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WRS at Headhunters March 11, 10PM & Nomad March 20, 6PM

Holy Springtime Racketeers!

March Shows:
March 11 at 10pm-ish at Headhunters
March 20 at 6pm at The Nomad's Alternative showcase

Spring GoddessSpring is Coming!

The weather keeps wandering in and out of the gorgeous zone, and The Squad is ready to leave Old Man Winter behind and start drinking in Spring's sweet nectar.  And the only way we know to help Spring out is to both rock and roll for you!

Headhunters SXSW Primer

Before the international filmmaking, blogging, and guitar-lugging crowds take over downtown, WRS plays the surreal patio of Headhunters Cannibal Stage on SXSW Eve, Thursday, March 11th.  We take the stage around 10pm, neatly sandwiched between Swing Teresa and Paul Edelman.

Nomad Infranational Music Festival

Like the old song says, it's the most batshit crazy time of the year. World Racketeering Squad celebrates the festival madness by playing a 6PM showcase at Reed's favorite local bar, The Nomad.  We'e the first band on the bill, so join The Squad for our showcase, then stick around for Blue Channel Jazz, Rich and the Obits, and Introverb.  We're especially excited to see and play with Rich and the Obits, so this is a treat!

And if you cannot resist the siren call of SXSW downtown, hit The Nomad early, then take it downtown to indulge in South by Southwest's final night of music, movies, and madness.

See you Thursday,
Reed, Bruce, and Isaac

Headhunters Cannibal Stage
Thursday, March 11
  9PM Swing Teresa
10PM WRS
11PM
Paul Edelman

The Nomad
Saturday, March 20
6PM WRS
7PM
Blue Channel Jazz
8PM Rich and the Obits
9PM Introverb

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Awesome new T-shirts on the way from Conquistador Inc

Check out these new shirts from Conquistador Inc:

Conquistador Inc t-shirt

Go to their page. Buy their shirts!

 

Your daily Summer Glau

Here is your daily Summer Glau:

Summer Glau 

Your daily Summer Glau

Here is your daily Summer Glau:

Summer Glau 

"Magic Fly" by Space - proto-DaftPunk electro from 1977

It also featured prominently in Jackie Chan's "Snake in the Eagle's Shadow":

Your daily Summer Glau

Here is your daily Summer Glau:

 

"Serenity" in The Onion AV Club

Nice feature on "Serenity" from The Onion AV Club's New Cult Canon:

For whatever reason—let’s just say the general suckiness of humanity—Serenity wasn’t a box-office smash, which dispelled for a while any hope that Whedon would carry George Lucas’ populist science-fiction mantle into an infinitely cooler future. But it realizes a fantasy that advocates of other brilliant-but-cancelled TV shows usually only experience in fan fiction: It brings a beloved series to a natural, satisfying close. (Let’s face it: Even successful TV series don’t often come in for a graceful ending. Most of them overstay their welcome or peter out meekly.) And the only way to account for that is passion. A few loud voices raised in unison sounded like a much larger chorus to a studio, and with Serenity, Whedon and his followers got away with something. 

 

 

Godzilla haiku

From Neatorama:

Godzilla must go/So you cannot see the depth/of his loneliness 

Your daily Jewel Staite

In place of your daily Summer Glau, here is Jewel "Kaylee" Staite's latest Twitter profile pic:

 Jewel Staite

Electro song about Ayn Rand written, recorded and released in one day

Frank from Conquistador Incorporated has a side project where he and a buddy write, record and release a song in one day.

Here's the latest, a song about Ayn Rand by "The Glenn Becks":

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Becca Loebe's Mystery Prize debuts in Top 40 of AMA Americana chart!

This is awesome news. From Rebecca Loebe:

If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter, then you've probably already heard some of this, but I'm very excited to announce that Mystery Prize is currently #36 on the AMA Americana Top 40 chart, a chart that currently includes Roseanne Cash, John Hiatt, Norah Jones and The Avett Brothers. 

I'm also #3 on the Cashbox Roots/Rock chart.  Last night I recorded my first set of station IDs ("Hi, this is Rebecca Loebe and you're listening to WPHB...") on the floor of my grandmother's living room.  Mystery Prize is the first album I've released to radio and I find the whole process very exciting! 

If you've got a local station that you think should be playing me, feel free to call/email them a request, or drop me a line and let me know who you suggest I send the record to (it's important to note that you should ONLY call stations that are local to you, that you actually listen to -- I've heard that stations are sensitive to feeling like an artist is trying to manipulate requests, for good reason. 

I'd definitely appreciate for you to call/email your favorite stations, just keep it local and sincere. Thanks! :-).