DC Does TX Spotlight - Vandaveer

XM Cafe has called Mark Charles Heidinger "this generation's Nick Drake" and The Washington Post has called him "a world-weary wayfaring minstrel with shoe-leather vocal cords and breathy Dylanesque folk tunes rife with imagery cribbed from Testaments both Old and New." Sounds about right to us. Vandaveer's darkest moments will haunt your dreams and his brighter moments will gracefully combine young and old for a sound full of nostalgia and ennui.

Check out a free download that NPR made available as part of their Austin 100 .

Also, check out the interview that Mark did with Spinner here.

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Sadly, we don't have a Twitter account, but Valerie's (@vivalaphoenix) has become the de facto place for DC Does TX information.

DC Does TX 2010 Official Details!

Thanks for all of you who came to our show at The Austin Grill in Friday night...and to all of the bands that played. We had a lot of fun and now we can make it down to Austin without breaking our banks.

Now, for what you really want to know: the lineup for this year's DC Does TX. It's a good one.

12pm - Vandaveer

12:45pm - Pree

1:30pm - Deleted Scenes

2:15pm - Title Tracks

3:00pm - Le Loup

3:45pm - U.S. Royalty

4:25pm - Middle Distance Runner

This year the festivities will be at Lovejoy's at 604 Neches Street. We stopped by there a few times over the past two years and are very excited to be able to perform there.

But in case that sweet lineup wasn't enough to get you out there...how does free Dogfish Head sound? Yeah, sounds pretty good to us, too. Keep checking back. We'll keep bringing you news and information.

SXSW PARTY @ AUSTIN GRILL

Join us Friday night February 26, at the Austin Grill to party Austin style and help raise money for our DC bands to go to Texas and demonstrate what kind of music our great city can produce in the revered SXSW Festival! $3 Magic Hats on draft!

Bands Playing:

Middle Distance Runner

Delete Scenes

The Beanstalk Library

Typefighters

Where:

Austin Grill

801 King Street
Alexandria, VA
703.684.8969

9pm $5 cover, All Ages

Set Times

Here are the set times for DC Does TX:

12:10 - 12:45 - Georgie James
1:05 - 1:40 - Le Loup
2:00 - 2:35 - These United States
2:55 - 3:30 - Pash
3:50 - 4:25 - Middle Distance Runner
4:45 - 5:20 - Jukebox
5:40 - 6:15 - Exit Clov
6:35 - 7:10 - Samantha Murphy

See you at Cream Vintage (Guadalupe Location) on March 13th!

DC Does TX Spotlight - These United States

With a band name like These United States, you know you are in for some jangly, country-twinged, pure blooded, down home music. Whether you've seen TUS as a solo performance by primary songwriter, Jesse Elliott, or with the full band, you know they are the real deal. The band's debut album, "A Picture of the Three of Us at the Garden of Eden," is out today!
Check out their Dayrotter sessions here:
http://www.daytrotter.com/article/608/free-songs-these-united-states
Here's a live performance at the Black Cat.

DC Does TX Spotlight - Samantha Murphy

Samantha Murphy is a singer/songwriter who also has her own podcast, SMtv, which has been running for three years. Now with her website, SMtvMusic.com, Samantha is building a legal file-sharing network of all of the artists she's featured over the past three years. Samantha's new single, Days Like This, and music video is pre-loaded into RCA's entire new line of MP3 players and will be available May 1st.
Check out her Digital Freedom video:


http://www.smtvmusic.com/