event The Chinese Stars
Also Playing: Sensitive Hearts and The Altars and Dated
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Thu Nov 12
10 pm,
The Chinese Stars, Sensitive Hearts, The Altars, and Dated at Beerland
Arab On Radar broke up in 2002, and the next year ex-Arabs Eric Paul and Craig Kureck joined The Chinese Stars. The Rhode Island-based band—which recently formed its own imprint, Anchor Brain—plays the kind of spastic-sounding art-school rock that helped to break its former label, Three One G, in the early 2000s. On this year’s Heaven On Speed Dial, its first release for Anchor Brain, Paul yells through noisy, neck-breaking guitar parts and rhythmic basslines—it’s raucous dance music for kids that listen to noise, and even the cowbell sounds good. Labelmates Sensitive Hearts are a more maudlin incarnation of the Awesome Brothers, trading their usual prankish disco for what sounds like a satirical take on ’80s New Romantics like ABC.
Beerland 711 Red River St, Austin, TX
Arab On Radar broke up in 2002, and the next year ex-Arabs Eric Paul and Craig Kureck joined The Chinese Stars. The Rhode Island-based band—which recently formed its own imprint, Anchor Brain—plays the kind of spastic-sounding art-school rock that helped to break its former label, Three One G, in the early 2000s. On this year’s Heaven On Speed Dial, its first release for Anchor Brain, Paul yells through noisy, neck-breaking guitar parts and rhythmic basslines—it’s raucous dance music for kids that listen to noise, and even the cowbell sounds good. Labelmates Sensitive Hearts are a more maudlin incarnation of the Awesome Brothers, trading their usual prankish disco for what sounds like a satirical take on ’80s New Romantics like ABC.
Updated 11/04/2009
