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Wild Weekend Power Pop Festival w/ Baby Shakes, Gentleman Jesse & His Men, Cute Le...
Sat. 08/30 | 6:00PM @ The Mohawk (Downtown)
Rock-A-Round's Wild Weekend Power Pop Festival featuring: The Boys, The Beat, Poin...
Fri. 08/29 | 2:00PM - Sat. 08/30 @ The Mohawk (Downtown)
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Rob's House/Douchemaster/Die Slaughterhaus w/ Slab City, Beat Beat Beat, Coathange...
Sat. 03/15 | 12:00PM @ Beerland (Downtown)
Day Show
Woody's South Day Party
Sat. 03/17 | 12:00PM @ Woody's South (South of the river)
Okmoniks (Tucson, 12:20am), special guests (Tucson, 11:40pm), Gentleman Jesse (Atlanta, 11pm), Wax Museums (Denton, 10:20pm), Overnight Lows (Jackson, 9:40pm), Ladies Night (Vancouver, 9pm), T…more»
Power-pop is a bit like porn: slippery to define. For two days, Austin becomes the center of the power-pop universe as the Wild Weekend Power Pop Festival serves up punchy testimonials to the enduring appeal of its namesake genre. The first recognized use of the term came in 1967 when Pete Townshend used it to describe the Who, but Friday’s headliner, Paul Collins, didn’t know this in 1974 when he formed the Nerves with Jack Lee and future Plimsoul Peter Case.
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