Cowboy and Indian Head West

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West Coast music fans are soon going to have the chance to check out one of the most talked about new bands on the Austin music scene when Cowboy & Indian ride out for a 20-date tour, including dates at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.

The rootsy trio began when Jazz Mills (T-Bird and the Breaks) got together with Jesse Plemons to write their first song. The collaboration took off and before long the pair was drawing major buzz at SXSW. Daniel James (frontman of SF based "Leopold and His Fiction") soon joined the band to complete the trio.

“We came together out of nowhere and were immediately inspired by one another,” Mills said. The band immediately put that inspiration to work, by recording their first song, “Hurt My Pride.” With Daniel in San Francisco and Jazz and Jesse in Austin, the bulk of the song was written over the phone. Yet when it came time to record, the chemistry was obvious to all. “We tracked the song as soon as we arrived in San Francisco,” James said, “and did it from the ground up, recording in living rooms, bedrooms and closets.”

The band is currently working its first full-length album, produced by James and due out this spring. They recently recorded a video of "Hurt My Pride” (featured on Baybridged.com) while on their cross-country tour, using playful footage captured in Chicago and on the banks of Lake Michigan. The band’s song “Trouble Tracks” was recently featured in an episode of the NBC hit series Parenthood.

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High Five! from Lawrence & Leigh

Straight from Brooklyn, this week's High Five! is brought to you by Lawrence & Leigh:

1. Enter the Void

Enter the Void is an AWESOME movie! Unfortunately, I can't tell you anything about it, because you'll just have to experience it for yourself. The film is visually stunning, very intense, long, and it says something about our time on earth. Tokyo, psychedelics, and the Tibetan Book of the End are major inspirations for this movie, to give you a hint.

2 Ken Nordine's Colors

This is a 1967 jazzy, spoken word album about colors. Each poem is about a minute or two long and it intricately describes one of Nordine's 34 favorite colors, from orange to ecru. Ken Nordine is the master of spoken word—and a hit at any party.

3. Adult Onesie

Who wouldn't want to wear a cozy, fleece/flannel body suit that has rubber dots on the bottom of the feet around this time of year?! The onesie is waaaay more functional than the Snuggie and it is so warm and comfy, it gives a whole new meaning to the words "leisure suit." Toddlers know what's up!

4. San Francisco Burrito

New York might be the "world's capital," but that city doesn't know shit about burritos. We flew back to our native land of California just for the mexican food (oh yeah...and to be with family for the holiday...). Since we arrived, we've literally eaten burritos every other day, in order to reach our maximum burrito potential. Listen, a person's got to do what a person's got to do! What is the best way to eat a deliciously made S.F. burrito, you ask? Curled up in a onesie.

5. Huruki Murakami

What happens when you take an ordinary, thirty-something-year-old Japanese man and place him in extraordinary, fantastical circumstances? The clear fascination of the wildly imaginative author, Huruki Murakami. Murakami uses a basic template in various ways, in various novels, blending the line of reality and fantasy, human and otherworldly, and singular consciousness and universal interconnectedness to such an extent that readers often lose sight of what is real. Our recommendations include: Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (a quick and consuming read) and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (a beautiful novel that will have you savoring all 607 pages).

To celebrate the end of the nine to five, a Green Light Go staff member or artist will leave you with their short list of favorite things, better known as the High Five!

This week's High Five! is brought to you by: Lawrence & Leigh

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Neon Reverb Festival Welcomes Leopold and His Fiction Back for a Second Time

Though they’re a California band, you’d never know it when Leopold and His Fiction is in Las Vegas. Las Vegas Weekly called them “quite possibly the best thing to come out of this February's Neon Reverb Festival” and Las Vegas CityLife said “The ebullient, vigorous rock opera of San Francisco’s Leopold and His Fiction [is] perhaps the sleeper of the festival thus far.” Perhaps that’s why the Neon Reverb Festival invited them back for their fall event which goes from September 16th through the 18th. Leopold and His Fiction’s live shows are like a magnetic force you can’t resist. "This trio is a trip to watch, boiling and smashing a diverse range of musical genres that is both ethereal and bombastic," said Denise Guerra of the Campus Circle Newspaper about their recent Viper Room show. Charismatic front man Daniel James says of performing live, “We are in our element and want to be nowhere else in the world than on that stage”.

Leopold and his Fiction’s latest single, “Golden Friends” has been described as “...haunting and scratchy, and sounds as if it was conjured up in the backrooms of old Western saloons over whiskey and cigarettes,” by Tympanogram. They’ve been in John Baccigaluppi’s The Hanger with Thom Monahan (Devendra Banhart, Little Joy, Vetiver) and this recording ventures out appropriately from the blues structure of the first two records, while engaging start to finish the theatrics and entertainment of voyage fans have become accustomed to hearing.

NEON REVERB is a music festival in Las Vegas, NV, created and organized by local, independent promoters, on a not-for-profit basis, simply for the love of music. The idea is to produce a new twice-annual event (happening every March and September) that helps galvanize Downtown Las Vegas as the center of a thriving and growing music scene. They hope both to build more community among local promoters, venues, and musicians, and to help highlight Las Vegas as a place where bands from around the country (and the world) should come and play! More information on Neon Reverb can be found at http://www.neonreverb.com/.

Neon Reverb Festival

Bunkhouse Saloon, Las Vegas, NV

Saturday, September 18th

Show: 12:00 AM

$20 Day Pass/$55 All Festival Pass

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