For Immediate Release: The Rock Garage releases two live CDs The Rock Garage Texas Live Concert Series Volume 1 and Pocket FishRmen Live at the Fish Fry on Thursday, July 14, 2011.

                    (Austin, TX - June 22, 2011) With a desire to showcase some of the best Austin Music, Michael Crawford, a former newspaper and magazine photographer and network television videographer , editor and satellite engineer, created The Rock Garage. Michael wanted to capture the essence of Austin music and decided the best way would be to record the bands live in Austin clubs, and from these recordings The Rock Garage is releasing two CDs on July 14, 2011: The Rock Garage Texas Live Concert Series Volume 1 and Pocket FishRmen Live at the Fish Fry. The third CD in this series, Pong Live at The Continental Club will be released on a date yet to be determined shortly after the first two releases this summer.

The Rock Garage Texas Live Concert Series Volume 1:
The Rock Garage Texas Live Concert Series Volume 1 was recorded from late 2009 through 2010 in Austin, TX in the live music venues of this famed rock and roll city. This powerful collection features the formidable trash rockers Nashville Pussy, two side projects from Jeff Pinkus of Butthole Surfer fame, Austin's own Hickoids among other legendary Texas favorites and a few up and comers soon to be classics in their own right. The Album also contains a fantastic cover of X’s classic hit ‘New World” by The Texas Sapphires. Exene Cervenka liked it so much that she invited The Texas Sapphires to play with The Knitters in Ft Worth, TX. Darcie Stevens of the Austin Chronicle raves, "It’s that mix of punk, post-punk, electronics, hip-hop, and humor that makes PONG so much fun." Churchwood straddles two of Austin's music scenes: blues and alternative with Bohemian panache, gonzo élan, punky ‘tude, bluesy grit, stunning musical mastery and imagination while keeping a firm grip on the roots of the blues. The result is a sound that’s rife with the beef and the heart. David Fricke of Rolling Stone says, "Amplified Heat...destroyed the crowd with a boogie-war vengeance. Rock dreams that quickly came to mind: Stevie Ray Vaughn fronting the Groundhogs; ZZ Top with Blue Cheer running in their veins." Dash Rip Rock is a legendary live powerhouse, often credited with founding the musical genre known as "Country Punk", mixing Austin's punk rockabilly with Athens' southern pop. Reprise Magazine declares "The Ugly Beats are one of the grooviest, slammin'est, poundin'est, wailin'est garage bands to ever come out of Texas." Austin has let it’s secret out of the bag with this record.

The Rock Garage Texas Live Concert Series Volume 1 and Pocket FishRmen Live At The Fish Fry will be available from CDBaby, Waterloo Records and The iTunes Store on July 14, 2011. Addition Local Austin Record Stores carrying the CD are Trailer Space, Antone's Record Shop, and Encore Records.

Track Listings
Honky – Just A Man
Nashville Pussy – Good Night For A Heart Attack
Pure Luck – Your Face Or Mine
Hickoids – Stop it You’re Killing Me
Texas Sapphires – The New World
PONG – Click OK
Ugly Beats – I’ll Make You Happy
Brutal Juice – Waxing Gibbous
Dash Rip Rock -New Orleans Needs Stronger Dikes
Churchwood – Vendide Fumar
High Watt Crucifixers – Concubine
LIONS – Screaming Out
The Dirty Charley Band – Shoulda Killed My Baby
Pocket FishRmen – We Kill Evil
Amplified Heat – Strong Arm “Shut Yer Face”

Links: http://www.therockgarage.com