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Dangerous Toys Playtime Again

“The line-up is exactly the same as last year, and has been for looooong time!” Jason McMaster throws down the gauntlet for the Dangerous Toys reunion at Red Eyed Fly Saturday. “Mark Geary, drums. Mike Watson, bass. Scott Dalhover, guitar – all original since 1987 – and last, but not least, Paul Lidel on guitar since 1994.” Plus McMaster, natch. Read More | Comment »

3:51PM Thu. Nov. 29, 2012, Margaret Moser

Poodie's Stomps Out Butts

The club calendar from local booker David Cotton had a quick note attached: “For those of you who don't know, Poodie’s went nonsmoking as of July.” That’s akin to suggesting Willie Nelson cut off his braids and let his hair go gray. Whoops, that’s already happened, too! Call it a neon sign of the times. Read More | Comment »

4:17PM Tue. Nov. 13, 2012, Margaret Moser

Gram Parsons Hoot Night

As if Patterson Barrett doesn’t have enough to do with a new CD to promote, When I Was Your Age, he’s hosting the 6th Annual Gram Parsons Birthday Hoot at Threadgill’s World Headquarters tonight, Monday, 7pm. This year’s show benefits both the nonprofit Americana Music Association and the Gram Parsons Foundation. Read More | Comment »

2:02PM Mon. Nov. 5, 2012, Margaret Moser

It Was 20 Years Ago Today

“We started the band almost as a joke, but it's turned into somewhat of a career,” muses John Burgess of the Eggmen. “Somewhat” is putting it mildly. Austin's Fab Five celebrates 20 years as Texas’ premiere Beatles tribute band by playing for City Council on Nov. 1 and in concert at Scottish Rite Theatre Nov. 4. Read More | Comment »

5:05PM Tue. Oct. 23, 2012, Margaret Moser

Face to Face with Chris Gerniottis

“I thoroughly like the Ugly Beats because they have the Sixties sound dialed in precisely. They're one of the tightest bands I've ever seen, and they're all down-to-earth musicians.” So raves the singer of Sixties Texas garage rock heroes Zakary Thaks, Chris Gerniottis, who's playing with the Ugly Beats and Eve & the Exiles Saturday at the Continental. Read More | Comment »

5:05PM Tue. Oct. 16, 2012, Margaret Moser

Bluesmen & Pink Ribbon Cowgirls

Did Brenda Hutchison and Nick Curran know each other? Their deaths were about a week apart, both from battles with cancer that were hard fought. Both left earth much too young, and both dedicated part of their lives to the music that makes Austin so special. Read More | Comment »

1:08PM Mon. Oct. 8, 2012, Margaret Moser

Shirley Manson: Still Mysterious and Delicious

“I think I’m paranoid!” Garbage’s lush sound accompanied the Nineties like its personal soundtrack, completes with crushes, stupid girls, and only being happy when it rains. At the top stood Shirley Manson, audacious, eloquent, and possessed of a voice that defined the decade. New CD Not Your Kind of People signals the band's return. Read More | Comment »

3:55PM Tue. Oct. 2, 2012, Margaret Moser

A Son of the Fathers of Texas

These notes come with more and more frequency these days, each a bittersweet reminder of the transience of life. “My cousin Steve Mendell passed away August 19 at age 65, after a years-long battle with cancer,” wrote MJ Mendell, a stalwart of Asleep at the Wheel’s home office. “If there's some way you can run even a small blurb....” Read More | Comment »

5:05PM Mon. Sep. 24, 2012, Margaret Moser

Music for the Soul

To Michael Franti, the topic of children in foster care is a personal one. Consquently, when he was approached by Karyn Scott to play for Kids In a New Groove Thursday at the Long Center, the only answer was “yes.” KING provides private one-on-one music mentorship to kids in the Texas foster care system. Read More | Comment »

3:41PM Mon. Sep. 17, 2012, Margaret Moser

Once a Monkee ...

He’s personable, he’s witty, occasionally self-deprecating, and although he joked, “There are some who might not agree,” Micky Dolenz has led a pretty charmed life. As a child actor in the Fifties, he starred in the series Circus Boy, but it was an audition for one particular television show that made a Monkee out of him. Read More | Comment »

2:37PM Tue. Sep. 11, 2012, Margaret Moser

He Is My Story: The Sanctified Soul of Arizona Dranes

In a recent interview on NPR, local writer Michael Corcoran commented that seminal gospel singer Arizona Dranes is “completely obscure, for really no good reason.” Unfortunately, that’s the story of far too many artists - musicians and otherwise. If Sister Rosetta Tharpe can be marginalized, no surprise Arizona Dranes is so overlooked. Read More | Comment »

5:02PM Tue. Sep. 4, 2012, Margaret Moser

Texas Music Roadtrip

Prices at the fuel pumps didn’t hit the scary highs predicted for this summer, but they still took a bite out of vacation budgets. Solution? Stay home and hit the road. The Texas Music Roadtrip, that is. All it costs is getting to the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum and admission, a bargain by any count. Read More | Comment »

2:51PM Mon. Aug. 6, 2012, Margaret Moser

Blue Monday

This has been a year of changes for Antone’s. The change in ownership to Emo’s went smoothly, if bittersweet. New blood fills the club, yet it’s hard saying goodbye to the old ways – and friends Hubert Sumlin and Doyle Bramhall. Tonight at 8pm, all the old mojo gets conjured up once again for a grand finale to the venue's 37th Anniversary month. Read More | Comment »

12:20PM Mon. Jul. 30, 2012, Margaret Moser

Salute to Saluté

Saluté went out this weekend partying with style and panache. The famed San Antonio bar struggled for years, and rumors of its death were common. After the wild weekend, it slipped into the pages of Texas music history, filed near Austin’s Liberty Lunch, Dallas’ Mother Blues, Houston’s Bronze Peacock, and other legendary Lone Star venues. Read More | Comment »

12:44PM Mon. Jul. 23, 2012, Margaret Moser

Library Rock!

“For more information about the Bright Light Social Hour, visit your local library!” It was a throwaway line BLSH used in promo materials, but it resonates in the city of Austin’s Music For Kids programs at select library branches. Monday featured Marcia Ball at the Spicewood Springs branch. Read More | Comment »

1:14PM Mon. Jul. 16, 2012, Margaret Moser

Puro Mojo

“In the midst of sassafras, many things will come to pass,” intoned Bubble Puppy’s 1969 hit, “Hot Smoke and Sassafras.” An unlikely mirror into the future to be sure, but then who would have predicted a lucky Friday the 13th pairing of Bubble Puppy and San Antonio's the Krayolas this week at Antone's? Read More | Comment »

12:11PM Mon. Jul. 9, 2012, Margaret Moser

MEOW Discoveries 2012

My favorite South by Southwest moments always seem to involve the Badge and “the Reveal,” as reality shows are so fond of saying. For this one, late Nineties, I was standing on the street scanning badges when my eyes stopped on Carla DiSantis. You mean Rockrgrl magazine maven? Seattle savior of women’s rock? Yes m'am! Read More | Comment »

1:11PM Mon. Jul. 2, 2012, Margaret Moser

Rodney Crowell Returns

When the right words and music meet, they take us places we never want to leave. And we won’t, because we then carry the songs within us. Writing books, Rodney Crowell will agree, is different. This Friday, June 29, 5pm, he reads from his memoir Chinaberry Sidewalks at Waterloo Records in advance of his Paramount Theatre appearance Saturday. Read More | Comment »

1:07PM Mon. Jun. 25, 2012, Margaret Moser

I'm Your Fan

KGSR’s annual Fan Fare Friday kicked off this morning, 8:30am, at Threadgill’s World Headquarters, but plenty's happening throughout the afternoon and well into the evening, and all for a terrific cause. The Summer Fan Drive benefiting Family Eldercare helps make sure senior citizens stay cool in the blistering heat. Read More | Comment »

2:21PM Fri. Jun. 22, 2012, Margaret Moser

Tejas Two-Step!

Abel Salas has been one busy vato since heading to California. On Sunday, June 10, at the Eastside’s White Horse and Wednesday, June 13, at La Resistencia bookstore in the Southside barrio, he’s presenting "Tejas Two-Step: A Poetry & Conjunto Jam.” How Austin can you get? Read More | Comment »

9:09AM Wed. Jun. 6, 2012, Margaret Moser

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