01 October 2009

Austin City Limits Music Festival 2009: Can't Miss This - Saturday 10/3


!!! - Sat. 10/3 2pm (AMD) 
 
Wild. That will be the scene, the vibe and the set that these New York-based, dancearound indie-pop-punk gents infatuated with exclamation points (pronounced Chk-Chk-Chk like the sound of a keyboard), bring to the West side of the park on Saturday. Lead singer Nik Offer tends to get the hipster dance junkies going these days, something !!! used to get a lot of shit for just a year or two ago.

Everything revolves in circles, and Austin, full of 80's gear-wearing hipsters that were too young to remember the Clash's disco-dance phase or Mick Jones going to the pop-culture darkside with Big Audio Dynamite, will eat this up. We mean it. This will be THE gig the hip crowd will be talking about long after the dust, er...the grass clippings settle. Take the attitude of Dave Chapelle's Rick James funk, slap it with the Clash and roll it out with a serious bass line and a drum beat that won't quit and folks, this side of the park is going to be seriously rocking.

There is a dance-revolution going on in indie rock (or is that Evil Otto from 80's arcade game Berserk?) !!! are punctuating the movement.

These guys are ready. Question is, are you?