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Hey!  We're sponsoring a show.  You should go.

In a perfect world, that's all we'd need to say, and then all of you lovely folks would show up and proceed to have the best time ever.  But, since everyone likes to have a reason to do something, we've prepared a list.  It goes as follows:

Elaine Greer And Friends
The Sour Notes
Agent Ribbons
Pink Nasty
Megafauna
Quin Galavis
Monarchs
MaryAnn And The Revival Band

Now that's certainly reason enough, but there's more!  The whole thing is to celebrate the release of Elaine Greer's charming new LP Annotations ... and the show is an almost-free $3.  That makes for 10 reasons for you to join us at the 29th Street Ballroom.  What more do you need?  Pictures, mp3s, links and press quotes, you say?  Done.  You just need to spend the next hour or so scrolling down.

See you June 30th.

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Elaine Greer And Friends | facebook

"If you were at the Proletariat and saw Elaine Greer perform to a packed crowd last month opening for the Fiery Furnaces, you couldn’t help but feel the giddiness of a musician at that stage. Standing on stage behind her Telecaster, you could almost hear her take a deep breath before diving in. Greer’s songs drip with sweet and simple melodies that hum inside your head long after you first hear them." - Ramon Medina, Free Press Houston

Full "Annotations" Stream





 


The Sour Notes | facebook

"Never short on hooks or ambition, The Sour Notes play brittle pop for star-crossed post-grads…on rising tides of lonesome guitars and glimmering synths, the band patiently builds its postmillennial laments, making the occasional nod to Krautrock and frequent concessions to soundtrack-worthy mood." - Erik Adams, The Onion AV Club

"The Sour Notes don’t have a gimmick - they just make solidly innovative pop songs. The songs can sometime be so intricate- they seem mellowly simple. That’s what makes good clean pop. If nothing else they are easily one of the Austin acts to keep an eye on in 2011- a marriage of poetic love songs and love gone wrong songs resulting in earnest angst & sentiment." - John Gross, Party Ends





 


Agent Ribbons | facebook

"As the band's latest full-length album, "Chateau Crone," shows, these three can appreciate a residence that offers non-traditional scenery and a slight hint of the macabre - a place where you might find them keeping ravens as pets and snipping off the bulbs of black roses in their spare time. The album isn't so much an homage to dark light and its play, but more so a fragmented feeling of normal existence and one that is shared by ghosts and creepy breezes that could make the hair stand up on your arms. " - Daytrotter

"Feel good garage rock" - NPR, All Songs Considered

Daytrotter Session





 


Pink Nasty | facebook

"Depending on where you come in, Beck is more of a classic-born, country and western songwriter from Nashville, the kind of writer who languishes in the bush leagues and the shit-payin', hole-in-the-wall dives - the bowling alleys of Bad Blake's life - continuing to write of the sorrows she's taken on and seeing how they've progressed into more and more sorrowful territory ... the new, self-titled album with that heart in a pair of hands on the cover, is just simply a tearjerker of sorts. There's no suggestion that she's got ribald tendencies, but simply a knack for hitting all of the raw nerves, not to mention pegging her stories onto characters that have been deceived or have been knocked around a bit. They're not trying to be clever with their words, just honest and forthright, giving it over straight and steaming." - Daytrotter

Daytrotter Session





 


Megafauna | facebook

"Neff’s fragile vocals may set you in a trance, but she’ll quickly jolt you back to life with the snap of her axe." - The Austinist

"Effervescent, the bubbles are only lightning bugs for a second before they burst, but they seem to find that long enough to lay a bathtub full of eggs." - Thax Douglas, poet





 


Quin Galavis | facebook

"These guys got on the bus at Guadalupe and didn’t stop ’til Salford. It always surprises me to hear a band like this coming from a town like Austin ... the eternal sunshine and laid back hippie vibe seems like the antithesis of the depressive, dark post-punk that the DEAD SPACE trade in. Like you can understand how JOY DIVISION or SECTION 25 came from grey, rainy Manchester. Still the sun goes down eventually, even in Austin, and this is music for 2:00 a.m. Sparse and tense, with definite gothic tendencies. There’s a slight radio-friendly edge to their sound, maybe in the choruses, but its a far cry from the cheesy U2-via-JOY DIVISION radio pabulum of INTERPOL or EDITORS. (AM)" - Maximum Rock N Roll Magazine





 


Monarchs | facebook

"Monarchs rely on Celeste Griffin's soulful southern voice and talented songwriting to give the audience music that is both enjoyable and fun as well as heartfelt and deep. From Slow, folky ballads to 2-stepping Rock and roll swing, they offer a lot to many groups of music fans." - Austin Chronicle

"Led by the mesmerizing vocals of band centerpiece Celeste Griffin, Monarchs sway in a space between hypnotic Americana and evocative soul, melding the powerful and alluring force of Neko Case, Hope Sandoval, Chan Marshall, and even touches of Erika Wennerstrom." - Austin Sound





 


MaryAnn And The Revival Band | facebook

"MaryAnn and the Revival Band have just released a self-titled, four song EP. The disc gives a glimpse of the band’s range. From the galloping "Can’t Afford Your Company" to the simmering live track "Bought Love," the EP is just enough to whet your appetite for more of the Revival Band’s unassuming-yet-powerful blend of country soul and rock swagger. The septet is planning on moving onto a full-length at some point in the future. It’s a very exciting new train ride with MaryAnn and the Revival Band; it’s time ya’ll jumped onboard." - David Jackson Frink, Austin Entertainment And Music






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