http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png http://idolator.com/tag/mussels http://idolator.com/tag/mussels Yesterday's travels around Austin took me to the back patio of a pizza parlor that was putting on a three-day popfest, and I stuck around long enough to hear a set by the Brooklyn band Mussels, whose chiming, revved-up rock and roll bounced off the baking concrete and made the slowly-heating-up afternoon all the more pleasant. It probably says something about New York's music "scene" that I had to go all the way down to Austin to find a band that wasn't hyped to the gills by the city's blog-equipped cognoscenti that also happened to be actually pretty decent, but I'll save all that cranky thinkpiece-styled stuff for my return to the drizzly early-spring weather of the East Coast. [MySpace]

]]> http://idolator.com/367850/mussels-make-us-happy-as-a-clam http://idolator.com/367850/mussels-make-us-happy-as-a-clam Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:45:00 EDT Maura Johnston http://idolator.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=367850&view=rss&microfeed=true