I’m gonna step on JonG’s toes a bit here and give you guys a heads up on a nice little Austin show tomorrow… which by the title of this post, is clearly not The Lemurs and Castaneda at The Beauty Bar. OK it is….you caught me.

I’m not going to really get into The Lemurs, because everyone in Austin already knows these guys are a first class band, almost ready for the national scene. So enough said. However, L.A.’s Castaneda is likely a new name for some of you guys….and they are coming all the way to the Lone Star State, just to make sweet passionate love to your ear drums. Thus, I feel inclined to inform you all….

The fact that I first stumbled across these guys at a house party in Los Feliz a couple years back is just classic. They absolutely blew the roof off some uber-hipster party that I really had no business attending . But I definitely open mouth kissed someone’s little sister that night… so that counts for something, right? right? This delightful evening with what’s her name Castaneda prompted me to keep an eye on the band over the past year. And now guess what?...They are a very legit name in the ever growing, and much respected, Los Feliz/Silverlake scene.

Besides their rather addicting, progressive indie pop hits… these guys have a couple great non-musical attributes going for them as well. First, the rad artwork they have for almost every gig and secondly (and most important), they have some of the hottest indie-rock-chick groupies around. Indie girls….yesssssss. But it makes sense, I’ve been lucky enough to hang with these dudes a few times and they are a pretty rad bunch. A couple of them could use a haircut, but lets be honest….thats probably my reseeding hairline talking there.

Well as for now, enjoy the tunes from Castaneda and The Lemurs…..and stay black.

Blackbird O-U-T