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 Bo Porter, BettySoo Birthday Bash, Meagan Tubb, Josh TatumWednesday 07/23 (06:00PM) @ Saxon Pub (South of the river)1 Person and 1 All-Star Like this Event. So do I! |
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harvey milk, megazilla, attack formation, red x red mWednesday 07/23 (09:00PM) @ Red 7 (Downtown)6 People and 4 All-Stars Like this Event. So do I! |
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King Louie w/ Ear Power & Future Islands, AbominatronThursday 07/24 (09:00PM) @ Beauty Bar (Downtown)1 Person and 1 All-Star Like this Event. So do I! |
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The Tunnels (CD Release), Ripe, Teen Sensations, Pictures in Braille (inside)Thursday 07/24 (07:00PM) @ Emo's (Downtown)7 People and 3 All-Stars Like this Event. So do I! |
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Austin Blues Society Blues Showcase: Matthew Robinson, Special guest glenda hargis and More!Tuesday 07/22 (06:00PM) @ Antone's (Downtown)5 People and 1 All-Star Like this Event. So do I! |
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Maneja Beto (last show) with Consider the Source and DJ Ian OrthThursday 07/17 (09:00PM) @ The Mohawk (Downtown)$6/$8 under 21 Maneja Beto will be on an extended hiatus as lead singer, Alex Chavez, moves to Mexico to finish research...read more 7 People and 4 All-Stars Like this Event. So do I! |
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Mike Flanigin's B-3 Trio, We Go To 11, Eve & the Exiles, Sons of HerculesThursday 07/17 (10:00PM) @ Continental Club (South of the river)5 People and 2 All-Stars Like this Event. So do I! |
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Save Our Springs PoolSide Live w/ the Ephraim Owens TrioWednesday 07/16 (08:15PM) @ Barton Springs2 People and 1 All-Star Like this Event. So do I! |
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The Tunnels (CD Release), Ripe, Teen Sensations, Pictures in Braille (inside) @ Emo's
Husband and wife Carlos Jackson and Rachel Goldstar are songwriting machines. From the space rock of Experimental Aircraft and All in the Golden Afternoon comes the next logical step: the Tunnels’ garage psychedelia, not quite trippy but definitely high. The local fivepiece previews its upcoming debut LP alongside fellow local lovers of the 1960s the Teen Sensations. Quirkier locals Confuzatron and New York alt-rockers Pictures in Braille open. more at austinchronicle.com
Posted 1 day ago.King Louie w/ Ear Power & Future Islands, Abominatron @ Beauty Bar
Baltimore trio maximalizes the minimal, plus headliners King Louie and Ear Power. more at austinchronicle.com
Posted 1 day ago.harvey milk, megazilla, attack formation, red x red m @ Red 7
The history of Athens, Ga.’s Harvey Milk drops the supply-and-demand theory on its elbow and breaks it in four places. The quartet put out numerous 7-inches and three LPs of heavy, gunky rock during the mid-1990s, never really gained a fan base outside of Georgia, and disbanded in 1998. Then they quietly reunited and put out 2006’s crushing Special Wishes, those hard-to-find 1990s albums were fervently reissued by metal stable Relapse Records, and now Harvey Milk is touring Europe opening for Oxbow. Drummer Kyle Spence doesn’t really get it either.
Posted 1 day ago.“None of us ever thought there would be much interest in the band at all, and for it to happen almost 10 years after we stopped playing is surreal,” he says. “We didn’t tour a hell of a lot but almost every single record we put out during the Nineties was a direct result of meeting people at shows. MySpace is great and all, but it’s completely different than meeting someone in person, and I bet a lot of bands these days may not have those opportunities.”
These days, Harvey Milk 2.0 features Spence, singer/guitarist Creston Spiers, guitarist Stephen Tanner, and newest member Joe Preston, formerly of the Melvins, on bass/guitar. “Stephen asked him if he’d be up for playing with us, and he said, ‘Sure.’
“I don’t think he knew what he was getting into.”
Their blistering, Quaalude-speed return to form, Life … the Best Game in Town (Hydra Head), was recorded in Athens, where Spence and Spiers still live. It’s classic Milk: primal, gooey, thudding, but not expired. With this renewed interest in the group, maybe they’ll even get a little extra press when the Harvey Milk biopic, featuring Sean Penn as the openly gay San Francisco politician who was assassinated in 1978, hits screens later this year?
“How can it be bad?” Spence posits. “The guy’s been in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Bad Boys, At Close Range, The Falcon and the Snowman, 21 Grams. I think we’ve all forgotten about Shanghai Surprise.” more at austinchronicle.com
Bo Porter, BettySoo Birthday Bash, Meagan Tubb, Josh Tatum @ Saxon Pub
With a name that sounds like Buddy Holly bestowed it, Betty Soo wooed and won Austin’s heart with last year’s Little Tiny Secrets and Never the Pretty Girl. Soo’s stock-in-trade of girl-with-a-guitar lands her on a crowded bench, but a deft songwriter’s touch lifts her above it with panache. Those CDs garnered well-deserved acclaim for the second-generation Korean who’s found that folk and pop do well with a bit of twang. more at austinchronicle.com
Posted 1 day ago.Austin Blues Society Blues Showcase: Matthew Robinson, Special guest glenda hargis and More! @ Antone's
Hosea Hargrove & the Roadrunners rep the Eastside, with Matthew Robinson and more. more at austinchronicle.com
Posted 1 day ago.Mike Flanigin's B-3 Trio, We Go To 11, Eve & the Exiles, Sons of Hercules @ Continental Club
Still mining that S.A. garage gold. The Exiles and We Go to 11 dig out Nuggets. more at austinchronicle.com
Posted 8 days ago.Maneja Beto (last show) with Consider the Source and DJ Ian Orth @ The Mohawk
“Indie en Español” breaks on through. more at austinchronicle.com
Posted 8 days ago.James Hunter w/ Joe Pug @ Antone's
James Hunter’s 2006 Grammy-nominated People Gonna Talk got tongues wagging all right, channeling a 1960s vibe and voice that brought to mind Sam Cooke, but few people knew the UK soul man had been knocking around since the 1980s. Hunter’s new The Hard Way (Go/Hear Music) deepens the groove and widens the sonic palette of its predecessor.
Posted 8 days ago.“The only reason [for the breakthrough] was because we found ourselves associated with people who were willing to put some money and some time into promoting us,” offers Hunter. “I think it could have happened earlier if we’d had those breaks. But I’m glad it didn’t, because, looking from here, I don’t think we were terribly good in those days. People said we were, but, comparing my writing, it was in a pretty juvenile stage from where I’m at now.
“I’ve always wanted more soul,” he adds. “I’m writing about people with real experiences rather than pretending to be Muddy Waters. I’ve been singing since 1980, and I’ve never felt that I’ve stopped progressing. My style has changed, but my techniques have improved.”
With the emergence of Amy Winehouse and Duffy, it’d be easy to pigeonhole the 45-year-old singer-songwriter as a product of the new British soul scene – one he claims doesn’t exist.
“When we were struggling, there was hardly a scene at all,” he asserts. “We might have been the only band of our type there. There were no other people doing blues or jump jive. People used to lump us in with that kind of soul thing, and we were never part of any movement at the time. So I don’t know how big that scene is or whether there is one now. We’ve always been a bit of a fish out of water.” more at austinchronicle.com
Magic Jewels, and Brainworms @ The Parlor
Do the psych-stroke. more at austinchronicle.com
Posted 8 days ago.Save Our Springs PoolSide Live w/ the Ephraim Owens Trio @ Barton Springs
A night of cool jazz in a certain basement club on Congress Avenue makes for a fine evening out. Transport that experience under the stars, soaked in the sacred waters of Barton Springs, and you come awfully close to Eden. Bring a blanket as well, as the Ephraim Owens Trio, fueled by the trumpet of the local jazz giant, scores a summer soundtrack at everyone’s favorite swimming hole. more at austinchronicle.com
Posted 8 days ago.Austin Poetry Slam @ Scoot Inn & Bier Garten
Mike Henry and a rotating crew of slam ninjas captain the crew that has all the best of stand-up, po-mo theatre, rock & roll, and phone sex rolled into one cosmic-heat blast of an evening. Open sign-up, 12 poets per week. $100 cash prizes. more at austinchronicle.com
Posted 14 days ago.Blood Chili: The Moonhangers & Chili Cold Blood @ Continental Club
The Moonhangers + Chili Cold Blood = supergroup. more at austinchronicle.com
Posted 20 days ago.THE CARTER III WORLD TOUR, with Lil' Wayne and Birdman @ Travis County Expo Center
Tha Carter III went platinum in one week, and NOLA’s Lil Wayne earned the stamp from Brooklyn to Compton as hip-hop’s hottest MC, but even Weezy F. Baby knows it’s best to respect your elders. He’ll be splitting the bill with Cash Money CEO Birdman, who’s one badass spitter in his own right, even if the former Big Tymer’s 2007 release, 5 Star Stunna, suggests otherwise. more at austinchronicle.com
Posted 20 days ago.Unlimited Enthusiasm Expo w/ Harry and the Potters, Math the Band & Uncle Monsterface @ The Mohawk
The eight eyes behind Boston indie-punk duo Harry & the Potters bring a traveling summer spectacle for grownup kids called Camp Jump & Yell for Girls, Boys, Young Adults & Wizards. Campers should expect, among other things, dancing sock puppets (courtesy of Uncle Monsterface), adult aerobics (done along to the infectious electro-pop of Rhode Island’s Math the Band), and, of course, songs about being a wizard. more at austinchronicle.com
Posted 20 days ago.Mods without rods!: Jet Sparks, Miss Jackson, Melissa Bryan, D.D. Dagger @ Lovejoy's
Rockers first, ladies second. more at austinchronicle.com
Posted 20 days ago.Sex/Vid, Iron Age, Giuda (Italy), Black Congress (Inside) @ Emo's
This quartet was appropriately blotto by the Saturday of South by Southwest 08, but it only seemed to add to the thrash-punk tantrums. Plus, they’re from the Northwest, so that means an extra-special kind of fucked-upedness. Italian stallions Giuda, plus locals Black Congress and Iron Age, top off this wholly hardcore hesh sesh. more at austinchronicle.com
Posted 20 days ago.King Khan and The Shrines, Jacuzzi Boys, Wine and Revolution @ The Mohawk
Last November at Mohawk, the King Khan & BBQ Show managed to rile up a crowd of drunken adults with just two guitars and a kick drum. Khan donned an extremely short, tight dress and blond wig and gave us all an eyeful as he climbed an amp. The former Montrealer/current Berliner is indeed a showman, and now with his ninepiece psych-soul Shrines, he’s gone next level.
Posted 20 days ago.“With BBQ we try to make the sound of 10 men with only two and we throw a lot more punk and doo-wop in there,” he explains via e-mail. “I love having the two extremes: a ball-crushing big band and also a very stripped-down sonic boom.”
Vice Records just released The Supreme Genius of King Khan & the Shrines, a compilation of soul-a-delic cuts from the group’s previous LPs and vinyl releases. Fittingly, Khan explains, he met most of the Shrines “in bars,” including veteran percussionist Ron Streeter, who’d toured with Curtis Mayfield and Stevie Wonder. The Berlin-based collective’s retro affection is reflected in the names of the players: Mr. Speedfinger (guitar), Big Fred Rollercoaster (sax), and John Boy Adonis (drums), to name just a few. With Khan as their shaman, live performances overseas have taken on a mythic heat, which is fine with him.
“I think people like Little Richard paved the way for dangerous rock & roll and really put a flame under people’s asses,” remarks Khan. “When I started the Shrines, I wanted to make a real eyegasmic show. I think the rock & roll renaissance is now and I am proud to spread it all over the world. more at austinchronicle.com
Filter Magazine and Navdo Presents: Ulrich Schnauss w/A Shoreline Dream, Soundpool, Experimental Aircraft, and Le Ren @ The Parish
Kraut-gaze remixed. more at austinchronicle.com
Posted 20 days ago.Shoegaze Sundays at The Hole w/ The Paper South & Fires Were Shot @ Hole in the Wall
The asphalt’s boiling and all the grass is dead, but we have two reasons to bear another evil summer: the Hole’s Shoegaze Sundays and Red 7’s Free Summer Sundays. This week, the former turns up the reverb with the Paper South and Fires Were Shot, and the latter rocks it Red River-style with the Strange Boys, Diagonals, and Strange Attractors. Two residencies, both local, both free. more at austinchronicle.com
Posted 20 days ago.No Control and Adult Swim Present: Dethklok w/ Chimaira and Soilent Green - MOVED TO AUSTIN MUSIC HALL @ Austin Music Hall
The fictional Adult Swim heshers come alive. more at austinchronicle.com
Posted 20 days ago.PATAPHYSICS, DIAGONALS, SILVER PINES, CARI & JASON BAND, HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP, BEAR CLAW @ The Monarch
All-local fireworks, plus the Cari & Jason Band, Hollywood Gossip, and Bear Claw. more at austinchronicle.com
Posted 20 days ago.5th of July Fire Ho-Down at the Enchanted Forest feat. Sangre del Sol @ Enchanted Forest
Carley Wolf, Shotgun Party, Izzy Cox, and more sauce it up down South. Gates at noon. more at austinchronicle.com
Posted 20 days ago.Camp X-Ray, Attack Formation, the Jungle Rockers, This Moment in Black History @ Red 7
A bill of pure musique noir. Cleveland fourpiece This Moment in Black History furiously rocks this nation of assholes with perfectly old-school punk bred in D.C. A local threesome chunks lightbulbs in the trash: Former Clevelanders the Jungle Rockers Cool It Out in black Chuck Taylors, Attack Formation adds black humor to a mishmashable mix, and Camp X-Ray justifies black eyes. more at austinchronicle.com
Posted 20 days ago.RTX (Royal Trux), Imaad Wasif, Two Part Beast, Abby Birds (Inside) @ Emo's
Last summer, RTX hit the same weekend as the Republic of Texas Biker Rally, and the L.A. sextet’s acid-washed gutter-rock odes to the 1980s couldn’t have been a more appropriate soundtrack. Singer Jennifer Herrema pulling white foxtails out of her purse for no apparent reason: priceless. JJ Got Live RaTX, the follow-up to last year’s Western Xterminator, drops in the fall. Fellow Los Angeleno Imaad Wasif invokes guitar-chug via 1970, touring the extend-o-jams of latest Strange Hexes with his band, Two Part Beast. Locals Abby Birds and the Gospel Truth open. more at austinchronicle.com
Posted 20 days ago.Book of Shadows, Plutonium Farmers, Vialka @ Salvage Vanguard Theater
French “nomadic turbo folk,” plus local vibes. more at austinchronicle.com
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