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If you stop to think about it, there are really only two typical climate observations from astute Austinites. 1: It’s too hot and the sun is literally cooking us alive. 2: It’s too cold and the sun needs to come back ASAP. Yeah, we’re a special kind of simple southerners in our own way. But with folks eager to fill up next week with Thanksgiving and the biological “winter coat” that always follows, there’s no better time to bring up Swimming With Bears.
Unless you were hoping for interspecies extracurricular activities, Swimming With Bears will not disappoint. Yeah, the Austin indie rock quartet’s got a pretty good thing going for ’em; just check out some of Swimming With Bears’ streaming numbers over the last decade. And although those studio recordings do provide that infectious, upbeat-and-soulful early-mid-2000s energy, Swimming With Bears is best enjoyed in person.
Haven’t done it yet? Catch a gig headlined by Swimming With Bears that kicks off 8PM tonight at Far Out Lounge alongside Noho and Ruthie Craft. Want to stay in and hibernate instead? Well you can get the experience of being the sole audience member of a private SWB performance with “Patient Disguise” – the band’s only single from 2024. So get your gloves off and your hands on the music video below, whether or not the weather’s got you gearing up to get Far Out or just huddling at home by the hearth embracing your inner Ursidae.
