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Wednesday, January 6, 2010
New Internet radio station focuses on R&B
Power 92 JAMZ will play newer R&B music, with “a few sprinklings of hip-hop in the mix,” according to a press release. We’re not exactly sure what the ‘92’ means, except that they promise to play 92 minutes of uninterrupted music. The station, owned by Austin-based Progressive Innovations LLC, plans to target Austin, San Antonio, Killeen and Waco. We tuned in for a few minutes and heard songs by Aalliyah, Mariah Carey and Faith Evans. Access the stream at power92texas.com.
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Tejano legend Oscar Martinez to sit in with Lonely Knights
Larry Lange will have a very special guest when the Moose Lodge hosts the record release party for “San Antonio Serenade” by Lange and His Lonely Knights: 75-year-old Corpus Christi bandleader and songwriter Oscar Martinez. As the trumpet player in Isidro Lopez’ band in 1954, Martinez was there at the start of what would be called Tejano music, when Lopez put words to Mexican polka instrumentals.
Martinez is best known for writing “El Tejano Enamorado,” which has been recorded by more than 30 artists since 1965. He has rarely played Austin in recent years.
Also on the bill are the Nortons, Mariachi Corbetas and Joanna Ramirez.
The FREE show is Sunday Jan. 17, 2- 7 p.m., at the Moose Lodge (2103 E.M. Franklin Avenue, 926- 0043).
Oscar Martinez Dec. 31, 2009 in Corpus
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Travelin’ McCourys hit up One World Theatre
The Travelin’ McCourys, a spin-off of the long-running, Grammy Award-winning bluegrass band the Del McCoury band, will perform two shows at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 30 at the One World Theatre.
The band pairs Ronnie McCoury on mandolin, Rob McCoury on banjo, Jason Carter on fiddle and Alan Bartram on bass with various special guests on guitar. In other words, it’s the complete current lineup of the Del McCoury band aside from guitarist and vocalist Del himself.
Ticket, $12-$95, are available here.
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Everyone loves Free Week
David Weaver FOR AMERICAN-STATESMAN
- A-List photos: Free Week 2010, night 5
We bumped into Spoon frontman Britt Daniel checking in on the action down at Emo’s last night.
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Givers and Vampire Weekend on their way back to Austin
It’s been a good couple of days for fans of hooky, infectious Afrobeat-inspired pop bands made up exclusively of white people, as news dropped that both Vampire Weekend and Louisiana’s Givers are on their way back to Austin.
Vampire Weekend — clad as ever in nonthreatening Ivy League chic — swung by Letterman last night for a giddy performance of “Cousins,” the lead single off sophomore album “Contra,” which drops next week. Check out the video above, and keep your eyes on this space for a review of the album next Tuesday. And if you’d like to hear “Contra” for yourself without paying a dime, you don’t even have to steal it — WOXY and the Austinist will have a listening party for it at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Scoot Inn.
They’ll play Stubb’s April 10 — the same night Yeasayer experimentally rocks the Parish, making us glad that that show is a two-night stand. Tickets, $25, will be available Friday.
On the more up-and-coming tip, Lafayette’s Givers, five balls of fire that whip bubbly synths, whimsical instrumentation and peppy vocals into a habit-forming cocktail that’s guaranteed to receive a glowing Pitchfork write-up any day now, will play Emo’s Friday, Feb. 26. The band played the Parish just last month (a show recommended by Austin 360) and opened for the similarly versatile Dirty Projectors in October. Tickets, $8, go on sale Saturday at 10 a.m.
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New Texas Sapphires on the way
It’s been nearly four years since Billy Brent Malkus and former Sincola singer Rebecca Lucille Cannon teamed as the Texas Sapphires and released the deliciously rompish country album “Valley So Steep.” But the pair are readying the release of followup “As He Wanders” early next month.
The Sapphires will play a Waterloo instore at 5 p.m. on Feb. 3, then headline at the Continental Club the next night. Opening at the CC will be a new Momo’s-bred supergroup starring Suzanna Choffel, Warren Hood, Dan Dyer and others called the Coveters. Sounds like a great Thursday night.
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You want a free Cheap Trick show? You’ve got a free Cheap Trick show.
We’ll skip the (very tempting) opportunity to “cleverly” re-word lyrics to “I Want You To Want Me” and “Dream Police” and skip straight to the point: Cheap Trick will be headlining the BMI stage at Auditorium Shores on Lady Bird Lake for the South By Southwest Music Festival in March.
The band will play a free and open-to-the-public show show Friday, March 19. The concert will start at 6 p.m. and feature another, “Hey, remember when?” band in the form of the BoDeans, who have a new album out in April, although it’s a pretty safe bet they’ll still play “Closer To Free.”
The Auditorium Shores stage features free concerts during SXSW every year — keep your eyes on this space for further announcements.
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