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RECOMMENDED EVENTS FOR OCT. 7 TO OCT. 14 LANCE HAHN SUE FOLEY MEMORIAL & PETER KARP Red 7, Saturday 9 Antone’s, Wednesday 13 See “Off the Record,” p.56. While not exactly Stax stal- warts Carla and Rufus Thomas, Ottawa’s Sue Foley and Nashville MALAIKAT DAN bluesman Peter Karp shuffle over EDITED BY AUDRA SCHROEDER SINGA homemade grit on their upcoming music listings album, He Said, She Said, “Rules Beerland, Sunday 10 of Engagement” and “Treat Me | Butcher Bear & Charlie The impeccably named Arrington Right” inhabiting the middle ground de Dionyso, former growler for punk- between her Fender backbone and and-brimstoners Old Time Relijun, his compositional acumen. Foley’s AMANDA BLANK proves he’s up for a challenge with local residency last decade only Scoot Inn, Friday 8 his latest project. A recent self-titled makes Antone’s heart grow fonder bow for K Records channels his as the years pass by. Eve & the Spank Rock collaborator Blank Nick Caveisms into throaty art-rock Exiles open. – Raoul Hernandez stood solo with last year’s debut, I Love invocations. Also, the lyrics are all in You. Sure, the first single is an electro- Indonesian. Locals YellowFever, Soft pop once-over of Romeo Void’s 1982 Healer, and This Horn of Afrika soften WOVENHAND hit “Never Say Never,” but the Philly the edges a bit. – Audra Schroeder Mohawk, Thursday 14 singer teases and sprays it with that smart-mouthed, hypersexual downtown With unshakable conviction and Old Testament wrath, former 16 lacquer. God-Des & She, Dubb Sicks, CHRISTINA CARTER and Darko open. – Audra Schroeder United States Art Authority, Horsepower hex dispenser David Eugene Edwards shook the Cedar Wednesday 13 Park Center in June on par with the AL STAEHELY With both Charalambides (playing evening’s headliner, Tool. Likewise, & SPIRIT Tuesday, Oct. 12, at Club 1808) and a his eighth LP with Wovenhand, The Saxon Pub, Friday 8 prolific solo career, Christina Carter’s Threshingfloor, continues his eternal approach to guitar-playing transcends quest to separate wheat from chaff, Since we spotted Austin-born the meditative in tuning and voice. with smoky Indian ragas and Western belter Al Staehely this summer in a Joining the former Houstonian is local desert contemplation. Norway’s Rockpalast DVD backing Quicksilver old soul Ralph White and Nebraska’s Serena Maneesh follows suit with lat- Messenger Service firebrand John Ember Schrag and Chiara String est No. 2: Abyss in B Minor. Taste and JOHN ANDERSON Cipollina in 1980, the Houston-based Quartet. – Audra Schroeder see the Lord is good. – Austin Powell entertainment lawyer returns to his old stomping grounds with his brother John, plus Mark Singer and local bass- BY AUDRA SCHROEDER ist Mark Andes, as the remnants of soundcheck Spirit (“I Got a Line on You”), which the SWINGIN’ UTTERS CURREN$Y, BIG K.R.I.T., Staehelys joined in 1970. The Verve Red 7, Friday 8 SMOKE DZA Pipe headlines later. – Raoul Hernandez Working class punks, still swingin’. Aces Lounge, Sunday 10 Austin Corn Lover’s Fiesta/ Inside, Bros Peabodys cover Those Smoke up, Johnny. SCHOOL OF Peabodys. JASON ISBELL & THE 400 UNIT Ditch the Fest Fest MIND SPIDERS Mohawk, Tuesday 12 SEVEN BELLS Beerland, Friday 8 A four-way stop at country rock with Thursday 7-Sunday 10 Mohawk, Saturday 9 The Marked Men spirit lives on, Langhorne Slim, Jesse Sykes, and Former Secret Machines architect with Bad Sports, Lovetaps, and Dikkk Mimicking Birds. All three days of ACL are sold-out, but, this being Ben Curtis continues his ascent on Sexxx & the Weepy Teens. CHRIS ISAAK School of Seven Bells’ sophomore SLEIGH BELLS Paramount Theatre, Wednesday 13 Austin, there’s no shortage of alternatives. Those stunner Disconnect From Desire Beauty Bar, Saturday 9 “Wicked Game” 4-eva. (Vagrant). L.A.’s Active Child (Pat Grossi Brooklyn duo drops “Infinity venerable corn lovers the Hickoids stomp and stalk CARIBOU plus laptop) shifts to half-speed with Guitars” with locals Missions and La Zona Rosa, Thursday 14 across four nights of their own Texacala Jones, Stickpony, and the bedroom slow jams off the Curtis more special electro-guests. Canada’s trance specialist locks “ACL,” starting at Lovejoys tonight Lafayette’s Brother Dege. Lane EP, but the real catch is Brighton’s FREEWATER III antlers with SF soft waver Arp. (Thursday) and continuing Friday Saturday at Cheer Up Charlie’s, Esben & the Witch, the newest addition Cherrywood Coffeehouse, Saturday 9 at Hole in the Wall, joined by it’s a (mostly) local band summit to Matador, whose “Marching Song” The other other other fest offers Evildoers, Black Eyed Vermillion, of festivalian proportions, brought 12-inch chills razor-sharp minimalism. vibrations from Venison Whirled, live music venues p.90 and San Antonio’s Piñata Protest to life by Lucy the Poodle. Ditch Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band marches Jonathan Horne, Night Viking, and and De los Muertos. Saturday, the Fest Fest’s list of names is onward inside. – Austin Powell more. Free. roadshows + club listings p.92 the Hicks head South and invade dizzying, but here are just a few: Trophy’s with Houston’s Poor Woven Bones, Golden Arm Trio, Dumb Bastards and Texas Biscuit Follow That Bird!, Silent Diane, ACL AFTERSHOWS SATURDAY 9 Bombs, Scary Mary, 27 Devils Pataphysics, Butcher Bear & Girls, the Soft Pack, Joking, and El Pathos. Sunday, Charlie, the Happen-Ins, Agent FRIDAY 8 Trombone Shorty Antone’s it’s an Eastside Lord’s Day Ribbons, Zeale, Megafauna, the Mayer Hawthorne & the County, Kings Go blows the roof off ACL at Gayngs, Bear in blowout at the Scoot Inn, with Jungle Rockers, and Amplified Forth, Antone’s austinchronicle.com/earache. Heaven, Emo’s out; T. Tex Edwards & Out On Parole, Heat. Starts at noon and is free! Deadmau5, Calvin Harris, Austin Music Hall (sold out) Dawes, Lissie, Emo’s in (sold out) – Audra Schroeder Black Lips, Those Darlins, the Ettes, Emo’s out; Sonic Youth, Warpaint, La Zona Rosa (sold out) Givers, Cults, TV Torso, Emo’s in Beats Antique, Lance Herbstrong, Momo’s (sold out) Robert Earl Keen, Lucero, Ruby Jane, La Zona in-stores The Black Keys, Foals, Stubb’s out (sold out); Rosa Friday: Dead & Gone, F-Bombers, the Dead Space, Hot Rails to Hell, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Stubb’s in Ryan Bingham & the Dead Horses, Gary Clark Trailer Space, 7pm (sold out) Saturday: Zola Jesus, End of an Ear, 6pm; Devil Bat’s Daughter, Rabbit Jr., Momo’s (sold out) Fist, Brown Harrison & the Goodtime Gang, Trailer Space, 7pm Monsters of Folk, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Stubb’s SUNDAY 10 Wednesday: Old 97’s, Waterloo Records, 5pm out; Blind Pilot, Cory Chisel, Stubb’s in (sold out) Blues Traveler, Martin Sexton, La Zona Rosa 84 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E OCTOBER 8, 2010 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m.