A message from the parisian duo:

We all know that Austin is one of the most active cities in the US rock culture, and that it hosts 2 big "band" festivals; ACL & SXSW.
I think we're all familiar with the ACL Music Festival; a 3-day event of concerts in the city´s "borders".
Far different from the SXSW, the ACL presents from mid-pop to mainstream artists. This year´s lineup includes bands like Beck, Manu Chao, David Byrne, The Mars Volta, Gnarls Barkley, N.E.R.D, Iron & Wine, Hot Chip, Vampire Weekend, the legendary Roky Erickson, CSS, Antibalas, etc.

What may not be equally known here is the fact that there's a chance for 1 "totally indie" band. This band is chosen from a 4-Round contest where every musician is wellcome to join and compete. The contest mixes fan support and expert musician judges to decide who makes it to the party.
The contest has filtered 20 bands out of hundreds of competitors around the world...and there's one mexican leading the battle; 60 TIGRES.


This Monterrey-based band is a funky-dance-punk mixture of sounds that's been growing big lately. They played in last year's SXSW and now with a full album and an energetic live show, they promise to deliver a "psychedelic Tito Puente with a mohwak" to Austin's big stages...and they're doing that through online fan-voting.

You can support the band by visiting their site and voting on DELL's contest. Listen to the album "Los Emigrantes", browse their myspace and if you like it, do it. To make things EASY, you can suscribe to the mail list and you'll be sent the vote link, they also send exclusive short stories, news and music previews. So, support your local movement and mexican indie musicians.

www.60tigres.com

Hello
I'm Mau, Architect, music lover, art enthusiast.
An EASY way to explain who I am is with my nick: Poliphilo...a renaissence character, famous in architecture literature, introduced to me by an teacher in Montreal, who wrote Polyphilo (the modern remake of the historical novel)


The name Poliphilo is Greek for "lover of Polia". But Polia, in turn, translates as "Many Things". And, indeed, besides Polia, Poliphilo loves many things: diaphanous garments, precious stones and gems, gold, fine linen, food, chandeliers, sculptures, epigrams, sweet fragances, ballet, triumphal processions, hieroglyphs, mosaics, antiques vases and, not least, women's shoes - all the objects that make up the "total design" concept of the courtly humanist Renaissence lifestyle. But he loves architecture the most; he loves it as much as he loves Polia, and in the same carnal way.

so thats pretty much the idea. Just apply that to architecture AND MUSIC.

I've been around music all my life...well......IT IS MY LIFE.

Helloooooo NuKidz! I decided to take up Mr. Easy on contributing to his blog. But first I want to introduce myself, I am Oktavio PD from El Paso, Tx/Juarez, Mx. I am a part of the Pastilla Digital Collective and a resident at TheHardpop Bundesbar. I also write my own blog that covers the scene in Juarez called Tapekiller, check it out! For my first post I decided to post up some songs that are in heavy rotation in my sets and a couple from some bands that I am into.