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KGSR, meanwhile, will be celebrating this weekend, with its anniversary
party at the Austin City Limits soundstage, featuring
81/2 Souvenirs, Suzanne Vega, and Lyle Lovett, plus a couple of
special guests -- all of which you can hear at the 107.1 FM frequency as the
station is simulcasting the show. Hint on the special guests: One of 'em is
also playing the station's other shindig that same night, the "Home for the
Holidays" benefit at La Zona Rosa, featuring Shawn Colvin, Sara Hickman, Kris
McKay, Kelly Willis, and Jack Ingram. And since we've apparently become
Hits, let's mention the KVRX festivities for their Cooking By
Strobelight -- Local Live Vol. 1 CD, which includes the Golden Arm Trio's
in-store
at Duval Discs today (Thursday) at 7pm, Drums & Tuba, Moist
Fist, and Brown Hornet at Stubb's tonight, and Silver Scooter's in-store at
Sound Exchange
Friday at 7pm.
Emo's has changed their cover policy again, this time to offer free admission on Fridays and Saturdays to those arriving before 10pm. Eric "Emo" Hartman cites the reason for the change as being that he's getting tired of having no one show up for the opening bands. And no, don't think you can just stick your head in and head for Casino's, then come back later for free. Early birds get a special stamp that's no good for ins and outs...
First Sam Hurt, now this! Poster artist Nels Jacobson aka Jagmo, best known to these eyes for his "Free Nelson Mandela" poster blitz of years past, has joined the law firm of King and Ballow. The firm has offices in San Diego and Nashville. Hmm, maybe Jag can get Steve Wilkison a job in the mailroom...
Though it's said that Liberty Lunch's Mark Pratz has enough tickets left from past cancelled Soulhat gigs to paper his walls, apparently their big reunion shows (December 20-21) are going on as planned. More pressing on Pratz's mind is that he no longer needs to worry about the city stepping in to knock down the Lunch in their quest to further develop in that area -- now Bruce Todd has announced that he's actively seeking private investors to do the dirty work for him. "The alarms are back on," says Pratz...
Johnny Cash cancelled last night's Erwin Center show not because of my crack about June, but because he had the flu. He also cancelled his Dallas gig and a Jay Leno appearance for the same reason. American Records says that Cash "has to be well for the Kennedy Center honors this weekend," and that he hopes to reschedule before leaving for a European tour in April. And to anyone bitching about the Man in Black not being able to shake off a little bug, remember: The man needs to take good care of his health. After all, he's only a year or two younger than the late Tiny Tim...
Another bit of news from American is that Lucinda Williams is finally done with her new album and is now mixing it...
This Friday's episode of Unsolved Mysteries features the mysterious death of Texas rock legend Bobby Fuller. It's a re-run, but they say that the re-broadcast will feature newly discovered information (I bet Bob Crane did it!)...
Local song placement in TV series continues, with Lisa Tingle's "Pipe Dream" from her In the Water album getting play on Melrose Place in January. Stevie Ray Vaughan's "The House Is Rockin'" was used on a recent Baywatch, but I'm not sure if I've already mentioned that, since that song gets played on everything...
The Ugly Americans' Bruce Hughes reports hearing one of the band's songs in the trailer for an upcoming Richard Gere film. Actually, that's one of the trailers -- the other one features Bruce Springsteen...
Shawn Colvin's "Someone Like You" appears on the soundtrack to the film One Fine Day...
Each week there's a new tribute album in this column! This week, besides the fact that we just got an advance of the new Prince tribute featuring all your favorite locals, take note that Kelly Willis has a cut on the new Big Star trib, performing "When My Baby's Beside Me." Also on the disc is Juliana Hatfield doing "Don't Lie To Me" (likely featuring her current band of Austinites), and Matthew Sweet, who is now required by law to appear on all compilation albums...
What's that noise in the streets? It could be the return of former Hickoids drummer Wade Driver and his brother John, who are moving back to town. Lately, they've been making a name for themselves around San Francisco by strapping amps around their necks and performing as "plugged" street musicians. In fact, the debut (in S.F.) of their CD led to what may have been the first "progressive in-store" in music history...
Here's the list of sessionsters on Kacy Crowley's upcoming album: Craig Ross, Rafael Guyol, Brian Beattie, George Reiff, and Jon Dee Graham. The Dave McNair-produced disc is due in January...
I hear Junior Brown's publicist is trying to reschedule the country star's
interview session with Tim Stegall, which broke down when Brown got the
mistaken idea that Stegall didn't know the difference between him and the
Mavericks. As a peace offering, the Brown camp has also sent Stegall the entire
Mavericks catalog...
Hamell on Trial is expected to stay busy during his visit here. Besides his own Electric Lounge show on Friday, he and some Spankers will be Wammo's backing band at the latter's CD release there on Saturday. And you just know he'll be dragged over to the Hole in the Wall for a Hoot Night appearance or something...
Eric Geyer has an in-store at ABCD's this Saturday at 1pm for his new Make It Hum...
The Austin Music Network will be shooting live video of "artists we thought should be on the channel but we don't have footage of" on Monday and Tuesday at Stubb's, says AMN's Tim Hamblin. Hamblin adds that the Network hopes to continue to do "somewhat regular" shows like this to fill AMN's video library...
Sincola are among those with recipes in the Austin & Hill Country Celebration Cookbook -- along with the likes of Troy Aikman, Joe Ely, and Ann Richards -- and they'll be at the book signing this Sunday at the Copper Tank from 6-9pm. Rest assured that the Yeast Fest this Friday at Liberty Lunch, with Sincola, the Wannabes (Wannababes?), Jaws of Life, Olive, and Handful has nothing to do with baking. Sez Terri Lord, "It's about women, it's about beer." -- Contributors: Christopher Gray, Raoul Hernandez, Andy Langer, Margaret Moser
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