By Audra Schroeder

Austin Chronicle

Published on March 5, 2010 at 1:41am

Lamberts, Friday, Mar 5

This local layer cake will go straight to your hips, in a good way. The sweet country ballads of Monarchs creep up on you, courtesy of rare songbird Celeste Griffin. The recent release of the Sour Notes’ It’s Not Gonna Be Pretty marks big things for the Austin fourpiece; the pop confections are easy on the ears, but they’ve got the chops to cover Jawbreaker. Openers Cowabunga Babes have returned from tour, ready to get their Kinks off.

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By Audra Schroeder

Austin Chronicle

Published on January 2, 2009 at 1:41am

1. Charles Potts Magic Windmill Band, The Golden Calves (Business Deal)

2. The Sour Notes, The Meat of the Fruit

3. Mammoth Grinder, Rage and Ruin (Depleted Resource)

4. The Ape-Shits, La Pollution Culturelle (Super Secret)

5. Silver Pines, Forces

6. Pillow Queens, Kookoolegit (Monofonus Press)

7. When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, Not Noiice (Chalk Circle)

8. Gretchen Phillips, I Was Just Comforting Her (Seasick Sailor)

9. My Education, Bad Vibrations (Strange Attractors Audio House)

10. Murdocks, Roar! Roar! Roar! (Surprise Truck)

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