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 Toadies - 3rd Show AddedFriday 09/05 (07:00PM) @ Stubb's Bar-B-Q (Downtown)21 People and 6 All-Stars Like this Event. So do I! |
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The Next Big Thing presents: Squeeze w/ special guest FASTBALLFriday 09/05 (07:00PM) @ La Zona Rosa (Downtown)45 People and 8 All-Stars Like this Event. So do I! |
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The Toadies w/ The Riverboat Gamblers (2nd Night)Thursday 09/04 (07:00PM) @ Stubb's Bar-B-Q (Downtown)The recently reunited Toadies continue their three-day stint at Stubbs with a Thursday night show, showcasing their brand-new...read more 33 People and 5 All-Stars Like this Event. So do I! |
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Shearwater w/ wye oak, jennifer o'connorThursday 09/04 (09:00PM) @ The Mohawk (Downtown)Like many things, the cinematic soundscape that Shearwater create pay heavy rewards to the patient, attentative listener. Fou...read more 17 People and 8 All-Stars Like this Event. So do I! |
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The Toadies w/ Lions (1st Night)Wednesday 09/03 (07:00PM) @ 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 47 People and 7 All-Stars Like this Event. So do I! |
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GZA/ Genius of Wu-Tang ClanWednesday 09/03 (08:00PM) @ Emo's (Downtown)Click “I Like It!” to win free tickets! 65 People and 6 All-Stars Like this Event. So do I! |
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The DonkeysWednesday 09/03 (07:00PM) @ The Mohawk (Downtown)6 People and 4 All-Stars Like this Event. So do I! |
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Power Pop Fest Day Show- Poor People, Luxury Sweets, Greatest Hits, Beach Patrol, Avenue RoseSaturday 08/30 (07:00PM) @ Beerland (Downtown)12 People and 4 All-Stars Like this Event. So do I! |
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Wild Weekend Power Pop Festival w/ Baby Shakes, Gentleman Jesse & His Men, Cute Lepers, Tranzmitors, Boss Martians, 20/20, The BSaturday 08/30 (06:00PM) @ The Mohawk (Downtown)1 Person and 1 All-Star Like this Event. So do I! |
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Power Pop Fest Day Show- Grand Champeen, Power Chords, Prima Donna, Pleasure Kills, Red HeartsFriday 08/29 (07:00PM) @ Beerland (Downtown)Rock-A-Round Entertainment is pleased to present its first annual Wild Weekend Power Pop Festival, Friday, August 29th and Sa...read more 17 People and 4 All-Stars Like this Event. So do I! |
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Rock-A-Round's Wild Weekend Power Pop Festival featuring: The Boys, The Beat, Pointed Sticks, 20/20, The Cute Lepers, & Nikki CoFriday 08/29 (02:00PM) - Saturday 08/30 @ The Mohawk (Downtown)www.rock-a-round.com 24 People and 5 All-Stars Like this Event. So do I! |
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oxford collapse w/ love as laughterWednesday 08/27 (08:00PM) @ The Mohawk (Downtown)8 People and 4 All-Stars Like this Event. So do I! |
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Guerilla Union and C3 Present: Nas w/ special guests talib kweli, jay electronica, dj green lantern 6:30pm &10:30pm shows (outsiSunday 08/24 (06:30PM) @ Emo's (Downtown)Click “I Like It!” to win free tickets! 62 People and 8 All-Stars Like this Event. So do I! |
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Summer Extrav-O-Ganza 3 w/ White Denim, DJ Bird Peterson & Ceeplus Bad KnivesSunday 08/24 (02:00PM) @ The Ark at Lake TravisIf your idea of “sailing music” involves Christopher Cross, consider shipping out with this second annual floatin...read more 4 People and 3 All-Stars Like this Event. So do I! |
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Reggie and the Full Effect w/ MC Chris, Leathermouth, and Warship (outside)Saturday 08/23 (08:30PM) @ Emo's (Downtown)Click “I Like It!” to win free tickets! 43 People and 5 All-Stars Like this Event. So do I! |
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The Evil Eye BallSaturday 08/23 (07:00PM) @ The Off Center (East of I-35)The Evil Eye Ball is Rude Mechs' annual benefit celebration. Rude Mechs wants to celebrate 13 years of good fortune and d...read more 3 People and 2 All-Stars Like this Event. So do I! |
101X Presents: The Melvins w/ Big Business (outside)
Friday 08/22 (07:00PM) @ Emo's (Downtown)
52 People and 11 All-Stars Like this Event. So do I!
The cool kids w/ free sol, dj mel
Wednesday 08/20 (07:00PM) @ Emo's (Downtown)
62 People and 8 All-Stars Like this Event. So do I!
Come Latelys, deadman, astronaut suit
Saturday 08/16 (09:00PM) @ Club de Ville (Downtown)
14 People and 2 All-Stars Like this Event. So do I!
101X the Next Big Thing Presents Oliver Future/Pudge Zeppelin w/ PJ and the Bear (outside)
Saturday 08/16 (09:00PM) @ Emo's (Downtown)
8 People and 3 All-Stars Like this Event. So do I!
C3 Presents: Black Joe Lewis w/ Jonathan Tyler &The Northern Lights, & The ape shits
Friday 08/15 (08:00PM) @ The Parish (Downtown)
18 People and 5 All-Stars Like this Event. So do I!
Heartless Bastards
Thursday 08/14 (12:00AM) @ Continental Club (South of the river)
31 People and 6 All-Stars Like this Event. So do I!
Toots & The Maytals w/ Outlaw Nation
Wednesday 08/13 (08:00PM) @ Antone's (Downtown)
24 People and 7 All-Stars Like this Event. So do I!
Smoking Popes, Koufax, Masonic
Tuesday 08/12 (08:00PM) @ The Mohawk (Downtown)
8 People and 3 All-Stars Like this Event. So do I!
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101X the Next Big Thing Presents Oliver Future/Pudge Zeppelin w/ PJ and the Bear (outside) @ Emo's
Their day job involves playing hip spaces like L.A.’s Viper Room in the Britpop-influenced outfit Oliver Future, but the four well-fed lads of Pudge Zeppelin obviously know which side their bread is buttered on, because their lark of a side project is often included as a double package. A tongue-in-cheek—but not unfaithful—tribute to Page, Plant & Co., Pudge delivers a medley of the group’s “coolest songs ever,” with an impressive repertoire that changes from gig to gig (though you’re bound to hear “Stairway”) and chops that make them convincing stand-ins, plus a few extra pounds.
Posted 24 days ago.C3 Presents: Black Joe Lewis w/ Jonathan Tyler &The Northern Lights, & The ape shits @ The Parish
The blues-hollerin’ Black Joe Lewis may have the wounded soul of Wilson Pickett and the showmanship of James Brown, but the young Austinite’s roots are in gangsta rap and punk, which actually works in his favor. While the more established bluesmen in this town are so robotically proficient with their instruments that their music has all the raw power of a Michael McDonald song, Lewis’ primitive playing gets to the heart of the music, harkening back to the days of self-taught pioneers like Lightnin’ Hopkins.
Posted 24 days ago.The cool kids w/ free sol, dj mel @ Emo's
Chicago hip-hop duo The Cool Kids (Mikey Rocks and Chuck Inglish), stirred the sheets in 2007 with well-received live shows and a sleepy, bass-burbling single called “Black Mags.” This year will almost certainly be their breakout: They’ve signed to Chocolate Industries, an underground hip-hop label with releases by Money Mark, Vast Aire, and Lady Sovereign, and they have an uncommonly dexterous way of infusing boom-bap beats with clever rhymes and hipster cool. The Cool Kids will play here in support of their long-delayed debut, The Bake Sale. Opening: Free Sol, DJ Mel.
Posted 24 days ago.Come Latelys, deadman, astronaut suit @ Club de Ville
Occupying the same torn-and-frayed space of “alt-country” as Wilco, Austin’s The Come Latelys specialize in the sort of emotions most folks try to drown in the bottle. Instead, the local quintet sets them to music on its recent debut EP, Essential—a name that, along with its faux-“vintage album” cover, suggests the sort of AOR ambitions contained within—surrounding Michael Harmeier’s perpetually wounded vocals with soothing licks of piano and organ. Opener Deadman, led by recent Austin transplant Steven Collins, couches its spooky, somber folk in swirls of shoegaze textures, while The Astronaut Suit follows the smacked-out blues blueprint of groups like Spiritualized.
Posted 24 days ago.Heartless Bastards @ Continental Club
Despite sporting a more straightforward take on rock than typically associated with Mississippi shack-blues label Fat Possum, Cincinnati’s Heartless Bastards were championed by The Black Keys’ Patrick Carney and soon inked a deal. The Bastards’ 2005 debut, Stairs And Elevators, found lots of fans and received plenty of glowing reviews, most of which focused on singer-guitarist Erika Wennerstrom and her powerful vocals.
Posted 24 days ago.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 about 1 month 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 about 1 month 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 about 1 month ago.Valient Thorr, Early Man, Skeletonwitch, Golden Axe, Dead Bird @ 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 about 1 month 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 about 1 month 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 about 1 month 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 about 1 month ago.The Next Big Thing Presents: The Faint w/ Jaguar Love, Shy Child @ 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 about 1 month 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 about 1 month 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 about 1 month 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 about 1 month 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 about 1 month 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 about 1 month 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 about 1 month 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 about 1 month 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 about 1 month 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 about 1 month 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 about 1 month 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 about 1 month 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.
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