FRIDAY Austin Psych Fest. Three nights of psychedelic rock. Tonight, check out sets from Black Angels, Dead Meadow, Disappears and more starting at 5 p.m. at Emo’s East (2015 E. Riverside Drive. www.emosaustin.com). Over at the Beauty Ballroom (same ad... »
The Melvins, Unsane, Same Sack at the Mohawk. A stunning, noise-rock trifecta. The Melvins’ sludge turns 30 next year, the past six years as a bulldozing, two-drummer four-piece. Second-generation New York noise rockers Unsane just released “Wreck,” it... »
FRIDAY The Seth Sherman Band at Hole in the Wall. Seth Sherman’s 2011 album, “When the Moment is True,” was one of last year’s best, a well-crafted and painfully honest piece of songwriting. With the Warm Guns and The Lonesome Heroes. $5 10 p.m. 2538 G... »
(Thee Oh Sees performs at the Thrasher Death Match at the Scoot Inn during SXSW 2012. Jay Janner AMERICAN-STATESMAN) Austin Psych Fest has released the full lineup for this year’s event which takes place April 27-29 at Emo’s East and the Beauty Ballroo... »
Excellent footage from Statesman videographer Kelly West captures the madcap mayhem and musical magic that the Honk TX community street music festival brought to town this weekend. Kelly caught up with the Honkers Friday at Hotel Vegas in East Austin. ... »
The Jazz Pharaohs, the Jitterbug Vipers, Floyd Domino, Emily Gimble, Toni Price, Paul Glasse, Ghosts Along the Brazos, Maryann Price, Sarah Sharp, Lisa Hattersley, Carolyn Wonderland and more will play a benefit for Jitterbug Vipers guitarist Slim Rich... »
As SXSW wound down, East Austin seemed to be just heating up, with bikes and pedicabs zipping all over and pedestrians trotting or loping or shambling all along East Sixth Street at least as far as Chicon, while cars just crawled dejectedly along. At t... »
After a lemonade-out-of-lemons performance by Fun. blew a cannonball through my planned schedule on Wednesday night, I took a wander toward the heavy beats and impassioned rhymes floating up from the stage at Scoot Inn. Best move of the night by me. P.... »
Free music and free beer, SXSW, something, something. A few of today’s unofficial/side parties are listed below. Check out the Austin 360 side party database for more (there is also a mobile version). KUT at the Four Seasons with Kat Edmonson, Ray Wyli... »
Given the ridiculous parking/traffic situation in East Austin, the Fader Fort, this year sponsored by Converse was surprisingly mellow this afternoon around 3 p.m. Lines outside the Fort were non-existent as press and civilians alike breezed right in t... »
One day down, four more to go. A few of today’s unofficial/side parties are listed below. Check out the Austin 360 side party database for more (there is also a mobile version). Rubberneck’s SXSW 2012 Day Party at the Longbranch Inn with Las Ardillas, ... »
SXSW music officially starts today, and with it a lot of unaffiliated parties are happening around town. A few are listed below. Check out the Austin 360 side party database for more (there is also a mobile version). Sons of Hercules, Holy Wave, the Wo... »
Official SXSW music events don’t really get started until tomorrow (unless you count the Jay-Z show at ACL Live tonight), but there are plenty of shows happening this afternoon and tonight. Here are a few: Hotel Vegas: Covert Curiosity/Austin Music Wee... »
Beauty Bar, a fixture in downtown’s Red River District for more than five years, will close its doors after South by Southwest, a spokesman told the American-Statesman Thursday. The club’s final show, which is set for March 18, will feature Hollywood H... »
Latin music powerhouse Calle 13 will headline an expanded two-day Pachanga Latino Music Festival that’s bringing bands from Chile, Brazil and Los Angeles to Fiesta Gardens May 11 and 12. Calle 13, the Puerto Rican alternative hip-hop duo that won a rec... »
