Bullet the Blue Sky
Frequent fliers Los Lonely Boys will appear on NBC’s The Tonight Show With Jay Leno Friday alongside Jesus himself, Jim Caviezel, and then after the Ice Bats/Corpus Christi game at the Expo Center on Saturday – the last home game of the season.
Middle school pop-jazz-funkateers New Moon and blues/surf-rockers Misspent Youth were the clear audience favorites at Saturday’s Austin Music Network High School Battle of the Bands at the Flamingo Cantina. Meanwhile, Cedar Park’s Later won over the judges with killer covers of OutKast‘s “Hey Ya!” and Jet‘s “Are You Gonna Be My Girl.” All three advance to meet the winners of Saturday’s second qualifying round March 20 at Threadgill’s World Headquarters.
Indefatigable indie rockers Fivehead are off to play San Francisco’s Noise Pop festival this weekend, where they’ll appear with Oranger, the Minders, and fellow locals Canoe. The baseball-loving quartet then heads back to Austin for their Guests of the Nation CD release at the Continental Club March 5.
J.T. Van Zandt has decided to bow out of hosting the Monday night open mic at the Longbranch Inn. “We decided to use a more Eastern philosophy and let the prime be the end,” he explains. Van Zandt and friends Matt Hubbard, Calvin Russell, and Clarence Pierce have set up a new Monday night hang at Trophy’s on South Congress, while Moonlight Towers guitarist Jacob Schulze takes over Longbranch hosting duties.
This article appears in February 27 • 2004.
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