Headliners are listed first, opening bands last. Times listed are when the opening band starts. Austin.com strives to be accurate in times and cover charges, but don’t sue us if we’re a couple bucks off. Tonight's recommendations are marked with our pick.
311 Club
Joe Valentine
9:30 / No Cover
R&B
New Orleans born and raised, veteran soul musician who shared stages with Ray Charles, Check Berry and more. This weekly set includes originals as well as plenty o’favorites from ‘50s doowop and ‘60s soul.
The Amsterdam
Scott Coffman, Lenny Cochrun, Craig Marshall, Rick Busby
9:00
 Antone’s
Cap City Kids Benefit w/ Antone’s Blues Band, Chief Rival, Kara Grainger, Sara Hickman
7:00 / $15 / All Ages
Blues
The Antone’s Blues Band just happens to feature Gary Clark Jr., Derek O’Brien, Chris Layton, and Riley Osborne. Hot damn. And digging this groove goes to charity? Can’t go wrong.
B.D. Riley’s Irish Pub
Eric Tessmer
10:00 / No Cover
Blues
Licks, chops, and blues rock. Tessmer’s SRV-style of Texas blues guitar does good service to the Austin tradition.
Beerland
Contact High Fives
The Belmont
Jeff Lofton Quartet
7:00 / No Cover / All Ages
Jazz
Stellar jazz from standout trumpeter Jeff Lofton.
The Belmont (late)
DJ Veg
10:00 / No Cover / All Ages
DJ
The swank, outdoor patio heats it up with late night turntable action.
Broken Spoke
Jesse Dayton
9:00 / $8
Country, Rockabilly
Hillbilly punk could be a way to sum of Dayton’s music. He’ll stick to more of the danceable country here at the nation-state of Texas’ most venerable dance hall. Two-step and western swing dance lessons are available an hour before the set.
Brown Bar
DJ Gmau
9:00 / No Cover
House, Electronica
Various styles of house in the hip martini lounge.
Cactus Café
The Refugees
8:30 / $10 / All Ages
Café Mundi
Mike Wood
7:00 / All Ages
Continental Club (happy hour)
Woodsboss
6:30 / No Cover
Woodsboss is made up from former members of the Weary Boys, longtime Continental favorites.
Continental Club
Chili Cold Blood, Grady, The Jungle Rockers
10:00 / $7
Metal, Blues
A double bill of local heavy metal blues aficionados finds Chili Cold Blood, with a a twisted set that lies somewhere between Black Sabbath and John Lee Hooker, following Grady—who are as loud as a trio can get and blur every line between blues and metal. Both follow Jungle Rockers who kick out sweaty blues boogie that would make Bo Diddley proud.
Continental Club Gallery
Olivier Giraud
10:00 / No Cover
Gypsy Jazz
Swing and hot jazz Django style with the new outfit from Olivier Giraud (Paris 49).
Copa Bar & Grill
The Brew
8:00
Latin, Flamenco, Jazz
A quick salsa lesson primer and away we go. The Brew comprise impeccable talented musicianship with an energetic flair.
Donn’s Depot
Murphy’s Inlaws
9:30 / No Cover
Eddie V’s Edgewater Grille
Kat Edmonson
8:00 / No Cover
Jazz
Singular jazz singer Kat Edmonson should attract fans of Norah Jones with her brand new release, Take Me To the Sky.
Elephant Room (happy hour)
Nathan Hook
6:30 / No Cover
Jazz
Elephant Room
Greg Williams Quintet
9:30 / No Cover
Jazz
Funkin’ up the basement jazz bar.
Emo’s
Pataphysics, Elvis, Cry Blood Apache, Confuzatron
10:00 / $7 / All Ages
Indie
New wave indie bouncers Pataphysics delight with Lightning Seeds ditties giving way to Oingo Boingo pop rock. Cry Blood Apache provide an interesting segue, whooping up the war cries on boring indie with beat-driven, industrial, new wave crunk. Confuzatron confused themselves whether they wanted to be a psychedelic band or a dark metal band.
Flamingo Cantina
Cali Zack & Crew
9:30 / $5
Hip-Hop
Flipnotics Coffeespace
Abi Tapia
8:00 / All Ages
Singer-Songwriter
Flipnotics Triangle
Southpaw Jones, Matt the Electrician
8:00
Americana, Singer Songwriter
Both guys have an uncanny knack for uncanny, but seriously dead-on, lyrics.
Giddy Ups
Open Mic w/ Dewey Lyon
8:30 / No Cover
Ginny’s Little Longhorn
Alvin Crow
9:00 / No Cover
Country
Hardcore, fiddlin’ country at the honky tonk dive.
Hole in the Wall
Shenanigans, Sally Crewe & The Sudden Moves, The Bloody Tears
10:00 / No Cover
House Wine
Kelly Mickwee & Andy Hardin
6:00 / No Cover
Jovita’s
Cornell Hurd Band
8:00 / No Cover / All Ages
Country
“Cornell Hurd Thursdays” as a bumper sticker pre-dates the “78704…not just a zip code” bumper philosophy. Need we say more? For out-of-towners who need us to say more: longtime, legendary, insanely fun, country-based regular gig beloved by locals.
Lucky Lounge (happy hour)
Ian McLagan & The Bump Band
6:00 / No Cover
Rock
Legendary Faces keyboardist Ian McLagan returns to the happy hour residency after a short hiatus on the road.. The Bump Band has been at the top of their game all year, including the release of Never Say Never.
Lucky Lounge
MC Overlord, Eagle Pritchard Murray
10:00 / No Cover
Hip-Hop, Acoustic Rock
MC Overlord has been named Austin’s hip-hop artist of the year nine years. The innovator is known for both his MC skills and for playing with a live band. Eagle Pritchard Murray are acoustic rock with a flamenco vibe and saxophone.
Maria’s Taco Xpress
Phil Brown
6:00 / No Cover / All Ages
Blues, Ambient
Former member of Little Feat, Phil Brown lately made a name with The Jimi Project, an esoteric interpretation of classic Jimi Hendrix tunes. His solo work dabbles in ambient sounds and jazzy rock.
Mohawk
Whitman, Frantic Clam, The Great Nostalgic, The Bubbles
10:00 / $8 / All Ages
Indie
Spazzy art rockers are catching buzz with recent release Anatomica. The Great Nostalgic are nostalgic for the glam rock of David Bowie. The Bubbles sneak in with melodic pop ready for an iPod commercial.
Momo’s
Second Day Red, Black Bone Child, David Shehane, Wynn Taylor
7:00 / $5
Mother’s Café & Garden
Thomas “Doc” Grauzer
6:00 / No Cover / All Ages
Celtic
Harp (as in harp, not harmonica) history lesson. Grauzer plays traditional Irish, Scots and Welsh harp music and offers a little storytelling for context.
One 2 One Bar
Alan Haynes
10:00
Blues
Blistering blues guitar in the vein of Texas’ famous Kings, Freddie and Albert.
The Parlor
WinoVino, McMercy Family Gospel Band
9:00 / No Cover / All Ages
Gospel
The McMercy brothers and sisters sing gospel tunes in the old-timey mountain fashion, but don’t seem to take it seriously. In fact, sacrilege might be involved, though not so far as cartoons of Mohammed.
Patysy’s Cowgirl Café
Americana Showcase
7:00
Americana
Qua Bottle Lounge
DJ Cue
Red Fez
DJ Rapid Ric, Mike Maven & The Good Life
9:00 / No Cover
Rock, R&B
Soulful rock bandleader Mike Maven isn’t afraid of throwing any of diverse influences in the mix; it’s all part of one good life. DJ Rapid Ric spins late night.
Room 710
Burn Heavy, Rat King, Curse the Heavens, Strider
Ruta Maya
Tongue-Tied Lightning, Hannah McLendon, Unfortunate Heads, Paul Banks
8:00 / $8 / All Ages
Saxon Pub (happy hour)
James Hand
6:00 / No Cover
Country
James Hand holds a weekly Thursday happy hour at the Saxon much to the delight of old-school country aficionados.
Saxon Pub
Porter Davis
8:00 / $10
Blues
Muddy, harmonica-driven blues from locals Porterdavis, who recently cleaned house at the Austin Music Awards with three awards.
Saxon Pub (later)
Live Oak Decline, The Gougers
10:30 / $7
Scoot Inn & Bier Garten
Chaparral w/ Jeff Hughes, JWW & The Prospectors, Dave Insley’s Careless Smokers
8:00
Country, Americana
Great triple bill mixing it up in the Americana realm. Chaparral covers anyone and anything and yet it always comes out two-step-ready countrified. JWW goes prospecting for Milton Brown, and of course finds a little Bob Wills on the way. Baritone front man Dave Insley leads the Careless Smokers through Texas twang and country rock with an irreverent grace.
Speakeasy
Southern Sirens, More Cowbell
9:30 / No Cover
Cover Band, Novelty, Burlesque
Not your average cover band, More Cowbell often mashes two or three covers into one: White Stripes riff with Vanilla Ice lyrics…they’ll solve it. Southern Sirens spice up the evening with a burlesque show.
Stubb’s
The Eastern Sea, Doub Burr, Aaron Sinclair
Indie Folk
Locals Eastern Sea could be likened a bit to Sufjan Stevens in their super-melodic structure.
T.C.’s Lounge
Leeann Atherton’s Blues
10:00
Blues
Americana mama displays her blues side in the juke joint lounge, away from her typical hippie have environs.
Threadgill’s North
Redd Volkaert
10:00 / $8
Country
Sickingly good guitarist; his nubs for fingers only make it more frustrating for mere mortal guitarists wondering how he does it. You folks up north should jump on this set as the Reddman usually plays south of the river.
Trophy’s
Two Hoots & a Holler
8:00 / $5
Country, Punkabilly
Ricky Broussard’s twangin’ punk of Two Hoots and a Holler countrifies the scenester South Congress dive.
Waterloo Ice House Downtown
The Hudsons
7:00 / All Ages
Folk, Rock
Local duo doing folk in a G. Love style with Bob Schneider’s sense of delivery.
Z’Tejas
Tameca Jones
6:00 / No Cover
Jazz
A bit of Tina Turner in the otherwise jazz standard approach—and it’s not just the legs and hair.
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