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Vol. 46 No. 31 Phone: 512-476-0082 Email: [email protected] February 8, 2019 THE 37TH ANNUAL AUSTIN MUSIC AWARDS INSIDE ANNOUNCES PERFORMANCE LINEUP AND PROCLAMATION By Naomi Richard | VILLAGER Entertainment Editor

Carver Museum honors Angela Shelf Medearis. RAPPIN’ See NATIONAL Tommy Wyatt Page 3 You cannot reach an agreement Olivia Green to with threats. keynote Black President Trump said Migration Program. that he felt that an See HISTORY agreement was in order Page 5 to avoid another government shutdown. But, how can reach an agreement while he starts every conversation with threats. He has made two threats so far. Candidate Pierce Prior to his State of The seeks pay parity Union speech, he said for all civilian staff. that he would shut the See DEKE government down again, Page 6 if the Democrats did not give him the money to build the wall. Then he made the threat again during his speech. It appears that the President feels that his Photo courtesy of the Austin Music Awards threats will make the (AUSTIN, TX) - The Austin Chronicle, SXSW, and Alejandro Escovedo and three-time Austin Music Democrats come over to Austin City Limits Live at the Moody Theater are Hall of Fame inductee; Tosca, the tango orchestra his side or take the blame proud to announce the performance lineup for the comprised of various Austin-based ; for the impasse? But, in 37th annual Austin Music Awards (AMAs) taking Austin’s youthful soul, funk, blues, and jazz outfit the process it will have a place on Wednesday, February 27, 2019, with pro- The Peterson Brothers; India-born, Austin-based devastating effect on the ceeds benefiting the SIMS Foundation and HAAM. rapper Abhi the Nomad on the cusp of releasing government employees Tickets for the event are available now at acl- his debut , Marbled; and the renowned DJ who will have to go for live.com and austinmusicawards.org. Mel, recognized as “Obama’s DJ” after performing another unknown Without fail, legendary performers, guests, at the 57th Presidential Inauguration. amount of time without and presenters like Robert Plant, Fiona Apple, Additionally, there will be a tribute to the late getting paid. Chrissie Hynde, Fab 5 Freddy, Terry Allen, Blondie, MC Overlord, known as Austin’s hip-hop pioneer. The president prides Bruce Springsteen, and Pete Townshend have all Donnell Robison, aka MC Overlord, was the recipi- himself as “A Master of taken the stage at the Austin Music Awards. For ent of nine Austin Music Awards throughout his the Deal” and can get 36 years, the event has celebrated the Austin mu- career and passed away in 2018 at age 49. His legacy anything done. However, sicianship that the city is known for the world will be honored at this year’s event via a special trib- even I know that in order over. ute by Smackola and DJ Crash of Dirty Wormz, Tee to make a deal, each side This year’s roster follows suit, featuring genre- Double, Traygod Tha MC, Bavu Blakes of Hip-Hop will have to give up spanning talent that includes singer- Hump Day, the MC Overlord Collective, and something that they feel Jakob Dylan, Bob Dylan’s son most known for his Grooveline Horns. The AMAs will announce a spe- strongly about in order to years as frontman for rock band The Wallflowers; cial guest performance day of. make the deal work. And John Doe, co-founder of LA punk band X, whose To honor the continued success and signifi- while no one gets musical compositions span rock, punk, country, and cance of this annual event and further solidify its everything that they want, folk; buzzworthy Austin-based psychedelic soul out- importance in this community, the City of Austin an agreement makes the fit Black Pumas; Tomar Williams from soul group has proclaimed February 27 as Austin Music Awards deal go forward and both Tomar & the FC’s; rockabilly and country music art- Day. parties know that they will ist Rosie Flores; the foremost provocateur of tango The Austin Villager will be on site for all AMA an opportunity to revisit in Austin, Glover Gill, of Glovertango; Jon Dee Gra- activity. For more event updates, visit the issue on another day. ham, former member of the True Believers with www.austinmusicawards.org. Mr. Trump finds it hard to accept the fact that he By John Harris Jr. | Villager Sports Columnist is not the Ruler of this Arguably One of the country and has the (VILLAGER NEWS) - So this is what we waited freedom to do whatever Worst Super Bowls all year for? Super Bore LIII? New England Patriots he wants without the 13. Los Angeles Rams 3. Fans 0. consent of the elected of All Time Zzzzz. congress. We have too First things first. Shout out to former Texas many issues in this Longhorns defensive tackle Malcom Brown, who country and around the has played in three Super Bowls in his four NFL sea- world to spend all of our sons, and is the proud owner of two Super Bowl time disagreeing over rings. Brown and New England’s defense did itself one issue, while there are proud in the lowest-scoring game in Super Bowl his- many others on the table. tory. It is time to move on I’d love to be Brown’s agent since Brown prob- to other issues and we ably made himself a lot of money with his perfor- need our government mance in Super Bowl LIII, and throughout the sea- workers to be in place to son. Brown became a free agent when the Patriots keep our country on the declined the fifth-year option on his contract. right track. Photo credit: Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty-Images See LACK OF AWARENESS, page 7