As you may or may not know I spent the weekend in Austin, Texas for a bachelor party. Yes, it was a fucking epic time, of which I am still days away from recovering from. I'll blog more about it later but this is a quick music hit for now. SXSW also happened to be going on this past weekend and weekend and while it is tragic that I was unable to experience any good shows the town still provided endless music experiences that were first rate. It is in this vein that I bring you some of Austin's best music.....Ghostland Observatory. This band hails from Austin and I have been listening to them since around 2007 when I happened to randomly catch a live recorded performance of theirs at the Austin City Limits festival that was showing on an HD music channel. I was absolutely blown away. I immediately found their major label debut Paparazzi Lightening and the rest is history. This band absolutely hammers, the enormity of sound that is produced from just two people is astounding. It's just one genius on keyboards and beats and one singer. That's it. I suppose dance rock or electro punk would be apt monikers if you had to place a pseudo-intellectual label on it but in reality they are all over the map with beats, guitars, drums, funky ass dancing, the works. I heard their music at a few different places over the weekend and it reminded me of how awesome they are and how huge they are in Austin.. I highly recommend both their albums Paparazzi Lightening and their newer release Robotique Majestique, which coincidentally is one of the best album names ever. Here is a taste...and I highly recommend going to your favorite online video website and watching some live performances.
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