If you’ve been to DC Does Texas before, odds are pretty good you’ve seen Deleted Scenes, who have played the past couple of parties we’ve thrown in Austin. And odds are you walked away impressed. They are, simply put (in my humble opinion -S), one of the best bands to come out of D.C. in the past few years. Why else would we be having them back again if they weren’t just that good?

Anyway, check out this video of “Baltika 9″ from the band’s most recent album, and below that you can actually watch a 45-minute live recording that the band recently recorded for the excellent Audiotree Music.

Deleted Scenes “Baltika 9″ from alice cohen on Vimeo.

We’re excited about our entire DC Does Texas lineup, but, speaking for myself at least (this is Steve), I may be most excited to see the legendary Kid Congo Powers.

The man has been in some of the greatest rock and roll bands of all time (The Gun Club, The Cramps, The Bad Seeds, etc.), and his solo work is pretty friggin’ incredible as well. Want proof? Check out this live video from the Comet Tavern in Seattle from last month. And be prepared to dance.

Check out this brand new video from Edie Sedgick, who will be playing the 4:20-5pm slot at DC Does Texas next week. If you haven’t heard Edie’s recent Love Gets Lovelier Every Day LP, well, I strongly suggest you correct that right now.

We’re happy to announce that we have a final schedule for this year’s DC Does Texas show, and it includes another great band — Noon:30!!!

Check it out:

12:00 DOORS OPEN — DJ Baby Alcatraz kicks things off and plays between bands!
12:10-12:45 Pree
1:00-1:35 Hume
1:50-2:25 Deleted Scenes
2:40-3:15 Soccer Team
3:30-4:05 Noon:30
4:20-5:00 Edie Sedgwick
5:15-6:00 Kid Congo and The Pink Monkey Birds

In case you missed it earlier, the show goes down on Wednesday, March 14th at LOVEJOY’S at 604 Neches Street in Austin.

You can still RSVP here or here! It’s free!

See you soon!

Be warned, we may still add another band!

We’ll be updating the poster soon, but please also welcome PREE to this year’s DC Does Texas lineup!!!

RSVP here!!

Carol Bui, “Geisha Means Open Minded”

‘Red Ship’ is a festive, fiery blend of celebratory Middle Eastern and North African percussion coupled with progressive pop melodic tendencies. The album brims with the musicality that caused Pitchfork to call Bui’s previous album “…a punk-bred record where the guitar is loud but the tunes prevail” and My Old Kentucky Blog to proclaim it the completion of the rock trifecta that also includes Liz Phair’s Exile In Guyille and PJ Harvey’s Rid of Me.

Where co-producer TJ Lipple (Aloha) played most of the drums on her previous album, ‘Everyone Wore White’, Bui exercises her new habit on the single and album, laying down the exotic back beat herself and conjuring a festive and joyful noise, written for movement and very much inspired by the seemingly disparate elements of Middle Eastern dance and post hardcore and punk rock.

The provocative content, lush production (once again by Lipple at Inner Ear Studios in Arlington, VA), and unique arrangements demonstrate what Bui chooses to term “the primitive means of expressing joy.” She explains by asking, “What did people do to make music and express happiness back when there weren’t sophisticated instruments around? They hit things! And sang! And danced! This record is to invoke that spirit.

Tereu Tereu, “The Body Unmade”

The future is now for Washington, D.C.’s Tereu Tereu.

After spending several years building a reputation for fiery, exciting live shows, and releasing a well-received EP and full-length album, the band took much of 2010 off to reconfigure its lineup, re-connect as a band, and do lots and lots of songwriting. The band is now set to break out in a BIG way in 2011.

In fact, the year already started off with a bang when the band was hand-picked to open the very first show of their heroes The Dismemberment Plan’s reunion tour at Washington D.C.’s The Black Cat.

And now things are about to really take off, as the band is prepping forthe April 5 release of its brand new 3-song EP entitled NW (named after D.C.’s Northwest quadrant). The new EP finds the band moving away from the edgy pop of its early releases to a bolder, more aggressive sound typified by lead single “The Body Unmade” (listen above). If you ask the band, they’ll tell you that this new lineup is still finding its voice, but if NW is any indication, this is a band that’s completely comfortable in its skin and its art.

The band is also about to kick off a two-week tour with friend Carol Bui down to Austin for SXSW and back, including sets at the My Old Kentucky Blog and DC Does Texas SXSW showcases. The band will be playing its own sets as well as backing up Carol for her sets. You won’t want to miss the chance to see these two great artists playing together.

If you haven’t heard Tereu Tereu before, or even if you have, I highly recommend checking out the new EP (download it above), and seeing them live on this tour. This is a band that just keeps getting better and better, and you’re going to want to be able to say that you knew them before they got big.

The Caribbean, “Mr. Let’s Find Out”

The Caribbean. Shadowy quintet (perhaps trio?) draped in velvet enigma. Or maybe just Steely Dan on a light-beer budget, faceless contributors scattered hither and yon, submitting stealthy sonic fragments via telephone transmissions and paper-airplane parachute drops. Descended from primo D.C. agitpop, old-school division. Certainly of the Dischord tribe (see: the flip attitude of the Make-Up or Jawbox’s raw edge). But also Eggs. And Tsunami. The coy pop-culture savvy of Unrest (witness witty wordplay on “Annunciator Zone”: “All those great Chicago bands like King Crimson and Kraftwerk or that one that sounds like Tortoise”). Third albums. The landscape littered with the bleached skeletons of Zen Arcade and Zenyatta Mondatta. Third. Or even III. But this—History’s First Know-It-All—is knowing. Cynical, yet naively hopeful. Apropos of crushed feelings. Household appliances. Class of ‘83, UCLA. All lovingly rendered in illegible, handwritten scribble-scrawl and plunked down erect beside sounds both found (celery crunching) and created (piano backdrops, drum stutters, nylon-stringed guitar webs). Glorious eclecticism or hipster fence-straddling? More the former than latter. Purposefully arcane and brainy-sounding hangtags: “Fresh Out Of Travel Agent School.” “It’s Unlikely To Settle The Difference.” (Todd Rundgren fans, in this day and age? Why not?) The verdict: difficult but rewarding, albeit in that William Carlos Williams kind of way. So much depends upon/A third longplayer/Glazed with dour postures/Beside the white women.

- Magnet

These United States, “The Great Rivers”
(Photo by Sarah Law, via the band’s website)

These United States surrender themselves to unbridled rock and roll exuberance: ringing guitars, thundering drums, desperate yearning bordering on hope. By turns larger-than-life and disarmingly intimate, this is folk in the truest sense – a record of the moment, of the cultural and emotional forces that animate everyday existence somewhere down below the headlines. (But never apart from them.) And These United States play it the way folk was meant to be played: hard, fast, big, slow, long, loud, loose, at last unburdened. They play like they mean it. Like there’s never been a better time to be alive.

Over the last three years These United States has played 600 shows, released four albums and gained the support of NPR’s All Things Considered, World Cafe, and Mountain Stage, Spin, Paste, Filter, NY Times, Village Voice, Brooklyn Vegan, JamBase, The Onion, Daytrotter, My Old Kentucky Blog, KEXP, KCRW, WXPN, and WFUV. Festival highlights include: Lollapalooza, High Sierra, Pickathon, Glastonbury, Mt. Jam, XPoNential, Joshua Tree, Celebrate Brooklyn, and Forecastle.

We are extremely pleased to announce the lineup for 2011′s DC DOES TEXAS day party at SXSW.

DC DOES TEXAS
Wednesday, March 16th, 2001
Lovejoy’s, 604 Neches St., Austin TX
12pm-6pm

FREE (capacity permitting!)
FREE DOGFISH HEAD BEER (until it runs out!)

BANDS!!!!

12-12:35pm: Carol Bui
12:50-1:30pm: Tereu Tereu
1:45-2:25pm: Typefighter
2:40-3:20pm: Deleted Scenes
3:35-4:05: True Womanhood
4:20-5pm: The Caribbean
5:15-6pm: These United States

We’ll be posting tracks from most (if not all) of the bands right here on this site in the weeks leading up to the show, and we may even have a couple more surprises up our sleeves, so stay tuned!

We look forward to seeing you there!!!!

<3 Val, Dan, Steve and Jay