Antone’s
Stephen Moser Benefit: Ray Benson, Sara Hickman, Bobby Whitlock & CoCo Carmel, Kathy Valentine
8:00 / $25
Perennial gadfly about town and beloved Austin Chronicle fashion columnist Stephen Moser is suffering from prostrate cancer, but lacks insurance. In typical Austin fashion (lame pun intended), an A-list of world-famous musicians pull together for a benefit fundraiser. Special VIP party includes silent auction, food and more music for $150.

Artz Rib House
Carolyn Wonderland & Shelley King
7:30
Folk Rock, Acoustic Roots
Powerhouse, multi-instrumentalist blues belter Carolyn Wonderland and the newly-named Texas Musician of the Year, Shelley King. Now that’s a good combo plate.

Austin Moose Lodge #1735
Lonesome Dave Fisher
8:00
Country, Rockabilly
Does rockabilly the way the originators like Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash done it.

Hosea Hargrove Photo: Valentino Mauricio

B.D. Riley’s
Hosea Hargrove
10:00 Free
Blues, R&B
Even in the juxtaposition of an Irish pub setting, Hargrove is real enough to feel the experience of the 1960s Chitlin’ Circuit with a busted air conditioner.

Botticelli’s
Sarah Hughes
8:00 / Free
Folk Rock
“If all folk music was this hep, it wouldn’t be the four letter f-word that it is.” – Some guy in the corner.

Broken Spoke
Dale Watson, Tony Harrison
Country
Leather-clad country icon Dale Watson drives the dancers round and round the floor.

Cedar Street
SPAZMATICS
8:00 / Free
’80s Rock, New Wave
The SPAZMATICS will stop at nothing to entertain, complete with ridiculous attire and choreography. Thing is, they succeed at what they set out to do: good times are had.

Automusik Photo: Aubrey Edwards

Chain Drive
Automusik, Mistress Stephanie & Her Melodic Cat, Luna Tart
8:30
Industrial, Post-Modern
Dieter would be happy as a little girl to see Automusik, part performance art, part German-industrial, post-modern pop. Mistress Stephanie succeeds in spicing everything—vaudeville, hard rock, holly-jolly-pop—with a dose of S&M.

Continental Club
Greyhounds, Mike Flanigin’s B-3 Trio
10:00 / $7
Funk, Jazz
At midnight, the Greyhounds are chicken-scratch funky. The kind of bluesy funk that gets grit in your teeth. Mike Flanigin is the local baron of the B-3.

Cuba Libre
Cadaques
8:00 / Free
Latin, Jazz, World
If Al Dimeola grew up in Latin America, that’s what Cadaques sounds like. Smoldering Nuevo Flamenco, that’s another way to put it. 

Donn’s Depot
Frank & The Station Masters
9:00
Piano

Elephant Room
Acoustic Mayhem
9:30 / Free
Jazz, Big Band
9-piece big band helmed by saxophonist Paul White.

Noise Revival Orchestra

Emo’s (lounge)
The Noise Revival Orchestra Experience, The Story Of, Fiction
9:00 / $5
Indie, Classical
101X Homegrown Live series gets the word out on great new bands. The 13-member Noise Revival Orchestra experiments with ambient indie rock embedded in contemporary classical motifs and structure. Openers, Fiction, bring a similarly fresh approach to indie rock, with offbeat time signatures, unorthodox instrumentation.

Flamingo Cantina
Dubconscious
9:30 / $10
Dub, Reggae
Popular, roots reggae from music-mecca Athens, GA returns to the Flamingo as they head west to play the Joshua Tree Music Festival.

Ginny’s Little Longhorn
Roger Wallace
9:00 / Free
Country
With a voice slightly akin to San Diego’s Big Sandy, Wallace has no trouble coaxing the dancers on the tightest dance floor in Austin.

Hill’s Café
Doug Moreland, Corb Lund
8:00 / Free
Country, Western Swing
Top notch, high flyin’ band with a wicked sense of entertainment. Fiddler/singer Doug Moreland has more stage presence than a pole dancer. (Note: The Doug Moreland Show is completely clean, family entertainment. The stripper reference was only used as a metaphor.)

Hole in the Wall
Lonesome Heroes, Chuck Fleming, The Archibalds, The Down Here Band
9:00
Lonesome Heroes eerie Americana penetrates the bone with textural accoutrements of pedal steel, vibraphone, fiddle and other fills.

Lamberts
DJ Mel
10:30
Club, Turntables
Everything’s fair game with DJ Mel. Expect the unexpected with mixes that make you go hmmmm.

Lucky Lounge
Ryan Harkrider & The Night Owls
10:00 / Free
Alt-Rock
Pleasant songwriting, accessible and poppy delivery.

Mohawk
iKiLLCaRS, Elvis, Swan Lake
10:00
Punk, Indie Rock
iKiLLCaRS show equal disdain for trite indie rock vying for college radio airplay as they do for vowels. Melodic enough to draw you in; fierce enough to frighten the meek.

Kacy Crowley Photo: Zach Lewis

Momo’s
Dan Dyer, Kacy Crowley, Drew Smith
8:00 / $7
Soul, Indie Pop, Singer Songwriter
Release party as folksy singer songwriter Kacy Crowley unveils her third independent CD, Cave, since refusing to cave in to Atlantic. Dan Dyer’s got a Stevie Wonder kinda thing goin’ on and it would be best to take note.

Parmer Lane Tavern
Pete Benz
9:00
Country
Straight-up, George Strait-style country.

Room 710
Gorch Fock, Dumb, Seven Black Tornadoes
10:00
Experimental, Metal
Gorch Fock jumps through music’s conventional hoops the way a sailor gives up drinking: they don’t. Trombone, prog rock, screeching punk and driving metal somehow get aboard the dinghy to nowhwere in particular.

Ruta Maya
Cienfuegos
8:00 / $5
Latin, Cuban
The perfectly exquisite Cuban sounds start at 9. But come earlier (7:30) and a salsa lesson is included with the cover. Good thing; you’ll want to dance all night long.

Saxon Pub
Monte Montgomery, Paula Nelson, Meagan Tubb
8:00 / $10
Rock, Blues Rock, Roots
Monte’s fretwork is typically described as mind blowing, or crazy difficult. He combines deft finger picking with advanced chording that gets guitar nuts goin’ nuts. Paula Nelson precedes, leading a high octane, bluesy rock set. Guitarist, singer and songwriter Meagan Tubb follows Monte with more electrifying blues-based rock.

Shoal Creek Saloon
Eve & The Exiles
8:30
Rock, Blues
Who needs a stack of 45s from the ‘50s? Eve & The Exiles are more than just fine to take you there. Eve Monsees fronts on vocals and swapping lead guitar fills with Homer Henderson. On the skins is Mike Buck, an original member of the Fabulous Thunderbirds.

Speakeasy
The Brew
9:00 /
Latin, Flamenco, Jazz
A quick salsa lesson primer and away we go. The Brew comprise impeccable talented musicianship with an energetic flair.

Northern State Photo: Katie Cassidy

Stubb’s
Northern State, American Princes, Lady Pteradactyl
9:00 / $12
Hip Hop, Rap
The female Beastie Boys yo. Kinda. ‘nuff so that the B-Boys’ Ad-Rock produced their current album, Can I keep This Pen?

Threadgill’s
Shinyribs
9:00 / $5
Americana
The Gourds’ Kevin Russell’s alter-ego.