RECOMMENDED EVENTS FOR JAN. 21 TO JAN. 27 live music venues + roadshows p.68club listings p.70
EDITED BY AUDRA SCHROEDER music listings SARAH JAFFE THE PHARCYDE soundcheck Young Prisms The Ghost Room, Friday 21 Mohawk, Saturday 22 BY AUDRA SCHROEDER North Texas songbird Sarah Jaffe The West Coast counterpart to A tore down the wallpaper with last Tribe Called Quest in the early 1990s SUZY BOGGUSS year’s debut LP Suburban Nature. The rap-volution, L.A.’s Pharcyde took a Antone’s, Friday 21 24-year-old’s voice is stark, wild, and more bizarre ride through hip-hop’s Nashville belle drives south. 7pm. as expansive as the plains she came neighborhood. The group’s 1992 debut TAKE 6 from, which lends itself nicely to her L P, Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde, and One World Theatre, Friday 21 folky tales of home, love, and loss. 1995 follow-up, Labcabincalifornia, Six voices, one gospel love. 7 & She imbues Suburban Nature with left a couple of enduring singles 9:30pm. a wisdom beyond her years. Fellow (“Drop,” “Passin’ Me By”), while taking North Texan folk-popists Bosque “Ya Mama” to new heights. Notion, WEIRD PARTY Brown open. – Audra Schroeder Crew54, and BetaPlayer open ceremo- Beerland, Saturday 22 nies. Inside, Lovely Sparrows, One Houston punks ramp up the skate Hundred Flowers, and other locals angst, with locals OBN III’s, Women in MEGAFAUNA, pop balloons. – Audra Schroeder OPPOSITE DAY Prison, and the Creamers. Flamingo Cantina, Friday 21 MAGNIFICO, THE PETERSON INSECT SEX ACT, HUG Tonight: Shred Town, U.S.A. ATX BROTHERS trio Megafauna, led by the fast Emo’s, Saturday 22 fingers and honeyed voice of gui- Antone’s, Tuesday 25 A night of tight pants and loose tarist Dani Neff, came down the Opening the semiannual reunion morals. mountain with last year’s debut of Muddy Waters alum Pinetop RALPH WHITE, LP Larger Than Human and proved Perkins, 97, and harp cat Willie “Big PLUTONIUM FARMERS itself more muscle car than monster Eyes” Smith, 75 this week, are the Red 7, Sunday 23 truck. Another local trio, Opposite late blues Buddha’s preteen spiritu- Outsider folk and noise, further Day, slaps funk and punk around al and genre descendants: Bastrop’s agitated by Shawn David McMillen’s like the Three Stooges in Frank Peterson Brothers. “They’re like Mancat House Band and Lisa Zappa’s underground bunker. Suite miniature Muddy Waterses,” gasped Cameron’s Venison Whirled. Unraveling and Muchos Backflips Susan Antone late last year. Bassist also play. – Audra Schroeder Alex, 11, and his brother Glenn, 13, TEAADORA NIKOLOVA, MIRM, on guitar – with equally youthful TWIGS & YARN Best Coast drummer Clellan Hyatt – aren’t yet Salvage Vanguard Theater, Sunday 23 THE MOONDOGGIES Willie Dixon and Jimmy Rogers, but Variations on a theme: lo-fi edition. Lamberts, Saturday 22 Gary Clark Jr. better watch his back. Emo’s, Monday 24/Tuesday 25 The cozy confines of Lamberts – Raoul Hernandez THE MEMORIALS make an ideal setting for the Parish, Monday 24 If weed isn’t “technically” legal in California yet, Ex-Mars Volta drummer crashes Moondoggies, the latest crop yielded BANG ON A CAN you wouldn’t know it by the wealth of heavy-lidded from the Pacific Northwest’s harvest into a percussive new project. Just of soft-focus indie-pop. While 2008’s ALL-STARS Like Vinyl and the Refused Are bands stumbling out of its hills and valleys. Here’s Don’t Be a Stranger established the Bass Concert Hall, Wednesday 26 Fucking Dead open. basics – CS&N harmonies, Southern a West Coast doubleheader of blazed proportions. Heads up, Wilco fans. The THE HEX DISPENSERS, guitar crunch, and fragile simplicity – Chicago band’s drummer, Glenn KING TUFF singer/guitarist Kevin Murphy started San Francisco quintet Young chime in too. Los Angeles trio Kotche, joins NYC-based Bang on Mohawk, Wednesday 26 making it his own on last year’s slept- Prisms just released its swirly Best Coast rolls into town the a Can All-Stars for a night of music Free Scion Garage Show! Bang a on Tidelands (Hardly Art), a collection debut, Friends for Now, on reverb next night, touring behind last Austinites might classify as “none of gong and get it on! stable Kanine Records, full of well- year’s sunshine pop debut, Crazy of pastoral folk. – Austin Powell the above.” The ensemble, known for scrubbed psych and the requisite for You, as well as a new 7-inch, its mind-melting amalgam of classi- TALMADGE D’AMOUR, OS OVNI, waves of loud/quiet/loud. Fellow Summer Is Forever, with tourmate cal, jazz, and alt-rock, performs two DD DAGGER San Franciscans Melted Toys Wavves. Singer/guitarist Bethany new Kotche compositions, while also Elysium, Thursday 27 open with homemade distorto- Cosentino’s impeccable harmonies Prepping the Thunderdome for delving into the work of contempo- ATX’s electronic horizons rise old pop; likeminded locals Ringo are part girl group, part L.A. brat Chaos in Tejas at rary composers Brian Eno and Steve and new. Deathstarr, who have a new album pack. Labelmates No Joy make it a austinchronicle.com/earache Reich, for a percussive night unlike out in March, and Pure Ecstasy Mexican Summer. – Audra Schroeder any other. 8pm. – Jim Caligiuri in-stores Friday: Evil Spirits, Computer Jesus Refrigerator, Breakdancing Ronald Reagan, Venison Whirled, Skwaarmalar Machine, Brave New Books, 9pm Saturday: Project S.N.A.R.E., Candi & the Cavities, Killdeer, the Organians, Trailer Space, 8pm Tuesday: No Joy, Waterloo Records, 5pm | L - R: SARAH JAFFE (FRI., 1/21) | THE MOONDOGGIES (SAT., 1/22) | THE PHARCYDE (SAT., 1/22) | THE MEMORIALS (MON., 1/24) 66 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E JANUARY 21, 2011 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m