to trap me home for a four-day stretch, leaving ample opportunity to spin the discs and downloads into a sticky, stellar web of sound sure to tickle your ears out of their post-Grammy stupor. Underground Austinite singer-songwriter Shakey Graves looks young enough in pictures, but he can't be that new to the scene - [...]
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For all those lucky so and so's who live in Austin, Tx in 2012 a new holiday was created. Per the Mayor's decree, February 9th is officially " Shakey Graves Day ". And for the second annivesary of this holiday Shakeyclaus has bestowed some gifts on everyone, including those outside of this holiday's jurisdiction. First he has released another set of old recordings, The Story of My Life. It has the amazing live rendition of "Roll Your Bones" and a new favorite of mine "Calendar Girl". These songs just make my anticipation for his next true full [...]

On the 2nd anniversary of Shakey Graves Day ( there's a fucking proclamation, man ), we have been graced with a little album of perfect perfection from the man himself in honor of the occasion. You have three days to snag it. DO NOT LIE IN WAIT. Last year and this, lovers of jams of the Shakey type were asked to upload (somewhere in the vastness of the internet) a photo of what they were doing to commemorate that day. I have no fucking clue what I did last year but this [...]