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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Weekend picks: Fearsome punk, electronic oddness and lovers rock
FRIDAY
Freddy McGregor at Flamingo Cantina. One of reggae’s truly bulletproof talents — killer voice, solid taste in material, a lifetime on stage and a mastery of the heart-string-pulling reggae sub-genre ‘lovers rock.’ Look for a lot of folks making out at this show. With Al Shire and the Henchmen. 9 p.m. $12 advance, $15 at the door. —- Joe Gross
Also recommended:
- Billy Joe Shaver at Cactus Cafe
- No Slogan at the Welding Shop
- Los Campesinos at Emo’s outside
- Cobra Starship at Emo’s inside
- the Hex Dispensers at Beerland
- Scorpio Rising at the Mohawk
- Krum Bums record release at Red 7
- White Ghost Shivers at the Continental Club
- Prince Klassen at the Beauty Bar
- Hunt Sales at Trophy’s
- Galactic Cowboys at Stubb’s
SATURDAY
The So-Cal Punk Invasion Tour at Emo’s. Southern California was ground zero for a certain strain of hardcore punk. While D.C. kids were skaters, political and anti-booze, Boston kids were thuggish and anti-booze, Chicago was noisy and Minneapolis was drunk (Replacements) or on speed (Husker Du). SoCal punk was loud, violent and pro-skating. It was also a little scary, though maybe not now as everyone is at reunion age. With Fear, Agent Orange, Total Chaos and more. Expect to be run into. 10 p.m. $17 advance, $20 at the door. Emo’s. — J.G.
Also recommended:
- Jimmy LaFave at Cactus Cafe
- Sons of Hercules at Beerland
- Quintron and Miss Pussycat at Red 7
- Everyone Knows Everyone Summer Party with Recover at the Mohawk
- Red Leaves at the Beauty Bar
- Bankrupt and the Borrowers at Stubb’s
- Don Chani at Flamingo Cantina
- Mother’s Anthem at La Zona Rosa
- Mr. Lewis and the Funeral 5 at Trophy’s
- Diamond Smugglers at Antones
SUNDAY
Best Fwends at the Mohawk. Electronic oddness that remains weirdly underknown. These severely off-beat pop tunes play out like roller skating jams for those with four or five legs. With Casy and Brian, DJ Jester the Filipino Fist and Cowabunga Babes. 10 p.m. $7 at the door, $9 for minors. — J.G.
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Ingram plays ‘Tonight Show’ Friday
Lakeway’s Jack Ingram will perform his new country single “Barefoot & Crazy” on “The Tonight Show” Friday. The song is from the upcoming LP “Big Dreams & High Hopes,” which hits stores Aug. 25.
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Butthole Surfers, Peaches play Halloween show at Stubb’s; Drive-By Truckers play two days earlier
So, uh, I guess I’ll be taking my kid out trick or treating VERY EARLY on Oct. 31.
Tickets go on sale Saturday through stubbs.frontgatetickets.com.
The Drive-By Truckers play Oct. 29. James McMurty opens.
Tickets go on sale Friday through stubbs.frontgatetickets.com.
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James McMurty “Live in Europe” album due Oct. 13
Lightning Rod Records will release Live in Europe, a document of James McMurtry’s first European tour, on Oct. 13.
He was joined on that trip by keyboardist Ian McLagan (who played with the4 band) and Jon Dee Graham.
His live vibe always reminded Austin Music Source of a roots-rocky Lou Reed, frankly, so AMS is looking forward to this.
The set will be available as a CD with a bonus DVD, or as a deluxe vinyl LP package with a CD and DVD insert. (So buy a turntable, then but the LP, people.)
McMurtry will tour the U.S. and Europe this fall in support of the live album.
Here’s the track list:
“Bayou Tortue”
“Just Us Kids”
“Hurricane Party”
“You’d a’ Thought (Leonard Cohen Must Die)”
“Fräulein O.”
“Ruby and Carlos”
“Freeway View”
“Restless”
Bonus DVD:
“Choctaw Bingo”
“You’d a’ Thought (Leonard Cohen Must Die)”
“Freeway View”
“We Can’t Make It Here”
“Laredo (with Jon Dee Graham)”
“Too Long In The Wasteland”
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A delayed discovery: MGMT
Some vacations are defined by reconnections from the past or a simple dish at a hole in the wall that causes withdrawals the Tuesday after. If you’re lucky, your time running wild out of the velvet coffin leads to the rocking of your third world. I’ve always loved reading about those.
On my recent six-day tour of toll booths and pizza and 80-degree weather in the northeast, my mind was lightened and brightened- but not even close to being blown- by MGMT. Whenever I think back on those six days of working extremely hard to have fun and not wasting money, I’m going to have “Kids” or “Time To Pretend” or “Electric Feel” running through my mind.
Stone-cold sober, driving through beautiful, green Vermont, melting into MGMT was one of the best times music ever made me high. Can’t believe I missed them at SXSW and ACL Fest last year (where they sold more CDs on site than any other act.)
MGMT is a little like the Killers, via Wesleyan instead of UNLV, but there’s no pretense to the music that I can tell. Even their hooks sound honest, like old BeeGees.
I hadn’t really heard them until they opened for Paul McCartney at Fenway Park Aug. 5 & 6. It’s just not in me to look at a record by a band called MGMT (originally pronounced “management,” yuck) and deciding to play it. But they were really good at Fenway, filling all that air with fluttery keyboards and crisp vocals. Great drummer, too. I kept writing down the names of bands they reminded me of, like Supertramp, until I just gave up and realized that they’ve got their own thing going. It’s music to move to. MGMT will always remind me of driving through Vermont.
Great things are in the offing for the Brooklyn-based band in 2010, when “Congratulations,” the followup to 2007’s wonderful “Oracular Spectacular” comes out. Next time through Austin, they’ll play someplace big like the Austin Music Hall or Cedar Park Center. There’s just no one else I’ve heard in years that has as much potential as my new favorite band.
