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Continental Club, Thursday 3 Last time we checked in with steel guitarist and lead Friend Bill Elm, he had transported his revolving clique from Tucson to Los Angeles, touching down at the Continental Club as a touring band in June 1997. It's two years later, and this time around at the red velvet and glitter palace marks the Friends of Dean Martinez's inaugural gig as an Austin band, Elm having recently moved back to his childhood summer home. That's a lot of moving around, but you can hear these landscapes pushing up through the Friends' music. The fluid sway of Elm's slide moves the band's all-instrumental songs back and forth between sand and salt water, Hispanic missions and gringo hotel lounges, the mystic desert and the sexy havoc of an old Chevy tearing through it. The band's new album on revered indie Knitting Factory, Atardecer, with its orbiting Moogs and Theremin added to the equation, rambles like tumbleweeds in outer space. Considering that Austin is the cosmic cowboy center of the universe, Elm and his revamped hometown posse ought to be feeling right at home. -- Kim Mellen
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