METAL MONDAYS – May 05 2008
METAL UP YOUR ASS – DRINK SPECIALS & METAL TUNES
SOUNDS FUN! – May 06 2008
A Weekly Party with Richard Gear + Guests – FREE – GREEN ROOM
INTERSTATES – May 06 2008
Foxhole / Secret Sideshow / Paperwork – ROADSHOW + LOCAL
SOMEONE STILL LOVES YOU BORIS YELTSIN – May 07 2008
PORT O'BRIEN, LOXSLY – ROADSHOW + LOCAL
LEATHERBAG CD RELEASE – May 08 2008
TBA – CD Release Party
DAVID DONDERO – May 09 2008
THE UNFORTUNATE HEADS – ROADSHOW
LANGHORNE SLIM – May 10 2008
NIC ARMSTRONG, AMY LEVERE – ROADSHOW
ECSTATIC SUNSHINE – May 11 2008
CEX – ROADSHOW + LOCAL

This Monday, starting at Happy Hour, legions of metal warriors descend upon you and your earholes...and they together raise a bloody fist and their goblet of rock with a collective howl to the moon. Enter with caution, virgin ears need not apply. Unless you want your dome lopped off.

PLUS, COMING SOON:

Hey DB, you got an iPhone? Pull up the Mohawk Austin on (www.mohawkaustin.com) your phone and click on the image below. When you subscribe, it will give automatic show and event updates to your phone without you doing a thing. You just have to create a widget by hitting the "+" button at the bottom of your phone screen and 'add to home page'. Rock forever...in your pocket...

Daily Happy Hours pumped full of awesome.

AND...These shows (SIBERIAN, GOLDEN BEAR, THROW ME THE STATUE, COLLIE BUDDZ, PRINCE MAH_FUKIN PAUL) that will electrocute your face:

Im sure you have already heard, but if you haven't, Bill Callahan has announced that he is playing an intimate show tonite with his friends Thor and Jonathan (Shearwater). Bill is, in our humble opinion, is one of the greatest songwriters of our time, not to mention a good friend and great guy. If you arent hip to his music by now, dammit, you should be. Take the time to listen to his writing, it will change you.

Here are some more details:

Get there early, there will be limited viewing space. At his request, Bill will be playing on the original stage set up (inside), underneath the projection screen, the rusted eagle, and the wooden elk. There is room for less than 80 people in there, so if you want to see it (and you remember this), you know what to do.

We will probably open the green room upstairs for booze and lounging as well. If you want to get there early, we will be there....engulfed in Smog.

A big thanks to Bill for thinking of us. We look forward to seeing everyone there.

Some amazing footage of Bill below shot by our friends at Super! Alright! and KUT:


No. 6 Bill Callahan – "Nothing Rises To Meet Me" from Retread Sessions on Loved by Mohawk.

For our international friends that couldn't make it tonite, here is the rest of Bill's schedule through May:

Sun Mar 30 Austin, TX Mohawk
Wed May 14 London, England St. James
Fri May 16 Paris, France L'Europeen
Sun May 18 Berlin, Germany Privatclub
Mon May 19 Cologne, Germany Gebaude 9
Tue May 20 Frankfurt, Germany Brotfabrik
Thu May 22 Vienna, Austria WuK
Fri May 23 Munich, Germany Orangehouse
Sat May 24 IRavenna, Italy Hana Bi
Sun May 25 Napoli, Italy Circolio degli Artisti
Tue May 27 Milan, Italy Magnolia
Wed May 28 Torino, Italy Spazio 211
Fri May 30 Barcelona, Spain Primavera Sound

Long live Bill.

Starting out with the Whigs. Check it:



Some Moby
Some White (muthafukin) Denim
Some British Sea Power
Some Clipse in the Mohawk Green Room and on stage
Some Tokyo Police Club
Some Black Mountain and Jens Lekman
Some Peelander-Z
Some Bon Iver here and here
Some Liam Finn
Some Shout Out Louds and more (cheers to Austinist for another great bill and get down)
Some Shearwater
Some Plastic Constellations
Some Thurston Moore
Some A Place To Bury Strangers
Some J. Mascis (Rolling Stone here, video below)
Some Matt and Kim
And Finally...Some MTV Interviewin on the Mohawk Deck (bout time)
And a little vid below of some acoustic magic from j at the mohawk.



Thanks to everyone for your ongoing support of the Mohawk Austin. Thanks to the Austinist, Hot Freaks, Rhapsody, Transmission Entertainment, Ecstatic Peace, SXSW, Todd P, French Kiss, Secretly Candian, Jagaguwar, Dead Oceans, Learning Secrets, Frrvrrr, The Onion, Club de Ville, Teddy, Travis, and all of our friends for making it happen. A big up to the Hot Freaks homies, daytrotter, gorilla vs bear, my old kentucky blog, you aint no picasso, chromewaves, aquarium drunkard, large hearted boy, Thanks to our staff for successfully locating the nexus and harmonious blend of both rock and roll and customer service. We believe that you don't have to be a dick to work at a rock joint, and the Mohawk team proved that every day. I raise my beertunie to all of you.
More to come. Check out the Schedule to get a taste of whats ahead. Daily Happy Hours, the opening of the new Green Room Bar, New Sound, New schedule, and a shitload of good times are in store at 912 Red River. See you soon. See you in the Green Room. See you at Fu Manchu.

Super Health. The Mohawk is a Rock and Roll Jungle Gym.

wow. insane week. from moby (above: moby plays secret show) to michael stipe, from black mountain to bon iver, from islands to clipse, from peelander-z to the whigs, from a place to bury strangers to the shout out louds, we got completely fucking hammered with sold out shows. the mohawk is now like the beach at normandy. bodies everywhere. we need sleep.

thank you, as always, for your continued support of the mohawk austin. see you next week for tycho, masonic, and experimental aircraft. we have some sweet FU MANCHU action coming this month as well. legendary fat guitars for your earhole.

burp. ZZZZZZZZZZZZ.....

Rule #1: Click on the word 'calendar' above.

-AUSTINIST


RHAPSODY PRESENTS: CLIPSE, CUT COPY, SONS & DAUGHTERS
with: BRISTISH SEA POWER, NO AGE, & MORE
THURSDAY (DAY), MAR 13, 2008

"If you don't think that rhymes about selling cocaine can be delightful, then you should hear "We Got It 4 Cheap Vol. 2," an impressive exercise in hip-hop formalism. Both brothers have tough, thin, back-of-the-throat voices. (They were joined onstage, as they are on the mixtape, by their protégés Ab-Liva and Sandman.) And despite their grim subject matter, you can tell they're rhyming for the pure thrill of it. The mood stays deadpan, but each stanza is an ode to the joys of internal rhymes, sly punch lines, slick threats."
-NEW YORK TIMES on CLIPSE


SECRETLY CANDIAN/JAGJAGUWAR/DEAD OCEANS PRESENT: BLACK MOUNTAIN, JENS LEKMAN, & MORE
with: BON IVER, EVANGELICALS, & MORE
THURSDAY (NIGHT), MAR 13, 2008 (SXSW EVENT)

"This showcase rocked my tits off last year and rodgered the earhole of a generation. Dont miss it, dickweed."
-CASH NUGENT


HOT FREAKS! PRESENT: BRITISH SEA POWER, BLITZEN TRAPPER, WHITE DENIM, AND MORE
with: CADENCE WEAPON, JASON COLLETT, AND MORE
FRIDAY (DAY), MAR 14, 2008 (AT HAWK & CLUB DE VILLE)

"No comment. If you dont know about this party already, you are probably a McCain voter...and a raging douchebag"
-QUENTIN COOLEY


ECSTATIC PEACE PRESENTS: THURSTON MOORE & BAND
with: BE YOUR OWN PET, TALL FIRS, & MORE
FRIDAY (NIGHT), MAR 14, 2008 (SXSW EVENT)

What's on Sonic Youth's road tape?
"Flipper. Flipper still rules. Montrose. Sparks-like, pre-Georgio Moroder Sparks. But some of that's on there. Bar-Kays. You know, that kind of stuff. The new CD-Rs from (former Hardkiss vanity label) Sunburn, we've been listening to those a lot, they're really good."
-THURSTON


HOT FREAKS! PRESENT: ISLANDS, PEELANDER-Z, & MORE
with: A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS, & MORE
SATURDAY (DAY), MAR 15, 2008 (AT HAWK & CLUB DE VILLE)

"Man, I just made a comment about the other Hot Freaks Party that you just read...you are a raging douchebag"
-QUENTIN COOLEY


FREE AGENCY/TODD P PRESENTS: DAN DEACON, MATT & KIM, HIGH PLACES, & MORE
with: THESE ARE POWERS, PONY TAIL, & MORE
SATURDAY (NIGHT), MAR 15, 2008 (SXSW EVENT)

"You should catch Dan Deacon. Actually you should catch all of thses crazy kids on this bill, Todd P knows what hes doing. Then, you should buy a 2 bedroom 2 bath bungalow from me in Cedar Park. Its a great investment. And walking distance from the donut shop"
-THIS GUY