If you haven’t gotten a chance to read Ned’s awesome article this week about The Ruby Suns, please go read it. Then you should go to this show tonight.

I managed to catch about half a set from the Auckland based three piece down in Austin and it really was pretty great: any doubt I had of them being able to recreate their record in a live setting was quickly erased. Main man Ryan McPhun really holds it down, splitting his time between looping pretty guitar distortion and banging away at a half of a drum set. The whole laid-back, sun-drenched hippie vibe they have going on was also pretty intact, and could prove to be the perfect escape from these “cold but so damn close to summer” doldrums.

The Ruby Suns play Holocene tonight with both Le Loup and Loch Lomond. Sadly, they missed the memo about needing a name with double L’s in the title, though, to be fair, The Luby Luns doesn’t quite have the same ring to it.