Entry Level Positions: A Beginner's Guide to The Service Industry

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1.	Plate Back 03:20	buy track
2.	Smithville 02:35	buy track
3.	Featherduster 04:23	buy track
4.	Hollywood Out of Austin 03:27	buy track
5.	Zippy's Lament 01:08	buy track
6.	This Town Makes My Skin Crawl 04:09	buy track
7.	Seaworld 03:22	buy track
8.	Have to Go to Work 03:30	buy track
9.	Filing Deadline 02:45	buy track
10.	The Drudge 04:34	buy track
11.	Palestine 04:18	buy track
12.	We Buy Broken Gold 02:46	buy track
13.	Heart Repair 05:07	buy track

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Retrospective "best of" by The Service Industry. Austin-based band The Service Industry are fronted by Kansas City transplant Mike McCoy (Cher U.K) and Julie Lowery with Andy Thomas and Robbie Araiza (The Wayouts) sharing guitar duties while Hunter Darby (Wannabes, Diamond Smugglers, Shoulders, Hickoids) plays bass alongside Travis Garaffa on drums to hold down the rhythm section. This bunch of lifers coalesced at their shared workplace, Austin’s now defunct Dog & Duck Pub, where they were employed variously at one point or another as bartenders, cooks or handymen in the ongoing effort to support their rock’n’roll habits while making a living. What began as the routine sniping and bitching associated with restaurant work took on a life of its own in the form of the band.

The band made four full-length albums in a little under five years ‘Ranch is the New French’ (2006 Build Gut/Sauspop), ‘Limited Coverage’ (2007 Sauspop), ‘Keep The Babies Warm’ (2008 Sauspop) and ‘Calm Down’ (2010 Sauspop). Though inactive for most of the past decade outside of a few reunion shows they released a new single ‘I’m on My Way’ b/w ‘Winter is a Submarine’ on Austin’s Flak Records at the end of 2019.

Current events show the band’s work to be especially prescient. While there is plenty of inside joke snark there is also ample thoughtful, informed vitriolic lyricism dealing with income inequality, immigrant labor and the general lack of respect shown common workers, corporate greed and the devolution of America cast against a varied musical backdrop encompassing Heartland Power-Pop, rootsy ballads, sleek indie pop rock and obtuse punk tinged with psychedelia. They deserve a first, second and third listen.

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released May 1, 2020

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