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Thursday, April 9, 2009
Black and White Years to headline 360 concert series kickoff
Jay Janner AMERICAN-STATESMAN
Kanye-approved, Austin Music Award winning, fabulously mustachioed, funky indie pop group Black and White Years is scheduled to headline the kickoff event in the brand spankin’ new Austin360 concert series. The show goes down on Thursday, April 30 at Stubb’s BBQ with the Mercers holding down the opening spot. Tickets are $5 advance, $8 at the door and on sale now. Come get your party on!
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Weekend picks: Euro-jazz, brassy sex rhymes and a hillbilly hoedown
FRIDAY
Ab Baars Trio & Ken Vandermark at Victory Grill. Dutch reedman Ab Baars and his trio (bassist Wilbert de Joode and drummer Martin van Duynhoven) hook up with Chicago sax monster Ken Vandermark for a potentially thrilling evening of improvisational jazz action. 8 p.m. $15 advance, $18 at the door. — Joe Gross
Also recommended
- Just Desserts ‘Love or Die!’ CD release party with Mark Rubin, Lauren Checchio, and more at Cactus Cafe
- Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Vivian Girls at the Mohawk
- Sally Crewe & the Sudden Move at Club Deville
SATURDAY
Too $hort at the Mohawk. Mohawk owner James Moody seems determined to get as many hip-hop legends as he can to play shows at his club. Ice Cube, KRS-One, now this guy, the Oakland lifer (as in, a lifetime in rap, not jail) who cranked out album after solid album of sex rhymes and spare, brassy bets. When he rapped ‘Life is … too short!,’ the dude probably didn’t realize a whole lot of hip-hop would in fact sound like him someday. 8 p.m. $22 advance, $24 door. With N/A Productions, Mutual Trust, Traygod, Global 74, Phranchyze and Tee Double. — J.G.
Also recommended
- Antiseen at Emo’s
- Sky Saxon of the Seeds backed by Shapes Have Fangs at the Scoot Inn
- Honky, Dixie Witch, Grady at Room 710
- Kinks Hoot Night with Zookeeper, Golden Bear, The Tunnels and more at Ruta Maya
- Afrofreque at Lamberts
SUNDAY
‘Hey, Loretta!’ with the Continental Coal Miners at the Continental Club. A new Austin tradition is this ‘Hillbilly Hoedown and Pie Social,’ which pays tribute to country music legend Loretta Lynn. Proceeds will benefit the American Diabetes Association, which Lynn personally chose as the charity. Though most of the performers will be female, including Rosie Flores, Sunny Sweeney, Brennen Leigh, Miss Leslie, Libbi Bosworth, Susanna Van Tassel and organizer Teri Joyce, several male singers such as Ted Roddy and Mike Barfield will come up to sing Conway Twitty’s parts on the classic duets. 8:30 p.m. $10. — Michael Corcoran
Also recommended
- Morrissey at Bass Concert Hall
- HOD, Scattered Remains, Self-Induced Pain at Room 710
- Papermoons, The Legend, Dexter Grixby at Red 7
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Local bands get jacked (and fight back)
Aubrey Edwards FOR AMERICAN-STATESMAN
Local post-grunge rockers When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth recently got jacked. The band suffered a van break-in and lost a lot of gear. Austinsurreal and Sun-Jue Shin have organized a benefit to help them recoup losses and get back on the road. The show is scheduled for Friday, April 17 at Beerland. Bananafana, Dinos going acoustic, Dikes of Holland, Ralph White, Woodgrain, Red X Red M, and the Amazing Music Brothers will all perform and Austinsurreal’s Mattsoreal will spin punk rock and weird out grooves in between sets.
In very loosely related news, local underground hip-hop lifers the Smoke Jumpers are heated over a name-jacking incident. A Chicago-based techo outfit calling themselves the Smoke Jumpers released the “Anti-Breezy” single “My Flow So Tight” unsubtly calling for a public beat down of alleged Rihanna abuser Chris Brown. As the song began to gain traction on iTunes and the airwaves the local rappers weren’t havin’ it. They struck back releasing the following statement railing against fake Jumpers and tabloid pop. The Chicago crew wasn’t looking to beef (except with Chris Brown) and relented, sheepishly switching their name to the Jump Smokers with a sideways smile.
The Smoke Jumpers are currently hosting Fire Fridays on their MySpace page. Drop by every Friday for hot new tracks.
