Dear and the Headlights w/ Beaux Loy, What Laura Says, Thinks and Feels
Tue. 07/29 | 8:00PM @ Stubb's Bar-B-Q (Downtown)
Check out a double billing of Phoenix-based pop music at Stubb's this Tuesday. Dear and the Headlights' familiar piano & tambourine infused pop/indie rock sound is quickly gaining …more»
Women's Show w/ The Great Barbara Lynn, Carolyn Wonderland, Cindy Cashdollar, Rosi...
Tue. 07/29 | 7:00PM @ Antone's (Downtown)
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“People couldn’t believe their eyes, seeing a young girl playing left-handed! It was so odd for them, both men and women, to see a young black girl, especially around these parts, playing a left-handed guitar and singing the blues.”
Barbara Lynn started rocking Beaumont clubs while still in high school, fronting an Elvis-loving all-girl band. At age 20, the soulful southpaw shot from bars to American Bandstand as her self-penned 1962 single, “You’ll Lose a Good Thing,” bumped Ray Charles from atop the R&B charts.
“My manager and I sort of had a good idea that this song might hit, but we thought ‘Lonely Heartache,’ the flip side, would go,” Lynn explains. “It just so happened that they put ‘You’ll Lose a Good Thing’ for the A side, and it really took off.”
Lynn walked away from music in the 1970s, moving to California to raise a family. When she picked up her guitar again in the late 1980s, Clifford Antone was among the first to call.
“Clifford would always say, ‘Barbara, you need to put all that other music down and come in the studio and let us record a strong blues album with you.’ He felt all that other music was just garbage. He said the blues will always be around, and he told the honest-to-God truth.”
At 66, nearly five decades since her chart-topping debut, Lynn’s career is far from done: “I might be signing up with Daptone Records out of Brooklyn. Boy, they have been calling me.”
Lynn cuts a single for the catalysts of Sharon Jones’ retro-soul revival in September and hints a full LP could follow. Now that would be a good thing. more at austinchronicle.com
Monster Sleeps Quiet, Low Red Center, Nigel (of Bear Claw), Gentle Ben
Tue. 07/29 | 9:00PM @ Beerland (Downtown)
Jason Roberts with Elizabeth McQueen
Tue. 07/29 | 8:00PM @ Threadgill's North Old No 1 (Campus to 183)
Two Track Tuesdays w/ Household names, ideal soul mart, & the drawing board
Tue. 07/29 | 7:00PM @ The Parish (Downtown)
Red Gretchen, Marshall Jones & the Frontier Phrenologists, Tom Gilliam, La Tampiqu...
Tue. 07/29 | 5:00PM @ Momo's (Downtown)
South Austin Jug Band & Dustin Welch and Friends
Tue. 07/29 | 10:00PM @ Continental Club (South of the river)
Two great bands, just $10 and a portion of the proceeds will benefit Jon Dee Graham who was recently injured in an automobile accident
South Austin Jug Band & Dustin Welch and Friends
Tue. 07/29 | 10:00PM @ Continental Club (South of the river)
Two great bands, just $10 and a portion of the proceeds will benefit Jon Dee Graham who was recently injured in an automobile accident
Southpaw Jones CD Release
Tue. 07/29 | 8:30PM @ Cactus Cafe (Campus to 183)
Southpaw Jones releases the long-awaited CRUELTY. Raina Rose opens. Free show! $15 CDs. Visit http://southpawjones.net/cds/cd7 for more info and a sample track.
Robbie & the Rogues, Micky & the Motorcars CD Release, Bruce Hughes, Baker Hotel
Tue. 07/29 | 8:00PM @ Saxon Pub (South of the river)
Brannen Leigh, Kevin Gallaugher, Greg Anderson
Tue. 07/29 | 6:00PM @ Evangeline Cafe (South of the river)
Chris Schlarb
Tue. 07/29 | 9:00PM @ Salvage Vanguard Theater (Campus to 183)
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Thanks to local help and a grant from the Meet the Composer program, Long Beach, Calif.’s Chris Schlarb is being whisked into town to perform his 2007 musical collage, Twilight & Ghost Stories (Asthmatic Kitty). He’ll get more homegrown aid from a 10-piece band, featuring Bill Baird, Weird Weeds’ Aaron Russell and Nick Hennies, Chris Cogburn, and Steve Bernal, among others. 9pm both nights, limited seating Tuesday. more at austinchronicle.com
Wes Davis(Shy One Horse) Birthday Bash!
Tue. 07/29 | 8:00PM - Tue. 07/29 @ Red Eyed Fly (Red River)
Wes, the lead singer of Shy One Horse, is turning 25 and would like you to come eat his birthday cake. There will be a german chocolate cake, but also a boring vanilla cake for those peo…more»
Short of calling your band The Wedgie Collectors, it’s hard to imagine a more self-deprecatingly twee name than Dear And The Headlights. Of course, the music more than matches its moniker’s meekness: On its 2007 debut, Small Steps, Heavy Hooves, the Arizona group plays the type of whining, trembling, sub-Bright Eyes indie pop that makes fans of heart-on-sleeve emo sigh audibly (and everyone else sigh with exasperation). Luckily the band puts on a live show that’s considerably more muscle-bound than its weak-kneed name suggests, building crescendos of keyboards, strings, and crashing drums into an appreciably manic mess. Opening: Beaux Loy, What Laura Says And Thinks And Feels.