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Weekend picks: Charming madmen, 90s buzz bands and surf-loving aliens
(Flaming Lips at ACL Fest 2006. Jay Janner AMERICAN-STATESMAN)FRIDAY The Flaming Lips at the Austin Music Hall. Is there a more lovable, quixotic, charmingly deranged madman working in music today than Flaming Lips front man Wayne Coyne? Evidently not, as tickets to this show sold out like the proverbial hot cakes, leaving those of us not speedy enough to purchase them left wondering just what the odd-yet-captivating tunes from last year’s experimental rock masterpiece ‘Embryonic’ will sound like live. But if ever there were a show worth grabbing marked-up tickets from a scalper outside, it’d be this one — Flaming Lips shows are notoriously feverish, confetti-strewn, delightfully mad affairs. With Stardeath and the White Dwarfs. 7:30 p.m. 208 Nueces St. austinmusichall.com. — Patrick Caldwell
Also recommended:
- Black Joe Lewis and the Relatives at the Continental Club
- Dick Dale at the Red Eyed Fly
- the Happen-Ins at the Scoot Inn
- Citizen Cope at Stubb’s
SATURDAY
Sixteen Deluxe at the Mohawk. Austin’s biggest buzz band of the ’90s (thanks, Charles Aaron of Spin), 16 D returns with their fuzzed out pop. Singer Carrie Clark and guitarist Chris ‘Frenchie’ Smith always had an intense chemistry. Let’s see what they still got in this SXSW tuneup show. With Ume. $10 9 p.m. 912 Red River St. mohawkaustin.com. — Michael Corcoran
Also recommended:
- Xiu Xiu and Jonathan Meiburg at Red 7
- Jimmie Vaughan and Carolyn Wonderland at Antone’s
- David Gray and Phosphorescent at Hogg Auditorium
- Blowfly, Foot Patrol at Beerland
- White White Lights and Ringo Deathstarr at the Mohawk
- the Strange Boys and Harlem at the Red Eyed Fly
SUNDAY
Man or Astro-Man? at the Mohawk. South by Southwest is awash in the old-school and retro this year — Cheap Trick, Hole, Ray Davies, the BoDeans — but none of the festival’s throwback artists are a more welcome sight than Man or Astro-Man. These surf guitar-loving extraterrestrials — the band’s three founding members maintained for years that they were aliens in human bodies — were one of the most prolific bands of the ‘90s, maintaining a nonstop touring and recording schedule that ultimately burned them out. This year the original members have reteamed for the first time since 2006. Expect a theatrical, gleefully bizarre live show with this SXSW preview, possibly involving tesla coils. With the Octopus Project, Woven Bones and Flosstradamus. 8 p.m. 912 Red River St. transmissionentertainment.com. — P.C. Also recommended:
- The RX Bandits at Emo’s
- Bejing Invasion (Xiao He, White and others) at Mi Casa Cantina
- Ellen Fulman and the Long String Instrument at Seaholm Power Plant
- Austin music showcase (the Mother Truckers, Del Castillo, Shurman and others) at the United States Art Authority
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March 11, 2010 11:40 PM | Link to this
mos def = the ecstatic. flaming lips = embryonic.