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Live photos of Black Gold playing the Red Bull Moon Tower by Cory Ryan

 

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Electronica has really come to a head of recent in the U.S., opening doors (and windows) for all sorts of new artists (and genres), and Shout Out Out Out from Alberta, Canada are no exception.

As they professed  at the Red Bull Moon Tower, “knowing you’re making terrible decisions and knowing that you’re doing it. It’s a song specifically about Austin”. As with this statement, the Shout Out Out Out’s proved to be a good end note to more than a week of music, schmoozing and debauchery in Austin, Texas. The group barraged their listeners with heavy electro big-beat bass; making the crowd sway, shake and gyrate with all the last bits of energy they could muster (at least those who were not flying high on the free Red Bull’s). Shout Out Out Out had the amped-up capacity crowd shaking their moneymaker’s under the moonlight in no time, and offered some solace in their humorous hooks and quirky anecdotes.

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I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness has been on a brake. Not your typical ‘Hey , I thought it was o.k. to stick it in any waitress I encountered because we were on a break’, type of break, but just a well deserved year long hiatus to unwind from touring with their debut album Fear Is On Our Side and have a couple of kiddos.

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Occasionally I like to set myself on fire and jump in to a 300 gallon blender full of rusty hammers. Seriously. But, for those of you whom might be the faint at heart or not have access to giant industrial mixing equipment, the Monotonix show at Red Bull Moon Tower Austin was right on par.  Please don’t mistake my verbiage for being anything of the negative sort. I just can’t think of any other way to inform you the reader of what it is like to experience a show of this kick ass dimension. Nuckin futs I tell you.

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The Republic Tigers make mood music for the future- something resembling ambient folk (or something of that ilk). Named after front-man and bands founder Kenn Jankowski’s high school mascot, the Republic Tigers are a lot like their name – strangely familiar, but undeniably unique. Their layered brand of synth-driven ballads, wrenched out by former choir-boy-turned rockabilly crooner blends the folk-y sounds of the past with ambient synthesized sounds aiding  – As Jankowski explains it, “there are just too many limitations in using just a guitar.”
A self-proclaimed “gamer,” Jankowski’s love of electronic music stemmed from his love of technology (he even said the ideal venue for their music would be a videogame soundtrack.) Before you sneer at the computer screen, you should realize that it was Mario Brothers. and all those other brilliantly catchy video game theme songs that got most of the electro kids started on the sound at an early age. Don’t try to tell me you can’t remember how the Mario Brothers theme goes?

Check out this  unreleased B-side Sinkin Annie Down Down Down a ChinaShop exclusive

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