Deciphering Static is a song that lyrically found its way through one session of writing. It’s about one’s persistence, moving forward and being set back, remaining focused on goals despite obstacles and the disillusions in life vs. the reality of how things really are. Example: ‘Well undivided the concrete and your shoes, so let it go watch it fall apart, be amused’.

The song’s chorus summarizes how people talk a big talk but say nothing at all, talk becomes babble and words becoming like a repetitious pattern resembling wall paper vs anything meaningful. This line references my own critique of painting in art vs. how a lot of artist create art that is simply pattern, repetitious or wall paper. The chorus also hits on the idea of being in the moment and keeping a positive perspective, to find a smile, dance and let it go, while watching it all fall apart. There are a lot of play on words in this song. Actually, too many to mention.

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Here in Austin, odds are that your neighbor is in at least two bands. The music scene is as vast as any other American city, and then some. Being noticed amongst the chasm that is the Austin music scene takes more than luck or knowing the right people: you have to be genuine, you must have talent, and you must do something to differentiate yourself from everyone else.

Haunted Amps don’t seem to have any problems with said criteria – a true diamond in the rough. I saw them play a small venue and basically peel the paint off the walls. In April, they released a new conceptual record Saboteur Lost At Sea. The 3-piece write songs than center on water, nature, disaster and life at sea, wrapped in curtains of whirling guitar fuzz, uber-melodic bass riffage and some of the catchiest drumming I can remember since Animal of the muppets made a solo record. Haunted Amps are a true rare find.

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Zorch is a two-piece from Austin with some French or Canadian in them. One guy plays vintage Moog and 73-key Rhodes, his whole set-up shaking and rocking, while the drummer, equipped with a Bobby Brown My Perogative-era headset mic, gets jazz wild on a rickety, shitty sounding kit. Their tunes are analog opuses, with big changes and hooky lead lines.

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Bow down to your shiny idol! Watch Out For Rockets (Austin, TX) has a new video for the track Lift Off Cloud Controller from their album Beasts With Hearts Of Gold.

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