Golden Boys at Ray's Bar

Austin's Golden Boys, most recently featured on an upcoming SXSW episode of the Food Network show "Rescue Chef," will be on tour from Feb. 23 through March 1, 2008 in support of their newest album "Whiskey Flower"

The Golden Boys, the Austin, TX, psych-country demigods, along with fellow Austin locals The Black, launch into a U.S. west coast tour in support of their newest album "Whiskey Flower" with a kick-off performance at Ray's Bar on Feb. 23, 2008. "Whiskey Flower," released in July of 2007, "set the summer on fire," according to Audra Shroder of the Austin Chronicle and has garnered mentions on "Best of…" lists from the Omaha City Weekly to the New York City-based Matador Records. Most recently, the Boys were featured on the cover of the Austin Chronicle and will appear on an upcoming episode of the Food Network's "Rescue Chef." Formed in Spring Branch, TX in 2003, the Golden Boys are comprised of Matt Hoopengardner (the White Heat), lead vocals and guitar; Wes Coleman, lead vocals and guitar; Bryan Schmitz, vocals and bass; Nathan Arbeitman, organ and trumpet; and Patrick Troxel, drums. Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore has this unwieldy compliment for the boys, "...one of the choicer garage albums of late…They have a very cracked and shakey take on raunch-hootenany-ism recalling members of the In The Red stables, as well of Memphis ' more lop-sided degenerates."