Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
Riverboat Gamblers Side Projects
Broken Gold and High Tension Wires
Contributed by Heather McAdams
The Riverboat Gamblers have been known to take expectations, light them on fire and throw them out the proverbial window. The Austin-based Indie quintet first sprouted in 1997 with every scheming intention to be the new and improved Candy Snatchers, a band whose songs revolved solely around drinking, drugs, and other various sins with tracks entitled “Drunken Blur,” “Kill’ My Buzz” and the ever-popular “Sauced Again.”
Riverboat Gamblers blasted into the house party and college scene ready to eschew the mainstream music scene six ways ‘til Sunday with a set list grounded in drinking, drugs and, ...
Thursday, December 30th, 2010
1. Trap Them – Filth Rations
2. Valient Thorr – Stranger
3. LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
4. United Nations – Never Mind The Bombings, Here’s Your Six Figures
5. Kaki King – Junior
6. The Dead Weather – Sea of Cowards
7. Cephalic Carnage – Misled By Certainty
8. Erykah Badu – New Amerykah Part II (Return of the Ankh)
9. Les Savy Fav - Root for Ruin
10. Galactic – Ya-Ka-May
Trap Them – Filth Rations E.P. (Southern Lord Recordings) – Bulletproof release. Four of the most well executed songs in extreme music in 2010. If you think there was a better overall song offering elements of Swedish death metal ...
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
Tweak Bird Interview
By Andy McNeil, Assistant Editor
There’s something to be said about the relationship dynamic that exists when there are only two members in a band. The plot thickens were both members are also brothers. For Caleb Bird, guitarist of Tweak Bird, it means being able to exchange blows when things aren’t turning out quite right musically.
“You couldn’t just have a studio drummer and just give him an elbow to the face for changing tempos on you, but you can with your brother,” Bird says with a chuckle.
Caleb and his brother, Ashton, recently returned from a month long European tour in support of their self-titled ...
Riverboat Gamblers Side Projects
Broken Gold and High Tension Wires
Contributed by Heather McAdams
The Riverboat Gamblers have been known to take expectations, light them on fire and throw them out the proverbial window. The Austin-based Indie quintet first sprouted in 1997 with every scheming intention to be the new and improved Candy Snatchers, a band whose songs revolved solely around drinking, drugs, and other various sins with tracks entitled “Drunken Blur,” “Kill’ My Buzz” and the ever-popular “Sauced Again.”
Riverboat Gamblers blasted into the house party and college scene ready to eschew the mainstream music scene six ways ‘til Sunday with a set list grounded in drinking, drugs and, ...
1. Trap Them – Filth Rations
2. Valient Thorr – Stranger
3. LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening
4. United Nations – Never Mind The Bombings, Here’s Your Six Figures
5. Kaki King – Junior
6. The Dead Weather – Sea of Cowards
7. Cephalic Carnage – Misled By Certainty
8. Erykah Badu – New Amerykah Part II (Return of the Ankh)
9. Les Savy Fav - Root for Ruin
10. Galactic – Ya-Ka-May
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Tweak Bird Interview
By Andy McNeil, Assistant Editor
There’s something to be said about the relationship dynamic that exists when there are only two members in a band. The plot thickens were both members are also brothers. For Caleb Bird, guitarist of Tweak Bird, it means being able to exchange blows when things aren’t turning out quite right musically.
“You couldn’t just have a studio drummer and just give him an elbow to the face for changing tempos on you, but you can with your brother,” Bird says with a chuckle.
Caleb and his brother, Ashton, recently returned from a month long European tour in support of their self-titled ...