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Friday, February 5, 2010
Gipsy Kings to play May show at the new Backyard
Revered French flamenco pop pioneers the Gipsy Kings will bring their distinct fusion of Latin American and Spanish styles to the new Backyard venue Thursday, May 6, music production company Direct Events announced today.
The show is only the second to be announced at the new Backyard, which is slated to open sometime this spring. Willie Nelson’s annual Fourth of July picnic is also scheduled to take place at the new venue, which is currently under construction.
Tickets go on sale Saturday, Feb. 13.
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Meet the Casual Victim Pile band: Woven Bones
Ahead of tonight’s second night of the release show for Austin-centric Matador Records compilation “Casual Victim Pile” (see our interview with compilation architect and Matador co-owner Gerard Cosloy here, review here and photo gallery of the bands here), we’ve talked with three of the compilation’s most notable bands. Tonight’s performers Woven Bones are below, and you can also check out yesterday’s performers the Dikes of Holland and Follow That Bird!
Save for Matador Records signees and certifiable buzz act Harlem, dark fuzz rock trio Woven Bones might have a higher profile than any other band on “Casual Victim Pile,” with a writeup on popular music blog Stereogum and a debut album due on Chicago’s HoZac Records in May. The band’s putting the finishing touches on the record, which vocalist and guitarist Andy Burr says mines more accessible territory than the band’s previous releases.
“There’s been some maturing over the last year as far as hooks and stuff are concerned,” Burr says. “It’ll have some sort of semblance of a pop sensibility, which we wanted. Although it’s not bubblegum in any respect.”
The band was relatively new to Austin when they flew onto the radar of Cosloy, who attended several of the band’s shows and approached them about contributing to “Casual Victim Pile.” At the time, Woven Bones were steadily releasing 7-inch singles, and offered Cosloy use of one of the unreleased songs they’d recorded for those sessions. For Burr, the appeal of “Casual Victim Pile” had everything to do with the opportunity to work with Cosloy.
“He’s such a big fan of a lot of bands around town and goes out and sees them all the time. He’ll come to our show, and be like, ‘As soon as you guys are done I’m going to see this and this and this,’ ” Burr says. “For us it was way less of an ‘Oh my gosh, we’re going to be on Matador’ thing and more a ‘Oh, god, Gerard is such a cool dude and we could be involved on something he’s doing’ thing.”
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Texas Union board member bemoans “total lack of input…”
The Save the Cactus (Austin, Texas) Facebook page has passed 20,000 members, including Texas Union faculty board member Dr. Thomas J. Garza, who posted this yesterday:
“As one of three faculty members on the Union Board, I would like to comment on the total lack of input on this decision from Board faculty. All three of us were absent during last Friday’s decision (the item was not explicit on the distributed agenda), and our voices should have been crucial to any decision. I know that at least two of us are frequent attendees to Cactus concerts — and have been for several decades. I join your voices in objecting to this hasty decision made with little input from those who actually benefit from the many joys the Cactus Cafe provides.”
Dr. Garza, an associate professor at UT’s Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, could not be reached for further comment Friday morning.
Yesterday evening the Union board’s student members released a statement that said they didn’t vote on the Cactus phaseout.
Meanwhile, here’s some interesting reading from 16 years ago, when beleagured University Unions head Andy Smith led the charge for privatization of food services in the Texas Union.
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Superchunk, the xx, others to play free show at SXSW
Village Voice Media has announced the lineup for their SXSW party Saturday March 20 at La Zona Rosa from noon to 5 p.m. Superchunk, the xx, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart and Surfer Blood will play a show that is open to the general public. No badge required.
Here’s the official announcement.
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