• Friday - White Denim and Tapes N Tapes are at Antone’s tickets are $12.
• Friday & Saturday - Alamo Drafthouse at the Ritz, Master Pancake Theater mocks Planet of the Apes.  Get your tickets online they sellout. Shows at 7pm & 10:15.  Owen Egerton is in the guest seat this month. 
• Friday - Iron Man opens in theaters across Austin.  This one has been getting good reviews. 
• Friday & Saturday - The Racontours are at Stubb’s.  If you have tickets, enjoy the show.
• Saturday - Pecan Street Festival - Various food and art vendors invade 6th Street.  There are 4 stages of music too.  www.oldpecanstreetfestival.com
• Sunday - Paulapalooza at the Scoot Inn (E. 7th) from 2 - 10pm.  A benefit for Paul Holman to help with medical expenses.  Silent Auction, Cup Cake Raffle, Games, Food.  Musical acts include:  Pong, Odyssey, Foot Foot, Tumbleweed Racer,  Cedar Fever Pocket Fisherman.  Cup cakes and great music what more do you need?

{{{Sunset}}} begins night 1 of 2 at the Parish on 6th.  www.theparishroom.com    

Mars Volta at the Austin Music Hall.  There are still tickets available.  www.directevents.net

JesseFest a fundraiser honoring Joe Ely’s former guitarist Jesse “Guitar” Taylor.  Joe Ely, Jimmy Dale Gilmore, Butch Hancock, Reckless Kelly, Terry Allen and Double Trouble will perform at Antone’s.  www.antones.net

Friday

There is a FREE show at Emo’s inside with Lions headlining, A Few Nice Things, Scorpion Child, and PJ and the Bear (great name) open.  www.emosaustin.com

DJ Melee battle/contest at Mohawk.  www.thedjmelee.com

Saturday 

Mash up artist Car Stereo Wars with special guests are at The Beauty Bar.  www.beautybar.com

Sunday 

The 1st Annual Lazy Sunday Bluegrass Mass at the Cactus Cafe starts at 3pm and goes to midnight.  This is a FREE show. See their site for the lineup www.cactus@union.edu

Combo Mahalo are playing their Hawaiian tunes at Central Market.  Grab a drink and some lunch in the store and listen to some tunes out on the deck.

The Lonestar Rollergirls are skating on Sunday at the Convention Center. The Putas del Fuego vs. the Rhinestone Cowgirls are the teams.  If you have never been before it is a great time.  Each team brings passionate fans. There are fun concequences to the girls if they get a penalty from the refs (ex. Long jump, arm wrestling, spank ally, etc.). Advanced tickets are $13 and $15 at the box office.  The match starts at 7pm with doors at 6pm. http://www.txrd.com/  

Friday - Oak Hill World’s Fair. Cyril Neville & Tribe 13, Floyd Domino and the Oak Hill All-Stars. A non-profit event benefiting local trails and parks.  www.oakhillworldsfair.org

Friday and Saturday- The Lone Star Rod & Kustom Round Up at Travis County Expo Center.  Weekend passes $10.  Great Rockabilly and custom hot rods during the day.   Plus a swap meet starting at 10am.  At night on South Congress ther are more great Rockabilly at The Continental Club, Trophy’s and Jo’s parking lot.  www.lonestarroundup.com

Saturday- Louisiana Swamp Thing and Crawfish Festival.  George Clinton and Cowboy Mouth and tons of Zydeco/Swamp music.  MLK and Congress gates open at 10am, $15 entry fee.  Authentic Louisiana Arts, Crafts and Carnival Rides.  www.roadwayevents.com

Sunday- The Grind Action Sports and Music Festival. 11am - 10pm.  MLK and Congress.  $10 at the gate. Wakeboarding and Skateboard Competition plus Street Bike Demos.  Music acts: Mickey Avalon, Eve 6, Fair To Midland, Girl in a Coma, The Vanished and more.  Food and drink for sell all day. www.thegrindseries.com

Annuals/Sunfold – Wet Zoo EP

Anti-Flag – The Bright Lights of America

The Apples in Stereo – Electronic Projects for Musicians

The Black Keys-Attack and Release - Blues Power Duo goes in a slightly different direction.

Blue Man Group – How to Be a Megastar 2.1

Colour Revolt – Plunder, Beg, and Curse

David Ford – Songs for the Road

Jackie Greene – Giving Up the Ghost

Los Campesinos! – Hold on Now, Youngster…

Kylie Minogue – X

Moby – Last Night

Muse – H.A.A.R.P. - Live from UK concert last year (CD + DVD)

Willie Nelson – One Hell of a Ride (4 CD Box Set)

The Proclaimers – Life with You

R.E.M. – Accelerate

Rolling Stones – Shin a Light Soundtrack

Mathew Ryan vs. The Silver State – MRVSS

Joe Satriani – Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock

Sevendust – Chapter VII: Hope & Sorrow

South Austin Jug Band – Strange Invitation - On their 3rd album the SAJB went from 5 to 3 band members.  They also wrote most of the songs in NYs famous Chelsea Hotel.  The sound will be a change from their previous releases. 

George Strait – Troubadour

Sun Kil Moon – April

The Sword – Gods of the Earth - Heavy Doom Metal from Austin who keeps blowing up. 

Various Artists – The Very Best of Outlaw Country

Aaron Watson – Angels and Outlaws

Cece Winans – Thy Kingdom Come

The Wood Brothers - Loaded

Run, Fat Boy, Run- Simon Pegg, Thandie Newton, Hank Azaria set in London.  Guy loses girl because of stupidity, guy spends movie trying to get girl back by becoming fit and running a marathon.  David Schwimer makes his feature film directorial debut.  He did do some TV direction of Friends and the Joey spin off so he’s not a total newbie.  I have heard this isn’t great.  Mostly in the 2 to 2.5 stars or C+ range. 

Stop-Loss- Ryan Phillippe, Abbie Cornish, Channing Tatum, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Timothy Olyphant and other youngish actors.  With his enlistment up Brandon King (Phillippe) gets home from the Iraq war but receives orders that they want him to return.  This measure, where the Army indefinitely extends enlistment, is called Stop-Loss and has affected 80,000 soldiers.  King goes AWOL across the country as a result of the order.  The movies about the current war have tanked at the box office.  I have feeling this one might too.  We shall see. 

The best reviewed movie of the weekend is 21.  Based on the true story of Ivy league students who are trained as card counters to take Las Vegas for as much as they can in the game of black jack.  Virtual unknown actors as the students with Kevin Spacey as the professor and Lawrence Fishburne as the Vegas heavy.

Superhero Movie - From the idiots who brought you Scary movie and other spoofs. Please don’t encourage the producers to make more of these type of movies by going to see this unfunny stuff.       

Have a great weekend everyone!

Gnarls Barkley also give us their 2nd release, The Odd Couple.  There a couple fun highlights such as, Going On and A Little Better.  The whole album feels like an old school R & B album.  This one doesn’t feel as fun as their first, St. Elsewhere. 

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• The B-52s - Funplex - The fun/pop/weird foursome is back.  Their last album was released 16 years ago.  The songs on this one are apparently inspired by Fellini movies.  Tin roof……….rusted.
• Lindsey Buckingham - Live at the Bass Performance Hall - Longtime guitarist and singer for Fleetwood Mac releases a concert from 07 in Fort Worth. This is a CD+DVD of solo and FM hits.
• Counting Crowes - Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings - First studio release in 5 years.  This is adult alternative rock is about, “flood of sin and liquor and dissolution and insanity and it’s about trying to rebuild the life you wrecked in the wake of that flood.”
• De Novo Dahl - Move Every Muscle, Make Every Sound - Nashville 5 piece isn’t in the country genre, more like eclectic rock with musical influences from Mercury Rev, Air and Jeff Tweedy to the Beach Boys, the Supremes and Stevie Wonder.
• Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple - Electronic Hip-Hop Soul on 13 tracks of new material from Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo Green.  Run is the first single.   
• Guilty Simpson - Ode to the Ghetto - Debut album from Detroit rapper.  The late/great J Dilla produced some cuts as well as Madlib and others. 
• Morrissey - Greatest Hits - 19 tracks on 2 Discs with a US Exclusive and one new song. 
• Tim O’Brian - Chameleon - Traditional folk artist who plays multiple instruments.
• Morgan Page - Elevate - Electro beats with guest artists singing: Lissie, Camila Grey, Tyler James, etc.
• Panic At The Disco - Pretty. Odd. - 60’s Pop inspired for their second album in which they ditched the pro-tools and went with actual instruments.
• Pennywise - Reason To Believe - California Punk/Rockers are back with (some say) their best album. 
• Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely - This follow up to Broken Boy Soldiers was recorded before the White Stripes began the tour for their latest release.  Jack White, Brenden Benson and the rest of the band kept this one on the down low with not much promotion. 
• Tony Trischka - Territory - A true banjo master releases another album with 62 minutes, 21 tracks, 32-page booklet, extensive notes, photos.

In April of 2007, The Jeremy Steding Band formed as an idea between Born-Again Texan, Jeremy Steding (vocalist, songwriter) and native Texan Steve Stafford (lead guitar). Tired of over-analyzed monotony, the two vowed to perform country music the way that it originated – raw and real. Steding and Stafford share a common love for Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Shiner Bock Beer and a belief that the band should have the most fun of anyone in the building. Now they are joined by Venny Portalatin on drums and Travis Sutherland on bass to complete the rhythm section. The Jeremy Steding Band releases their debut album Whiskey Songs and Prison Songs April 26th. Catch them live right here in Austin!

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