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Help me out, dear readers. Due to circumstances that are out of my control, I'll be heading back on a plane from Austin (not me) to Atlanta today in the early afternoon. Below are merely five acts I'm sad to miss. Please make it your job to go see them. There are many others, of course. Click here if you're having a tough time trying to decide how to spend your SXSaturday. But seriously, don't miss these:

Hometown: Chino and Los Angeles, Calif.
Album: Reviver EP
Band Members: Juan Velazquez (guitar/vocals), Michael Vidal (guitar/vocals), Dane Chadwick (drums), David Reichardt (bass)

The members of Abe Vigoda once sarcastically described their music as “tropical punk,” a mix of Captain Beefheart and weird African tribal rock, but things have changed: On the new Reviver EP, the band is tapping into its inner indie-goths. “I don’t want to say shoegazey, but kind of,” says Juan Velazquez, one of the band’s two guitarists and vocalists. “I was obsessed with the guitar being super clean, and then I got into being really full and dense. I like Sonic Youth, and now that’s coming out more and more.”

With a summer tour already in full swing, M.I.A. co-conspirator Diplo would have earned a month or two of downtime come fall. Yet, like his music, he soldiers on in one long crunky grind, gliding across states and continents as effortlessly as he mixes songs and genres. His new outing is a tour for his label, Mad Decent, titled as such. Joining him in this quest for the freshest beats will be post-punk primas Abe Vigoda who, while not on the Mad Decent label, are nonetheless mad decent themselves.

No, no, dear readers, we are not referring to the aged actor of Godfather fame. Rather, we speak of the L.A. tropicalia-infused punk outfit of same name.

The lovely gentleman of Abe Vigoda the band released their new record, Skeleton, on July 8. The four-man group is on tour to promote the album through August 8, and it'll be with fellow Los Angelinos No Age for many of the dates.