Patrice Pike Photo: Mary Bruton

Antone’s
Patrice Pike & Carolyn Wonderland, Erin Jaimes
9:00 / $13
Rock, Southern Rock

To what do we owe this special occasion? Fiery blues rock guitar goddess Carolyn Wonderland and versatile rocker Patrice Pike perform together.

BB Rovers
Dixie Beal & The Group W Bench
8:00 / Free
Singer Songwriter, Folk Rock
Taking their name from Arlo Guthrie’s designated area for deviant misfits should be a clue this folksy Americana outfit is gonna stray from the formula a bit.

Beauty Bar
The DJ Melee w/ Abominatron, DJ Starsign, Ian Orth
10:00
Turntable Madness
Melee is right. One hell of a melee. The three DJs are in a battle. The winner will advance to the finals next month along with winners from other DJ Melee bouts. The DJs get five minutes to pick 30 records with which they must spin the house down.

Beerland
The Diagonals, Shapes Have Fangs, Harlem, Pillow Queens, Wine & Revolution
10:00
Garage Rock
Shapes Have Fangs rock in black and white, like The Kinks first discovering distortion. Closing the crunk night out, The Diagonals are a little less careful with Eugene’s axe.

The Belmont
The Busta’ Moovalators
9:00
Zydeco, Groove
The band believes moovalate is a real word, and it means gyrate your body to the rhythm of Mardi Gras inspired musical mayhem. Or something like that.

The Derailers

Broken Spoke
The Derailers
Country, Pop
Buck Owens meets the Beatles and Buck overpowers them. That’s The Derailers in a pecan shell.

Cactus Café
Billy Joe Shaver, Dustin Welch
9:00 / $23
Country, Singer Songwriter
S’pose Veep Dick isn’t the only man who can get away with shooting a man in the face in Texas. Billy Joe keeps truckin’ on the live circuit. A fine whippersnapper liable to shout gems like, “if you don’t love Jesus, go to hell!” whilst telling tales between songs.

Café Mundi
Bernson & Bayless, Ashley Arrison
7:00 / Free
Jazz, Blues

Carousel Lounge
Lonesome Dave Fisher
8:00 / Free
Country, Rockabilly
Make the fella sing himself happy birthday tonight. Approaches full greaser rockabilly status, but never strays entirely from good ‘ol country.

Blood on the Walls

Club de Ville
Blood on the Wall
8:00 / $
Indie Rock
Brooklyn misfits make good rock. Poppy enough to suck you in before drop kickin’ ya.

Continental Club
Pep Torres, Fabulous Harmonaires
10:00 / $10
Rockabilly, Doo Wop
Pompadour-ready rockabilly from Hollywood, Pep Torres should attract the poodle skirts. Dallas’ Fabulous Harmonaires are equally ‘50s, but more from the classic a-wee-oh-wum-a-way harmonizing doo wop ‘50s.

Donn’s Depot
Donn & The Station Master
8:00
Piano Pop
Yep, that’s the same Donn behind the piano as the one with the name on the sign. With his own permanent gig since 1972, Donn and company have played every song you know all the words to.

Elias Haslanger Photo: Hannah Neal

Elephant Room
Elias Haslanger Quintet
9:30 / $
Jazz
Jazziz Magazine compared him to John Coltrane. Really, what else is there to say?

Emo’s (inside)
Tia Carerra, Thrones, The Roller, Expensive Shit
10:00 / $8
Hard Rock, Metal, Experimental
Locals Tia Carerra are longtime favorites on the Red River scene. Oregon’s Thrones deliver cinematic synth creepiness. The Roller provide the death metal to start your Friday on a happy note.

Evangeline Café
Chaparral w/ Jeff Hughes
10:00
Country
Chaparral covers anyone and anything and yet it always comes out two-step-ready countrified.

Zeale32 clears the Frost Tower

Flamingo Cantina
Zeale 32, Phranchyze, DJ Shoestrings
10:00 / $8
Hip Hop
Zeale and Phranchyze often perform together. A double dose of wassup Houston?

Freddie’s Place
Billy Dee
6:00
Country
As old-school, pre-Nashvegas country as it gets; ‘round here that’s a very good thing. With a booming baritone voice and a stellar band, you’d swear Nashville never existed.

Ginny’s Little Longhorn
James Hand
9:00
Country
You’d think he has more Hank Sr. in him than either Jr. or III. A new Rounder record is in the can, so you might get a sneak at some of the upcoming tunes.

Hole in the Wall
Attack Formation, Transmography, The Snake Trap, Cry Blood Apache
10:00 / $3
Indie, Experimenatal Punk
With influences as infinite as the members, the Attack Formation opens ears and closes boundaries. Transmography are the Siamese twins of ghetto keyboard. Cry Blood Apache whoop up the war cries on boring indie. Beat-driven, industrial, New Wave crunk oughta sum ‘em up.

La Zona Rosa
Brent Dennen, Mason Jennings, Missy Higgins
7:30 / $25
Singer Songwriter, Folk Pop
Double bill of heavyweights in the folk pop scene. Which, really, makes for a bad use of the term heavyweights.

Lucky Lounge
Derrick Davis
10:00 / Free
Pop Folk
Pay a Jackson and Lincoln to see the national big names of poppy folk rock a few blocks away, or see Austin’s rising songwriter in the vein. As you would expect, even the folksy pop of Austin rocks a little harder.

Maria’s Taco Xpress
Leeann Atherton
7:00
Americana, Folk Rock, Blues
Americana Mama with a gorgeous, soulful voice and enough exuberance to spice a habanero taco.

Mohawk
David Dondero, Unfortunate Heads
8:00
Pop Folk
This time the poppy folk rocker, David Dondero, hails from North Carolina.  

Momo’s
South Austin Jug Band, Austin Homegrown, Randy Weeks
8:00 / $10
Newgrass, Jam, Indie
SAJB is on at 11 at their old home base. While there was never a jug, the new version of SAJB strays even further from the realm of old-timey string music. Rumor even has it—well, the fact of the matter is—their recently released album was recorded in NYC.

Clay McClinton Photo: Frank Vigil

The Oaks
Clay McClinton, Freight Train Troubadours
8:00 / $5
Americana, Blues, Jam Band
Somehow or another, Del’s son snuck into town a year or so ago. Though he spends a good bit of time on the road. Before McClinton the younger is the Freight Train Troubadours, who harken to early Grateful Dead days, when their raw, bluesy roots were still evident.

One 2 One Bar
Diasporic
10:00
Funk, Hip Hop
Jazzy hip hop with as much funk as rap. D-Madness is on skins. One funkin’ party, that’s for sure.

The Parish
Pong, Supersonic Uke, Matt the Electrician
9:00 / $7
Electropop, Indie Rock, Singer Songwriter
Pong’s that ghetto electro band that provides the soundtrack for any movie about machines taking over the earth. Innovative singer/songwriter Matt the Electrician kicks off the night in a more subdued, but lyrically ethereal way.

The Parlor
The Hoodrats, The Dickens, Get to da Choppa
8:00
Garage, Punk

Patsy’s Cowgirl Café
Shelley King Trio
8:00
Roots Rock, Twang
Shelley King was recently named the official Texas Musician of the Year. Sort of our fair state’s version of the national poet laureate. Quick, name who that is.

Room 710
Grand Champeen, Ripe, Nagel, Abby Birds

Ruta Maya
Empty Phantom, Conrad Wright, Eddie Burger, Westbound Departure
9:30

Saxon Pub
Band of Heathens, Joel Guzman & Sarah Fox
9:00 / $10
Roots Rock, Americana, Latin
Band of Heathens soulful rock is as accessible as from-the-soul music can be. Garnering comparisons to The Band is about as big a compliment as a band could hope for. Accordion and keyboard extraordinaire Joel Guzman, well-known for his longtime work with Joe Ely, opens with his wife Sarah Fox on fiery, bi-lingual vocals.

Scoot Inn
Crash Gallery, Prom Nite, LAX, Taunto
9:00

Texas Bar & Grill
Li’l Steph & The Chromatics
Blues, R&B
Stephanie Bradley leads this rockin’, jump blues outfit. A sweet Texas take on West Coast blues.

Threadgill’s
The Greencards, Sarah Jarosz
9:00 / $15
Folk, Bluegrass
Two Aussies and a Brit have captured the essence of yesteryear Americana. The trio called Austin home base for a few years and retain a strong following here.

Trophy’s
Mr. Lewis & The Funeral Five, Little Mikey & The Soda Jerks, Death & Texas, Bear & The Essentials
Indie Rock, Gypsy, Twangabilly
Mr. Lewis’ Gogol Bordello-ish freak show of an indie outfit should be on the short list (OK, not that short really) of Austin acts the world should now about. Is that some Eastern European gypsy influence you hear mixed with a morbid dirge? Little Mikey’s jerks bring a clever Roger Miller irreverence to catchy twang and rockabilly.

T-Bird & The Breaks

Victory Grill
Stax, Wax & Live Trax w/ T-Bird & The Breaks
9:00 / $12
Soul, Classic Stax
This KOOP benefit shows the funky-cold-medina best parties in the land can be for a non-profit fundraiser. Live, gutbucket funky riffs and soulicious vocals from T-Bird & The Breaks, visual stimulus from the Funk Peepshow dancers, game show-style Stax trivia, DJs spinning Stax tracks in between. Emceed by KOOP radio’s Rick Daddy, host of “Excavation Nation.”