Below are this week’s recommended shows in Austin. This will be my final recommended show listing on Austin Sound Check, as I am leaving b5 Media at the end of April. It’s been just over a year since they asked me to start this blog and I’ve enjoyed every minute of it.

But as my other music ventures have evolved and began demanding more of my time, it seems that this is where I part ways with ASC. Dead Bunny Music is still hopping (rim shot!) and we’ll be announcing new shows and exciting new projects beginning in May. I’m still the Music Editor at INsite Magazine and we’ll be launching an all new website complete with blog shortly.

So here are my final recommendations for This Week in Austin. It’s been real, kids!

Tuesday 4/28
Cake @ Stubb’s

Thursday 4/30
Prey for Sleep and Dead Earth Politics @ Room 710

Friday 5/1
Death Cab for Cutie @ Austin Music Hall
T-Bird and the Breaks and Greyhounds @ Emo’s

Saturday 5/2
Mike Truth & The Replacement Killers (CD Release) @ Red Eyed Fly
Dredg @ Emo’s
Ultra8201 Presents : Ume and The White White Lights @ La Zona Rosa

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The second annual ATX Emerge event has one of the most exciting local line-ups to come across my inbox in quite a while. Featuring a diverse array of musicians, the event is a must for any and all creative industry professionals.

Visit ATX Emerge’s website to RSVP for free entry to the show.

The band info below is courtesy of the ATX Emerge website:

Belaire
An indie pop band hailing from Austin TX, Belaire merges the progressive attributes of Italian horror film scores with luscious synth swells and bossa nova rhythms to create a playful dream-pop sound.

Brazos
Songwriter Martin Crane has been creating music in our fair city for years. Brazos is his collaboration with Andy Beaudoin and Paul Prince, and the manifestation of his unique writing style in the form of a full band.

Freshmillions
Drawing from modern experimental groups like Ratatat and the Octopus Project, this group takes a tangle of cables, laptops, loopers and live instruments and turns it into an parade of quasi-electronic jams.

Foot Patrol
Inextricably torn from the 80s electro scene and brought to this era for our amusement, Foot Patrol blends danceable funk with an outrageous stage show. Think the Bar-Kays with a foot fetish.

Harlem
A band with a level of buzz that seems to exponetially grow every day, Harlem has captured the attention of Austin’s indie scene with their unfiltered garage-rock sound.

Sunset
Bill Baird (formerly of Sound Team) has created a project with lasting power. Each of their songs builds it’s own narrative, and their live shows become more and more captivating with every performance.

Ume
Raw, unpredictable, rowdy. Ume brings a type of energy to the stage that is a rare find in today’s environment, building on the sound pioneered by the kindred spirits Siouxse and the Banshees and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

The White White Lights
The haunting vocals and raw, introspective lyrics of Jenny Gacy collide spectrally with Jonas Wilson’s masterful production and intoxicating swirls of guitar build-ups to create hallucinations of staggering walls of sound and noir love songs half whispered and half screamed at dissolving ghosts. The White White Lights are sonic experimenters.

Zeale
Austin’s most respected rapper, Zeale will be coming back from an overseas tour just before ATX Emerge. Already this year, he has performed with De La Soul and KRS-1

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