"Ditch The Fest" Fest | Saturday 10/9 at Cheer Up Charlies

If you are annoyed by all our ACL coverage this week and are looking for an alternative way to get your music fix this weekend we have the answer for you. "Ditch the Fest" Fest is your festival alternative. Featuring some of Austin finest local talent and headlined by Free Moral Agents who happen to be the side project of one of our favorite bands The Mars Volta!

[Official Site]

Lucy The Poodle Productions Presents:

"Ditch The Fest" Fest at Cheer Up Charlie's
1104 E. 6th Street, Austin TX 78702
Saturday, October 9th, 2010, 12pm - 2am
FREE, ALL AGES

Full Line Up:

Free Moral Agents (featuring "Ikey" Owens of The Mars Volta) / Woven Bones / 2Mex (Strange Famous Records) / Yellow Fever / The Carrots / Yppah (Ninja Tune Records) / Follow That Bird! / Ringo Deathstarr / ZEALE / Weird Weeds / The Ugly Beats / Missions (ex-Clap Clap) / Transmography / The Boxing Lesson / Agent Ribbons / Butcher Bear and Charlie / Neiliyo / Richard Henry / Cry Blood Apache / Death Is Not a Joyride / Spells (ex-Moth!Fight!) / The Low Lows / The Hi-Tones / Cowabunga Babes / No Mas Bodas / Pataphysics / Amplified Heat / The Jungle Rockers / Oh No Oh My / Megafauna / Ryat / Silent Diane / Gobi / Red Leaves / White Dress / The Happen Ins / Hatchet Wound / A Giant Dog / Panjoma / Ripe / The Sour Notes / Art Versus Industry / Planet Rye Co. / Os Ovni / Silent Land Time Machine / The Sideshow Tragedy / Super Lite Bike / Miss Moonlight / Muggzy Flowz / DJ Hot Britches / Wolfteeth / Girls Rock Camp feat. Charlie Belle

Fun Fun Fun Fest Leaks : Round 3, Full Line Up Tomorrow

We get to take a look at the full line up when it's released tomorrow but until then we have a few more names to hold you over. Here is the third round of leaks...

Destroyer

Mika Miko

Metallagher

Shonen Knife

With the addition of these four the line up so far is: Atlas Sound, Broadcast, Red Sparrows, WHY?, DEATH, Lucero, Les Savy Fav, GZA (Performing Liquid Swords), Health, The Jesus Lizard, Melt Banana, 7 Seconds, King Khan & BBQ Show, Todd Barry, Shearwater, Yeasayer, VEGA, Kid Sister, DRI, Harlem, Fucked Up, Alaska in Winter and Brian Posehn.

Last Night: Of Montreal at Fiesta Gardens

Of Montreal was originally scheduled to be the first big act to play at Transmission Entertainment's newly acquired venue, Radio Room. The opening of the Sixth Street venue has been pushed back indefinitely and as a result, the show was moved to the surprisingly under-utilized Fiesta Gardens. Despite some planning miscues that left the will call line snaking around the block, the locale was a perfect setting for the band's flamboyant theatrics. Animated videos, costume changes, and a performance troupe with more esoteric references than a Dennis Miller rant kept the crowd highly energized.

The playlist contained an evenhanded sampling of the band's catalog, though clearly the crowd favored tracks from last year's excellent Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?. Kevin Barnes and company were firing on all cylinders as they launched into A Sentence of Sorts in Kongsvinger. As Kevin "felt the darkness of the black metal bands" the crowd felt the lightness of the bright glam band. My only complaint was that instead of the dozen or so tracks I was still hoping to hear, the band decided to do a cover for their one song encore. But at that point the band had earned the right to try to out-Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand. Which they did. Perhaps my concert cohort summed it up best; "THIS is a show!" Indeed.

-Fernie Martinez
[Photo Credit - Ameliola via Flickr]

Radio Room Won't Open Until Next Spring

Transmission Entertainment's Radio Room is a new music venue in Austin. It's located at 508 E. 6th St. (formerly Bourbon Rocks). The 1,000 capacity club was supposed to play host to Of Montreal this November 13, but there's been a change in plans. Radio Room will instead open next Spring. The show will still go on, but it's been moved to Fiesta Gardens (2101 Bergman Ave.). You can buy tickets for the show here for $18.

With T.E.’s Fun Fun Fun Fest on the horizon for Nov. 8 and 9, the gang has got plenty to do besides rush open a club, so co-owner Michael Terrazos (Club DeVille) says, “we’re looking at an early spring opening.” Imagine the 1,000-capacity Room, Radio will be up and running by the second weekend in March. [Via Austin360]

Looks like just in time for SXSW...

[Transmission Entertainment Official Site]

Fun Fun Fun Fest 2008 - The Line Up

This year's FFF Fest has a little bit for everyone. It all goes down November 8th and 9th at Austin's Waterloo Park. It doesn't pack the "big name" punch the ACL line up does but I feel they are really carving a niche for themselves by offering a much more diverse "indie" festival. You get two jam packed days of music for on $60, which is a great deal . We will be covering the festival and doing out "Spotlights" on all of the artists we think everyone should make time to check out. You can click on the Fun Fun Fest section on the right. Check out a video highlighting some of the artists that played last year.

Here is the line up according to the Austinist...

Stage One:
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
The National
Atmosphere
Minus The Bear
St Vincent
Trail of Dead
Deerhoof
Rival Schools
Islands
The Annuals
Bishop Allen
Centromatic
Sleepercar
Frightened Rabbit
Spinto Band
Parts and Labor
Colourmusic
Expiremental Dental School
27
Till We’re Blue or Destroy
Paul Green’s School of Rock

Stage 2:
Shearwater
Tim Fite
Magnetic Morning (Adam Franklin of Swervedriver/ Sam Fogarino of Interpol)
Kevin Seconds
the Cynics
Ugly Beats
Walter Schreifels (Quicksand, Rival Schools)
Pepi Ginsberg
Frank Smith
Spot
The Revival Tour [w/ Chuck Ragan (Hot Water Music), Tom Gabel (Against Me!), Ben Nichols (Lucero), and Tim Barry (of Avail)]
Tim and Eric’s Awesome Show
Coldtowne Comedy Hr
Altercation Punk Rock Comedy Hour
Matt Beardan
Chris Fairbanks

Stage 3:
Bad Brains
ALL
Dead Milkmen
Flipper
Adolescents
Integrity
Bouncing Souls
Swingin Utters
DOA
Killdozer
Cromags
Scared of Chaka
Young Widows
Leftover Crack
Trash Talk
World Burns to Death
Krumbums
Mammoth Grinder
Cute Lepers
Bitter End
High Tension Wires
Born to Lose

Stage 4:
Clipse
Z-trip
Dan Deacon
Grupo Fantasma
Kool Keith/Dr. Octagon
Dengue Fever
Brownout!
Franki Chan
Toxic Avenger
Hawnay Troof
Starlynx and Bigface
Richard Henry
Yacht