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Austin TX reggae ska punk fourpiece

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Hometown	Austin , TX
Genres	Reggae, Punk/Ska/Psychobilly
Band Members	TJ Huerta - guitar/leadvocals; Albert Huang - bass/... » more
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Indofin is energetic reggae ska punk from Austin TX. A defining band in the current TX live music scene, Indofin has played shows all over TX & toured the US, near 300 shows since '05. They've gotten to play SXSW,2007 Warped Tour and are currently...

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Top 40 in Punk, June 2012

Top 40 in Pro Performance Video , May 2012

Top 40 in Punk, May 2012

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Album Review @ IndieMusicStop.com , Nov. 2006 by CW Ross
Artist Name: Indofin Title: "Indofin (The Orange Album)" Style: Punk Rock/Ska/Reggae/HipHop Website: http://www.myspace.com/indofin Rating: 7.50(Scale 1-10) By C.W. Ross The band is regulars on the Austin, Texas club scene. They played at SXSW Austin in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006. They have also had their songs "Put In Work" and "Power To Tell" featured on the AustinPunkRock compilation CDs. On this release the band manages to fuse elements of ska, reggae, hiphop, and punk rock to achieve a their own unique sound. The CD starts right off with a disclaimer track that lets you know that this release isn't for the uptight or faint of heart. The songs found on the CD deal with real life issues with a straight forward rough edged approach. The music is solid and pulls on all the different musical styles mentioned before to keep the entire album fresh. Each new song brings a new musical flavor into the mix. If you're looking to hear some adult gritty style music then this release should fill your needs. -----

Song Reviews @ Garageband.com by various
Snappy as hell, killer mix, love the groove. This is a radio ready track by professionals, professionals. A n R are you hearing this talent? They have a major ability to capture their chemistry, that in itself is the only thing left in music, chemistry. I have been around too long, I hear a band that needs to be signed by a major. A MAJOR LABEL!!! Reviewed by: americanrust from Stanchfield, Minnesota wow! Yeah! This is a great track! it got a great punk/ ska sound, but there's loads of other interesting stuff going on in it too. I like the rapping, I love the singing and the lyrics are red hot. The changes in tempo are effective and interesting and the production is very very good indeed- the background noises and effests bring a lot to the track, whereas they often take away from songs if used badly. This is a quality song and I'll certainly listen again! Reviewed by: gibbsguy from Stoke On Trent, Staffordshire, United Ki... a good song... when he sings, his voice is a real solid plus... the bass and drums work well together...the guitar work is what you'd expect from a song like this... fast rhythms and light on the lead work... you have good timing... credit to the solid bottom end... overall, this track is solid... - R_Fuerstenberg from Eagle Point, Oregon on 2Jun2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keep It Up Fun, cool vocals. The musicianship is really good as well. The bass playing keeps this tune together musically... Feel good stuff with dark undertones. - exitrealworld from Portland, Oregon on 30May2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Original ska The use of samples and soundclips makes this song stand out as a more interesting ska track. I liked how it got very atmospheric with the reverb on the vocals. The vocal/rap trade off works well also. In a sea of a billion ska songs, this is a standout! - ELEMENOPY from North Hollywood, California on 30May2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- great song If Rancid and Sublime and Gorillaz had a baby and he grew up to write a song, this is what would come out. Seriously. I toured with reggae and punk bands for years and I know this style like the back of my hand. I was actually excpecting a run of the mill pseuodo punk regga/ska thing but you really have alot of substance behind what you are playing. I like that you dont rely on the guitar skank the whole way through to carry the song. When you werent skankin you had the distortion kicking, and it was a nice change of pace within the song. The rapper really reminded me alot of Dan the Automater from the Gorillaz. Real smooth flow. Great song. - bobbarker14 from Pflugerville, Texas on 26May2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Groovy, High Energy Ahhhh. Excuse me, I need a moment to recover after hearing a song that is actually original. The reggae groove is happenin' in this song, and I think the turn table works well. The punk, reggae, hip-hop mix is reminisant of Sublime, but doesn't sound like a rip off. I love the intro with the guitar and the overall high energy feel. Tight rhythm section, great vocals. Also, the tempo change is dead on. The entire band is right together, and the "slow" part doesn't last so long that it drags the song. The lyrics and the sampling work well together to hit hard emotionally. Great track. - dorkstar from Austin, Texas on 25May2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Groove ON I like the SKA rhythm and beat to this song. Very Sublime feel to the vocals AND music. The samples are also cool but, a little loud in the mix.Great vocal rhymes in this one!!! Bass player also plays the reggae well mon!!! Big upps Groove ON - categoryfive from Greenville, South Carolina on 24May2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ska song a little bit of a ska sound to it, not necessarily rock, but a cool song. sounds a lot like a sublime song or reel big fish. i like the slow change up in the song very much. great addition to the song. overall, i enjoyed the song. not too bad at all - Jeffster02 from Unspecified on 23May2005 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ i like it it has a happy jumpy feel to it like most sca rockish stuff. I like the vocals and the lyrics are goood. - brianrules from San Diego, California on 18May2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Funky ! Good groove , cool music ! A little punk,rock, ska ish sound ! I did like the slow brige @ 2:00. Not to hip on the vocals ! Over all good job . Gotta love the bass .... DEADMANSRUM IS LISTENING !!! - DEADMANSRUM from Dunsmuir, California on 18May2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Not Quite Sublime Nothing wrong with this track. Competent musicianship and good vocal performance. The whole thing sounds very much like 'Sublime' but can stand up on its own as well. Good job on the layered audio clips. - Rayzoon from Camden, North Carolina on 17May2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Catchy. This song was pretty nice. It had the nice off tempo ska riffs and sounded kind of reminiscent of the transplants - the ska and rap type songs. Pretty catchy tune wise. The production was really nice - i liked the dj mixes. The slowdown have way was unexpected and a change - sounded more like bob marley here. Very NICE! - silverdivision from Glasgow, United Kingdom on 16May2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I swear Jim Morrison did this one the beginning is vintage Doors then goes into a Talking Heads thing then maybe "Island" Well done guys - I think I hear some b-52's here too but somehow you make it all work - hbw1 from Manakin Sabot, Virginia on 15May2005 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ska rock that rocks out with lyrical explosio.. Wow this was a powerhouse of ska and rock that shook me hard and kept on going. Great job! No complaints! - colont from Walpole, New Hampshire on 11May2005 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sweet Clean guitars was Red Hot Chili Peppers meets Sublime (Date Rape) - in fact the vocalist is dead on with Sublime. Music has a No Doubt feel too. Good Job - radio will eat this up. - P9sBEAST from Chicago, Illinois on 7May2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- bge This song is the perfect length for radio airplay and it seems like it is geared towards mainstream play. Find a way to make the guitar track more creative, add a few more well-timed notes or a unique style of play. It is crafted well, with a relatively predictable structure which lends itself to the genre. - tml_alex from Atlanta, Georgia on 5May2005 MANY MORE REVIEWS OF RUN & OTHER SONGS @ http://www.garageband.com/indofin/songs

Rock Stars- Indofin Wed. Oct.22 2003 by Rank and Review 2003, Smitty
TJ told me that he ate a healthy portion of mushrooms before the show Wednesday night at Rock Stars, a new live music venue located in the middle of frat boy central on Sixth Street. He says that their music always sounds better when he's tripping. With an ear-to-ear grin, I would have to agree with the parttime lead vox/rhythm guitar player, parttime pizza guy and full time stoner punk who sings with more soul than most Red River rats can shake a stick at. Indofin is a sixpiece ska band who dynamically fuse elements of dub, hiphop, punk and reggae into a heart-felt package that you might as well label, "Fuck You If You're Not Feeling Us!" Sure, right away, most kiddos will write these dudes off as Sublime sound alikes. I've heard it more than a few times at the shows and around town. Well, I'm not here to extinguish that as hearsay or even call it a bullshit statement. I will however gladly fuel the fire of those opinions by stating that the spirit of the former Long Beach three piece of punk fuckups, the same ruffieans that pummeled the planet during the early 90's with eerie affection and a passionate disposition for their music, lives through this particular group of musicians in 2003. Indofin could care less what anyone thinks. They live for their own music and hope that others can somehow relate. I can. TJ, a former death metal drummer and self taught vocalist and guitar player, does sound like Bradley when he hits the high notes. The purity of his pipes carry a force and a vitality that is tender, but never reluctant. Justin, the flowmaster and energetic emcee of the group always keeps the party moving with stage antics that include dancing and leaping around his band mates or trying to pick fights by taunting TJ while he's trying to play. In the past, this has lead to several dogpiles, scattered blood, and of course a series of laughs and crowd applause, whom are often trying to figure out if the fights and verbal lashings are serious. Donny, whose drums always seem to need more mics than the band can afford, is one of the most laidback kids I've ever met. He's always mellow, always stoned, and lives for surfing and playing. Mike is the DJ. His precision cuts and sound manipulations keep a hiphop vibe, but definitely stand behind the sonic succinctness of Eric's finesse lead guitar licks and the spastic bass playing of Albert, a short Taiwanese kid whose nicknamed the Tweakinasian. As the mushrooms kicked in and the beers kept coming courtesy of their biggest fans, Indofin kept rockin' in their normal feelgood fashion. They played songs like Boozer Holiday, the highly rotated video on Austin Music Network that highlights the ups and downs of consumption. Mid-day Morning, a bittersweet ode to the current state of affairs in the band's rock-at-all-cost lifestyle and Rule of Thumb, a shoutout to fellow friends and rockers in the local scene. To the crowd's delight, the band also performed their own punked out version of the Ronettes classic Be My Little Baby and covered the Misfits' Where Eagles Dare. The show was great-we all smoked out afterwards and TJ even had some extra fungi-yippeee! Indofin are a fun loving group of punker sluts who represent music of extreme moral worth or value-and that, my fellow critics, is the dictionary definition of the word sublime.

Texas Based Band Loves Playing in Bayou Country De by The Courier, Houmatoday.com
Big Fun correspondent DJ TRoLL recently talked to Justin Cook, a singer with Austin, Texas-based Indofin about the band’s love of Houma. What albums have you released so far? Some of the early stuff was an LP with four tracks on it. We recorded it at my house. That was probably back in 2001. Before that we had just a bunch of stuff we recorded ourselves. That was probably our first album. Almost two years ago, we recorded a CD in a weekend. That was done at Bubble Studio. That was Indofin’s self-titled "Indofin." That was about all the major recording we’ve done. We’re gonna go back into the studio early next year and record a new album. I think we’re all looking forward to that. What span of distribution will this next CD have? Wherever our band takes us. You know, we sell our CDs at CDBaby.com, you can buy them from our Web site itself, or you know, at our shows. We just sell them. We don’t have any main distribution. We do it all ourselves. We have a managing company based out of Ohio, HM Concerts and Management, and they’re gonna help us mainly with the recording of the new album. They’re not doing any of the distribution. We just signed with them this year, and we’ll see where that takes us. Will you play in Houma again anytime soon? I don’t know when the next time will be. The guys in Johnny On Coke are coming to Austin to play a show with us soon. We’re always down to play in Houma. We love the hell out of Houma. The kids have a good time at the shows. We try to make it out to Houma at least three times a year. You opened for Johnny On Coke’s CD release. How was that show? I had a great time. I don’t know if you saw our singer T.J. (Huerto). He was probably the drunkest one there. We always have fun in Houma. We go out to California and Hollywood and all these different places and people will be like "Where’s your favorite place to play, and every time we say it’s Houma, Louisiana. When we go to other places people are pretentious. They’re not that way in Houma. You guys got onstage together. How was that? Anytime you get the chance to freestyle it’s a good time. A lot of people have mistaken you for a local band because you play in the area so much. At that show you were kind of the local band that wasn’t, so what is your favorite thing about this area? I think it’s just people have a thing for the music. I mean, out here in Austin everyone and their mom is in a band, so I think that usually people in smaller towns have more of a desire to hear music because they don’t get to hear it as much. And in Louisiana the people know how to party. They’ve got some drinkers, man. What are some of your favorite Houma bands? I don’t know if I know too many, but it’d have to be Johnny On Coke and Ta Ta Destroyers. What places in Houma have you guys been to other than the Brick House? There’s a place called the Garage. Those are all we’ve ever played in Houma. Oh, yea. That place unfortunately shut down. But where else have you been around town? Not just playing … like, I know we went to Danny Billelo’s. The restaurant? That gumbo was off the chain. That was a good hamburger too. Our last time in Houma we played at a Mexican restaurant and then we stayed over at some of the guys from Ta Ta Destroyers’ house. They had the backyard-wrestling match and that’s one of our best memories there. We have a whole section of pictures on our MySpace page for that. What is your band most known for? Getting drunk and acting like idiots. What is your goal as a musical group? We like to have fun, and creating music is what we like to do, but one day we’d love to get paid for doing what we do. I mean, everybody wants to get paid to do what they do. It’s not the only reason you do it, but when you get a little bit of recognition for what you do, it’s good. What are your biggest musical influences? We go from Slayer to Sublime, of course, to Outkast and Tupac. Almost anything we can think of. We’ve got a whole list of our influences on MySpace. I think we all listen to whatever; from classic rock to old country music to rock-and roll and rap music. We listen to everything you can listen to. What are your live shows like? Drunken debauchery … and that’s about it. I mean, I think we’re high energy, we have a good time, we relate well to people, and we probably get sloppy because we probably drink too much, but you know, it’s all part of the genre. I mean, you go to a club to drink and listen to music. There’s no other reason to do rock-and-roll other than drunken debauchery. Absolutely. Tell me something personal about you or the other members of your band. I think our best story is when we were in an attempted car jacking in Phoenix while on tour. I think it was the Mexican mafia. I’m not sure, but they tried to pin us in, and they shot at our van with their gun. They hit Donny (Mann) across the head and tried to pull him out of the car, and that’s probably our best story. We went to Phoenix, and they tried to steal our van but we got away. If you go on the MySpace, there’s a picture of the hood with the bullet hole in it. What do you stand for? Not much. If you ask T.J., it’s probably love and rock-and-roll, but I’d say it’s all about having fun. I mean, we don’t take ourselves too seriously. There’s too much other serious stuff going on in the world. We just make music, and if you like it you like it. If you don’t, well you know, oh well. We’ll still party with you. What else would you like to tell your Houma area fans? We love you. We love you a lot. Houma’s one of our favorite places to play. The Brick House treats us really good. Everyone treats us really good. They think we’re cool, which is pretty cool. They’re probably the only people who think we’re cool. We just always have a good time, and we always want to come back. Aww. We love you guys too. Thanks for taking the time to do this interview, man. Come back soon. Absolutely. Thank you.

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