Now Playing Austin 9/7 it's crazy good times!

Taken from Deidre's myspace page

Woah! Another fun show yesterday. The tunes flowed like the Savannah Fountain. It was beautiful! So here's the scoop.

1. Ghostland Observatory - Piano Man
          not so secret show at Trophy's Fri 9/08
2. The Octopus Project - Music Is Happiness
          Emo's Thurs. 9/14
3. The Presets - Girl and the Sea
          Beauty Bar next Sat 9/16
4. Go Nova - Now You Know
          Trophy's Thurs. 9/7
5. The Unbearables - Parking Meter
          Flamingo Cantina Sat 9/9 Misprint Magazine Issue Release party!
6. Peel - Oxford
          End of an Ear Fri. 9/9
7. The Mercers - Sexy Youth
8. The Story Of - Songs for a Friend
          both at Trophy's Sat 9/9
9. Sounds Under Radio - Portrait of a Summer Thief
          Redrum Fri 9/8
10. The Polyphonic Spree - damn, i forgot which song.
11. Pilot Drift - Bubble Craft
12. Tokyo Police Club - Nature of Expierment
          ACL super pre-show! Thurs. 9/14
13. Of Montreal - Know Your Onion (Shins cover)
          The Shins playing ACL aftershow Stubbs Fri. 9/15
14. Gnarls Barkley - Gone Daddy Gone
          Stubbs Wed. 9/13 (free if you're lucky to find the tickets!)

ACL Fest
is next weekend! Crazy good stuff coming to you Thursday! A super special ACL edition of Now Playing Austin. Thursday 3:30-4:30 KOOP 91.7 fm with RgDg.

(rebecca g. and deidre g.)

Not near a radio? Don't live in Austin? Stream it yo! Info here.

Now Playing Austin Playlist 8/31

Taken from Deidre's myspace page

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Holy Moses! it was good times.

We had hotties Melicious and Rebellika from the Texas Roller Girls in to talk about their big "Supagroup" bout this Sunday 9/3 at Playland.

And there's SO much going on this weekend. Friday night is INSANE!

So here's the playlist. Click on the band to check out their music.


1. Buttercup - Hello Goodbye
          Thurs. 8/31 Stubbs with Oh No! Oh My!
2. The Channel - Sneaks or Skates (in honor of the roller girls!)
3. Tacks, The Boy Disaster (my new favorite Austin Band!)-Frozen Feet
          both playing Fri. 9/1 at the Parish
4. Faceless Werewolves - My Weakness
5. Horse + Donkey - Riddle
          both playing Fri. 9/1 at Beerland
6. The Lord Henry - Fire on 42nd Street
7. LaLaLand - Phantom
          both bands at Emo's Fri. 9/1 at Emo's (lalaland's cd release!)
8. The Lord Henry - Birthday
          this one was an accident! I meant to play...
9. Snowden - Anti Anti
          Continetal Club Fri. 9/1
10. Bavu Blakes - Southern Man
          Emo's Fri. 9/1
11. RjD2- Good Times Roll
          Free Show at Waterloo Park Sun. 9/3
12. Scratch Acid- Crazy Dan
          Happy 14th Birthday Emo's! Sat. 9/2
We get help from Showlist Austin.

Tune in next Thursday from 3:30 - 4:30 on 91.7 fm
KOOP 'cause Rebecca and I have the goods on a
SUPER SECRET SHOW!

And for my non-Austinite friends: Try streaming us online. Instructions here.

Deidre

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