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Lengthy-running cowpunk band Hickoids traces its roots again to early-’80s Austin and San Antonio.
Central Texas cowpunk act Hickoids is elevating cash for a great trigger with the discharge of a 7-inch vinyl file that includes covers of two traditional songs: the thirteenth Flooring Elevators’ “You are Gonna Miss Me” and Elton John’s “The Bitch is Again.”
Gross sales of the one will profit Excessive Voltage Music, which provides free after-school music instruction to San Antonio college students, grades 7-12.
Preorder for the discharge runs $10 via the Hickoids Bandcamp, and shipments are scheduled to exit Dec. 6. These wishing to make a bigger donation to Excessive Voltage can select to pay extra.
Solely 100 copies shall be made for the ultra-limited urgent.
These eager about a digital model of the discharge can preorder it for $3 on the group’s Bandcamp.
“You are Gonna Miss Me” was the one business hit for legendary Austin psychedelic rock band the thirteenth Flooring Elevators. Led by frontman and guitarist Roky Erickson, the band stays a long-lasting affect on the worlds of psych, storage rock, punk and metallic.
The thirteenth Flooring Elevators launched “You are Gonna Miss Me” on their 1966 debut studio album, The Psychedelic Sounds of the thirteenth Flooring Elevators. The Hickoids cowl of the tune is already out there on Bandcamp, and shall be out there on all different streaming platforms beginning Sept. 20.
The Hickoids’ cheeky cowl of “The Bitch is Again” shall be out there on all streaming platforms Sept. 27. The cowpunk act is thought to cowl Elton John incessantly in its stay units, with “Bennie and the Jets” rating as a crowd favourite.
The forthcoming 7-inch is the second installment in Cacophony Clan Data’ Singles Solely sequence, for which the label produces the vinyl, the artist chooses a charity and 100% of proceeds go to profit that group.
The discharge is being performed in collaboration with Hickoids frontman Jeff Smith’s Saustex Data, whose roster contains not simply his personal band however the Beaumonts, Hamell on Trial, Piñata Protest and others.
