Album drops April 3 and tour kicks off two days later.

By Blurt Staff

As previously announced, the mighty fIREHOSE - Mike Watt and George Hurley (ex-Minutemen) plus Ed Crawford - is getting back together for a tour this spring which will include a high-profile appearance at Coachella. Meanwhile, Columbia/Legacy has announced the April 3 release of an expansive 2-CD collection, lowFLOWS, covering the 1991-93 era and comprising the Flyin the Flannel and Mr. Machinery Operator albums plus a raft of bonus tracks, along with detailed liners by Michael Azerrad. Check out the details on both the album and tour, below, right after this video:

"lowFLOWs": the columbia anthology ('91 - '93) Tracklisting:

            Disc One - Selections: 1. Down with the Bass • 2. Up Finnegan's Ladder • 3. Can't Believe • 4. Walking the Cow • 5. Flyin' the Flannel • 6. Epoxy, for Example • 7. O'er the Town of Pedro • 8. Too Long • 9. The First Cuss • 10. Anti-Misogyny Maneuver • 11. Toolin' • 12. Song for Dave Alvin • 13. Tien an Man Dream Again • 14. Lost Colors • 15. Towin' the Line • 16. Losers, Boozers and Heroes • 17. Max and Wells • 18. Down With The Bass (Instrumental, previously unreleased) • 19. The Red And The Black (Live) • 20. Sophisticated Bitch (Live) • 21. Revolution (Part Two) (Live) • 22. Slack Motherfucker (Live) • 23. What Gets Heard (Live) • 24. Mannequin (Live) • 25. Makin' The Freeway (Live).

Key:

Tracks 1-16 originally released as Flyin' the Flannel (Columbia 47839, April 23, 1991)

Track 17 originally released on A Matter of Degrees: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Atlantic/WEA, April 1991)

Tracks 19-25 originally released as Live Totem Pole EP (Columbia 44K 74152, February 9, 1992)

            Disc Two - Selections: 1. Formal Introduction • 2. Blaze • 3. Herded into Pools • 4. Witness • 5. Number Seven • 6. Powerful Hankerin' • 7. Rocket Sled/Fuel Tank • 8. Quicksand • 9. Disciples of the 3-Way • 10. More Famous Quotes • 11. Sincerely • 12. Hell-Hole • 13. 4. 29. 92 • 14. The Cliffs Thrown Down • 15. Blaze (Instrumental) • 16. Witness (Mersh Again Edit) • 17. 4. 29. 92 (Live, previously unreleased) • 18. Powerful Hankerin' (Live, previously unreleased) • 19. Tien an Man Dream Again (Live, previously unreleased) • 20. Formal Introduction (Live).

Key:

Tracks 1-14 originally released as Mr. Machinery Operator (Columbia CK 53208,  February 23, 1993)

Track 15 originally released on GeNrECidE: A Compilation (Columbia CK 53450, April 13, 1993)

Track 16 originally released on "Witness" promotional single (Columbia CSK 5173, April 1993)

Track 20 originally released on Big Bottom Pow Wow promotional EP (Columbia CSK 5122, 1993) 

fIREHOSE REUNION TOUR

April    5          Sacramento, CA           Harlow's Night Club

            6          Portland, OR                Doug Fir Lounge

            7          Seattle, WA                  Neumos

            9          Bellingham, WA           Wild Buffalo

                                                            House of Music

            10        Eugene, OR                  WOW Hall

            11        San Francisco, CA        Slim's

            12        Santa Cruz, CA            Coconut Grove Ballroom

            13        Fresno, CA                   Fulton 55

            14        Indio, CA                     Coachella Music Festival

            16        Solana Beach, CA         Belly Up Tavern

            17        Phoenix, AZ                 Crescent Ballroom

            18        Flagstaff, AZ                Orpheum Theatre

            19        Tucson, AZ                  Plush

            20        Indio, CA                     Coachella Music Festival

Ed. Note: after Davy Jones' tragic death, legendary rock geek/raconteur/archivist/fan dancer Beatle Bob sat down to pen a tribute to the singer and his band the Monkees. Posted to friends in an email, it quickly went viral, and is reproduced in full, below.

By Beatle Bob

In honor of Davy Jones who passed away of a heart attack at age 66 last week.

If you were born anywhere between 1955 and 1960, and consequently were just a tad too young to teethe your ears upon Pet Sounds or Revolver, you tuned into your local NBC-TV affiliate on the evening of Sept. 12, 1966, sat transfixed for the next 30 minutes, and then told yourself, "Hey! So THAT'S what a rock 'n' roll band really lives, looks, sounds and acts like!" Eating communal Rice Krispies at the break of noon, practicing in front of the patio window every day instead of going to school or work, yet always making sure to keep too busy singing to put anybody (under the age of 25) down.

But even more importantly - and, as it turns out, much more slyly and cleverly  -what Peter Tork, Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz and Mike Nesmith of The Monkees really did during their 58 half-hours on NBC was, for the very first time, bring the counter-culture boldly into the North American entertainment mainstream.

Really.

You must understand that prior to 1966, longhaired kids were only seen on television getting into no good down some dark, garbage-strewn alley. That is until Sergeant Joe Friday rounded them up while giving a stern lecture on morality into the nearest camera.

Suddenly though, here were four seemingly happy-go-lucky kids with hair over their ears and guitars over their shoulders, without any apparent "adult supervision" such as parents or bosses in sight, living for all intents and purposes the same kind of wholesome apple-pie life as those over in Mayberry or My Three Sons. Indeed, at the end of each broadcast day, Jones always got the girl, the villains always got what they deserved and the small-screen sun inevitably set to the accompaniment of yet another ultra-groovy new Harry Nilsson or Tommy Boyce/Bobby Hart tune.

Which reminds me: Long before "Penny Lane" or even D.A. Pennebaker, The Monkees damn well invented MTV, too (please, try not to hold it against them).

And now, many thanks to our heroes at Eagle Rock Entertainment, you need no longer roam the nether regions of your satellite dish or settle for dicey VHS-generation YouTube uploads to hear and see what all the fuss was truly about. For once again, the entire series of Monkees shows, along with their even-seeing-isn't-quite-believing 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkeetelevision spectacular - plus a slew of Kellogg's cereal commercials just to put everything in their proper hysterical perspective - have all been lovingly packaged anew into two (count 'em!) deluxe DVD boxed sets.

Once again we can watch Nesmith trading places - and prosthetic noses - with Frank Zappa before running for mayor (and issuing forth a most somber soliloquy that seems even more relevant to today's socio-political atmosphere). We can see Tork bargaining to regain his musical soul from a metaphorically steeped record-biz Beelzebub, and Dolenz battling the evil Wizard Glick and his far-from-subliminal television brainwash machine (in an episode the fuzzy-headed Monkee, by the way, also directed).

And Jones? He gets the girl(s). And also taught Axl Rose how to dance, need I remind anyone.

It's all wacky and definitely wild throughout, you bet. But it's particularly surprising how extremely fast-paced and ingeniously edited these half-hours are - and in series two, especially, with each episode doing and saying (and showing) things on the family tube that were absolutely unseen and unheard of across the pre-Monty Python/Saturday Night Livelandscape.

Plus, the music throughout is top-notch, it should go without mentioning - even the sequences where Liberace takes a sledgehammer to a grand piano.

Come 1968, though, all that was left for The Monkees was to star in the greatest rock 'n' roll film ever made (it's called Head, by the way) before paving the TV way for that Partridge Family, those Banana Splits and even their old nemesis Don Kirshner's Rock Concert. Lest we never forget Nesmith's landmark Elephant and Television Parts series as well, full of the visionary and pioneering work he continues to this very date right there on his own Videoranch.com.

But for now, you better get ready to take a giant step back. Back to the very beginning. To 7:30 p.m., Sept. 12, 1966. Disc 1, episode 1 of season 1 of The Monkees....

Along with openers Champagne Charlie, a good time was had by all at Moe's BBQ on March 1.

By Tim Hinely

First time out on the town at a gig in my new adopted hometown. The venue described itself s a bar/music venue/bbq restaurant/bowling alley which seemed good enough for me and it delivered on all fronts. Opening band Champagne Charlie are some Denver locals who seemed to be out for a good time. They had a stand-up bass player, trumpet and banjo player (in addition to a guitarist and drummer). They also had a tattooed, smart-ass yet chummy vocalist who played trombone on occasion and had a serious Tom Waits fixation, judging by his croaky vocals. The band rumbled through about 40 minutes of bent Westerns and a good time was had by the small but enthusiastic crowd.

I had heard very little by the UK's Chapter 24 (2 guys and 2 gals) though I'd heard a lot about them and what I did hear, I liked. Let's just say that if it was 1979 the Rough Trade label would sign them in a heartbeat and while they are youngsters (I'm probably old enough to be any one of their fathers) they seem to have a good grasp on what they want to do and the confidence to do it. They set was short, about 21 minutes, but they delivered all they needed to with short, choppy songs , Morse-code like guitar, jerky rhythms (drummer was all over the place) and a vocalist who told all of her diary secrets in the lyrics, if you were only listening. I was reminded of Wire, The Slits and th' Faith Healers among others. They played "You Said", "Love" and "Blissland to Cry" (off of the ep that I bought) and plenty more and if they come to your town, not only make it a point to see them but buy them some dinner, too. They deserve it.

Captured in full flight March 3...

By Blurt Staff

To preemptively promote his new solo album Blunderbuss - it's not out until April 24 - Jack White was this weekend's musical guest on Saturday Night Live. He did "Love Interruption" and "Sixteen Saltines," each time with a different band. Check out the clips of the performances, below, along with the original NBC promo. And hey, don't get distracted by guest host Lindsay Lohan's rack and assorted cosmetic favors - it's the rock that counts...

"A carnival of living souls moving in solidarity": Wrecking Ball, released this week on Columbia Records, finds the Boss working out some cultural demons both with and without members of the E Street Band in tow. It also features Clarence Clemons' final recordings.

By A.D. Amorosi

In the ramp up to his newest album Wrecking Ball, a loose Bruce Springsteen got a week dedicated to his ouerve on Jimmy Fallon's late night fest, playing a limber "E Street Shuffle" with The Roots, taking the piss as younger bandana-covered Boss to Fallon's Neil Young singing LMFAO songs. I wish that Springsteen would come out more often, especially on 17th studio album, Wrecking Ball. After the death of the Big Man, his longtime sax playing stalwart Clarence Clemons, and given the weight of our Recession era woes, some light streaming in to the record's crevices could've added some much need color to its black and gray tones. It's not a bleakly dismayed Nebraska by half, but  Wrecking Ball shies from the gentle joyous epiphanies that managed to sneak through 2007s brilliant Magic and its 2009 follow up Working on a Dream.

Then again, three years after his last album, things are tougher all over.

Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball - 01 - We Take Care Of Our Own by polarbearvsrhino

Opening with the rugged. rousing "We Take Care of Our Own" Springsteen coughs up a lung talking about an America - its government, its maddening crowd - that has overlooked the promise to look after all its citizens. Meanwhile, crowd of power tie wearing thieves in the temple appear on the Irish-jiggy-with-it "Death to My Hometown" and the woeful ballad "Jack of All Trades," The "My Hometown" that Springsteen first looked at on the skeptical Born in the U.S.A. has grown wearier, tested by troubles of money and familial morass,  and cynical.  Nobody wanted to come to his "Hometown" the first time around because the busy streets and bustling factories had been emptied. This time out, corporate raiders have taken what was left "and ate the flesh of everything they found," sure and beggorrah. On "Trades," Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello lends his lost soulful lead guitar line to a Springsteen moan where "the banker man grows fat, the working man grows thin." It's all happened before, and it'll happen again, notes Bruce slowly, as if remembering those Hometowns. "This Depression" acts as truculent ode to the tired and tried, hammering its point hard that we're in a troubled time with little hope of getting out. People want to work and be free on the floppy boot stomp of "Shackled and Drawn." If they can't, they'll make the "Easy Money" and head out on a crime spree like the couple that fills this cranky rocker.

The above-mentioned lot is a solid klatch of Springsteen ballads and rockers, no doubt no doubt no doubt. But they come across, in the towering body of Springsteen Song, as stock stuff, lyrically and sonically, with a hint of a formulaic license which could used the poetic in its midst.

Though filled with E Street-ers (violinist Soozie Tyrell and new keyboard player Charles Giordano included) the album - pitched specifically as a Springsteen record and not "and the E Street Band" -  employs several different drummers than Max Weinberg (Steve, Jordan, Matt Chamberlain), the aforementioned Morello and string-ologist Greg Leisz, who previously turned up at Bruce's side during 2006's We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions and the accompanying tour. At the risk of sounding xenophobic, the album would have benefited from a more unified sonic palate. If that means an all-E-Street album than so be it. Thankfully this does mean that Clarence Clemons gets a few last licks in on two tunes here, which additionally means, gratefully, that Clemons' final studio appearance wasn't on a Lady Gaga album. The liner notes use an excerpt from the eulogy Springsteen gave at Clemons' funeral in 2011. "Clarence doesn't leave the E Street Band when he dies. He leaves when we die."

Lest you think there is a problem with Springsteen's call for musical diversity, you're wrong. Wrecking Ball's boldest most daring song is "Rocky Ground," a spiritual howl with a hippity hoppity lean, a sample of an Alan Lomax field recording of the Church of God in Christ Congregation in Clarksdale, Mississippi from 1942 and a righteous and uniquely flowing rap by gospel chanteuse Michelle Moore.

Best song on the album, hands down. Doesn't sound trite or like it tried too hard. The lesson here is that if Bruce is going to walk away from the E Street's shuffles, he should run far away. While I wouldn't want to hear Bruce take on steamy Lupe Fiasco-style loops or crankly Lil Wayne samples regularly, Springsteen's appropriation of hip hop ambience works handily. In that regard, the clipped title tune also takes on the lightness that I hoped Springsteen might have used more of on Wrecking Ball.

Here, grand sultans of swat and statuesque heroes prepare for their curtain call as the track swells and grows larger with each strum and drumbeat. "Wrecking Ball," the song, shows off the hearty hope and defiant rage that the distracted and disenchanted need in these trying times as Curt Ramm's trumpet blares high and hot. "C'mon and take your best shot, let me see what you got," the Boss screams. "Bring on your wrecking ball."

Springsteen is really good at these fuck you numbers. Even when he's talking about the dearly departed - the mighty working Mexican immigrants looking for the "Land of Hope and Dreams," the empowered souls who made their lives and causes into their signature on "We are Alive" - you sense the defiance that makes Springsteen's protagonists and antagonists (and hence the music behind them) effortlessly epic and upwardly mobile even in their passing. "Our souls and spirits rise," Springsteen sings, as the dead and the living form a holy union of those bucking the system.  With that, this "Wrecking Ball" is more about a carnival of living souls moving in solidarity than a giant iron orb meant to destroy.

Event takes place July 28 and 29.


By Blurt Staff


The storied Newport Folk Festival returns this year on July 28-29 at Rhode Island's Fort Adams State Park. Just anounced is My Morning Jacket as the main headliner, with Jackson Browne and Conor Oberst also at the top of the bill.


Among the other performers listed thus far: Tom Morello, Iron and Wine, Tune-Yards, Dawes, Patty Griffin, Deer Tick, Gary Clark Jr., Sharon Van Etten, the Head and the Heart, and the Tallest Man on Earth.

Also doing high profile SXSW shows...

By Fred Mills / Photo by Daniel Coston

As previously announced, the mighty dB's - Chris Stamey, Peter Holsapple, Will Rigby, Gene Holder - are up and running again with a new album set for a June 19 release on Bar/None. Titled Falling Off the Sky, it's produced by the band along with Mitch Easter and Scott Litt.

Stamey commented, in a statement, "In some ways, this feels like the record that we could have made between our first and second albums. There are, however, fewer angry songs. And more songs about transformation. It's also the first dB's album to be recorded primarily in North Carolina, which is something that we're very proud of."

Added Holsapple, "Our main concern was just to make a really great dB's record, one that would stand up beside our best work. Obviously the songs had to be good and had to fit together, and it had to sound interesting in a way that would bear repeated listening. But mainly, it was important to us that we make a record that sounds like us."

The band will do selected shows behind the album, including spots at SXSW - you'll be able to catch ‘em, in fact, at the BLURT day party on Friday, March 16.

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Meanwhile, an outstanding fan blog dedicated to the band recently bowed, The dB's Repercussion: Celebrating the Combo That Could, Did & Will Do It Again. It's still relatively new, but the entries thus far, including downloads of some choice shows from 1979 and 1981 plus a 1997 Nick Drake tribute concert organized by Holsapple, show immense promise.

Rob Field, owner of the unofficial blog, promises weekly updates every Friday and that the focus will be upon "ROIOs (Recordings of Independent Origin)... live shows, outtakes, demos. A secondary aspect of the blog (when I get to it) will be news, reviews and articles about the band. The solo work, side projects, collaborations, etc., that these guys have done is a compelling story in itself, and I'd [also] like to tell it using ROIOs."

He's encouraging contributions from fans, too.

Also doing multiple shows at SXSW, including the BLURT day party.

By Blurt Staff

Prior to Peter Case forming The Plimsouls in '78, he was part of two other influential mid-to-late '70s bands with Paul Collins  - The Nerves and The Breakaways (Paul would later go on to form his own highly-respected group, The Beat). Both Peter and Paul have enjoyed successful solo careers on record and on the road, but this spring they'll once again be reunited for a very special North American tour.

The two frontmen (along with bassist Timm Buechler and drummer Amos Pitsch) will be performing classic numbers by their bands, The Nerves and The Breakaways, as well as material by The Plimsouls and The Beat. For fans of energetic live performances, visceral rock & roll, and raucous, hook-laden songs that draw as much from the golden age of '60s pop as they do from punk, these shows should prove to be nothing short of nirvana.

Tour Dates:

March 01 Iron Road Studios, Vancouver BC, CAN
March 02 The Funhouse, Seattle WA
March 03 The Star Theatre, Portland OR
March 05 Red Devil Lounge, San Francisco CA
March 07 The Echo, Los Angeles CA
March 08 Bar Pink, San Diego CA
March 09 Pappy and Harriet's, Pioneertown TBA CA
March 11 Club Congress, Tucson AZ
March 13 Rhythm Room, Phoenix AZ
March 15  SXSW: Lucy's South By South Austin Fried Chicken Revival, Austin TX (Peter Case solo) 2pm
March 15  SXSW: Big Star Tribute Show @ Paramount Theater, Austin TX (Peter Case solo) 7pm
March 16 SXSW: The Requiemme Mgmt/Devil Dolls Booking Day Party @ The Jackalope, Austin TX  2:55pm
March 16 SXSW: Blurt Party @ The Ginger Man, Austin TX  6:30pm
March 16 SXSW: Rajiworld Showcase @ Continental Club, Austin TX  11:00pm
March 17 SXSW: Alejandro Escovedo's Taco Party at Maria's Taco Express, Austin TX  1:40pm
March 17 SXSW: Freddie Steady's 12th Annual Frontier A Go Go And Rock & Roll Hootenanny, Austin TX 5:30 PM

March 17 SXSW: Burgermania! @ Spiderhouse, 8:30pm Austin TX 5:30 PM
March 17 SXSW: Get Hip Showcase @ Easy Tiger Patio, Austin TX  midnight
March 18 The Blue Door, Oklahoma City OK (acoustic duo)
March 19 The Record Bar, Kansas City MO
March 20 The Outland, Springfield MO
March 22 The New Amsterdam, St. Paul MN
March 24 Shank Hall, Milwaukee WI (w/ Chuck Prophet)
March 25 Empty Bottle, Chicago IL
March 27 Ace of Cups, Columbus OH
March 28 Beachland Ballroom, Cleveland OH
March 30 Stage on Herr, Harrisburg PA
March 31 Bridge Street Live, Collinsville CT
April 11 Union Pool, Brooklyn, NY
April 13 WXPN "Free At Noon" Concert Series, Philadelphia PA
April 18 Hi-Tone, Memphis TN
April 19 The High Watt, Nashville TN
April 20 JJ Bohemia's Chattanooga TN
April 21 The Star Bar, Atlanta GA
April 22 Jack of the Woods, Asheville NC

"Seasons Change in the Underground" hails from forthcoming album.

By Blurt Staff

Here's a new music video from the ever-amazing combo The Moog. Titled "Seasons Change In The Underground," it's rom the forthcoming Ken Scott-produced album Seasons In The Underground.

The video shot in Budapest, Hungary, and directed by Tamás Gács and András Jeli

The Hungarian band will also be touring this spring, including an official SXSW showcase on Saturday, March 17, at Treasure Island.

It's the most magical time of the year, natch...

By Blurt Staff

Blurt Magazine will of course once again be front and center and attending the SXSW Music Festival in Austin Texas, from March 14-17, 2012.  Our editors and writers will be running around town during the week to keep you informed of all things happening in Austin during the week.

We are extremely excited to announce our annual Day Party along with our partner, Dogfish Head.  This year's lineup at the Ginger Man pub is completely insane, we are extremely excited to have all of these bands participating and expect this to be the best year ever. We cannot stress enough the important of getting to the venue early, as last year we had a line out the door for over an hour all day long.  It will be difficult to get in so if you push it and arrive late to enter in time for your favorite band's performance we cannot guarantee entry.

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Here is the schedule for our Day Party:

DOG FISH HEAD / BLURT MAGAZINE Present:

Our Annual Austin, TX Day Party

Location: The Ginger Man Pub

Address: 301 Lavaca St (at 4th)

Austin, TX 78701

This event is FREE!

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14^th

1pm - LA (from Spain) - www.facebook.com/laofficial
2pm - Kevin Devine - www.kevindevine.net
3pm - The Ettes - www.theettes.com
4pm - JC Brooks & Uptown Sound - www.jcbrooksandtheuptownsound.com
5pm - David Garza (local Austin fave) - www.davidgarza.com
6pm - Cotton Mather (local Austin fave) - www.thestarapplekingdom.com  

THURSDAY, MARCH 15th

*Curated by Jon Langford (Mekons, Waco Bros)

 1:15pm - Jon & Randy (intro - couple of songs - praise to all involved)

1:20pm - The Upsets (featuring Tamineh Geuramy from The Deadstring Brothers, Whitey Morgan, Mekons, plus member of Junior Brown & Dale Watson's bands)
2:15pm - Paul Burch - www.paulburch.com
3:00pm - White Mystery - www.whitemysteryband.com
3:50pm - Joe Pug - www.joepugmusic.com
4:40pm - Jon Langford & Skull Orchard (The Mekons, Waco Bros, etc...) - www.jonlangford.de
5:30pm - Garland Jeffreys - www.garlandjeffreys.com
6:20pm - Rosie Flores - www.rosieflores.com
7:30pm - Deano Waco & The Purvs (Waco Bros)

8:30pm - Greg Humphreys (Hobex, Dillon Fence) - www.myspace.com/greghumphreysmusic
9:30pm - The Record Company - www.therecordcompany.net 
10:30pm - Jigsaw Seen - www.thejigsawseen.com
11:30pm - Loretta Billieux & the Dive Bar Pretties - www.lorettabilieux.com

FRIDAY, MARCH 16^th

1pm - Parson Red Heads - www.theparsonredheads.com
2pm - Chuck Prophet (Green on Red) - www.chuckprophet.com
  Modern Recording and Arbor Ridge Studios present: New Sounds from North Carolina
3pm - The dB's (Bar None Records) - www.thedbsonline.net
4pm - Django Haskins (The Old Ceremony), Brett Harris, Matt McMichaels (Mayflies USA), Jeff Crawford, and Skylar Gudasz - www.djangohaskins.com www.brettharrismusic.com www.myspace.com/mayfliesusa www.myspace.com/skylargudasz 
5:45-6:15pm - Amy Ray (The Indigo Girls) - www.amy-ray.com
6:30pm - Peter Case/Paul Collins (performing: Nerves, Plimsouls and The Beat songs)  www.petercase.com
7:30pm - Ken Stringfellow (The Posies, REM, etc...) - www.kenstringfellow.com
8:30pm - Fan Modine (Modern Recording & Arbor Studios Presented artist) - www.fanmodine.com
9:30pm - Onward Soldiers (Modern Recording & Arbor Studios Presented artist) - www.onwardsoldiers.net
10:30pm - Jon Auer (The Posies) w/ Special Guest!-  www.myspace.com/jonauermusic
11:30pm - VERY Special Guest!!! (Will be released to the public the day of the show) 

SATURDAY, MARCH 17^th

 1pm - Milagres - www.milagresmusic.com
2pm - Jim White - www.jimwhite.net
3pm - Hobart Bros. & Lil' Sis (Freedy Johnston, Susan Cowsill) - www.thehobartbrothers.com
4pm - The Wedding Present - www.scopitones.co.uk
5pm - Tommy Stinson (The Replacements, Guns and Roses, etc...) - www.tommystinson.com
6pm - John Doe (X) - www.thejohndoe.com
7pm - The Bluebonnets (Kathy Valentine from The GoGo's) - www.thebluebonnets.net
8pm - The Defibulators - www.thedefibulators.com
9-9:30pm - Ricky Stein & Warm Guns (local Austin fave) - www.rickystein.com 
9:45-10:30pm - So Long, Problems (local Austin fave) - www.reverbnation.com/solongproblems
11:00pm - VERY Special Guest!!! (Will be released to the public the day of the show)
12:00am - The Allen Oldies Band - www.allenoldiesband.com

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We also would like to help sponsor/promote our fine friends at Bloodshot Records and their annual SXSW Showcase and Day Parties:

Bloodshot Records SXSW 2012 official showcase
Red Eyed Fly  (715 Red River)
Saturday March 17th
7:30-8:00   Deadstring Brother
8:20-9:05   Maggie Bjorklund
9:25-10:10   Cory Branan
10:30-11:30   Waco Brothers with Paul Burch
11:50-12:40   Lydia Loveless
1:00-1:50   JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound

Bloodshot Records SXSW annual Yard Dog party (1510 S. Congress)

Friday March 16th, 2012 -- starts crack-o-NOON

Sponsored by: Lagunitas, Blurt/Second Motion

 12:15-12:40  Southeast Engine (Misra artist, Bloodshot distributed)
12:55-1:20    Valerie June  (Bloodshot friendly artist)
1:35-2:00      Deadstring Brother
2:15-2:40      Maggie Bjorklund
2:55-3:20      Cory Branan
3:35-4:00      Lydia Loveless
4:15-4:40      Rosie Flores
4:55-5:20      JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound
5:35-6:15      Waco Brothers & Paul Burch