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 101X Birthday Concert Series w/ Seether, Red and SafetySuitFriday 08/08 (07:00PM) @ Stubb's Bar-B-Q (Downtown)Who would have ever thought that a group of South Africans could do post-grunge so well? Seether's moody rock edge parall...read more 14 People and 5 All-Stars Like this Event. So do I! |
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Nebula w/ Totimoshi, Shandon Sahm and SplitoofFriday 08/08 (08:00PM) @ Red 7 (Downtown)2 People and 2 All-Stars Like this Event. So do I! |
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101X Guest Bartending @ Wahoo's for Breast Cancer AwarenessEvery Saturday 08:00PM @ Wahoo's Fish Taco (West Sixth)8 People and 1 All-Star Like this Event. So do I! |
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Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffitti, Chairlift, and PataphysicsSaturday 08/09 (10:00PM) @ The Mohawk (Downtown)Popular avant-garde Ariel Pink & company (Los Angeles, CA) make a tour stop with Chairlift (Brooklyn, NY). Opening: local...read more 9 People and 5 All-Stars Like this Event. So do I! |
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Valient Thorr, Early Man, Skeletonwitch, Golden Axe, Dead BirdSaturday 08/09 (09:00PM) @ Red 7 (Downtown)5 People and 3 All-Stars Like this Event. So do I! |
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The Hush Sound w/ The Cab, Steel Train, The Morning LightSunday 08/10 (06:00PM) @ Antone's (Downtown)3 People and 1 All-Star Like this Event. So do I! |
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Holy Rollers vs Rhinestone CowgirlsSunday 08/10 (06:00PM) @ Austin Convention Center (Downtown)Tickets are $15 3 People and 1 All-Star Like this Event. So do I! |
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The Next Big Thing Presents: The Faint w/ Jaguar Love, Shy ChildMonday 08/11 (07:00PM) @ La Zona Rosa (Downtown)After a four-year break that involved building their own recording studio and setting up their own label, the Nebraska-based ...read more 17 People and 5 All-Stars Like this Event. So do I! |
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Smoking Popes, Koufax, MasonicTuesday 08/12 (08:00PM) @ The Mohawk (Downtown)The Smoking Popes are a rock group from the suburbs of Chicago who have been playing punk-influenced pop music since 1991. Th...read more 7 People and 2 All-Stars Like this Event. So do I! |
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Toots & The Maytals w/ Outlaw NationWednesday 08/13 (08:00PM) @ Antone's (Downtown)The legendary musical group known as Toots and the Maytals are bringing their unique, original combination of gospel, ska, so...read more 16 People and 2 All-Stars Like this Event. So do I! |
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The Toadies w/ Lions (1st Night)Wednesday 09/03 (07:00PM) - Thursday 09/04 @ Stubb's Bar-B-Q (Downtown)It has been seven years since the Toadies last put out an album. But now the recently reunited Fort Worth, TX-based alt-rocke...read more 29 People and 4 All-Stars Like this Event. So do I! |
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Sharon Jones and the Dap-KingsSaturday 09/27 (02:30AM) @ AMD Stage (Zilker Park)3 People and 1 All-Star Like this Event. So do I! |
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Cat Power w/ Appaloosa (Rescheduled 4/20 Show for Tonight 10/11)Saturday 10/11 (07:00PM) @ Stubb's Bar-B-Q (Downtown)Click "I Like It!" to win free tickets! 2 pairs will be given away!! 137 People and 11 All-Stars Like this Event. So do I! |
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Brooke Fraser w/ William FitzsimmonsThursday 08/07 (08:00PM) @ The Parish (Downtown)Tickets: $12 in advance / $15 at the door 3 People and 1 All-Star Like this Event. So do I! |
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Nellie McKay w/ Lee simmonsThursday 08/07 (09:00PM) @ Stubb's Bar-B-Q (Downtown)11 People and 7 All-Stars Like this Event. So do I! |
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The Hold Steady w/ The Loved Ones "SOLD OUT"Wednesday 08/06 (09:00PM) @ The Parish (Downtown)The Hold Steady do good old-fashioned rock music complete with legitimate guitar solos, rough working-man vocals and skilful ...read more 28 People and 5 All-Stars Like this Event. So do I! |
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Thao and the Get down stay down w/ Horse Feathers (inside)Wednesday 08/06 (07:00PM) @ Emo's (Downtown)Click “I Like It!” to win free tickets! 42 People and 9 All-Stars Like this Event. So do I! |
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Toots & The Maytals w/ Outlaw Nation @ Antone's
Toots Hibbert is known primarily as the artist responsible for naming reggae (with his 1968 song “Do The Reggay”), but he and his band The Maytals are more than just planters of flags.
Posted 1 day ago.Smoking Popes, Koufax, Masonic @ The Mohawk
While pop-punk continues its inexorable circle around the toilet bowl, Chicago band Smoking Popes has reunited to show there’s still a fresh breath or two left in the style. Started in the early ‘90s, the group always stood out, thanks mostly to Josh Caterer’s literate croon.
Posted 1 day ago.The Hush Sound w/ The Cab, Steel Train, The Morning Light @ Antone's
The Hush Sound’s vaguely anachronistic, bouncily vaudevillian pop isn’t really in keeping with prevailing emo trends, but that’s what makes it so appealing; live, the Chicago group is charming, but not cloying. The band scored a record deal thanks in part to fans in high places, namely Pete Wentz ofFall Out Boy and Ryan Ross of Panic At The Disco.
Posted 1 day ago.Golden Axe, Dead Child, Skeletonwitch, Valient Thorr @ Red 7
Valient Thorr—kind of an understated, Viking-themed version of GWAR, complete with colorful stage names and a mythical backstory—plays a wink-nudge strain of cock-rock indebted to Kiss and Ted Nugent. Not surprisingly, the group, out behind the new Immortalizer, draws a pretty devoted fan base, calling themselves “thorriors.”
Posted 1 day ago.Nebula w/ Totimoshi, Shandon Sahm and Splitoof @ Red 7
A great stoner-rock act with solid credentials—guitarist Eddie Glass and original drummer Ruben Romano, who left the group in 2006, used to play in Fu Manchu—Nebula plays the kind of blistering tunes that should come standard with every bitchin’ Camaro.
Posted 1 day ago.101X Birthday Concert Series w/ Seether, Red and SafetySuit @ Stubb's Bar-B-Q
Is grunge back, or did it ever leave? South African band Seether closely follows other post-Nirvana sad-sack outfits like Staind, trading off minor-key rockers with minor-key power ballads on its 2002 major-label debut, Disclaimer, and its remixed follow-up, Disclaimer II. The band sprung straight onto the Billboard charts with this formula on its 2005 effort Karma And Effect, then right back off again with its acoustic follow-up One Cold Night.
Posted 1 day ago.Brooke Fraser w/ William Fitzsimmons @ The Parish
Adding to America’s continuing love affair with New Zealand (The Lord Of The Rings, Flight Of The Conchords), Kiwi singer Brooke Fraser recently made a splash on the Billboard charts when her 2006 album Albertine was suddenly picked, two years after its release, for a plum spot on iTunes.
Posted 1 day ago.The Next Big Thing Presents: The Faint @ La Zona Rosa
Bright Eyes is the biggest band that still has connections to Omaha (311 left for L.A. before it got famous), but several years ago it felt like The Faint was giving Conor Oberst a serious run for his money. That was around the time The Faint issued 2001’s Danse Macabre, which took the band’s stylistic turn on the electro-shocked Blank-Wave Arcade and perfected it in dance-rock classics like “Agenda Suicide” and “Glass Danse.” But then 2004’s Wet From Birth left something to be desired, and the nearly four-year album break since hasn’t helped build momentum. The band’s new self-released Fasciinatiion isn’t exactly a return to form, but if past performance can be used to predict future success, the new songs are going to sound great live. Opening: Jaguar Love, Shy Child.
Posted 1 day ago.101X Presents: Blind Melon w/ Sounds Under Radio @ Antone's
When Shannon Hoon died in 1995, Blind Melon, after only two albums, immediately got its second consideration from critics—and the accolades heaped on the group far exceeded any praise it had received during the previous three years of its existence. More than a decade later, listening to Blind Melon’s self-titled 1992 debut and its 1995 follow-up, Soup, reveals a grippingly raw band undergoing a rapid evolution. Moving from breezily whimsical pop (reaching its pinnacle with über-hit “No Rain”) to poignantly brooding rock anthems, Blind Melon was going somewhere important when Hoon overdosed. Unfortunately, that destination probably won’t be reached by the band’s new lineup, despite singer Travis Warren’s best efforts to sound like Hoon on the recent For My Friends.
Posted 9 days ago.Thao and the Get down stay down w/ Horse Feathers (inside) @ Emo's
On the recent Kill Rock Stars-released We Brave Bee Stings And All, Thao Nguyen and backing band The Get Down Stay Down make arresting songs given to bluesy sparseness and nuanced cadence. While her wispy voice, playful melodies, and sense of childlike wonderment suggest just another starry-eyed female folkie, Nguyen’s dense, witty lyricism and subtle quirks (check her beat-boxing on “Bag Of Hammers”) reward deeper study. Opener Horse Feathers makes chamber-pop that frolics outside that genre’s stuffy drawing room with lithe, portable songs. On its 2006 album, Words Are Dead, instruments like mandolin, violin, saw, and cello often stack up for a bigger sound, but the group can also scale it back to just guitar and violin to carry its strong, crafty melodies.
Posted 9 days ago.No Fear Music tour and 101X presents: Bullet For My Valentine w/ Bleeding Through and Cancer Bats @ Stubb's Bar-B-Q
The members of Welsh band Bullet For My Valentine obviously grew up loving both the fleet-fingered axe-slingers on Headbangers Ball and the growly plaid-shirted grungesters on Alternative Nation, mixing heavy riffs and emo-style dynamics on 2005’s The Poison and the new Scream Aim Fire. Though the band embodies everything lame and bankrupt about the current too-tough-to-be-emo scene, it’d probably take as a compliment the fact that it’ll likely wind up being regarded as the glam-metal trash of the ’00s. The name Cancer Bats combines two frightful scourges that normally don’t mix, and the same could be said of the Toronto band’s hybrid of punk and Southern metal—and its stock is on the rise since its 2006 debut, Birthing The Giant, and its successor, this year’s Hail Destroyer. Also playing: Bleeding Through.
Posted 9 days ago.The Hold Steady w/ The Loved Ones "SOLD OUT" @ The Parish
The Hold Steady has built up a devout fan base since growing out of the legend of Midwest rock band Lifter Puller, and lead singer/firebrand Craig Finn makes it easy to understand why. His style trades on patently singular vocal screeds that siphon added power when the rock gears turn higher and looser, as they did on 2006’s breakout Boys And Girls In America. The band has been playing shows seemingly all the time since then, but with its fourth album, Stay Positive, just released, expect some all-new stories about drinking, partying, and Midwestern ennui. Philly power trio The Loved Ones favors passionate, fist-pumping anthems delivered by decent, sensitive fellas who likely blast Tim and Darkness On The Edge Of Town at parties once their hardcore-punk friends pass out.
Posted 9 days ago.Earlimart w/ Zookeeper, silent sunset @ The Mohawk
Named after the small town located between Aaron Espinoza’s hometown of Fresno and his band’s current headquarters in L.A., Earlimart has altered its lineup and sound since issuing its debut in 1999. But the band—which is now down to Espinoza and Ariana Murray—has hit its stride since its ode to late friend Elliott Smith, 2004’s Treble And Tremble, whose instrumentation seemed influenced by both Smith and co-producer Jim Fairchild’s old band, Grandaddy. Earlimart put out the well-received Mentor Tormentor last August, and now the duo is back with the even better Hymn And Her, whose best songs—especially the dreamy “Time For Yourself”—are the ones featuring Murray on lead vocals. Things can get a little snoozy in this land of subdued indie rock, but the overall beauty is easy to get lost in. Opening: Zookeeper, {{{Sunset}}}. (Earlimart also plays an in-store at Waterloo Records at 5 p.m.)
Posted 9 days ago.Jay Reatard at Red 7 @ Red 7
Sometimes an album cover depicting a dude mostly naked and covered in fake blood proves quite revealing. Such is the case with Jay Reatard’s 2006 Blood Visions, whose songs embrace morbid imagery and bright, hyper punk like a new-wave update on The Cramps. The Memphis-based Reatard frantically crams some sharp guitar melodies into his short songs, which are never quite as crude as they first sound. Reatard just released a record that compiles tracks from his clutch of vinyl-only releases called Singles 06-07. Opening: Cheap Time, Golden Boys, Manikin.
Posted 9 days ago.The Secret Machines (Indoors) @ Stubb's Bar-B-Q
Brooklyn-via-Dallas space-rockers The Secret Machines received a warm welcome with their heaving 2004 debut, Now Here Is Nowhere, but with the announcement that longtime member Ben Curtis (brother to frontman Brandon Curtis) had left the band, the group fell surprisingly under the radar after 2006’s less proggy Ten Silver Drops. Expect brand-new material here, as a third Secret Machines LP is rumored to be done and awaiting release. The touring lineup of the recently re-manned group has reportedly expanded to four, all the better for a sound that, at its best, can sprawl like the expanding galaxies it conjures. Also playing: Ian Orth.
Posted 9 days ago.AFF Presents: "Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections" @ Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek
Uncounted explores the myriad ways Americans were cheated during the 2004 and 2006 elections, and how enraged voters have turned their anger into citizen activism to safeguard the vote. Eyewitness accounts from whistleblowers are backed by election experts who reveal how Jim Crow tactics, electronic voting machine security breaches, vote count manipulation, and illegal behavior by a major voting machine manufacturer all threaten the very core of our democracy—the right to vote. See how Democrats, Republicans, business leaders, elected officials, and rank-and-file voters are all part of the growing movement in America to correct an election system gone bad.
Posted 16 days ago.guttermouth, new skool kings, yuppie pricks, goodnight goddess, heist at hand @ Red 7
Guttermouth’s silly party-punk makes The Vandals look serious by comparison, but it’s the band’s eternal juvenescence that accounts for its longevity. Since the early ’90s, the California group has bounced around a litany of punk labels (Dr. Strange, Nitro, Epitaph) before landing on Volcom for 2006’s Shave The Planet, a disc that sports such brain-dead wordplay as “My Chemical Imbalance” and “God, Steve McQueen.” Guttermouth’s nihilistic fun has never been pretentious, though, and if nothing else, such mean-spirited (and admittedly catchy) glee is refreshing in an era of earnestness. Besides, a group that’s been banned from Canada and who spent its brief Warped Tour time openly badmouthing My Chemical Romance obviously demands your respect. Also playing: New Skool Kings, Goodnight Goddess, Heist At Hand.
Posted 16 days ago.Dear and the Headlights w/ Beaux Loy, What Laura Says, Thinks and Feels @ Stubb's Bar-B-Q
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.
Posted 16 days ago.Green Jelly w/ Mobile death camp, comanche abortion @ Red 7
On a purely technical level, Green Jellÿ is an atrocity—the group didn’t declare itself “the world’s worst band” for nothing—yet where would the hard-rock scene be without the sharp humor and irony it’s injected into it? It’s been over 10 years since the outlandishly costumed comedy-metal band released a new album, and the lineup has dwindled in that time to include just one original member, but there’s something about the murder of cartoon mascots (“Cereal Killer”) and fairy tales gone awry (“Three Little Pigs”) that remains enticing—not to mention the sheer spectacle of a band populated by giant puppets, and green Jell-O wrestling sponsored by Sinsations Adult Boutique. Opening: Mobile Death Camp, Comanche Abortion, Hit By A Car.
Posted 16 days ago.Aesop Rock, Rob Sonic, DJ Big Wiz, Perseph One (Outside) @ Emo's
Aesop Rock counts as a major star in the world of independent rap, where he’s remained a flagship act of El-P’s Definitive Jux, arguably the most vital label in the hip-hop underground. Rock’s mindful rhymes stream out at warp speed, with a style built around a Shakespearean jester’s mix of self-deprecation and incisive urgency. Rock stared down the streets and science fiction with a strong focus on his 2003 album Bazooka Tooth, and he does much the same on last year’s None Shall Pass, an album produced for the most part by Blockhead (read: not El-P). Expect lots of raised arms and furrowed brows. Also playing: Rob Sonic, DJ Big Wiz, Perseph One.
Posted 16 days ago.Lewis Black @ Austin Music Hall
Since Lewis Black’s enraged rise to fame has occurred while George W. Bush has been in office, it’s tough to tell what will happen when there aren’t complete buffoons running wild in the White House; but chances are pretty good that his war-on-stupidity character is going to have a place in America for quite some time, particularly now that obvious mentor George Carlin has passed on. Of course, Black plays the role so well because he’s playing himself, an educated guy who is so pissed off about dumb people and things that he can’t help but rant. Black appears here behind his recently released book, Me Of Little Faith, which turns Black’s ire against religion.
Posted 16 days ago.Ken Jones @ Follett's @ Follett's Intellectual Property
Ken Jones has been a published poet with work appearing in various academic and underground journals, magazines, websites, and anthologies, and other forums. He will be reading from his books Unutterable Blunders And Palace Disasters, Ceaseless Greasepaint In Combat Stance, and other works.
Posted 23 days ago.Flosstradamus at The Mohawk @ The Mohawk
Flosstradamus has sold out every party it ever played, been listed as one of Urb’s “Next 100,” and even received the Pitchfork seal of approval by appearing at its SXSW day show. So what makes the DJ duo (a.k.a. Autobot and J2K) such a big deal in an age when even that guy you wait tables with has a DJ night? To be honest, we’re not really sure, other than the fact that the crew has the mash-up skills of Girl Talk—except Flosstradamus mixes everything live—and knows how to ride a room’s vibe. Expect an MP3-heavy set of obscure blog finds heavy on hip-hop but always with a stylistic gambit waiting to break at any second.
Posted 23 days ago.RX Bandits w/ Portugal The Man, Facing New York (Outside) @ Emo's
Rx Bandits’ scratchy funk-ska hybrid would probably have resulted in a major-label contract back in the heyday of kindred spirits such as Fishbone, but the Bandits appear to be doing just fine as independent contractors on 2006’s self-released …And The Battle Begun. Breaking out of nth-generation emo outfit Anatomy Of A Ghost, singer-guitarist John Baldwin Gourley and bassist Zachary Carothers started scratching an itch for classic pop and rock that blossomed into the harder-to-classify Portugal. The Man. Last year the group delivered its sophomore full-length, Church Mouth, a warm, colorful, even funky record full of organic prog-pop. Opener Facing New York hails from Berkeley and hews heaving, rhythm-shifting prog-rock from inspirations as disparate as Led Zeppelin, The Dismemberment Plan, and Fela Kuti.
Posted 23 days ago.101X Next Big Thing w/ The Warlocks, The Vandelles & The Boxing Lesson (Lounge) @ Emo's
Swiping a name used by Grateful Dead during its days playing Ken Kesey’s acid parties, The Warlocks cycle through all phases of psychedelia’s past, from California jam fests to New York freak-outs to Krautrock head-trips. Though they peaked early with their mind-blowing 2001 debut, Rise And Fall, The Warlocks are still pumping out serviceable psych-rock with last year’s Heavy Deavy Skull Lover. The Vandelles are overstating things a bit when they claim to have a sound that’s “uniquely theirs”: The Brooklyn group’s noir-ish fuzz mines such heavy inspiration from The Jesus And Mary Chain and ’60s surf that it inevitably recalls The Raveonettes. The band’s notorious live show—a miasma of swirling lights and projections—provides ample excuse to wear Wayfarers after dark. Opening: The Boxing Lesson.
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