Weekend Music Preview: Sky Sunlight Saxon Memorial + 4th of July events

If you’re going to Houston this weekend, head over to Jones Plaza for the Texas Heat Music & Arts Fest -- the line-up for this two-day event includes The Rapture (DJ set) and RJD2. Check out the schedule here and buy your tickets here.

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Muchos Backflips, White Rhino, Focus Group, The Fever Dreams, The Ape-Shits, Squidbucket, CockVanDyke, Falcon Buddies, El Paso Heist
Saturday, July 4
The Metropolis (2200 S. Pleasant Valley Rd., Austin, TX 78741-4688)
2 p.m.
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Friday:

• Indian Jewelry, Daughters Of The Sun, Motel Aviv (Outside) and Caddywhompus, Shapes Have Fangs, Cartright, The Dead Space (Inside) at The Mohawk (9 p.m. / 21+ Free; Minors $5)
• Bone Awl, Ashdautas, Volahn, Total Abuse (Outside / 9 p.m.) and DJ Drug Money (Inside / 10 p.m.) at Red 7
• Dark Rabbit (8 p.m.); Big Balls, Broken Teeth, Blackholicus, Chlorine (10 p.m.) at Room 710
• 'Til We’re Blue Or Destroy (CD Release), New Roman Times (CD Release), and The Lost Soul Revue, Candi and The Strangers, Team Fabrication at Club de Ville (Inside / Outside / 9 p.m.)
• Tom Rhodes (8 p.m.); The Chumps, F Bombers, Bent Gents, Scrabble Robot at Beerland (10 p.m.)
• Li'l Cap'n Travis, Sally Crewe & The Sudden Moves at The Continental Club (10 p.m.)
• Mice & Rifles, San Saba County, J.Be at Stubb’s (Inside / 9 p.m. / $10 Advance -- Tickets)
• Crash Gallery, Always Already, Munich, Prince Klassen at Beauty Bar (9 p.m.)

Saturday:

• Joey Cape, Jon Snodgrass, Cory Branan at The Mohawk (Inside / 10 p.m. / 21+ $8; Minors $10)
• 2009 Warped Tour Party with Henry Rollins, Gallows, Mocktigers, Born To Lose, JT HabersaatEmo’s (Outside / 9 p.m. / $18 Advance; $20 At The Door -- Tickets)
• Jazzus Lizard, Aartfystte, MC Terroristic, Baby Got Bacteria at Room 710 (9:30 p.m.)
• The Flametrick Subs, Shotgun Rebels at Beerland (10 p.m.)
• Explosions In The Sky, The Octopus Project, The Wooden Birds at Stubb’s (Outside / 7 p.m. / Sold Out)
• Indiependence Day Throwdown with Prince Klassen, Bird Peterson at Beauty Bar (9 p.m.)
• 4th of July Bash with Distempered, Suncopters, El Charco at Trophys (8 p.m.)
• 4th of July Freak On with HUG, Scorpio Rising, The Horsies, FM Campers, DJ Teenage Wolf at Club 1808
• People Under the Stairs at Red 7 w/ Lowkey, Dred Skott.

Sunday:

• The Calm Blue Sea, Gifts From Enola, Irepress, Hotel HotelEmo’s (Inside / 10 p.m.)
• Bill Callahan, Follow That Bird! at The Parish (8 p.m. / 21+ $15.50 Advance; Minors $18.50 Advance -- Tickets)
• Glafiro & Solid Ghost at The Parlor (8 p.m.)
• Alternative Softball League All-Star Game Afterparty with Transmography, La Snacks, Butcher Bear & Charlie (Outside / 9 p.m.) and DJ Mark Fagan (Inside / 9 p.m.) at Red 7
• Birth A.D., Disfigured, Scattered Remains at Room 710 (10 p.m.)

Check out the Austinist Weekend Music Preview Slideshow below for details on a number of events in town this weekend.

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