The Hickoids, Pure Luck, We Are The Asteroid

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I spent the early years of my 20s traveling around the American West living out of a backpack. I wrote a lot of songs, jammed with a lot of folks, saw a lot of things. The fruit of those years of wandering is my new album - VAGABOND. I'll be coming to Austin to play some songs from it and a bunch of my other songs that didn't make it onto the first record. I'll be accompanied by some local weirdos too! So buckle up, and come join me at Cherrywood Coffeehouse.

Join us for a night of high-energy dancing and unadulterated soul music!

Margin Walker Presents: Guided By Voices at Mohawk Austin on June 20th!

Ticket link: https://bit.ly/2Gb1VQ5

--Guided by Voices--
"Just to Show You" - https://bit.ly/2GumxCv
"Glad Girls" - https://bit.ly/1eaufsw

Margin Walker Presents: The Get Up Kids with The Casket Lottery at Mohawk Austin on June 16th!

Tickets on sale Friday!

--The Get Up Kids--
"Maybe" - https://bit.ly/2uNNa0y
"Action & Action" - https://bit.ly/2q883P4

--The Casket Lottery--
Bandcamp - https://bit.ly/2IvjHu5



The Get Up Kids are a band that grew up in public. Since forming in Kansas City in 1995, they?ve established themselves as a group whose music withstands trends and transcends the superficial in favor of something that stands the test of time. The four-song Kicker EP -- the band's Polyvinyl Record Co. debut -- is the newest addition to their catalog of influential EPs (such as 1997's Woodson and 1999's Red Letter Day), as well as their first new release since 2011?s LP There Are Rules. Since that album came out the band have been touring when their schedules permits and living very adult lives that include activities like raising kids (Matt, Rob, Jim), moving away (James) and moving back (Ryan), starting businesses (Ryan), getting a degree in geology (Jim), joining a local kickball league (Matt), accidentally being electrocuted on stage (Rob), or simply struggling with social media.
Correspondingly while the band?s early releases were written while the band members were entering their twenties, Kicker sees them in their forties, and the songs show a perspective that can only be learned from experience. The Get Up Kids have never been afraid to try something new, but the songs here -- recorded over the course of the last year at Fire and Ice studio in Baldwin, Kansas -- mark a full-circle breakthrough for the band.
The Get Up Kids are: Matt Pryor (guitars/vocals), Jim Suptic (guitars/vocals), Rob Pope (bass), Ryan Pope (drums), and James Dewees (keys).

Twenty years now there?s been this thing, our band, Joan of Arc. Sometimes we forget about it and let it fizzle out for a year while we tend to our lives. Sometimes we cling to it for a year and wake up surprised and exhausted every day for months on end, given walking tours of old Italian towns, browsing dreary British pedestrian malls or barefooted organic grocers on the Pacific coast. We know how lucky we are.
The less we feel like a band?the more we can continue to be a band, but escape that feeling of doing all those shitty, corny things expected of bands?the truer to ourselves we feel. And you all know it, everyone knows it even if everyone has to bury it to get on with their day-to-day: the truer to ourselves we feel, the better everything gets. We have shifted shapes and modified our approaches quite a number of times in the course of twenty years. And we?ve done so always aiming to stay true to ourselves at that moment, by instinct and with conscious intent. This time, it took us a long time to figure out how to start back up. We threw away a lot of songs and started over, over and over.
But here?s the thing: We are getting better at being ourselves. So many of the postures of youth just fall away with time. Most bands break up by that point, or become caricatures of their younger selves. Because money is tricky, or I should say, it comes to be that energy is tricky to muster after all of it goes into the basics of sustaining yourself.
Every day, at some point, it occurs to me that Richard Brautigan killed himself at the age that I am now. But I got this community of weirdo collaborators to lean on that he never had.
We?ve never had an audience that gets any validation of its coolness through liking us. We?ve mangled, juxtaposed, and collaged too many elements for that social contract. But we trust each other.
This time, finally, we trusted each other enough to throw all the songs away, to even throw away every preconceived idea about which one of us should take position at which instrument. We hit Record and played, and our collective tastes emerged. And they, our tastes in the moment, were the only standards in all the expanse of the stupefying and beautiful unknown universe, that we regarded as relevant in the least.

Margin Walker Presents: Stars at Mohawk Austin on June 26th!

~ Stars ~
"Your Ex Lover is Dead" - https://bit.ly/1yFh6pP
'Dead Hearts' - https://bit.ly/1AR0J88

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard w/ Amyl and The Sniffers
Stubb's Austin / June 22
Doors 7PM

Tickets On Sale Friday at 10am CT http://fgtix.to/2FqabIf