Weekend Music Preview: MJ, Noise, and The Thing
Friday, June 25
Scoot Inn (1308 E. Fourth)
9pm
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Welcome to the Weekend Music Preview, wherein we help you remember the past and look forward to the future. This weekend's a doozy, replete with noise and psych-rock and jazz and hip-hop and tributes. Let's do this.
Friday:
One year ago today, Michael Jackson passed away at the age of fifty. To commemorate all that he contributed to music, the Scoot Inn is hosting a tribute to the man, featuring Foot Patrol and DJ Mahealani. The event partially benefits the Capital Area Food Bank, and will also include a moonwalking contest. It will begin at 9 pm and costs ten bucks.
If you feel like getting your echo on, you can trip on over to Emo's, where locals Soft Healer, and the woozy, mostly-instrumental Headdress will support Pocahaunted. At Mohawk, things are getting noisy with garage rock courtesy of Teenage Cool Kids, Cruddy, Wild America, and Rayon Beach. Wild America has a new EP out called The Sea, and Rayon Beach are going to be playing all over the place before heading out in August for a big tour.
But maybe you feel like getting a little more Houston all up in this biotch? To that end, you can see the pot-loving Devin the Dude performing at Lambert's with DJ Mel spinning.
And now, for Saturday:
Well, over at the Parish, The Tiny Tin Hearts, Salesman, and Doug Burr are performing. The Tiny Tin Hearts are a "eight-piece pop-folk-symphonic-rock wall of sound" that first began playing in 2007.
If you feel like getting much, much LOUDER, locals White Rhino are hosting a cd release party at ND Studios, formerly The Independent. Make up your minds, people! Anyway, the theme of this show is "When Animals Attack," appropriate because the band will be supported by Eagle Claw, Scorpion Child, American Sharks, and...DJ Tweedy? But yeah, it's loud and ferocious, and Scorpion Child is the best local argument we have for a cock rock revival by a country mile. The new White Rhino album is called Heroin Thunder, and it should be bowel-quaking.
Then again, if you like your brain to be melted by electronics over guitars, the HEALTH extravaganza at Red 7 should get you pretty darn excited. Featuring openers including locals and visitors from Houston and San Antonio, the performance will have tiny, bite-sized sets to prepare for the big blowout of HEALTH and Indian Jewelry.
And you know what else? Sunday:
Epistrophy Arts is hosting a big show at Space 12, featuring the Scandinavian trio The Thing and "multi-instrumentalist and improvising composer Joe McPhee." Musical improv on the east side; sounds like a winner.
Also weird will be Twisted Wires, Silent Diane, and How I Quit Crack, again at the newly-christened ND. And don't forget - it's End of an Ear's five year anniversary. As of Wednesday, they've been having five days of events. Check out the schedule to see what they're doing the rest of this weekend.
