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On 12/9/2024 at 3:00 PM, stc said:

excited about this but also curious...the austin date is the only one that has venue tba. formerly i would have assumed this was levitation but they've moved that festival to sept 25-28 next year. so does this mean there's another festival that will be happening halloween weekend? not sure why else they wouldn't announce the venue...will be interested to see if the austin tickets go on sale this week along with all the others. 

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I fell in love with the beat of "Punk Rock Loser" when I first heard it.  Then found the lyrics hilarious.  Trying to figure out where they would be playing in Austin?  Too big for Antones and Continental I assume?  Hotel Vegas? 

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Saw Billy Gibbons, Chris Layton, Mike Flanigin, and Jimmie Vaughan at Antone's on Friday. 

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Arrived early enough to grab one of the stools along the wall. 

Gibbons started by saying that he wasn't feeling great, but the show must go on.  Played several ZZ Top songs and Gibbons voice sounded terrible - painful to listen to because you could tell that it hurt him to sing.   

It seemed that they improvised some and probably had Flanigan and Vaughan sing a few more.  I would have been fine with just hearing the guitars without singing. 

I thought they would cancel last night's show and the Ft. Worth show tonight based upon how bad Gibbons sounded and felt, but they played last night. 

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On 11/15/2024 at 11:46 AM, dcar00 said:

Die Spitz also put on a great show considering they had about 50 square feet to work with.

https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2025-01-03/waterloo-records-founder-john-kunz-saves-his-42-year-old-baby-by-selling-it/
 

Longcat article on an update on Waterloo Records (new ownership, moving 5 blocks up north Lamar) with a cameo by Die Spitz! at the end

 

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Magma-Colored

A band just picked up their vinyl.”

These words from Caren Kelleher as Watson and myself emerge from the Gold Rush listening room trigger a hard-stop in this OG vinylist.

“What band!?”

Everyone points at the white band van waiting in the loading dock: “Die Spitz!”

At South by Southwest 2023, the Austinites collapsed Red River microjoy Chess Club with punk dynamite. By Levitation 18 months later at Mohawk, the rising young quartet radiated megaton teen spirit – and zero vinyl at the merch table! Fan worship prevents looking directly at a star, but did bassist Kate Halter really just grant me my final vinyl wish of 2024?

“Magma-colored,” she grins, climbing into the driver’s seat.

Later, double EP long-player Teeth/The Revenge of Evangeline emulsifies my hi-fi.

“I joke, if you wanna have a big record collection, just start a factory,” Kelleher cracks. “It’ll only cost you a couple million dollars.”

Gold Rush Vinyl proves personally memorable, but Trey Watson can’t wait to top that at Waterloo, which plans on reopening in its new location in time for SXSW 2025. He teases the addition of two to three “experiential” rooms inside the store unseen anywhere.

“What you’ll see going on within this store is going to be different than anything Austin’s ever experienced,” Watson says. “John’s said to me on lots of occasions, 'I wanted Waterloo Records to be a cultural music hub where people and community congregate and talk, and enjoy music.’

“He’s done that.

“But it’s still not the place it can be from a congregational perspective. My goal is to continue his message while creating an Austin flagship destination.”

 

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3 minutes ago, UTexasFight said:

Yeah that whole article was impossible to follow.

You prompted a distant memory . . . "seems like a Raoul Hernandez piece" . . . and yep.

The guy is the worst writer in Austin print history.  Absolute incomprehensible gibberish.

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