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Thursday, January 3, 2008
Weekend Picks: Reggae, dance music and free shows galore
Saturday: Sister Carol at Flamingo. The self-proclaimed “Black Cinderella” from Jamaica delivers intelligent and empowering lyrics with a fierce sensibility and a danceable groove. Local reggae artists Don Chani open. $15. —-Deborah Sengupta Stith
Saturday: DJ Dirk Diggla at Karma Lounge. DJ Dirk Diggla mashes together hip-hop, downtempo and electro-soul in the deliberately mysterious (and perhaps a little overly dramatic) environment of this downtown lounge. No cover. —-D.S.S.
Sunday: Monster Big Band at Ruta Maya. Swing into 2008 with this conglomerate of jazz musicians culled from some of the top bands in town including Los Jazz Vatos, The Stingers and The Scabs. $7 —-D.S.S.
Sunday: Dollar Sunday at Barcelona. Can’t make any promises about the music, but this hip little basement club generally throws down a good mix of hip-hop, techno and house with an emphasis on dance tracks. The real draw however, is the drinks, which according to the club’s Web site are $1 for anything in the house all night long. —-D.S.S.
Free week at Emo’s: The full rundown
Friday: Those Peabodys and Black Joe Lewis are among the bands inside. Lions, Brothers and Sisters and others will play outside, while Hex Dispensers and more play the lounge.
Saturday: Cruiserweight and the Little Bicycles anchor a night of pop rock on the inside stage, Car Stereo (Wars) deejays up a storm in the Lounge with Moth Fight and others, while Red River is represented on the outside stage with the Crack Pipes and Brazos, among still others.
Sunday: Spacey noise rockers Ume join Red Leaves, Follow That Bird and more on the inside stage, while Noise Revival Orchestra, Bee vs. Moth and others play the lounge.
Monday: Scorpion Child, Big Black Smoke and more play the inside stage, with Pleasant Grove, Hollywood Gossip and others in the lounge.
Tuesday: The pop rock of Kissinger, the Midgetmen and more is in the lounge. Pack of Wolves and the Roller are among those bringing heavy sounds to the inside stage. Austin metal-core stars At All Cost are on the outside stage with other bands.
Wednesday: Australian Cattle God Records showcases its bands on both the inside and outside stages, while Translations, Peel and others play the lounge.
Thursday: The final night of free week features Rubble, Dazzling King Solomon and Cavedweller inside; Ringo Deathstarr, My Education, the Boxing Lesson, Horse + Donkey and the Story Of in the lounge; and Crash Gallery, LAX, the Laughing, Death is Not a Joyride and Snafu Kitties outside. —-Joe Gross
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No more Dixie Chicks?
That’s what the National Enquirer is reporting here.
Not true, says Chicks longtime tour publicist and friend Kathy Best. “I just saw them at a baby shower a month ago,” Best says, “and everything was fine.” Also, the Chicks sent out a joint Christmas card. Asked if it was true, as the Enquirer reported, that Emily Robison has split with husband Charlie and plans to raise their three children as a single mother, Best said, “I don’t know anything about all that.”
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R.E.M., Daniel Lanois, French punks to play SXSW
R.E.M. is confirmed for this year’s SXSW, playing one of only a handful of American dates before its 14th album, “Accelerate,” arrives on April 1 and the band launches a larger tour later in the year. Word has it that, per the album title, the record will be a return to faster songs.
The band last played Austin in 2003 as an Austin City Limits Music Festival headliner.
R.E.M. is in need of a hit. The band’s most recent album, the 2007 double disc “Live,” tanked, debuting at No. 72 in October, and vanishing from the charts soon after, according to Nielsen Soundscan. The band’s last studio album was the mid-tempo 2004 collection, “Around the Sun,” which was met with mixed reviews and indifferent commercial response.
Other confirmed acts include Daniel Lanois, Domino Records artists the Kills, Lightspeed Champion, Sons & Daughters and French synth-punks Cheveu.
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Odds and ends
Waterloo Records owner John Kunz participated in an independent retailer roundtable in the Dec. 22 issue of Billboard. He is in favor of labels getting aggressive with back-catalog marketing, says the lack of a hit album that everyone wanted made the fourth quarter brutal and says more releases on vinyl would really help, which is always nice to hear for those of us who will give up his turntable when they pry it from our cold, dead hands … Speaking of, CD sales dropped about 18 percent in 2007…
Ten bands, including Chili Cold Blood, Amplified Heat and the Alice Rose, take the stage Jan. 11 to play a benefit for promoter Jennifer Marchand of Ruta Maya, who fell victim to a pedestrian car accident injury in November. Marchand is best known promoted Bleu French Laundry Productions. Doors at 7:30 p.m. $8 cover…
Third time’s the charm? We’ll see. After two cancellations, Rodrigo y Gabriela are slated to play La Zona Rosa Feb. 16. Not the best venue for an acoustic act, but we’ll see how this goes …
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Reivers reunion Feb. 9
A date has been set for the first full set by the Reivers, one of Austin’s most original rock bands, in almost 15 years. The band played four songs at the 2002 wedding of John Croslin.
Tickets for the Feb. 9 show at the Parish are $15 and go on sale Jan. 11 at Front Gate Tickets locations and online at www.frontgatetickets.com.
