Zach Condon, Oaxaca, Mexico, Beirut, Realpeople - I'm sure you've heard it all before. Check out the new video for "The Concubine" from Realpeople's Holland EP where Zach wanders around Brooklyn while his other half [maybe?] enjoys some desert scenery. MP3 :: Realpeople - The Concubine Technorati Us

One of our newest and favorite local discoveries of the last year, Balmorhea , are playing another sure to be great show at Stubbs on Friday night. Pompeii and Alex Dupree and The Trapdoor band will take the stage as well to open things up. Tickets for this show are $10 from Front Gate and doors open at 9:30. Friday night is jammed packed full of goodness, so you've got some big decisions to make. Download: Balmorhea - Harm & Boon [MP3]

Deerhunter - Agoraphobia I live sturdy Pompeii. I lust long at the market. From a distance. Behind buildings. Beneath blanket, skin, and sinew. I squint (and lust long at market). I live within dead room to live sturdy Pompeii. With never response. With never linger. Where each word, each breath and part-me plummets leaden to the floor, a silent tenfold-gravity that amputates my toes. Where all those scattered part-me - word, breath, and every - squint (and lust long). And I, shuffling toeless between [...]

The fourth (count 'em) installment of my SXSW artists feature. If you're new to the game, I list some of the acts I'm excited about, with mp3s and a brief note about each. And on to the action! P-T time. Stay tuned for the grand finale later this week. Mieka Pauley - "9:453 [MP3] This Cambridge, MA artist doesn't need much of an introduction from me. Most of you know her. And if you don't, get to know her. The strength and range of her voice is stunning. [...]
Beirut March of The Zapotec Realpeople Holland (02.2009, Pompeii Records) RIYL: Pinatas or Rainbow Bright I first listened to the new Zach Condon releases without knowing any back story as to why there were two separate EP's released together and sounding so completely different. The first half of the release, Beirut's March of The Zapotec encompasses Condon's glorious world music brass laden half of his personality while Realpeople's, Holland represents his looping electronic side. I enjoyed both, but was slightly confused by the mash [...]
You can see naming a band Pompeii two ways. One: you're naming your band after a town that was buried in ash and largely forgotten for hundreds of years. Didn't anyone miss them? This isn't particularly inspiring. But wait. Two: a band named after something that lived next door to one of the great natural disasters in human history, only instead of being leveled or destroyed - it was perfectly

Throw out every conception of music you ever had that had to do with pigeonholed genre classification or boundaries of any kind, because when you talk about a group like Ponytail , there's no way to best talk of them. They are enigmas, exceptions to most rules. They are a Baltimore thunderstorm that doesn't quit in a day. It follows you, beating at your heart and mind and soul. Ponytail make you think all sorts of "holy shit"s and "oh my god"s and you begin to see what your whole person feels like when you only react with smiles, [...]

Pompeii's latest effort, Nothing Happens For A Reason - out now on Eyeball Records , is available for streaming here . We promise you that this record is a great accompaniment to Fall activities such as: pumpkin carving, leaf crunching, beard growing, cave-cricket fighting, violent crimes , apple picking, squirrel dodging, pie baking and hot cider drinking. Delicious. Nothing Happens For A Reason is riddled with warm tones, delicate hooks and some of the finest album artwork I've ever seen (judge this book by it's cover) by the talented Elizabeth RIccardi [...]
New Pompeii song A new Pompeii song is streaming over here . Can't wait for the new album. " Nothing Happens For A Reason " drops October 7th.
Pompeii "Nothing Happens for a Reason" out Oct 7th Austin, TX's Pompeii has announced an October 7th release date for their new album " Nothing Happens for a Reason " via Eyeball Records, produced by CJ Eiriksson who recently worked on Jack's Mannequin's new album. :)

Con tan solo un disco en su haber, este quinteto de Austin, Texas ya se ha ganado el reconocimiento de la crítica en su país, habiendo recibido elogios en diversos medios, llegando a ser frecuentemente comparados con grupos como Death Cab For Cuttie e incluso con Coldplay. Su disco de debut, Assembly, fue publicado el año 2006 por el sello discográfico Eyeball Records , y dentro del mismo se encuentran incluidas las dos canciones que podéis escuchar a continuación, recomiendo especialmente Numbers, no os la perdáis. myspace mp3: [...]

Starting out, I was based in the live music capital of the world, Austin, Texas. There is a band worth checking out every night, from the big names playing Emo's or Stubb's to the locals cutting their teeth at The Parish or Mohawk. Here are some the best that I had to pleasure to notice. Most people know Spoon and Voxtrot . They are the darlings of the Austin indie scene. Instrumental sensations Explosions in the Sky are opening for Smashing Pumpkins. Okkervil River [...]
Die wundervolle Radiostation WOXY hatte sich für die Zeit des SXSW eine Lounge gemietet und die crème der anwesenden Bands zu entspannten Sessions und kurzen Interviews geladen: The Early Tapes, Pompeii, She, Sir, Peel, The Lemurs, Via Audio, The Little Ones, Sara Culler, Age Rings, 120 Days, Land Of Talk, Snowden, Winterpills, Calla, The Rumble Strips, Stelldichein . Eine Liste, die sich gut liest, und noch besser anhört. Hier nur ein Beispiel: MP3: 120 days / Session @ Woxy.com Technorati Tags: The Early Tapes [...]
Die wundervolle Radiostation WOXY hatte sich für die Zeit des SXSW eine Lounge gemietet und die crème der anwesenden Bands zu entspannten Sessions und kurzen Interviews geladen: The Early Tapes, Pompeii, She, Sir, Peel, The Lemurs, Via Audio, The Little Ones, Sara Culler, Age Rings, 120 Days, Land Of Talk, Snowden, Winterpills, Calla, The Rumble Strips, Stelldichein . Eine Liste, die sich gut liest, und noch besser anhört. Hier nur ein Beispiel: MP3: 120 days / Session @ Woxy.com Technorati Tags: The Early Tapes [...]

SXSW 2007 list. Yes I know it's over. but I just had time downloading the songs to make lists. This one is the nicest so it goes first. It's a late nite list with consistent sound, very sexy, and bunch of post-rock in each section. I would post more info, were it for not having a chance to carefully look at each artists webpage. But at least the list nice. Enjoy. "I. City of Love " 01. Dislike - Alone (Ufa, RUSSIA) 02. Slot - [...]
Lots of bands aspire to make grandiose, room-filling pop-rock but few succeed because it's too easy to collapse into stereotypes and well-trodden cliches. Pompeii, unlike others, successfully propel its chiming, mid-tempo indie-pop well above the fray. They're a sweet, melodic but melancholy band, unabashedly bittersweet, with their hearts on their sleeves. Often compared to Death Cab for Cutie, Pompeii's work is a lot meatier and darker than that band's comparable early offerings; in the end, comparing these two bands doesn't give the whole sotry.. This sort of arms-wide rock depends on not just sophisticated, shimmering instrumentation [...]

Austin, TX Make sure and catch Pompeii next week if you're in the Texas area. They're playing a couple dates with my good friends in Headlights - November 12 in Austin at End Of An Ear and November 13 in San Antonio at Limelight . "Catalogue" Pompeii on MySpace

Ok, no long rambling posts today. No picking fights over Pitchfork or Built to Spill. Just a small opportunity to tell you about the new record from Austin-based TRGAW pals Pompeii (their site seems to be down, weird...), whose debut album, Assembly , is out on Eyeball Records October 10. Apparently, they're using something I wrote on depravedfangirls.org in the press quotes , so, er, maybe we should finish moving the site and stuff. *ahem* Watch, I will engage in self-plagarism -- er, quote myself, I mean [...]