#pswingset

[coreygoestoconcerts-blog]

On This Day (8/18): O’Brother, Native, Daylight, Pswingset

08/18/2013; Red 7, Austin, TX

O’Brother was supposed to be the next big thing in post-hardcore/emo for about five minutes around the time I saw them. Certain friends were talking them up and they had a ton of hype around them online. So I saw them. I was a bit underwhelmed. It was fine, but I don’t remember their set being special or anything. It was just another band following in the footsteps of Thrice or Cursive. Fine. Nothing great.

Native was kind of similar. First time I saw them was on a Sargent House showcase at South by Southwest with the Mars Volta. At the showcase, I actually sort of got my hopes up about Native. They were one of the more exciting bands there and at the time I wasn’t hearing many bands playing their flavor of post-hardcore. But, as time passed, they never really capitalized, and much like O’Brother, ended up fading into my memory. As their Facebook has not been updated in a few years, I guess they’re done.

It’s always interesting to me when this happens. You just never really know who is going to end up being significant and who isn’t. Around this time, I would have sworn O’Brother was going to carve out a niche like a new mewithoutYou and they’d be doing much bigger things right now. Obviously not. In 2011, I went to a Trapped Under Ice show at Mango’s in Houston and I had no interest in being there. Truth be told, I thought they might be a Metallica cover band when my friend first mentioned them. Years later, I’m a big fan, but the members went on to form Turnstile and now they’re on the cover of magazines and one of the biggest hype bands in the scene. You just never know.

[pswingset]

Surface Waves (Demo), by New Monuments

Jordan's new project, New Monuments, has a full song up on bandcamp, now! FFO The Life and Times, Engine Down, Juno, etc. 

[topshelfrecords]

Can you make Pswingset do something?

besides break up? :(

[jwelker]

Surface Waves (Demo clip) | New Monuments

new band, new songs - more to come.

[meatcubelabel]

In the works for quite some time (as everything is), I'm proud to get out two new releases in time to close out the year. They're a little different from our usual heavier releases, but the same impeccable quality you're used to from MeatCubeLabel.

nim - a piece of plastic cassette

Something of a "best of" for this long running Kyoto-based emo band. Nim is one of the most well known bands in Japan playing the classic 90's emo sound. Their style is guitar-heavy and super nostalgic. This is definitely a band you don't want to miss out on.  

Pswingset / Play Dead Season split cassette

A split release commemorating the Pswingset / Play Dead Season 2013 Japan tour. Austin's Pswingset follow up their 2012 Topshelf Records debut with two of their best songs yet. Smooth emo with a strong DC influence. Tokyo's Play Dead Season also follow up their 2013 album with two abrasive songs. Raw Japanese post-hardcore.

[pswingset]

Coming soon: Our split with Play Dead Season on cassette via the MeatCube and Strange Tales labels! Updates to follow!

[danielphawkins]

My time with the band: PSWINGSET

#FBF

Nov 26th 2010 @ 1011, San Antonio TX w/ SOHNS

Dec 10th 2010 @ Hole In the Wall, Austin TX w/ Look Mexico

Feb 3rd 2011 @ Red Seven, Austin TX w/ Native, Pj Bond

March 15th 2011 @ Plush, Austin TX w/ TopShelf / CYLS - SXSW Show #1

March 18th 2011 @ Mellow Mushroom, Austin TX w/ Former Thieves, Felix Culpa, Helen Earth Band, Xerxes, IIOI

April 7th 2011 @ Thunderbird Coffee, Austin TX

May 21st 2011 @ Mohawk, Austin w/ Jonah Matranga

June 13th 2011 @ House Show, Austin TX w/ Football, Etc.

June 23th 2011 @ The Mink, Houston TX w/ Football, Etc.

June 24th 2011 @ The Center House, Arlington TX w/ Football, Etc. innards

June 25th 2011 @ Bad Grannys, Oklahoma City OK w/ Football, Etc.

June 26th 2011 @ Dettos Barn, Liberty MO w/ Football, Etc.

June 27th 2011 @ Moving Castle, Chicago IL w/ Grown Ups (last show) Football, Etc. , Coping

June 28th 2011 @ The DAAC, Grand Rapids MI w/ Radiator Hospital, Football, Etc. The Ground Is lava

June 29th 2011 @ Kling Thing, Akron OH w/ Annabell, Prawn, Gamenight, Football, Etc.

June 30th 2011 @ Pilot Light, Knoxville TN w/ Gamenight

July 1st 2011 @ Banks St. Bar, New Orleans LA w/ The Silent Game

July 2nd 2011 @ Mohawk, Austin TX w/ Artificial Heart, Tape Deck MTN

Aug 21st 2011 @ Beauty Bar, Austin TX w/ Graveyard Lovers, Diving

Sept 8th 2011 @ Vinyl Junkie, Houston TX w/ Football, Etc, Reverse The Curse, Square and Compass

Sept 9th 2011 @ 1011, San Antonio TX w/ Football, Etc.

Sept 10th 2011 @ Emos, Austin TX w/ Wild Frontier Festival

Nov 9th 2011 @ Beauty Bar, Austin TX w/ Coping, InAeona, The vessel

Dec 10th 2011 @ Scoot Inn, Austin TX w/ We'll Go Machette

Jan 1st - Jan 8th 2012 @ Recording 'All Our False Stars' in Denver CO

Feb 6th 2012 @ Mohawk, Austin TX w/ The Jealous Sound

March 13th 2012 @ Gypsy Lounge, Austin TX w/ Topshelf Records SXSW

March 16th 2012 @ Mellow mushroom, Austin TX w/ You Blew It, Slingshot Dakota, The Loom, brother Ghost

March 17th 2012 @ Varsity Bar, Austin TX w/ Look Mexico

May 25th 2012 @ Scoot Inn, Austin TX w/ Slingshot Dakata

July 24th 2012 @ Red Seven, Austin TX w/ You Blew It, brothers or Not

August 17 2012 @ Scoot Inn, Austin TX w/ Look Mexico, Football, Etc

Oct 12th 2012 @ Mangos, Houston TX w/ Holder, Hoofprints

Oct 13th 2012 @ Rubber Gloves, Denton TX w/ The New Trust

Oct 14th 2012 @ 1011, San Antonio TX w/ Sohns, Stegosaur

March 13th 2013 @ Barbarella, Austin TX w/ Weapons Of Mass Creation SXSW showcase w/ Laura Stevenson, pentimento, cherry cola champs

March 15th 2013 @ Austin Kickboxing, Austin TX w/ Topshelf SXSW #3

July 5th 2013 @ 1011, San Antonio TX w/ Stegosaur

July 6th 2013 @ Mangos, Houston TX w/ Football, Etc. Hoofprints, Valens

July 7th 2013 @ Holy Mountain, Austin TX w/ Hoofprints, Stegosaur

July 12th 2013 @ Heavy Sick, Tokyo Japan w/ Play Dead Season, Detrytus

July 13th 2013 @ Era Shimokitizawa, Tokyo Japan w/ Malegoat, Mirror, Akutagawa, Play Dead Season

July 14th 2013 @ Nano Live House, Kyoto Japan w/ Bed, Play Dead Season

July 15th 2013 @ Rita, Nagoya Japan w/ Slavedriver, Play Dead Season

Aug 17th 2013 @ Red Seven, Austin TX w/ Native, O brother

Sept 21st 2013 @ Red Seven, Austin TX w/ Markov

Jan 2nd 2014 @ Stubbs, Austin TX w/ Thieves, Nominee

Feb 6th 2014 @ Red Seven, Austin TX w/ IIOI, World Is, GBPOL,

http://topshelfrecords.bandcamp.com/album/all-our-false-starts

http://pswingset.bandcamp.com/album/split-w-play-dead-season

2010 to 2014, awesome times. awesome tours. I feel really fortunate to have been able to do everything we got to do and work with so many cool people. I can remember distinctly feeling like this would be my last hurray.. as I was then 28 when I joined the band, but that hasn't ended up being true. Joining this band ended up being more of a rejuvenation for me as a musician and an opportunity to be apart of something again that I experienced when i was 18 and 19. In fact it's been wholly unexpected and amazing to me that since turning 30 I have actually been able to experience more amazing things through playing music than when I was in my 20's. I spent an entire decade of my life in van touring with Little Compass and later with Papermoons. I was skeptical and weary of being in a band again by the time Jordan invited me to join Pswingset. But as it has turned out, it was a truly wonderful experience and even though we didn't play a million shows or spend 4 years on the road killing ourselves.. the things we did do, and the people we met and friendships that we formed have all had a hugely positive effect on where my life is at this moment.

Live To Shred, Shred To Live

[jwelker]

still awesome to be included in articles like this.