Band Lineup for HGL show on 1/7/2012
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12/20/2011 10:16:00 AM
What Made Milwaukee Famous
Hailing from Austin, TX, What Made Milwaukee Famous features Jeremy Bruch (drums), John Farmer (bass), Michael Kingcaid (vocals/guitar), and Drew Patrizi (keyboards). The indie rock quartet came together in 2003 to create a playful indie rock sound that's well suited for fans of Brendan Benson, Spoon, and the Wrens. In 2005, What Made Milwaukee Famous performed alongside Franz Ferdinand on Austin City Limits, becoming one of the few unsigned acts to play the celebrated PBS show. With additional showings at South by Southwest and a feature on DJ Steve Lamacq's BBC digital station 6 Music, What Made Milwaukee Famous signed to Barsuk in June 2006. A remastered, and slightly edited, version of their 2004 debut, Trying to Never Catch Up, arrived with four new tracks in August. For their next album, the band added guitarist Jason Davis (whom Kincaid had known since high school, when they were in a band together) and got production help from Chris Michaels, who'd toured with Sparklehorse. The finished product, What Doesn't Kill Us, then came out in early 2008.
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The Happen-Ins
Abandoned by their maternal mother, The Blues, and forced to suck off the withering teat of R&B, the Happen-Ins were birthed unto the blistering heat of an East Austin garage with little hope or means of survival. Weathering the extreme circumstances through clever wordplay and hip shaking tomfoolery, the Happen-Ins bested fire with fire: They Played the Blues to spite their Mother, reaching far into the Devil's empty gurgling stomach to steal back peices of the downtrodden's souls. They refilled the sweet Bosom of R & B with their own heavy milk and rejoiced to watch those bountiful fruit once again sway back and forth rythmically for all to behold. They wooed lovers and made them dancers. The sweat on their skinned cooled and their muscles relaxed even as the world around them burned hot.
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Gold Beach
Historically speaking, Gold Beach either refers to a code name for one of the D-Day landings in France or to a popular vacation spot off the Rogue River in Oregon. Both work in the context of the complicated beauty and cautious optimism of the new project from former Glass Family singer/guitarist Michael Winningham and drummer Tony Daugherty. The band's first album offers an uncanny combination of Grizzly Bear's chamber pop and the more somber moments of Arcade Fire, anchored by the former's breathy, sustained delivery and the latter's sparse, intuitive percussion. While lacking the climactic resolve that helps define those two indie touchstones, past members of Balmorhea; Western Keys; Tacks, the Boy Disaster; and Mineral help Gold Beach find depth and focus in the tension. "I, Testify," in particular, beckons for the La Blogotheque treatment, while the stringed suspense of "Hands of Ether" and slow waltz of "I'm Not Yours" make Habibti a carefully crafted debut.
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