Austin’s Invincible Czars have made their mark by creating exceptionally original music: songs and instrumental pieces that are like four-to-five minute “mini-symphonies” full of memorable melodies, meticulous arrangements, dynamics, and humor. Their music fuses riff rock, classical/symphonic music, heavy metal, loungey grooves, odd meters, klezmer, country shuffles, punk rock and circusy polka. They draw from influences as disparate as Slint and Igor Stravinsky, Van Halen and Louis Armstrong, and The Melvins and Ween.

In the past few years, they have also become known and lauded for their arrangements of classical works such as Tchaikovsky's “The Nutcracker Suite” and Mussorgsky's "A Night on Bald Mountain." They have also re-scored and performed live with the Soviet silent film “Aelita, Queen of Mars” for Austin’s Alamo Drafthouse.


Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.