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The Austin, TX quartet known as The Wooden Birds, led by former American Analog Set frontman and one-time Broken Social Scene touring member Andrew Kenny, is due to drop their sophomore effort, Two Matchsticks, on June 7th. Ahead of the release, the band is giving away a free downloadable EP, and CoS has your first listen of the band’s take on one of Hall and Oates’ most celebrated tracks.
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Better yet, we're offering a bonus gift: a free download album of songs by eight of those can't-miss bands, plus three additional SPIN faves: SXSW breakout stars Sleeper Agent, culture-bending rap trio Das Racist, and Texas indie popsters Eisley. Our 2011 edition of SPIN Presents: Punk Rock Parking Lot also features tracks from Pete Wentz's Black Cards, Aussie duo An Horse, on-the-rise MC Machine Gun Kelly, and more!
A new supergroup featuring Carrie Brownstein (of Sleater-Kinney and NPR's Monitor Mix blog), Janet Weiss (of Sleater-Kinney and Quasi, among others), Mary Timony (of Helium) and Rebecca Cole (of The Minders), WILD FLAG's only release so far is a tour-only 7" single. Which means that few in the crowd at NPR Music's SXSW day party at The Parish in Austin, Texas, had heard a note of its rollicking, adventurous pop-rock before walking in the door.
Now, objectivity isn't the watchword where NPR Music and Brownstein are concerned (for the past three years, she'd been part of our crew at SXSW), but it's virtually impossible not to be thrilled at WILD FLAG's coming-out party. Blogging for NPR didn't usually cause Brownstein's thumb and middle finger to bleed as profusely as they did after this furious set, but it also offered fewer opportunities to execute Pete Townshend-ian windmills on the guitar. All four women seemed thoroughly swept up in their joyful, propulsive sound — incidentally, how many drummers in the business can top Janet Weiss? — so joining in their glee felt like both a requirement and an inevitability.

That’s right. 140+ free downloads from artists playing the South by Southwest Music & Film Festival March 11-20 in the city of weird, Austin, Texas. You know some of these artists (Fitz and The Tantrums, Brett Dennen, Cold War Kids) but there are many you don’t — and that’s kind of the point of SXSW, this year celebrating it’s 25th anniversary.
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