Austin Music Source Seven Nights
FRIDAY
ACL Fest Late Night Shows. As the throwdown in Zilker Park reaches its conclusion, a handful of after-shows around town continue to supplement the festival’s main fare. Friday brings a Stubb’s outdoor show by Band of Horses, an act not playing ACL Fest proper, with local upstart Bee Caves opening and Milo Greene playing indoors later. Also on Friday’s agenda are Con Brio at Lamberts with KP & the Boom Boom and Kali Uchis at Vulcan Gas Company with DJ Mel and Franco V. Saturday’s final onslaught includes sold-out shows at Emo’s with Deadmau5 and Stubb’s indoors with Borns, but tickets may still be available for Chance the Rapper outdoors at Stubb’s, Son Little and Lanz Pierce at Lamberts, and Cherub at Vulcan Gas Company with Hippie Sabotage. Details on all shows are at c3concerts. com/latenight.
Also: Oct. 9 is John Lennon’s 75th birthday, and it’s the 25th year that a handful of top local musicians dubbed the #9 Orchestra have gathered to celebrate by playing some of Lennon’s songs. The show starts at 8 p.m. at Threadgill’s South and should run till around 11, making it an ideal post-ACL Fest stopover. ... It’s the second weekend of that other ACL Fest, the
Austin Corn Lovers Fiesta, as host band the Hickoids joines Pong, the Surlys and the Grundles at ABGB. The shindig winds up Saturday night at Hole in the Wall with the Pocket FishRmen and others. ... Jazz saxophonist
Elias Haslanger brings his quintet to the Elephant Room. ... Americana options include Jimmie
Dale Gilmore and Robyn Ludwick at Strange Brew,
Sarah Gayle Meech at the Continental Club and Jeff
Plankenhorn at the Saxon
Pub.
SATURDAY
The Sword at Mohawk
outdoor. Lots of things are different these days for the Sword, arguably Austin’s most prominent metal band of the last decade. Singer and guitarst John Cronise now lives in North Carolina, and the band has shifted a bit from the heaviness of its primal output. As Cronise put it in the band’s bio for its new album “High Country,” released in August,“We wanted to break out of any classifications and just put out a good rock record.” It makes sense, then, that they enlisted versatile Austin rock musician Adrian Quesada to produce the album. Kadavar and All Them Witches open. $25. 8 p.m. doors. 912 Red River St. mohawkaustin.com.
Also: For the second night in a row, Threadgill’s South likely will draw some postACL Fest throngs on the other end of Barton Springs Road, as popular local band
Shinyribs headlines a 9 p.m. bill that also includes
Ramsay Midwood. ... It’s a solid night for fans of Austin’s Americana singersongwriters across the generational spectrum, with sixtysomething Gurf
Morlix at the White Horse, fortysomething Bruce
Robison at the Broken Spoke and twentysomething
Carson McHone at White Horse. ... Two of the city’s most intriguing and eclectic indie bands team up at ABGB when Sahara Smith’s outfit Girl Pilot opens for the Joe Jacksons (not to be confused with the Englishman visiting the Paramount on Monday).
SUNDAY
Sarah Gayle Meech at Little
Longhorn Saloon. Originally from the Northwest, tradcountry singer-songwriter Meech has been a fixture in Nashville in recent years, releasing two records and playing a weekly residency at Music City’s storied downtown hot spot Robert’s Western Wear. She visited Austin earlier this year for the second annual Ameripolitan Music Awards show at the Paramount and walked away with the Female Outlaw award. She’s sticking around after a Friday show at the Continental to play the Little Longhorn’s traditional Sunday-afternoon bingo gig. $2 for a bingo ticket. 4 p.m. 5434 Burnet Road. thelittlelonghornsaloon.com. Also: Locals Amanda
Pearcy and Chris Douthitt play record-release shows at Strange Brew and Carousel Lounge. ... William
Harries Graham hosts a guitar pull at Continental Gallery that also features a keyboardist, North Carolina’s
Skylar Gudasz, along with local songwriters Bonnie
Whitmore and Carson McHone plus percussionist
Mike Meadows. ... Graham’s frequent Painted Redstarts cohort Jaimee Harris is at One-2-One Bar with the
Grizzly Adams Family.
MONDAY
Joe Jackson at Paramount
Theatre. A bit like the Foo Fighters’s 2014 album “Sonic Highways,”Joe Jackson took a geographical approach to his new double album “Fast Forward,” released last week. But whereas the Foos did one song in eight different American cities, Jackson did four songs each in just four cities worldwide: New York, New Orleans, Amsterdam and Berlin. Though he collaborated with local musicians in each locale, the end result coalesces nicely as a single entity, its divergences tied together by Jackson’s distinctive voice and sophisticated pop sensibility. $35-$53.50. 8 p.m. 713 Congress Ave. austintheatre.org.
Also: Nashville-by-wayof-Denton indie-folk outfit
Seryn, touring behind their new album “We Will All Be Changed,” plays the indoor stage at Stubb’s with Taylor & the Wild Now. ... New York hip-hop duo Cannibal Ox stops in at Sidewinder. ... Top local options include Da Costa at Cactus Cafe, Don Leady and Jim Stringer at the White Horse and Ben
Ballinger at Stay Gold with Jake Garcia.
TUESDAY
Ariana Grande at Erwin
Center. At 22, Grande has already had an illustrious career, parlaying early Broadway stage and Nickelodeon TV roles into a recording career that has produced chart-topping records in each of the past two years. Her Austin date comes near the end of a long world tour, after which she’ll be working on her third album,“Moonlight,”and appearing in the upcoming film “Zoolander 2.” Prince Royce opens. $20-$69.50. 7:30 p.m. 1701 Red River St. uterwincenter.com.
Also: Originally from Wales but raised partly in Greece,
Marina & the Diamonds leader Mariana Diamandis brings a cosmopolitan touch to the pop music she’ll play on the outdoor stage a Stubb’s with opening act
Shamir. ... New England folkrocker Matt Nathanson, whose new album “Show Me Your Fangs” came out last week, plays a sold-out show at the Parish.
WEDNESDAY
Xavier Rudd & the United
Nations at Parish. An Australian artist renowned for his inclusive musical style, Rudd added the collective name“the United Nations” to his ninth studio album to reflect the participation of musicians from South Africa, Samoa, Germany, Ireland and Papua New Guinea. His style draws upon age-old Australian aboriginal traditions, but that’s just a starting-point for a sound that knows no bounds. Chadwick Stokes opens. $27. 8 p.m. 214 E. Sixth St. theparishaustin.com. — P.B.
Also: As they say, Garbage in, garbage sold out: The ’90s alt-rock kingpins, celebrating the 20th anniversary of their double-platinum debut album, play for those who got tickets early on the outdoor stage at Stubb’s. There’s still room for the indoor show afterward featuring Seattle indie acts Say Hi and
Telekinesis. ... Kristin Hersh of the boundary-stretching ’80s band Throwing Muses visits Cactus Cafe. ... Brooklyn indie band Battles, touring behind their new album “La Di Da Di,” play the Mohawk’s outdoor stage. ... Home Free, winners of NBC’s “The SingOff,”visit the Paramount.
THURSDAY
Drive-By Truckers, Brent Best at Scoot Inn. It’s telling that the guitarist for one of the biggest acts at ACL Fest last weekend, Alabama Shakes, spoke with great reverence in a pre-fest interview about the Drive-By Truckers. The long-running Southern band led by Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley helped bridge the gap between old-school soul (Hood’s father is a legendary Muscle Shoals studio bassist) and postpunk rock ’n’ roll beginning in the late ’90s, well before such a synthesis became an indiescene thing. Opening is Brent Best of former Denton altcountry band Slobberbone, playing songs from a just-released solo album. $25-$30. 8 p.m. 1308 E. Fourth St. scootinnaustin. com. — P.B.
Also: Country-pop sibling hitmakers The Band Perry headline a benefit for Dell Children’s Blood & Cancer Center at ACL Live. ... Buffalo, N.Y, singer-songwriter
Ani DiFranco has been a universally respected major DIY artist for more than two decades now, but very early on she spent some time playing the small stages and open mics in Austin. Catch her at Emo’s with opening act Ana Egge, another artist who honed her craft in Austin and now lives in New York. ... North Carolina band Chatham
County Line brings topline vocal harmonies and hot picking to a bluegrass style that mixes in elements of alt-country, old-school rock ’n’ roll. They’re in the 7:30 p.m. slot at Strange Brew. ... Also from North Carolina is singer-songwriter
David Wilcox, who’s at One World Theatre. ...Eclectic and energetic New York band Red Baraat visits the Parish with Riders Against the Storm. ... Hometown honky-tonk heroes Mike &
the Moonpies celebrate the release of their new album “Mockingbird” at the White Horse.