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2024 Indie Holiday on Mixcloud
Indie holiday songs, unlike their mainstream counterparts, are often an unpolished celebration of the quirky, the imperfect, and the raw. Maybe it’s an odd take on Carol or a rousing ode to jingling bells sung by a motley choir. To truly understand what makes these songs stand out, we must first look at the world of indie music itself. Indie artists, who thrive on identities of authenticity,…
Bottlecap Mountain is on the show today!
One of Dr. J’s favorite bands, Bottlecap Mountain, will be in Dayton on Tuesday, March 28, 2023, and that is a cause for celebration. After a visit to Your Tuesday Afternoon Alternative for an interview and some live acoustic songs during our second hour they will play a set at Blind Bob’s in Dayton tonight! Imagine a great indie pop rock band with a side of funk and a Replacements meet Uncle…
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Matt Derda Best of 2022
Matt Derda Best of 2022
One of our favorite discoveries of the past few years was Matt Derda & The High Watts! They released a stellar record in 2022 and so we thought what better way to celebrate an amazing year in music than to ask Matt to write about a few of his favorite releases from this past trip around the sun, and to our joy he agreed! Thank you, Matt! 2022 was definitely the year of independent music for me.…
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The #Tweetcore Radio Hour, Episode 3
The #Tweetcore Radio Hour, Episode 3
In this episode of The #Tweetcore Radio Hour, I play tunes by The LaLaLettes, Fuzzruckus, Unlucky Mammals, Bottlecap Mountain, The Star Crumbles, The Kintners, Voodoo Planet, Spaghetti Eastern Music, Snap Infraction, and Quizboy! I also chat with Brian Lambert about the healing power of music and the distinction he sees between underground and indie music. Give it a listen!
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Behold: Bottlecap Mountain! That’s my friend David, over on the left. Oh. My. Buddha! They are so freaking fabulous! I’ve seen them twice in the past two weeks, most recently at Scoot Inn this past Monday. Their song THIS TOWN really needs to be adopted as the theme song for what is happening to Austin right now.
I don’t just love their music, though. I love how they came into my life. And I love how going out to hear them goes a long way toward reminding me I need to keep a good attitude in the face of too much change too fast.
I first ran into David at the birthday party of a mutual friend. This was right at the beginning stages of the whole Piñata Demolition Fiasco. It was before I got nailed to a cross by a small group of... oh shit. Never mind all that. The bullying is behind me now. Suffice it to say that the one good thing that came out of my involvement with the piñata bullshit is that it was the catalyst for a long, meandering, hilarious conversation with D.
We caught up with each other a couple of months later and he played his songs for me. In addition to being a word/melody/six-string alchemist for heartfelt songs, he is also the genius behind the jaunty jingle for Austin Tiny Pies. (If you go to the Tiny Pies Website and click on the little button in the right hand corner, you can hear for yourself.)
Before Bottlecap Mountain’s Scoot Inn gig, I caught some softball at Krieg Complex (scroll down for more on that). Then I met up with Ann and Jay at Rio Rita for some conversation. Then we all strolled over to the Scoot. I gotta say that live music on a Monday night in Austin really calls to mind Old Austin in the best way. Parking is free. The streets weren’t packed. The fans were there to actually listen to the music.
And I scored a food truck taco that tasted precisely like every single condiment in the refrigerator had barfed into a tortilla and formed a conga line with a handful of pinto beans, a few strands of cabbage, and an incredibly generous helping of raw diced onions. Ingesting this taste treat set forth a montage in my mind of so very many similar Gastronomical Gut Busting Delicacies I’d taken in over my decades as a drunk. (Fortunately the taco did not, however, inspire me to once again take up drinking, thus I had only morning after flatulence with which to contend, and not a screaming hangover.)
The older I get and the more crowded this town gets, the less inclined I am to wander out spontaneously, or even at all for that matter. I spend so much time at home in my bed I give Brian Wilson and the grandparents from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory a run for the money. But times I do venture out and find myself in a dark dive bar with a genuinely excellent band playing and a truly appreciative audience listening rapt, my heart just goes BOOM BOOM BOOM for Austin, Texas.
Thank you Bottlecap Mountain!
I <3 ATX!
NOTE: If you’re reading this the day it posts, you can catch Bottlecap Mountain at the Gypsy Lounge at 10 pm. Otherwise just check out the Bottlecap Mountain Facebook Page for more info.
