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Scruffy soul-shouter Scott H. Biram links up with hillbilly metalhead Hank Williams III for a six-week tour starting next week in Little Rock. Monday is the last chance to catch Mr. Lo-Fi Mojo at the Parlor until March, though the duo has penciled in a stop at Stubb's Saturday, Jan. 18.

Room 710 tidbits: Hard-twanging locals the Sleepwalkers begin a monthlong Thursday residency tonight at 7pm. The alarmingly named Sado-Massachusetts takes over for Tia Carrera at tomorrow's happy hour, and next Friday brings Rank and Revue's first anniversary party with Honky, Grady, Amplified Heat, Hazard County Girls, and Crow. Line up the Alka-Seltzer now.

Taking a cue of sorts from Jupiter Records, Austin don't-call-it-pirate radio station KAOS 95.9 has moved operations online to www.kaos959.com. The station, whose primary mission is "to promote the Red River music scene," plans to add dial-up lines in the future, but is currently reachable through a high-speed connection and iTunes or Winamp media players.

They may not have frenching pop stars (or will they?), but the Austin Music Network's first-ever Video Awards do have the Dixie Chicks squaring off against Trail of Dead for Best Live Video and a mind-boggling 17 acts up for Best Rock Video. See who takes home the gold for those and six other categories (Comedic Video, Latin Video, Hall of Fame Video) 9:45pm Monday at the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown -- tickets now available at the box office -- and make your picks known at www.austinmusicnetwork.org.

In further music-related Alamo news, Goldman Sachs house band the Yuppie Pricks, presently working on their sophomore manifesto at the Bubble, have been tapped to open for Office Space at the downtown theatre Jan. 22. Besides having cash-stuffed printers on hand for people to abuse, the Pricks will debut new OS-inspired single "Damn It Feels Good to Be a Yuppie." However, they still haven't turned in their TPS reports.

Flier of the week goes to this fine reproduction of 1985's Catching Up With Depeche Mode, hyping Elysium's tribute to the Sussex synth pioneers 9:30pm Friday. Look for plenty of pleasure little treasures and some great rewards for sure.