The Austin Chronicle

Fri., Feb. 3, 2012





MOBILE MUSIC LISTINGS
austinchronicle.com/mm


IN-STORES
Trailer Space Records 
Laserz
Static
Husky Dudes


Waterloo Records 
Rancho Alegre Conjunto Fest Kickoff w/ Susan Torres y Conjunto Clemencia
Tina Y Grupo Tormento




ROADSHOWS
upcoming roadshows



Today's Roadshows:

Austin Moose Lodge No. 1735
Rancho Alegre Conjunto Festival w/ Los Aguilares
Oscar Hernandez
Bene Medina
Smiley y La Fuerza Musical
Los Pinkys

Beauty Bar
Kid Slyce
Bird Peterson

Beerland
The Wolf
Foreign Mothers
Crooked Bangs
Cause for Applause

Broken Neck
No Idea Festival w/ Jason Lescalleet
Rick Reed
Bryan Eubanks

Club 1808
Annex: Growingman
Bass Line Bums
Last Action Hero
Zlam Dunk
Three's Away

more roadshows





The Chronicle music blog


The Chronicle guide to clubs and other live music venues around Austin (891 venues listed)

The Musicians Register
See what Austin bands have to say for themselves.
RECOMMENDED   all recommended shows
 

Wild Child, The Couch
Beauty Ballroom, Friday, Feb 3
Cat Power meets Merge Records; an Austin twofer. – Raoul Hernandez


Rancho Alegre Conjunto Festival
Austin Moose Lodge No. 1735, Friday 3 – Sunday 5

Conventional wisdom holds that South by Southwest kicks off Austin’s annual music festival madness, yet this weekend’s No Idea Festival throws a wrench into that wheelhouse, and conjunto don’t need no stinkin’ badges. Austin’s crossover to the Eastside finally puts accordion dance music and polkas within the westside’s boot-scootin’ grasp, and a three-day program including a pair of in-stores at Waterloo and Antone’s Records will leave parents and kiddies alike panting:



Friday, 7pm: Los Pinkys, Smiley y la Fuerza Musical, Bene Medina, Oscar Hernandez, Los Aguilares. Saturday, 7pm: Chano Cadena, the Return of Rene Joslin, Joe Gonzales, Ruben Rivera, and a farewell performance by Jesse y Beto Duran y Los Aguilillas. Sunday, noon: Los Texas Wranglers, Conjunto Romo, Conjunto Calidad, Thoze Guyz, Boni Mauricio.

     

$25 for a three-day pass here. – Raoul Hernandez



No Idea Festival
Broken Neck, Friday 3 & Saturday 4

For nine years, the No Idea Festival has coaxed out some of the most memorable experimental and fringe live performances in town.



Clutching tight the Austin scene’s outré luminaries like electronics artist Rick Reed and percussionists Nick Hennies and Chris Cogburn – the latter two best known for innovating what it means to be a “drummer” in a performance setting – No Idea joins these locals with other far-flung artists reaching into the unknown.



Performers this year are culled from Berlin (Andrea Neumann), Boston (Greg Kelley), and New Orleans (Bhob Rainey), and will include a diverse group of New Yorkers, including dancer Maggie Bennett, electronics artist Bryan Eubanks, and Gill Arnò, who works with media including “amplified slide projectors.”



The festival this year actually takes place in three leaps between Austin, Houston, and San Antonio, but Eastside hangout the Broken Neck is the first venue landing. Having begun Monday, Jan. 30, and running through Saturday, Feb. 4, Cogburn and Bennett have designed a piece called “Individual Artistic Practice as Curatorial Conversation,” a free open-process work that will envelop many of the visiting and local No Idea acts.



Friday and Saturday domino four individual music sets each from almost a dozen musicians, the latter augmented by a workshop, Unusual Ear: Making Music With Improvised, Acoustic and Electronic Sounds, 2-4pm at the 29th Street Ballroom. Find the full schedule here.



Patience is a virtue when experiencing performances that slowly unspool at a pace often unknown even to the makers, but the expectation that anything can emerge from the stage – be it a sound, idea, or movement – makes this type of improvisational/experimental bounty worth your time.



And as if to closer align itself with the convention-dashing tradition of punk and other extreme music, the setting for this year’s No Idea Festival isn’t the wonderful Salvage Vanguard Theater, but rather converted warehouse space the Broken Neck, a venue better known for its raucous late-night performances, graffiti, and a general unbridled dinginess that will offset the academic whiff high-profile experimental music often exhales. – Adam Schragin



Split Lip Rayfield
Jovita's, Friday, Feb 3
Punkgrass trio forever in tribute to late leader Kirk Rundstrom. – Raoul Hernandez


Pong, Talmage D'Amour, Bipolar Gentlemen
Hotel Vegas, Friday, Feb 3
This reconstituted meeting of the minds that brought you local late-Eighties staples Ed Hall and Crust is sure to be fruitful. Now in its second decade, Ed Hall-spawned sextet Pong continues enlivening the genteel with danceable electro-rock paeans to oddball dystopia. John Hawkins’ pre-Crust combo Talmadge D’Amour crosses unvarnished synth-pop with a creeping sense of doom, while fellow Crust-mate Richard Smith’s Bipolar Gentlemen is a gothic-industrial swirl of psychoactive guitar jags, percussive thunder, and 45 Grave-style vocals. – Greg Beets


CLUB LISTINGS
 
= roadshow     = all ages venue     = listen to music
Amaya's Taco Village: Johnny Gonzales (5:00)

Anderson Mill Tavern: Heavy Waters

Antone's: Suzanna Choffel, Cory Morrow (9:00)

Artz Rib House: George Enslé

Austin Moose Lodge No. 1735: Rancho Alegre Conjunto Festival w/ Los Aguilares, Oscar Hernandez, Bene Medina, Smiley y La Fuerza Musical, Los Pinkys (7:00)

Baker St. Pub & Grill: Long Reef

Beauty Ballroom: The Baker Family, the Couch, Wild Child

Beauty Bar: Kid Slyce, Bird Peterson

Beerland: The Wolf, Foreign Mothers, Crooked Bangs, Cause for Applause (9:00)

Blind Pig Pub: John Prather (4:30)

'Bout Time: DJ Element

Broken Neck: No Idea Festival w/ Jason Lescalleet, Rick Reed, Bryan Eubanks (7:30)

Buddy's Place: Son Geezinslaw, Glenn Collins (8:00)

Cactus Cafe: Milkdrive, the Hillbenders (8:30)

Carousel Lounge: Mad Cowboys (7:00)

Cedar Street: Trent Durham (6:00)

Cheatham Street Warehouse: Kimberly Kelly, the Rankin Twins, Bri Bagwell, Pauline Reese (10:30)

Chuggin' Monkey: Mike V. (4:30), Guilty Pleasures (8:30)

Club 1808: Annex: Growingman, Bass Line Bums, Last Action Hero, Zlam Dunk, Three's Away (9:00)

Conans Pizza: Matt "Blue Cat" Ferrel (6:30)

Continental Club: Gallery: Robert Kraft Trio, Mike Flanigin Trio w/ Frosty (8:30); In the Club: The Blues Specialists (6:30), Mudphonic, Lightnin’ Malcolm (10:00)

Dizzy Rooster: Aaron Navarro (4:30)

Donn's Depot: Donn & the Station Masters

The Driskill Hotel: Driskill Bar: Robert Allan Caldwell, Jenny & the Corn Ponies (6:00)

Eddie V's Edgewater Grille: Lucky Strikes (8:00)

El Sol y la Luna: Mariachi Tamazula (8:00)

Elephant Room: Violet Crown Revue (6:00); Gato Six w/ Suzi Stern (9:30)

Elysium: Pet Heavies, Rescue Mission, Blondes Make Better Victims (10:00)

Emo's East: Sparks the Rescue, Like Moths to Flame, Hit the Lights, D.R.U.G.S. (7:00)

Flamingo Cantina: Sheer Khan & the Space Case, Tin Can Phone, Rafiki Project (9:00)

Flipnotics Coffeespace: Wild Bill & the Lost Knobs (6:00)

Giddy Ups: Rusty Trapps, Will Knaak (8:30)

Ginny's Little Longhorn Saloon: Dane Sterling, Two Hoots & a Holler (6:00)

Gruene Hall: Caitlin Rose, Old 97's (8:00)

Güero's Taco Bar: Los Flames (6:30)

The HighBall: Magnificent 7 (7:00)

Hole in the Wall: Mrs. Glass, Modrag, Anam Mila, Boy Kite, The Mole People (8:30)

Hotel Vegas: Bipolar Gentlemen, Talmadge d'Amour, Pong (10:00)

Jovita's: Whiskey Shivers, Clyde & Clem’s Whiskey Business, Split Lip Rayfield (8:00)

La Zona Rosa: Jonathan Coulton, They Might Be Giants (9:00)

Lamberts: Shakey Graves, Hello Caller (10:00)

Lucky Lounge: The Raindoggs (6:00); Mark Gibson & Ryan Magnani (9:00)

Lucy's Retired Surfers Bar & Restaurant: George Devore, Mike & the Moonpies, Lucas Hudgins (7:00)

Maria's Taco Xpress: Leeann Atherton (7:00)

Mean-Eyed Cat: No Show Ponies (9:00)

Midnight Rodeo: Brandon Rhyder

Mohawk: Curse the Heavens, Venomous Maximus, Smoke & Feathers, Black Taxi (9:00)

ND at 501 Studios: The Boxing Lesson, Super Creeps, Hot Rod Radio (9:00)

NeWorlDeli: Jenny Reynolds, Scrappy Jud Newcomb

The North Door: Town Hall (10:00)

One World Theatre: Blood, Sweat & Tears

The Parish: Technicolor Hearts, Talk Normal, Zola Jesus (8:00)

Poodie's Hilltop Roadhouse: Ashley Monical (4:30) , Erik Larson & Peacemaker, Will Sexton (7:00)

Red Eyed Fly: AfterMath, Standard Series, Marshall & the Moon Dance, Swimming With Bears, Black Ladder

The Red Rooster: Brewer Nation (9:30)

The Sahara Lounge: Rycootermelontramp, Orphan in the Afterlife

Sam's Town Point: Kathy Murray's Blues Groove (8:40)

Satellite Bistro & Bar: T. Jarrod Bonta (6:30)

Saxon Pub: Earl Poole Ball & the Cosmic Americans (6:00), Guy Forsyth, Roxy Roca (9:00)

Sherlock's Baker St. Pub & Grill: Red Light Circus

Skinny's Ballroom: Rakosi (7:30); Luna Tart, Erica Nix, Fantasy, Quasi Trois, Stanley Roy CD Release, (9:00)

Speakeasy: The Boogies (9:30)

Stardust Club: Armadillo Road

Stubb's: New Roman Times, the Rocketboys, Sunbears! (10:00)

Swan Dive: Danger Cakes, Waldo & the Naturals, Steady Legend

Texas Mist: DJ Joe Hernandez (9:00)

The Thirsty Nickel: Nothing Left (8:30)

Thrice: Johanna Heilman (8:00)

Trailer Space Records: Laserz, Static, Husky Dudes (7:00)

Triple Crown: Buck Jones & the Haggards (6:00); Booth, The Hope & Stay, The Oh Hello's (10:00)

Trophy's: Alien Knife Fight, the Frank Mustard Project, the 100 Watt Three (10:00)

Waterloo Records: Rancho Alegre Conjunto Fest Kickoff w/ Susan Torres y Conjunto Clemencia, Tina Y Grupo Tormento (5:00)

White Horse: Possessed by Paul James, East Cameron Folkcore

White Swan Lounge: The Fine Lines, Manikin, Kingdom of Suicide Lovers, Bottle Service, The French Inhales 7-in. Release (9:00)

ForkFly