Antone’s
What Made Milwaukee Famous, The Whigs, The Dead Trees, Dead Black Hearts
9:00 / $14
Indie Pop
Indie rock quartet, Beer (aka What Made Milwaukee Famous), rile up the hometown crowd before hitting the road with rock poppy enough to get embedded in your brain, and pop rocky enough to inspire air guitar.

Party Garbage Photo: Apple Mike

Beerland
Potential Johns, Party Garbage, Brickfight, Teeners, Sex Advice
8:00 / $
Punk
Not sure what kind of sex advice was involved to end up a potential john, but the fact that teeners were in between could mean trouble. Locals Party Garbage are gearing up to take their full-throttle selves for a tour of the UK.

The Belmont
Bruce James Soultet
9:00 / Free
Soul, R&B
Relatively undiscovered gem of soul vibrations emanating from the Live Music Capitol. Get on board and get out the word.

Cactus Café
Jimmy LaFave, Nathan Brown
8:30 / $15
Singer Songwriter
LaFave resides perennially at the top tier of Austin’s heralded songwriter scene.

Club de Ville
Sweet and Tender Hooligans
8:00
Alt-rock, Pop
Tribute band to Morrissey and The Smiths visit from L.A.

Gary Clark Jr. Photo: Ed Verosky

Continental Club
Gary Clark Jr., Jake Andrews
10:00 / $10
Blues
Young blues phenom Gary Clark Jr. has blossomed into a true Honeydripper. Both Clark and Andrews grew up soaking in the blues at some other club in town, the one famous for the blues.

Elephant Room
Ephraim Owens Quintet
9:30 / $
Jazz
Among town’s most renowned jazz musicians, Owens’ tone is the gold standard for trumpet.

Emo’s (inside)
Red Leaves, Haunting Oboe Music, Cry Blood Apache, Monster Sleeps Quiet
10:00
Indie Rock, Industrial
Cry Blood Apache whoops up the war cried on boring indie with beat-driven, industrial, New Wave crunk.

Tungsten Coil Photo: Krel Hartjen

Emo’s (lounge)
The Banner Year, Tungsten Coil, She Craves, Forever Falls, The Vehicle Reason
8:00 / $10
Power Pop, Industrial, Electronica
CD release for Tungsten Coil, whose electronic, industrial rock translates well to the live stage, aided by custom lights and visual show. Punky pop from The Banner Year follows to close the bar down to a rowdy conclusion.

Evangeline Café
Thierry LeCoz
10:00
French Rockabilly
Notably slick on the fretboard, with style to match. LeCoz is highly regarded on both sides of the Atlantic and has been holing up in Austin.

Flamingo Cantina
Mike Dillon’s GoGo Jungle, Hairy Apes BMX, Kanko
9:30 / $10
Funk, Jazz, Jam
Mike Dillon fits that category of mad genius. Leading the GoGo Jungle on vibes through a slightly off-kilter, sometimes far off-kilter, jazz lesson. Hairy Apes BMX is another one of his bands, based in town, tends to get even funkier. When not leading, Dillon provides tabla and percussion for Les Claypool among others.

Flipnotics Coffeespace
Neal Kassanoff, Travis Linville
9:00
Alt-Rock
Kassanoff’s artful approach to rock is remedy for repetitive radio.

Flipnotics Triangle
Sarah Temple
9:00
Jazz, Bossa Nova
Silky, seductive bossa nova vocalist also sings standard jazz, and just as fine. Will husband Brannen accompany on percussion? Maybe, if a baby sitter for the new arrival is found.

Ginny’s Little Longhorn
Two Hoots & a Holler
9:00 /
Country, Punkabilly
Ricky Broussard’s twangin’ punk of Two Hoots and a Holler rattles the pickled egg jar at the honkiest tonkiest beer joint in town.

Faceless Werewolves Photo: Aubrey Edwards

Lamberts
Faceless Werewolves, SkiesFalling, Strange Attractors
10:00 / $5
Indie, Garage
Fiercely freaky three-piece Faceless Werewolves debut, Pardon Me, Are Those Your Claws on My Back?, hit hard this spring for an early contender of local release of the year. Dig it.

Lucky Lounge
Adam McInnis
9:00 / Free
Alt-Rock, Soul

Mohawk
Langhorne Slim, Nic Armstrong, Amy Levere
10:00 / $10
Folk Rock, Soul
Langhorne Slim passes through town the same day NPR’s “Weekend Edition” airs a studio performance and interview. Slim tends to win new fans once they hear him.

Momo’s
Mothers Anthem, Nothing More, Jackie Venson
9:00 / $8
Pop, Alt-Rock
Mothers Anthem combines purposeful, passionate lyrics with their mainstream ready sound.

The Oaks
Dub Fest w/ Grimy Styles, McPullish & Judge
8:00 / $10
Dub, Reggae
Dub Fest…do you really have any questions? Grimy Styles’ Martin Moeller (keys, melodica) is certainly an as of yet under-appreciated player on the local scene.

One 2 One Bar
This Life Electric
10:00
Powerpop
Enough Brian Eno, enough Muse, and enough Pixies to be rightly called a mix mash of energetic rock.

Supersuckers

The Parish
Supersuckers, The Last Vegas, Eddie Spaghetti
8:30 / $17
Rock
Heralded a “true” American rock band, the Supersuckers do know how to pleases. Front man Eddie Spaghetti pulls double duty, flying solo before the big set. He’ll probably throw some country tunes in the mix.

Patsy’s Cowgirl Café
Rosie Flores
8:00
Americana, Rockabilly
“Rockabilly Filly” fond of filling dance floors and general barnstorming. But her tender songwriter side likes to shine more and more as well.

Red 7 (inside)
Arsonists Get All the Girls, Cast Pattern, Southern Hostility
5:00
Death Metal, Hardcore
Guess what they’re saying is, chicks dig fire. But it’s kind of hard to hear with all the…you know…growling.

Red 7 (outside)
Saturday Nite Shockers, Summer of Blood, Belgraves
8:00
Punk, Gothic, Metal
San Antonio’s Saturday Nite Shockers shock the hell out of everyone by demonstrating a combination of Misfits and The Cure is a brilliant idea. Adding the theatrical element of a murderous Alice Cooper might be a bit over the top for some.

Red Eyed Fly
Distant Lights, Pandemic, Naked Empire, Black Tie Dynasty
9:00 / $5-$8
Hard Rock, Prog Rock
Distant Lights CD release party. Reminiscent of very early Tool, with the addition of electric cello. Pretty cool addition, eh?

The Drunks

Room 710
The Drunks, Grinding Wheel, Bad Rackets, Jo Hell & The Red Roosters
9:00
Metal, Punk
Houston’s The Drunks offer inspiring songs of personal redemption though helping those less fortunate, through melodic harp arpeggios and…oh, who are we kidding. Nearly ten years of rock and roll living and headbanging shows and The Drunks show no signs of sobering. Guitarist Cap’n JT does the Flying V heritage proud.

Devin the Dude

Ruta Maya
Devin the Dude, Coughee Brothaz
9:30 / $15
Rap, Hip Hop
Rap royalty visits the ATX from big brother city Houston. As known for a quick wit and ability to entertain as for stellar mic and groove skills, The Dude has worked with Dr. Dre, Jay-Z, and De La Soul. Before going solo, he was a Coughee Brotha himself, and they come along for the ride.

Saxon Pub
Belleville Outfit, George Devore, Fever Tree Rising
8:00 / $10
Gypsy Swing, Americana, Rock
String band, bluegrass meets ragtime when Belleville Outfit goes on at 10. Must be something ‘bout the water in this town that makes this combo work so well. Upbeat rocker George Devore follows at midnight. 

Scoot Inn
Lonsesome Heroes, Li’l Cap’n Travis
Americana, Pop
Lonesome Heroes CD release. Their eerie Americana penetrates the bone with textural accoutrements of pedal steel, vibraphone, fiddle and other fills. L’il Cap’n reel you in with pop sensibilities.

Speakeasy
Les & The Funk Mob
9:30
Soul, Funk, R&B
A little Stevie, Prince and MJ is about as much a guarantee to get you sweaty dancing as about anything.

Stubb’s (inside)
The Hard Lessons, The Story Of, They Were Stars
10:00 / $10
Rock
Detroit rock benefits from Motown no matter what any band tries to do about it. You won’t be thinking you’re at the soul revue, but there is an undeniable power to Detroit rockers The Hard Lessons.

Shandon Sahm

Trophy’s
Shandon Sahm, A Secular End, Bankrupt & The Borrowers, Shotgun Hustler
Hard Rock, Glam Rock
Shandon Sahm channels Iggy Pop and Alice Cooper musically more than father Doug Sahm, but the artistic spirit of the Texas Tornado very much resides in him. His band typically includes Jim Ortiz (Amplified Heat) and Misti Watkins (bassist for every bad ass rock band).

Waterloo Ice House
Danny Fast Fingers
7:00
Folk Rock, Singer Songwriter
Solo or with backing band, Mr. Fast Fingers straps on the harp cage and goes for folk broke.