Cacophony
Los Lonely Boys have a new album out, but not the one you were expecting. Orale!, the Sony follow-up to 2004’s platinum Los Lonely Boys, hits stores July 18, but Live at the Blue Cat Blues, recorded at the eponymous Deep Ellum nightspot in 2000, is available now through BlueCatBlues.net and the band’s official site, LosLonelyBoys.org. “We’re aware of it, so we’re cool with it,” says manager Kevin Wommack. “It’s definitely an early recording.” The Boys’ latest recording, inaugural Orale! single “Diamonds,” debuts May 8 on pretty much every radio station in town.
It didn’t take Beauty Bar long to get into the live music game. Wednesday, the combination salon/watering hole on Seventh Street welcomes Austin’s the Black and L.A. rockers Mellowdrone, who co-owner and …Trail of Dead drummer Jason Reece describes as “melty guitars, like My Bloody Valentine.” Reece plans about one show a month at the bar, with Canadian sexpot Peaches and laptop sound scientist Kid606 on tap soon. (Austin’s Sliver and San Antonio’s DJ Jester the Filipino Fist have Wednesday and Friday DJ residencies.) As far as his own band, Reece says they’re days away from finishing the tracks for their next album. “Let’s just say it’s dark and heavy,” he divulges. “The lyrical content is more personal than ever.”
Apologies to Jason Butler and Dabney Dwelle of Quien es’ Boom!, who put on a crackling stream-of-consciousness CD release at the Parish last Friday, for mangling their names in last week’s column. Quien, along with the Black Angels, Experimental Aircraft, Okkervil River, Octopus Project, What Made Milwaukee Famous, and lots more locals, rock Fort Worth’s Ridglea Theater at this weekend’s Wall of Sound festival. TCB will have a full report next week.
This article appears in April 7 • 2006.