22-20s. (Rock) Further proof of Delta bluesman 'Skip' James' influence on the other side of the pond. (Stubb's, 8 p.m.)

400 Blows. (Punk) An 'anti-melody' punk band really, really like Troufoutt. Or maybe the idea of just hitting someone over and over again. (Emo's Jr., 12:30 a.m.)

Adem. (Avant/Experimental) British contingent of the neo-folk renaissance spawned by Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom. (Blender Bar at The Ritz, 8 p.m.)

AMPOP. (Pop) While that guy who's married to Gwyneth Paltrow is sleeping (Chris Martin of Coldplay, if you don't read People), others in Europe are creeping. (Latitude 30, 9 p.m.)

Apollo Sunshine. (Rock) Van-dwellers whose live shows can boast Times-Square-on-New-Year's-Eve theatrics. (Exodus, 9 p.m.)

Austin Theremonic Orchestra. (Avant/Experimental) Make it seven theremins and the only thing missing is Rod Serling. (The Hideout, 8 p.m.)

Awesome Cool Dudes. (Pop) Shtick blaring out of the stereos of the local Vespa crew. (Room 710, 8 p.m.)

AYO. (Singer-Songwriter) Hand-me-down tales from a Nigerian father and Romanian mother. (Tambaleo, 9 p.m.)

Bad Wizard. (Rock) Want some evil spells with that Southern boogie-shake? (Flamingo Cantina, 1 a.m.)

Lou Barlow. (Rock) Check out his version of Ratt's 'Round and Round' on his first 'official' solo album, 'Emoh.' (The Parish, 9 p.m.)

Judah Bauer/20 Miles. (Alt Country) The Blues Explosion's guitarist takes the cotton out of his ears and heads for quieter pastures. (Club de Ville, 11:00 p.m.)

Be Your Own Pet. (Rock) Must be cool walking around high school sporting a mighty Afro, talking about your debut album on Rough Trade. (La Zona Rosa, 8 p.m.)

Beangrowers. (Rock) Apparently the skinny-tie syndrome also infected Malta. (Lava Lounge Patio, 11 p.m.)

Bedouin Soundclash. (Reggae) Isn't Canadian-reggae an oxymoron? (Emo's Annex, 9 p.m.)

Tracy Bonham. (Rock) The closest she came to Zeppelin lineage was playing violin in the Plant-Page reunion tour. (Caribbean Lights, 11 p.m.)

By Divine Right. (Rock) Someone please buy these Torontoans a one-way ticket to Athens. (Exodus, 10 p.m.)

Chatham County Line. (Bluegrass) Dapper traditionalists who all take turns at the mic stand. (Continental Club, 8 p.m.)

Clem Snide. (Alt Country) Fans of canceled feel-good show 'Ed' can reminiscence over the theme song. (Exodus, midnight)

Cowboy Mouth. (Rock) Big Easy band joins with Southern Comfort to corporatize their anthems. (Fox and Hound, midnight)

AJ Croce. (Pop) That's Adrian James to you, and yes, he's Jim's son. (The 18th floor at Crowne Plaza, 10 p.m.)

Crooked Fingers. (Rock) Former Archer of Loaf enters his Hemingway phase by assuming the identity of a matador, scraps the indie rock that made him a semilegend. Or something like that. (The Parish, midnight)

Dead Sexy, Inc. (Electronic) French nouveau disco for the promiscuous set. (Tambaleo, midnight)

The Dears. (Rock) With a front man named Murray A. Lightburn, drama and grandiosity are to be expected. (Exodus, 1 a.m.)

Death From Above 1979. (Rock) Living together in a funeral home; don't have money in the budget for a guitarist. (Blender Bar at The Ritz, 1 a.m.)

The Deathray Davies. (Rock) Does Ray Davies consider this an insult or a compliment? (Room 710, 10 p.m.)

John Doe. (Rock) The Chris Isaak of the punk generation. (Continental Club, 1 a.m.)

Doves. (Rock) Madchester's one-hit-wonder Sub Sub soars in its ornithological reincarnation. (La Zona Rosa, 1 a.m.)

Earlimart. (Rock) Appropriators of friend Elliott Smith's somber, introspective musical canon. (Buffalo Billiards, 11 p.m.)

Andrea Echeverri. (Latin Rock) Colombian diva converts her partner into a producer and goes solo. (Mambo Kings, midnight)

Fatal Flying Guilloteens. (Punk) A kung-fu film in which the protagonists think it's funny to wear Lone Ranger masks. (The Velvet Spade Patio, 12:10 a.m.)

Fatboy Slim. (DJ) His latest, 'Palookaville,' is named after what Brando termed 'a mythical, nonsense destination.' No word on whether that dance troupe from the 'Praise You' video will be here. (Stubb's, 12:30 a.m.)

French Kicks. (Rock) Their singer/drummer is so tall and rangy he looks like an octopus working his kit. (Buffalo Billiards, 10 p.m.)

The Futureheads. (Rock) Lean and lyrical, music's most ballyhooed novella of the moment. (La Zona Rosa, 11 p.m.)

Go Betty Go. (Punk) Walking the line between doodling hearts on a Trapper Keeper and harboring a crush on the tattooed senior. (Emo's Annex, 10 p.m.)

Gogol Bordello. (Punk) Varied, raucous, addictive, the future of world music. (Emo's Annex, 1 a.m.)

The Gourds. (Alt Country) Their 'music for the unwashed and well read' typifies our community's motto, 'Keep Austin Weird.' (Town Lake Stage at Auditorium Shores, 8 p.m.)

A Gun Called Tension. (Avant/Experimental) Modest Mouse member and Beta Band collaborator pour post-punk and hip-hop into the test tube. (Whisky Bar, 8 p.m.)

Jeff Hanson. (Singer-Songwriter) A falsetto no choir teacher could dissuade from growing into his own. (Beerland, 10:15 p.m.)

A Hawk and A Hacksaw. (Rock) Former resident of Neutral Milk Hotel plays whatever is close at hand. (Copa, 9 p.m.)

Hockey Night. (Rock) Experiments in the wee hours of the night, after multiple viewings of 'Strange Brew.' (Friends, 9 p.m.)

The Honorary Title. (Rock) Theme music for this week's Seth-and-Summer sequence. (Eternal, 10 p.m.)

Hot Buttered Rum String Band. (Bluegrass) Hippies co-opting rural music for the educational purposes of an aimless caravan of twirlers. (Opal Divine's Freehouse, 11 p.m.)

Hot Hot Heat. (Rock) The bandages were too much of a burden for the guitarist on 'Make Up the Breakdown,' so he quit. (La Zona Rosa, midnight)

Husky Rescue. (Electronic) The score to falling snowflakes in the endless Arctic night. (Latitude 30, midnight)

Will Johnson. (Rock) Perhaps the busiest man at the festival because of two other shows with two other bands. (Emo's Main Room, 8 p.m.)

The Juliana Theory. (Rock) All they need is love — and not to be asked for the meaning of the '33' on the Rolling Rock bottle. (Red Eyed Fly, 1 a.m.)

Robert Earl Keen Band. (Alt Country) Along with the likes of Lyle Lovett, Nanci Griffith and Lucinda Williams, he defined the very genre in which he is categorized. (Antone's, 11 p.m.)

Ray LaMontagne. (Singer-Songwriter) Sings the paint off the walls; amazing. (Buffalo Billiards, 11 p.m.)

Jim Lauderdale. (Alt Country) Writer of eight George Strait albums teams up with Dead lyricist Robert Hunter for a little wordplay. (Antone's, 9 p.m.)

The Legendary Porch Pounders. (Blues) U.S. Patent No. 5,627,336: Porchboard, a floor-bass played with a slight tapping of the foot. (Hard Rock Cafe, 8 p.m.)

Li'l Cap'n Travis. (Alt Country) These locals come recommended by the screenwriter of Richard Linklater's 'The Newton Boys.' (Room 710, midnight)

Los Hombres Calientes: Irvin Mayfield & Bill Summers. (Jazz) Chroniclers of the African experience conduct field recordings throughout the Caribbean and Latin America. (Fox and Hound, 11 p.m.)

Love Tractor. (Rock) Fringe-players in Athens during the '80s heyday return to the fold. (Lava Lounge Patio, midnight)

M.I.A. (Electronic) Refugee of war decries the New World Order with dancehall ripened by slang from the streets of London; the hottest act in grime. (Elysium, 11 p.m.)

Metal Urbain. (Punk) Paris' answer to the punk uprising in the United Kingdom broadened the playing field with the use of a drum machine. (Tambaleo, 1 a.m.)

Milton Mapes. (Rock) Character-driven fits of desperation straight from the pages of Sam Shepard. (Bigsby's, 10 p.m.)

The Moaners. (Rock) Tough without being vulgar, these two are the older sisters of a single-parent, underage boy's dreams. (Continental Club, 10 p.m.)

MonoBand. (Rock) The guitarist for the Cranberries used his sabbatical soliciting various singers to interpret side-music he created. (Soho Lounge, 9 p.m.)

MXPX. (Punk) Snowboarders with cross-necklaces jam this in their headphones during scoots down the powder. (Emo's Annex, 11 p.m.)

The National. (Rock) Two sets of brothers back a singer whose voice 'recalls the holy trinity of Cave, Cash and Cohen.' (Buffalo Billiards, 9 p.m.)

The Oktober People. (Rock) The leaves are changing colors, darkness falls earlier, and suddenly Halloween has come and gone and it's November. (The Hideout, 10 p.m.)

Polly Paulusma. (Singer-Songwriter) How many young women's resumes include opening sets for Bob Dylan? (Nuno's, 11 p.m.)

Robert Plant and Strange Sensation. (Rock) Two words: Led Zeppelin. (Austin Music Hall, 12:15 p.m.)

Plastilina Mosh. (Latin Rock) Their video for 'Nino Bomba' was the first rock video in Español that MTV added to its rotation. (Mambo Kings, 11 p.m.)

The Plot to Blow up the Eiffel Tower. (Punk) If they holler much louder it isn't going to be a secret. (Emo's Jr., 8:45 p.m.)

Radar Brothers. (Rock) Benadryl daydreams imagined at Los Angeles' heralded art college, CalArts. (The Parish, 10 p.m.)

Radio 4. (Rock) Dance-and-punk welders' newest album is a response to Bush's 'denial of core, positive American values.' (Stubb's, 9 p.m.)

Stan Ridgway. (Singer-Songwriter) There's actually a Professor of 'Ridgwayology' dedicated to unraveling the myths created by the ex-Wall of Voodoo-er. (Cactus Cafe, midnight)

The Rogers Sisters. (Rock) Their debut album is only 22 danceable minutes, so don't show up late. (Buffalo Billiards, 1 a.m.)

Peter Rowan. (Bluegrass) Projecting that high lonesome sound since his early days as a Bluegrass Boy with Bill Monroe. (Opal Divine's Freehouse, 1 a.m.)

Kermit Ruffins and the Barbecue Swingers. (Jazz) Well, now, can Christopher Stubblefield play the trumpet? (Fox and Hound, 10 p.m.)

Run Chico Run. (Rock) One 'Run' for each band member that split leaves this duo in a state of perpetual multitasking. (Sake on Sixth, midnight)

Michelle Shocked. (Singer-Songwriter) Three producers, three genres, three new albums this summer. (Cactus Cafe, 11 p.m.)

Seyi Solagbade & the Blackface Band. (World) This Nigerian 16-piece carries on the tradition of Fela Kuti with a mixture of jazz, Hi Life and Juju called 'Palongo.' (Austin Music Hall, 8:45 p.m.)

Leeroy Stagger. (Pop) Fills his notebooks with songs from the lonely side of town. (Sake on Sixth, 11 p.m.)

SubArachnoid Space. (Rock) Band practice aboard a space rover jutting through a meteor shower, bound for the unknown. (Blender Balcony at The Ritz, 1 a.m.)

Two Ton Boa. (Rock) She carries the weight of the world on her shoulders and a big bass in her hands. (Beerland, 9:30 p.m.)

M. Ward. (Alt Country) Just wrapped up a tour with Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes and Jim James of My Morning Jacket, which tells you something about his folky style. (The Parish, 11 p.m.)