The pictures from our yearly bad sweater party are now online! Thanks a lot to Alison Narro for taking photos, as always. Here’s some of our favorites, and the rest can be seen here or by clicking on any of the pictures below.
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From The Ladle to The Grave winners!
Congratulations to Leana and Lee who took 1st and 2nd place at our little soup competition this past weekend. And thank you so much to everyone that came out, and to everyone that made soup. So many delicious soups were there, I wish we could have given everyone a trophy.
There was a tie for 2nd, and as we all know, the only way to solve any tie breaker is with JARTS! They’re illegal!
Zorch and friends also played a couple improv soup sets through the night. Thanks, guys, it sounded great. A handful of more pictures can be seen over at our flickr.
Season of The Witch Release Party
Thank you to everyone that came out to Rio Rita last night to celebrate the release of our first mix CD, Season of The Witch. We hope that everyone that got a copy enjoys it, and if you feel a spirit possessing you while listening – it’s best to just accept it.
We set up an altar to incant all that we could, and offered our sounds up to the gods. Pictures below.
A few more on our flickr.
Santisima Muerte
Filed under Art and Design, Austin, Flotsam, Music, Pictures, Street Art
Dia de los Muertos is one of our favorite holidays, and for the second year in a row, we’ve carved a pumpkin depicting some skellington friends. This year we decided on making a skeleton lady (last year was the Duke), as inspired by a mural put up on 5th street downtown for the Dia de los Muertos festivites a few days ago. Sadly, I didn’t have our camera on hand, but the lovely Angeliska got a couple of beautiful shots:
(Another view)
These beautiful ladies made me want to make one of my own, and below are the results. A little rough, but this is only my second (!) pumpkin carving ever – with the help of Dave of course. We also found this wonderful Santisimia Muerta (The Holy Dead) candle that seemed all too fitting for the festivities. You can view the whole set on flickr here.
Zorch and their House Party
Zorch is a recently transplanted two-piece band that has quickly shot up to the top of Recspec’s favourites – their sound is a mix of freak out rock, psychdeleic electronic arpeggios, tribal music to be circumsized by, and the fruits of two very talented musicians. We work with them for their design and video projections and are very glad that they are in Austin now. You can download their album at their website (designed by Recspec!), or listen now over at their myspace.
Recently they had a house party with some other Recspec favorites: Woodgrain, Butcher Bear, and FM Campers. Here are some pictures that we took on the night. Thanks for having us, Zorch!
View the rest here.
The MFKN Gaslamp Killer
Had the pleasure of seeing The Gaslamp Killer DJ again while he was in town this past Thursday, and he was phenomenal and had the entire place packed with very very happy people. Here’s a couple pictures we snapped from the night, and if he comes to your town – make sure its a show that you do not miss. More photos here.
INSECT RECORDS Release Party Photos
Photos from the record release party at Mohawk for Insect Records are now up! We had a blast and it looks like you did too! Thanks to everyone that came out and let us assault you with our camera.
The photobooth and other assorted pictures can be viewed here.
INSECT RECORDS release party!
This Friday at the Mohawk, RECSPEC and INSECT RECORDS are teaming up for a big release party for two new releases on the label. We are doing all of the design and set decorations for the show which will be both inside and outside, and we will also be running a photobooth – so look out for tons of great party pictures after the night at our flickr page!
Also, check out this awesome write-up from The Onion about the night. See you there!
A Joy Division Cover Band
Had the pleasure of seeing the Joy Division Cover Band at the Chain Drive on Wednesday – who are now one of my favourite bands in Austin.
A handful of photos from the show can be seen here.
Khonnor and Aphid at Carousel Lounge
Here are some pictures from a show we attended at Carousel Lounge where our friend Aphid was playing with Khonnor and others. I’ve personally been a fan of Khonnors music ever since his release Handwriting, so it was a pleasure to meet him and learn that he is now an Austin local.
The Carousel Lounge itself is a brilliant circus themed dive bar that seems to be taking on more experimental shows lately, which is exciting.
In other news, we’re off to LA for about a week for a much needed vacation after working SXSW and will be updating this site with all manner of things when we return. We’ve also purchased a new digital SLR so you can be expecting many more pictures from us as well.