Upcoming Shows

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

This is an UPDATED AND COMPLETE list of who we will be cleaning up after for SXSW

Here is the list of bands we will be cleaning up after during SXSW. We present this list in hopes that you'll come by the shop and have a good time. We hope to see you all healthy, hydrated and wearing good shoes, but we are realists and we know we're going to get a bunch of sweaty ingrates who are drunk on the combination of alcohol, having long hair and wearing shades and probably being from California.

We also present this list to let the world of travelling minstrels, hobbits, performance artists, singer songwriters and those who deem themselves "multi talented" know this: GOT IT DUDE, GO BUG ANOTHER MOTHERFUCKER. Hey there's a hair salon down the street from us now. Truck your bullshit over there.

(THIS IS THE COMPLETE LINE UP. IF YOUR BANDS NAME IS NOT ON THIS LIST YOU STILL CANNOT PLAY. NO ONE IS GOING TO BE DROPPING OFF AND IF THEY DID YOU STILL CANNOT PLAY UNLESS YOU'RE REALLY FUCKING BADASS. DONT CALL US UNLESS YOU WANT TO GIVE US BEER.)


Tues. 3/13 TRAILER SPACE PRESENTS HOOPENANY VOLUME 1

615 - Ichi Ni San Shi
630 - Randall Holt
700 - Dikes of Holland
730 - Dahling
800 - Teenage News
830 - Followed by Static
900 - Church Shoes
930 - Marriage
1000 - Coma in Algiers
1030 - Grape St.
1100 - Elvis!
1130 - A Giant Dog
1200 - Surprise Guest Maybe


Wed. 3/14 Burger Records Burgerstock

BURGERSTOCK 2012
14 – W – @ TRAILER SPACE (11am-1am)
11:00 – PRE-PARTY w/ GIVEAWAYS N GAMES!!!
12:00 – HABIBI
12:40 – HAUNTED TIGER
1:00 – THE ZOLTARS
1:45 – FOREVER BABY
2:30 – WHITE MYSTERY
3:15 – JOHN WESLEY COLEMAN
4:00 – SALSA CHIPS
4:45 – TOMORROWS TULIPS
5:30 – SAM FLAX
6:15 – GAP DREAM
7:00 – NATURAL CHILD
7:45 – PANGEA
8:30 - AUDACITY
9:15 – TIGER HIGH
10:00 – TOUGH SHITS
10:45 – MEAN JEANS
11:30 – NIGHT BEATS
12:15 – THEE OH SEES
Thurs 3/15 Colonel Sanders Presents

130-200 Habibi

200-230 Spectrals

245-315 Natural Child

330-400 Mallard

415-445 Special Guest TBA

500-530 Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds

545-615 White Fence

630-700 Strange Boys


Thurs. 3/15 Capeshok/CakeShop NYC and Daed Pizza Present


CAPESHOK & DAED PIZZA PRESENT
SXSW 2012

with
7:15 - HEAVY CREAM (Nashville)
8:00 - MANNEQUIN MEN (Chicago)
8:45 - the WRONG WORDS (Oakland)
9:30 - DIARRHEA PLANET (Nashville)
10:15 - LAS ARDILLAS (San Juan, PR)
11:00 - the TRAVELING DINGLEBERRYS (aka da Main Janes; Mars/Portland)


Friday March 16th Monofonus Press Presents


1 Dope Body
1:45 Heavy Times
2:30 Spray Paint
3 Dikes of Holland
3:45 Shit and Shine
4:15 Same Sack
5 Puffy Areolas
5:45 Modern Convenience





Fri. 3/16 Get Bent Presents

700 - night beats
730 - trmrs
800 - heavy cream
830 - useless eaters
900 - pangea
930 - outer minds
1000 - blasted canyons
1030 - burning itch


Sat 3/17 Trouble in Mind Presents

12-12:30 : Hex Dispensers
12:45-1:15: Wheels On Fire
1:30-2:00 : The Mean Jeans
2:15-2:45 : The Wrong Words
3:00-3:30 : The Resonars
3:45-4:15 : Mikal Cronin
4:45-5:15 : Apache Dropout
5:30-6:00 : Night Beats






Sat. 3/17 12XU Presents


if you're not totally sick of free music by Saturday night, here's (much) more to chew on. Running order TBA.

8pm - Unholy Two
8:45 - Terrible Twos
9:30 - G.Green
10:15 - James Arthur's Manhunt
11pm - Ex-Cult (formerly Sex Cult)
midnight - Special Guest will leave you strung out on jargon

Bring your own beer. And mints. They don't sell mints at Trailer Space. Just records. And who doesn't appreciate mints?

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

"Accept loss forever." Jack Kerouac


Some people just burn too bright for this world. Sitting in our rain moistened record store today with no particular agenda besides winning the bong battle and finding soccer on TV, we find our own little lights are dimmed by the loss of two heavyweights in our insular little world. Despite putting on our game faces, we still find that everything we've been doing this month has been a little bit half assed, unless it involves hitting something or drinking; and as we walk around trying to accept what cannot be changed and slightly dreading the inevitable end to our own lives, the only comfort we can find is the light that the two people we have lost lent us while they were here. To everyone who's lost someone. Accept loss forever, but please let it change you for the better.

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

"Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth."- Mike Tyson

(JJ and Spot holding a door from Emo's, photo by Greg Enlow)

Beatin' em to the punch. Trailer Space says goodbye to Emo's (a few days before the lazy sycophants in Austin music media do)


People that have worked at Emo's are the only ones who know the true power of that place. Taking a job at Emo's was basically signing away your rights to privacy, dignity and basic humanity. People have gone from drugging, drinking skirt chasers into home owning, 3 beer having, child raisers in the course of a few months. Why? It's because working at Emo's was basically taking the deepest darkest ugliness inside your soul and looking at it for 6 to 12 hours a day for a few days a week.

Or most of them just got old...or they accidentally knocked up their girlfriends.

Silliness aside, we here at Trailer Space are very sad to see our very own manchild playground go. We're very proud about how they're choosing to bow out. Rather than having C3 bring in Mongo and Sons or some other KGSR sanctioned granola rocker, they're bringing in Killdozer to play with a couple of local bands that have a direct tie to the club. It's going to be a show for the people who have always been there, and it's going to be a blast. Frank and CO. aren't really making a huge deal publicly. Sure, we've all had our extended hug nostalgia parties over the past few weeks, but the club's public bowout has been quiet and understated which has always been the point. The true fun and magic of the place always went on inside the walls and it's always been for the people who are accepted inside those walls. Spot and JJ have always (well 80% of the time) have been treated with open arms. Despite JJ's early 2000's run of constantly getting kicked out for giving Greg alcohol, to the crime comedy that was Spot from 2004 to 2008, even down to Spot and JJ the past few weeks, we got our repremands and our insults but we were always welcomed back. Thanks Emo's for your tolerance, we really apprieciate it.

One needs to remember that what's happening to the club is what the powers that be in Austin want for our fair city. They no longer want downtown to be the haven for "US" whatever that means. The fact that we spend almost all the money we make on cheap alcohol, the fact that the things we like, love and do bring the cool factor and the noteriety to the city is no longer enough. The city wants Red River and that part of 6th street to be for the people who drink expensive and still have the cash to shop on SoCo afterward. Those people deemed as "US" are to be relegated to East 6th, East Riverside or wherever the fuck. As long as "We" aren't there to make the yuppies scared, the city doesn't care. We have our goodtimes, we have our memories and we can take them to another part of town.

..and we will, because shit, if we had to start paying to get into shows AND paying full price for drinks we would be totally screwed. No matter where they send us, they're going to try to kick us out of there too in 10 years or so. It's not so much "US" that makes a place cool, it's the energy, the passion and the love for real, urgent in your face art that makes a place cool.

and Sluts too, gotta have sluts.

Goodbye Emo's downtown. Ya'll suck, but it's always better than partying at Beerland.

PS - THANKS TO : Chris Doan, Mike Sanchez, Guilty Dave, Hooch, Tom, Staples, Schmitz, Sabala, Dan Moore, Beez Nuts, Ray Colgan, Big C, Joe Sabastian (aka Baby Beluga), Courtney, PHILLY PAT, Schlam a lam, the Denver Sxsw clean up crew, Mike Christie, Lucas Wedow, Inkle, Terry Snow, Jacob Schultze, Graham Mills, Logan Worrell, Bill Corselo and Frank Hendrix, and anyone we forgot. Thanks for treating us so well despite us being so fucking drunk.

and to the bands we insulted. STILL NOT SORRY.

Friday, December 9, 2011

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. - Jean-Paul Sartre

Photo by Jon Shapley for atommusic.wordpress.com


A couple weeks back we had a party to celebrate the release of a split 7in between young rockers The Fleshlights and old bong loaders Naw Dude (photos can be found at http://atommusic.wordpress.com/2011/12/04/205/ and you can pick up this fine record at the shop or www.12xu.net) and it was quite the time. We had explosive rock, free ass beer (THANKS 12XU) cold weather and communal moisture. Being wet with people who share your interests makes us feel supported and capable of forward movement. Every hair stuck smile and wet t-shirt back, every slippery step and tossed ice cube is a reminder why you love the things you love. We love records, music and the ability to share our particular brand of gross wetness with everyone that walks through our doors. We don't even mind cleaning up (mostly because we have Mack do that) so whatever.

While we plan for the impending winter holiday, we're also getting ready for some of our favorite moisture to dissapear.



(photo by Renate Winter)

The man on the left is Sean Morales. Sean Mo is a grousy little bitch sometimes, but all in all, he's a great friend. He's a brown at arms and a serviceable card player.

The man on the right is Bryan Schmitz. Bryan, while also a grousy little bitch, is also a destroyer of dreams, a crusher of ego and a really shitty person to get a ride from (Beware the Schmitz dip)

Sean is leaving us at the end of the month to go persue his career in Oregon. Bryans going to stay behind to continue to torture us all, but before that, we're going to Roast Sean Morales here at the shop on 12/21. Bryan is going to be the Roast Host with the Most and there will be actual pot roast to eat. Come by and say farewell to one of the greats... by watching another one of the greats completely destroy his soul.

Sunday, October 30, 2011

"Past rooms still burning their electric light: I thought: Featureless morning, featureless night." - Philip Larkin

The days before Halloween is when we here at Trailer Space really get down. Spot and JJ always dress up the same way for Halloween (Spot as Angus' dad and JJ as a fucking adult) so the days before is our party time. We had an epic blow out with James Arthurs Manghunt, The Golden Boys, Rhett and Dean and The Early Stages. Tom debuted his new meat cart, Mickelthwaits Craft Meats to rave reviews. Definitely one of the best times we've ever had, despite the Rangers losing game 6 (ed note. MOTHERFUCKERS)

Here's some photos from the event. Taken by the worldly and hoboerotic

Renate Winter check her out at www.renatewinter.com


James Arthur in his natural habitat. Self Promoting. Look how excited he is.


The Early Stages. Mid Rock.

These guys have been a constant joy around the shop. They have also been a supplier of weird ass alcohol.


Tom. Mid Meat.

Dean and the Fam.


Crowd around the register. Look how Sean Mo is trying to seduce Ish. Fuckin Creep.

Brian, Spot and Omari trying to look hard as fuck in the face of an oblivion lusting drunk.

Brian in his natural state.

Rhett and Dean rule.


HEY HEY WE'RE THE GOLDEN BOYS...


People say we Monkee around. But we're so busy singin'!..

That we make our drummer frown :(

Crowd Shot. Find the Aussies. I dare you.


Another crowd shot. Find the Aussie again!

James Arthurs' ManHunt. A texan Hawkwind with a huge dose of drug shame. See this band.


Jensen the Aussie and Mack! Jensen alerted us that Australian Cops don't carry boomerangs. BUMMER.

Rangers fans. Before they lost all hope.

YEAH! MORE BEER!

Ish had a great time.

Thanks to all that came out, rocked out and cooked. It was a night for the record books.

Saturday, October 8, 2011

"You may have thought things would come right again If you could only keep quiet and still" - Philip Larkin

(This dog is Linus, photo by Laura Ashline. Ed side note- She is back in Austin and this is good.)

We're gettin there.

After a lazy summer, the T Space crew is enjoying playoff Baseball (we're happy with whoever goes to the world series....but FUCK THE CARDINALS) and doin our thing. Shit's starting to pick up again in all respects. More people coming in, more people buyin stuff (THANKS) and we've been seeing some incredible shows here lately. Seriously, we've seen some magical sets here in the past few weeks. You can't go around looking for the magic, but when it comes about you must be thankful, you must be attentive and above all else, you MUST BE THANKFUL. So much is happening in Austin right now. Take in as much as you can take, please. Just pay attention. We've been paying attention more, and we're happy about it.

(Ali on the left, Tony on the right. Photo by Graham Low)

This is Ali and Tony from the Holy Shit! show the other week. Magical Show. Holy SHit! is coming back to play with Naw Dude (ed. note - Im in Naw Dude) on 11/22. Come by and get drunk.

Saturday, September 10, 2011

'Why don't you get in those heart patterned boxer shorts and leave me out of it?' - Chuck Norris as Walker, Tx Ranger

Summer has ended and we here at the shop are faced with the aftermath of spending the hours of 1pm to 3pm watching Walker, Texas Ranger everyday. We learned alot. Alot about ourselves, alot about crime (yes, there are things we didn't know about crime.) and alot about Dallas. Here is a list of things we learned.

1. Everyone in Dallas fights the cops all the time.

It doesn't matter why the cops are around, doesn't matter the time of day; if the cops are around civilians, there will be a fight. Walker has to fight fools sometimes when he's just trying to walk down the street. It's hard to be a Ranger.

2. Walker's back handed fist slap move is not effective unless it's in slow motion.

We've watched him do it hundreds of times in fights, but it doesn't do shit unless it's in slow-motion.

3. CD's chili is magic.

It's cured ailments and when people talk shit on CD's chili they get smacked. This stuff has magic powers that we think even Walker can't fathom. Respect CD's chili.

4. Karate fixes everything.

In the series karate has brought families together, got kids out of gangs, cured physical and mental maladies, brought forgiveness to a kid that shot another kid, saved Dallas from biochemical disaster and it also got cholos to quit cholo-ing and start re painting the school goddamnit. Karate rules.

This is just a short list of all that Walker has brought to our lives. Stop by sometime and we can tell you more.