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Weekend Picks: Blues heroes, underground hip-hop and rockin’ fashionistas
Friday: Eyedea and Abilities at the Beauty Bar.Part of the same Minneapolis hip-hop scene that birthed fan-favorite Atmosphere, E&A looked like they were no more for awhile there, but they’re back with a new album of complicated rhymes due later this year. With Prince Klassen. 9 p.m. $10. — Joe Gross
Friday: The Platforms video premiere at the Alamo Ritz. Austin’s self-proclaimed garage fashionistas, a quartet of sharply dressed, guitar totin’ r’n’r chicas, debut the new video for their song “Hot Little Ride” a rockin’ little ditty about fast cars and faster lovin’. The Dirty Hearts will also perform. —-Deborah Sengupta Stith
Friday: Black Joe Lewis at The Parish. Lewis and his Honeybears blend gritty garage rock, dirty blues and horn-fed soul. Word has it they are about to sign with a label that can bring them to the masses. With Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights. Doors at 8 p.m. $10 advance, $12 door. The Parish. — J.G.
Saturday: Shazam! at the Whisky Bar. Austin/NYC promotion company Keep It Local presents a new monthly party which promises to feature “some of the most serious national and local party rockers.” The kick-off event includes Brooklyn’s DJ Eleven, of The Rub and local turntablist NickNack of Crowd Control Records along with Killeen’s finest Crew 54. $7 —-D.S.S.
Saturday: KVRX Cupcake Social at the Carousel Lounge. With electro-pop from Lady Pterodactyl, jazzy hip-hop from Rae Davis and more. The first 100 guests get a free cupcake from Polkadots Cupcake Factory. 8 p.m. $5 cover goes to KVRX’s Station Survival Fund. ($5, 21 and older). — J.G.
Saturday: Big Blues Revue at Antone’s. All the big names: Pinetop Perkins, Willie ‘Big Eye’ Smith, Lou Ann Barton (left), Ronnie James and more. 8 p.m. $12 general, $30 V.I.P. — J.G.
Sunday: A Place to Bury Strangers at Emo’s. It’s been a great year for folks who love shoegazer rock, the massively loud guitar thunder caked in distortion and feedback that was so popular in the early 1990s. This trio of New Yorkers is pure shoegaze revival, big Jesus and Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine fans who believe transcendence comes with volume. Bring earplugs. With the Boxing Lesson and Ume. 10 p.m. $8. — J.G.
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