Decibliss

My friend Moak Jones bought this record for a dollar. We all made fajitas and listened to it, now I’m hooked.

The Baja Marimba Band
Those Were the Days
Always Something To Remind Me
Peru 68

Some of y’all may know of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! If you do, a few fools, or maybe just one fool from that band is in another band called Radical Dads. They’re jammy like We All Have Hooks for Hands.

Recklessness
Harvest Artist

Sup champ, how’s life? I wish I could be ^^h^^e^^r^^e^^

Anyway, MTV Canada thought Austin was the 2nd best place to their snowy wonderland and headed down here for some fun with Austin’s biggest indie hits.

SHARLENE VS. AUSTIN PT. 1 from sharlene on Vimeo.

SHARLENE VS. AUSTIN PT. 2 from sharlene on Vimeo.

SHARLENE VS. AUSTIN PT. 3 from sharlene on Vimeo.

So I’ve told y’all about this before. Here it is combined for you.

Water Curses

So I go through my music selection and I notice some music that I really like, but never give enough time. I’m telling you about them because maybe you’ll give them some time.

artist:Givers
album:Givers EP
01 Up Up Up
04 Saw You First

Restless People
Restless People
03 Don’t Back Down

We All Have Hooks for Hands
The Pretender & The Shape of Energy
08 On And On
09 Lessons burned

Casiokids
Fück Midi!
04 Postcard From Congo 1

Amiina
Kurr
02 Rugla

Mom
Little Brite
06 Little Brite
02 A Pebble Garden

Seu Jorge
Seu Jorege:Life Aquatic Sound Track
02 Life on Mars

War
War Anthology
08 Slippin’ into Darkness

El Ten Eleven
Every Direction is North
05 Music for Staring At Ceilings

Hall & Oats
Bigger Than Both of Us
07 – Rich Girl

So Ghostland has a new album, or whatever Codename: Rondo is, Its out October 26th. Same day as the Octopus Project’s new release. BEST. DAY. EVER.

They are super secretive so this is really all the leaks on this album/thing I’ve seen.

So Google made a video for Arcade Fire’s new song ‘We Used to Wait’. It will blow you away.

http://thewildernessdowntown.com/

Also check out the manager’s special at Texas State’s burger place.

EDIT: New single from Hexadecagon released below!!!

01 Fuguefat

So I’m moving back to Texas State tomorrow. I haven’t packed yet. I need to. I’ll probably be done in an hour or so. I’m pretty excited for school, but I’m really excited for the Octopus Project’s latest album, Hexadecagon. Coming out on October 26, it will be available on vinyl as well as CD. The vinyl may have a little surprise if you go that way.
Here’s what the vinyl looks like:

The CD like:

Pretty cool huh?
I hope that they also have a dvd of the video for hexadecagon matched up with the music. It is awesome. Here is a preview of what you missed at whole foods last SXSW.

HEXADECAGON – The Octopus Project from Zellner Bros. on Vimeo.

I get a call from some old lady from Victoria, Tx everyday for the last two weeks. She calls and asks for Susie. I tell her she has the wrong number and she apologizes. Sometimes I wont answer the call and she will leave me a message like “Hey, Susie. Give me a call back.” The thing is she has to listen to my messaging machine that says “You have reached Tim Willingham” before she leaves her message.

Oh well.
Here is a pretty cool band.

Autolux

01 Transit Transit
10 The Science Of Imaginary Solutions
Here Comes Everybody

The Octopus project is one of my most favorite bands ever. They are a local indie act who’ve been around for about a decade and I can’t get enough of em’. I remember when I first found out about them was in a Barns&Nobles. I saw the cover of their latest full length album, ‘Hello, Avalanche’, and loved the cover art I bought it right away. Turns out it was a great buy and I went to see them preform for the third time last night at the Mohawk.

Opening for them was a local band called Mother Falcon. They are a ten-17 piece mostly string ensemble. I believe most of them just graduated from high school a couple months ago. These kids just self-released their first 5 song EP entitled Still Life. Defiantly has a bit of a Ra Ra Riot sound, but does not lack originality.

01 Marigold

The second band was a trio of older dudes jamming. They rocked it, never caught their name though. They didn’t even have mics set up to talk to us or sing. They just jammed for 45 minutes with only two songs. The drummer really bought the group full circle with his outgoing stage presents. Very much enjoyed.

Then Octo Proj came on. Their music is kinda chill, but it is a chill that you can still have a dance party to, and that is exactly what we did. At one point they told the crowd to take off your shoes, and we did. I ended up hitting a wall of dehydration and had to leave the front for some water, but I made it back up there. Another awesome thing about octoproj is that they don’t use ordinary instruments. One of their main instruments is a Theremin. By moving your hands in the path of radio waves you make sound. People with good pitch can judge the sound and make music with it. I think it is the only musical instrument that isn’t physically touched to be played. Anyway, the girl from octoproj is a master at this instrument, which gives the band a very unique-spacy sound. Because they haven’t released a new full length since 2007 I was expecting mostly songs I’ve known for years, but they proved me wrong. They have a new full length album coming out soon called Hexadecagon. Hexadecagon was originally an experimental audio-video experience held in a Whole Foods parking lot. Octopus Project composed something like six new songs, somehow made video timed up to 8 projectors with the beat they were playing and had a surround sound situation going on all at the same time. It was incredible. They liked the songs so much they decided to put out an album of it. Now I can’t wait for some more Octopus Project for my ears.

Here is some of OP’s very first stuff.
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And some of their latest stuff.
01 Wet Gold