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This Week's New Album Releases (4/19/11)

Each week we highlight notable album releases we care about. One of these six includes our favorite song of the year....  read more

Bob Schneider: A Perfect Day

Once upon a Bob Schneider incarnation, you could buy a t-shirt with a growling lion and the word “FRUNK” in all caps just above it. Frunk, if I recall correctly, was Schneider’s invented name for his sound, at the time loosely definable as rock songs with silly (and sometimes oddly insightful) lyrics, funky bass lines, and a generous splash of horns when the mood struck. Frunk fell out of fashion when he parsed down his weird humor to play with a more serious folk-rock sound, but even then there was an adventurous audacity to the arrangements he spackled together. In that way, it’s easy to hear A Perfect Day as just the latest in a long line of records of Bob Schneider trying to find....  read more

Download Bob Schneider's Cover of The Pogues' "Fairytale Of New York"

Download Bob Schneider's cover of The Pogues' "Fairytale of New York" here.Schneider's Christmastime is available now through his website....  read more

Austin Film Festival 2009 Part Two

I don't know if festival programmers do this on purpose but sometimes you come across a documentary and a narrative that fit well together as companion pieces. This year the documentary Warrior Champions compliments the drama The Messenger. Melissa Stockwell in Warrior ChampionsWarrior ChampionsWhether they're embedded in Iraq for the Discovery Channel's acclaimed series  "Off to War" or filming about the drug wars and sky rocketing murder rate in Juarez, Mexico for the New York Times, Craig and Brent Renaud have never shied from the dangerous stories. But with Warrior Champions the filmmakers look at the other side of war by telling the story of America's paraplegic...  read more

Catching Up With... Bob Schneider

Talk to Bob Schneider for five minutes and he will try to mess with you. Seriously. The long-time Austin resident, who also sings with bands the Ugly Americans, the Scabs, and as his alter ego, Joe Rockhead, is about to launch a tour to promote his latest solo album, Lovely Creatures, which dropped Sept. 29. The album is a folky, heartfelt collection of songs about love and life that belies the singer's stated goal to "seem like I don't give a fuck." When not on tour, fans can find Schneider every Monday night in the Saxon Pub in Austin, where he'll try out...  read more

Bob Schneider

Bob Schneider’s latest album, I’m Good Now, was supposed to be released last year, while he was still with Universal. But mega-label mathematicians decided projected sales of 250,000 units wasn’t enough...  read more