Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Sorted out your plans for the weekend yet?  I’ll be celebrating the 4th of July weekend in typical Austin style: eating BBQ, drinking Texas beer, watching Team America: World Police, and last but not least, enjoying some killer live music.  The weekend starts off with And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead topping an impressive lineup (Girl In A Coma, Eagle Claw, Lights Go Out, etc.) at the Beauty Bar.  The show is only $7 if you RSVP ahead of time!

Trail of Dead is always worth seeing, but there’s another band on the bill that you need to check out. The show serves as the CD release party of This Quiet by the Austin band Markov.  The group has shared lineups with a number of my favorites: Double Dagger (amazing band out of Baltimore), Trail of Dead, When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, and Future of the Left.  Scoring prime opening slots is a good sign, but does the group truly deserve my official SOTO endorsement?  As Team America would say, Fuck Yeah!

Songs like Jaws Of Life and Divine Credit instantly grabbed my attention.  They reminded me of the late, great (and not well known) band Statehood.  The group featured the rhythm section from the Dismemberment Plan and Clark Sabine (RIP), one of the best front men ever to come out of Washington, DC.  Statehood was one of the few bands this decade that exemplified the fury of DC punk bands like Fugazi, Nation of Ulysses, Jawbox, etc.  Perhaps I’m projecting my love of DC hardcore punk onto Markov. but I hear a lot of the those influences on This Quiet.  I can’t think of better way to celebrate the 4th of July weekend than seeing a band that tears it up like the best groups from our nation’s capital.  Am I right or what?  Of course I’m right.

:Markov - Jaws Of Life:

:Markov - Divine Credit:

 

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