Celebrating a safe return from their Get Boned tour, a reference to the Austin combo’s excellent 2013 Bone, operatic garage-punk quintet A Giant Dog throws down a wild, sweaty, beer-soaked set at logical homecoming locale Beerland. Kindred locals and garage-blues vets the Crack Pipes, plus denim-vested rock quartet the Bad Lovers, and noisy lo-fi trio Classy Nude shoot first.
– Kevin CurtinA double dose of Texas and Louisiana roots-rock muscle led off by Whiskey Shivers, whose smoky mountain string-band style landed them the well-deserved Best Country title at this year’s Austin Music Awards. And just when you think you know Cowboy Mouth’s Mississippi River-driven, New Orleans-fueled rawk, they’re hitting a new high these days. “Life’s tough,” Whiskey Shivers is fond of saying. “Play tunes.” Great advice.
– Margaret MoserBaroness ain’t the only bruiser putting Savannah, Ga., on the metal map. Kylesa also lurks in the garden of good and evil. The eclectic quintet brings its doom/prog/death/psych to the River City in support of sixth slab Ultraviolet. Continuing the tradition of witchy Seventies rockers like Coven, Toronto’s equally eccentric Blood Ceremony makes a fitting tour partner. Brooklyn fuzz bomb White Hills and Atlanta acid-thrash bomb Lazer/Wulf open.
– Michael TolandBrass band fest HONK!TX happens whenever this ATX cell suits up in yellow and black.
Austin’s one-man Brit-pop.
Bay Area men in black, free.