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Last Blues on the Green to be ACL preview
Quiet Company performs at the Austin Music Awards at the Austin Music Hall during SXSW on Wednesday March 14, 2012. Photo by Jay Janner/American-Statesman
KGSR kicked off Blues on the Green with Charlie Mars Wednesday (see our photos here), and today they announced their final show on Aug. 8 will be an ACL preview show - so if you missed out on tickets to the big fest you can catch three acts for free in Zilker: Quiet Company, The Eastern Sea and Wild Child. The full lineup:
6/13 Rhett Miller with Wheeler Brothers
6/27 Ben Kweller with Amy Cook
7/11 BoDeans with Sahara Smith
7/25 Marcia Ball with Nakia
8/8 Quiet Company with The Eastern Sea and Wild Child
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Music links: Video of Alejandro Escovedo during SXSW; Austin musicians get nominated for Americana Music Awards
Watch video of Alejandro Escovedo’s opening spot for Bruce Springsteen at ACL Live below (via rollingstone.com):
Robert Ellis, “This One’s For Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark,” Sarah Jarosz and Patty Griffin are among the nominees for the 2012 Americana Music Awards, which take place Sept. 12 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.
Cheap Trick and an electronic dance music Halloween show with Dirty Vegas, Classixx, RAC, and Flight Facilities are among new shows announced at ACL Live. Cheap Trick tickets are on sale now.
The Daily Dot talks to Dan Redman, father to a couple members of super-underage Austin rock band Residual Kid, about using Kickstarter to fund the band’s efforts.
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Scene report: Big Freedia’s booty dance master class
“We havin’ a booty fight!”
“Booty fight” being the only phrase that really gets anywhere close to describing the scene early Thursday evening at Beerland, where two dozen hipsters and black-clad crusty punks were gyrating their hips, behinds and lower halves at the direction of New Orleans “bounce” rapper Big Freedia.
As a sort of warm-up for her Chaos In Tejas show later that night at Club De Ville, Freedia assembled the roomful of eager pupils who paid $5 a head to learn proper booty dancing technique while bass-heavy, hiccup-y rap music boomed over the club’s sound system. At first blush it doesn’t seem like there would be a whole lot of technique to impart since bounce music stirs a kind of instinctive response generating from the hips.
On the contrary, when Freedia is involved butt mechanics are a discipline like kung fu. Starting with some basic lower body stretches she began to illustrate the finer points of motioning one’s ass - pronounced in her effeminate New Orleans drawl as “ayy-yezz” - from side to side, up and down and how to “bounce it like a basketball.”
From there it was on to different stances - bent over, split legged, perching a leg on a chair, bending over and peeking through one’s split legs to wave at the person behind them - and how to get as wild as possible in the course of a show where just about anything goes.
At the end of the 25 minute session just about every thigh and butt muscle not belonging to Freedia or backup dancer/session partner ReRe was in some advanced stage of inflammation. While posing for pictures afterward with grateful pupils, one sweaty male participant told Freedia she should develop the class into a workout program
She assured him a DVD is already in the works. If the satisfied looks on Thursday were any indication, she’ll sell a boatload of them.
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Music links: Chaos in Tejas preview; Divine Fits hints at sound
Statesman writer Joe Gross talks to headliners Moss Icon and offers some picks for this weekend’s Chaos in Tejas fest, which starts tonight.
Britt Daniel’s new project Divine Fits has posted a snippet of a song:
The Backyard has added another Willie Nelson show Aug. 23 with Paula Nelson. Tickets go on sale June 2.
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Tonight’s music picks: Two Hoots & a Holler, Dave Alvin & the Guilty Ones at the Continental Club
Two Hoots & a Holler, Dave Alvin & the Guilty Ones at the Continental Club. Now there is some roots rock. Rick Broussard’s Two Hoots crew playing with a band fronted by one of his biggest fans, former Blaster and X guitarist Dave Alvin. 9 p.m. $15. 1315 S. Congress Ave. www.continentalclub.com
Also playing:
- Jess Williamson at the 29th St. Ballroom
- End Wave, Bali Yaaah at the Swan Dive
- the Lumineers, Gregory Alan Isakov at Antones
- the Damn Torpedoes, the Smites at Stubb’s
- the Big Gun Show, No Show Ponies at Lamberts
- Bugaboo, Penny Jo Pullus at the Scoot Inn
- the Sweet Nuthin, Brut Force at Frank
- Mike & The Moonpies at the White Horse
- Shades at the Red Eyed Fly
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Sweatbox Studio to close its doors after 19 years
Austin-based Sweatbox Studio, which has been recording punk and garage bands since 1993, is closing in mid-August, owner and engineer Mike Vasquez confirmed Wednesday.
Vasquez originally opened the studio because there wasn’t an affordable place for local bands to record. Over the years, it has become famous in Austin and beyond, attracting generations of local musicians as well as bands from outside of Austin who came to record with producers including Vasquez, Tim Kerr, Mike Mariconda and Bryan Nelson. New Bomb Turks, the Mooney Suzuki, the Golden Boys and Flesh Lights are among the groups that have recorded at the studio.
In 2006, fire destroyed Sweatbox’s downtown location forcing the studio to relocate to East Austin.
Vasquez, who is heading to Oregon to train to work on wind turbines, said that his main reason for leaving is that he is ready to try something new.
“The volume of quality bands coming through my studio has never been better than it is right now, and the Austin scene has never been better,” he said.
Vasquez, who is working to finish several recording projects before he leaves, plans to reopen Sweatbox in Portland. He added that he plans on returning to Austin to record from time to time. “It’s not completely over for me down here,” he said.
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Music links: Schmillion CD release tonight at Mohawk
Austin rock band Schmillion celebrates the release of their new album, “Seven,” tonight at Mohawk after the sold-out Tune-Yards show. Listen to/download the album here. Watch the video for “Saligia” below:
KGSR’s Blues on The Green starts at 7:30 p.m. tonight in Zilker Park with Charlie Mars and Max Gomez. A live stream of a set by Lew Card from the W Hotel starts at 6:30 p.m.
Broadway star Idina Menzel (“Wicked,” “Rent”) performs June 14 at the Long Center. Click here for more info.
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Weekend picks: John Butcher, Shakey Graves, Suishou No Fune
FRIDAY
John Butcher at Carousel Lounge. British improvisor John Butcher joins the German Thomas Lehn on analog synthesizer and the American Gino Robair on drums, percussion and electronics. Expect some genuinely extraordinary sound art and music that will never exist again. 9 p.m. $13 advance, $16 door. 110 East 52nd St. epistrophyarts.tumblr.com — Joe Gross
Also playing:
- War at One World Theater; Benefit for Meghan Emery Cates with Bangaar, the Beat Dolls at the Palm Door
- Maps & Atlases at the Parish
- David J at Elysium
- Breakdancing Ronald Reagan and more at Bernadette’s Bar
- Flux Pavilion, Dodge & Fuski at Emo’s East
- Two Door Cinema Club at Stubb’s
- Supervillians at Flamingo Cantina
- T Bird and the Breaks at the Continental Club
- Flosstradamus at the Belmont
- Roger Wallace at the White Horse
SATURDAY
Shakey Graves at Hole in the Wall. On his album “Roll the Bones,” Austin singer-songwriter Shakey Graves assumes the role of classic rambler, with songs soulful, yearning and howling. 9 p.m. $5 2538 Guadalupe St. www.holeinthewallaustin.com — Peter Mongillo
Also playing:
- Collective Soul at La Zona Rosa
- Dale Watson & his Lone Stars at the Continental Club
- Walk Off the Earth, Flagship at Stubb’s
SUNDAY
Suishou No Fune at Skinny’s Ballroom. Psychedelic folk music straight from Japan. These folks play a particularly trippy brand of strum: dual guitar exploration, random-seeming percussion, drones that can become electric and loud and muscular. With ST 37, Book of Shadows and Korperschwasse. 9 p.m. $10. 115 San Jacinto Blvd. www.skinnysballroom.com. — J.G.
Also playing:
- Wild Child, Creamers, Recide at the 29th St. Ballroom
- Pillars and Tongues, Some Say Leland at the Salvage Vanguard Theater
- Junior Brown and Tanya Rae at the Continental Club
- Boxcar Satan, Ghostwriter at Headhunters
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Tonight’s picks: Tune-Yards at Mohawk
Tune-Yards at Mohawk. Quirky and eclectic indie pop courtesy of San Francisco-based musician Merril Garbus, who blends art rock, afro-pop and folk, among other influences. With Deep Time. 6:30 p.m. $20. 912 Red River St. www.mohawkaustin.com. — P.M.
Also playing:
- The Clash hoot night at Hole in the Wall
- Belaire, Borrisokane and Schmillion at Mohawk
- Crooked Bangs, Bloody Knives, Mugwumpz and Beth Israel at Beerland
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Music links: Neil Young and Crazy Horse stream ‘Americana’
On June 5, ACL Fest headliners Neil Young and Crazy Horse release “Americana,” a re-imagining of famous folk standards including “This Land is Your Land,” “Oh Susanna” and “Clementine.” If you want a taste of the non-greatest hits that will probably show up at some point during Neil’s ACL Fest set, the album is streaming over at Rolling Stone.
In other ACL Fest news, Vulture claims to have found the bridge from headliner Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Under the Bridge.”
Indie pop band Yeasayer has announced a tour to promote their new album, “Fragrant World,” out Aug. 21. They play Stubb’s Sept. 6.
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Tonight’s picks: French Inhales, The Gory Details, Cop Warmth at Trailer Space
French Inhales, The Gory Details, Cop Warmth at Trailer Space A perfect example of Trailer Space-as-public service. Three excellent Texas punk bands, for free. (Well, there is no cover, but of course you should bring donations for the band because you are not a jerk.) 6 p.m. Free. 1401 Rosewood Ave. trailerspacerecords.com — Joe Gross
Also playing:
- Blind Shake, Dikes of Holland, Gospel Truth, Spray Paint at Beerland
- Margot and The Nuclear So and So’s, Dinosaur Feathers, Whispertown at the Mohawk
- The Berkshire Hounds, Rufie-Oh, Hammock on the Beach at the Hole in the Wall
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Uncle Billy’s Lake Travis adds ‘Gospel Throwdown’
Uncle Billy’s Rooftop (at the restaurant’s Lake Travis location) opened up during SXSW. Since then it’s been hosting more and more shows, including a newly-added gospel brunch series.
The River City Christianettes and the Jones Family Singers kick off the series this Sunday starting at 11.
Click here to see a schedule of other events.
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