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The Sound & The Fury: (a week on the music scene)

By Enrique Lopetegui

Published: 2/3/2010

Types: Music

Polysics (named after a Korg synthesizer) is the fourth Japanese band to visit SA in two weeks, but this is the last chance we’ll get to see them in the present lineup: long -time member Kayo (keyboards, guitar, vocoder) will leave the somewhat Devo-influenced band after their March 14 show at Tokyo...[MORE]

The Sound & The Fury: (a week on the music scene)

By Enrique Lopetegui

Published: 1/27/2010

Types: Music

In Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing, Buggin’ Out (Giancarlo Esposito) tells Danny Aiello “Yo, Sal! How come there’s no brothers up on the wall?!” If Buggin’ Out were from San Antonio instead of Bed-Stuy, and Sal an FCC commissioner instead of a pizzeria owner, he would be saying “Yo! How come there’s ...[MORE]

The Sound & The Fury: (a week on the music scene)

By Enrique Lopetegui

Published: 1/20/2010

Types: Music

The R House is the latest venue to go under, albeit temporarily. For the time being, all shows scheduled at R House are moved to the Quarry Cantina (7310 Jones Maltsberger, (210) 290-8066), which started 2010 with a bang: rock Mondays and blues Wednesdays (check out W.C. Clark, 9:30 p.m. January 27,...[MORE]

The Sound & They Fury: ( a week on the music scene)

By Enrique Lopetegui

Published: 1/13/2010

Types: Music

It took me a while to get used to smoke-free Luna’s new set-up, but it works: You can now see and hear the band perfectly, no matter where you sit. If you don’t believe me, join Cedric Burnside (the grandson of R.L. Burnside) and Lightnin’ Malcolm for a night of Delta blues two-guitar attack (Friday...[MORE]

The Sound & the Fury: (a week on the music scene)

By Enrique Lopetegui

Published: 1/6/2010

Types: Music

The Aly Tadros and Douglas Jay Boyd show scheduled for Thursday, January 7, at the Republic House, has been moved to the Cove (606 W. Cypress). General manager Alan Jackson confirmed to the Current that Republic House closed last Saturday and that they’re looking for another location, but if we nee...[MORE]

The Sound & The Fury: (a week on the music scene)

By Enrique Lopetegui

Published: 12/30/2009

Types: Music

If you still haven’t made plans for New Year’s Eve and are beginning to freak out, there’s hope: The father-son jazz team of George (bass) and Aaron Prado (piano, back from NY) will be alternating sets with the Hank Harrison Trio at the Boardwalk Bistro (4011 Broadway, 5 p.m.-1 a.m.; reservations at...[MORE]

The Sound & The Fury: (a week on the music scene)

By Enrique Lopetegui

Published: 12/22/2009

Types: Music

It’s been two years since irresistibly weird local band Not the Government left San Anto for LA, but they keep returning for a Christmas show that’s becoming a holiday staple in this column. This time they play on December 26 at the Ten Eleven (1011 Ave B, (210) 320-9080), with “a set consisting of...[MORE]

The Sound & The Fury: (a week on the music scene)

By Enrique Lopetegui

Published: 12/16/2009

Types: Music

Remember this name: Nadine Mansour (pronounced man-SOOR). Born in Germany, and a San Antonio resident since the age of 10, she’s a young Berklee graduate who has just released Catharsis, a debut that’s one of the best local albums of the year. Her thing, supposedly, is R&B and soul but, really, ...[MORE]

The Sound & The Fury: (a week on the music scene)

By Enrique Lopetegui

Published: 12/9/2009

Types: Music

Attention songwriters: The Dallas Songwriters Association’s 20th Annual Song Contest is on, with “more than $5,000 in prizes to the top winners in each category.” “The best way to appreciate the talent in this contest is to look to our 2008 grand prize winner, Mark Wayne Glasmire, who is a 200...[MORE]

The Sound & the Fury: (a week on the music scene)

By Enrique Lopetegui

Published: 12/2/2009

Types: Music

Sunday, December 6, Chicano bluesman Randy Garibay will be honored at the Blanco Ballroom (3719 Blanco Rd., 7 p.m.-midnight, $8-$10, (210) 827-3600 or 673-0612, or you can also get tickets at Janie’s Records at 1012 Bandera).The bands paying respects to the man will be Sauce González & the Wests...[MORE]

The Sound & The Fury: (a week on the music scene)

By Enrique Lopetegui

Published: 11/25/2009

Types: Music

Rapper Wale hit the buzz jackpot with last year’s terrific Mixtape About Nothing, 70-plus minutes of rhymes and samples tied together with a Seinfeld theme. On his official debut, the 25-year-old Washington, D.C., native pairs up with some A-list guests (Pharrell, Lady Gaga), raps a lot about things...[MORE]

The Sound & The Fury: (a week on the music scene)

By Enrique Lopetegui

Published: 11/11/2009

Types: Music

Red-hot alert: Any show with Cartographersand Blowing Treesis worth stopping by (Saturday at Limelight, 2718 N. St. Mary’s, 10 p.m.). But the other band featured that night could very well steal the show. Austin-based all-female trio Tribella (Latin for “three beauties,” but these girls rely on thei...[MORE]

The Sound & The Fury: (a week on the music scene)

By Enriqui Lopetegui

Published: 11/4/2009

Types: Music

Not surprisingly, the Calle 13/Rubén Blades collaboration “La Perla” (a candombe/salsa/rap gem that is the best Latin song of the year, hands down) only got one nomination (Best Video) for the 10th Annual Latin Grammy Awards, which will take place Thursday, November 5, in Las Vegas. Residente, lyric...[MORE]

The Sound & The Fury: ( a week on the music scene)

By Enrique Lopetegui

Published: 10/28/2009

Types: Music

It’s hard to keep up a solo music career for five years, let alone a band. Los # 3 Dinners have been doing it for three decades, and they’re celebrating Friday night at Sam’s Burger Joint (330 E. Grayson, $7, all ages, 8 p.m., with Soda Pop Social opening the show). Once and for all: Los Mescaleros ...[MORE]

The Sound & The Fury: (a week on the music scene)

By Jeremy Martin

Published: 10/21/2009

Types: Music

Hey, you! Yes, you. Right there, pretending to read this so you don’t have to make eye contact with the stinky man on the bus. And you, stinky man, scanning the page for secret messages from the ghost of Frank Zappa. You shouldn’t be doing that. Quit reading this immediately and get on the nearest c...[MORE]

The Sound & The Fury: (a week on the music scene)

By Enrique Lopetegui

Published: 10/14/2009

Types: Music

As expected, Louisiana’s Buckwheat Zydeko (forget zydeko; they’re a superb rock ’n’ roll band, period) killed Saturday night at the International Accordion Festival at La Villita. Imagine an in-your-face bulldozer with the precision of a Swiss watch and the energy and fun of James Brown, and you get...[MORE]

The Sound & The Fury: (a week on the music scene)

By Jeremy Martin

Published: 10/7/2009

Types: Music

Let’s get to the point, San Antonio: A lot of you straight-up hate me. The comments portion of our website is filled every week with new accusations that I suck at my job, am single-handedly destroying the local music scene, and would make a better-than-average receptacle for a certain Massengill-pr...[MORE]

The Sound & The Fury: (a week on the scene)

By Enrique Lopetegui

Published: 9/30/2009

Types: Music

This year’s Huevos Rancheros Gala and Silent Art Auction (9 a.m.-noon Saturday, October 3, at Plaza Guadalupe,1327 Guadalupe St.), an annual benefit for San Anto Cultural Center, is a special one: The late director, Manny Castillo (who passed away in January), will be crowned as King Huevo, and his ...[MORE]

The Sound & The Fury: (a week on the scene)

By Enrique Lopetequi

Published: 9/23/2009

Types: Music

My apologies to Aly Tadros, who plays tonight (September 23) at the Candlelight, and to other bands and soloists who will be performing in town this week in town and who are usually featured in this column. But I’m still shaken by what took place in Havana, Cuba, on Sunday. In the middle of tra...[MORE]

The Sound & The Fury: Sound & The Fury (a week on the scene)

By Enrique Lopetegui

Published: 9/16/2009

Types: Music

The (no, I won’t say “spicy”) American Sabor exhibit at the Alameda comes to an end on Sunday, September 20, so catch it before it’s too late. Kill two stones with one bird (I’m a veggie, sorry) and go to Market Square on Saturday between noon and 11 p.m. to hear Bombasta, Girl In a Coma, Piñata Pr...[MORE]

The Sound & The Fury: (a week on the scene)

By Enrique Lopetegui

Published: 9/2/2009

Types: Music

It seems the Free Show Friday series finally found a permanent home. The gratis performance-arts festival, which takes place every first and third Friday of the month, starts its new chapter this week at the Pedicab, 415 E. Cevallos (right next to La Tuna). The action begins at 9:30 p.m. with s...[MORE]

The Sound & The Fury

By Enrique Lopetegui

Published: 8/26/2009

Types: Music

According to the band’s website, Girl in a Coma “plans to go on tour again in the fall, so don’t know when the next SA show will be and want to see everyone there.” The girls certainly deserve — and will get — a packed house, so show up early Friday, August 28, at White Ra...[MORE]

The Sound & The Fury: (a week on the scene)

By Enrique Lopetegui

Published: 8/19/2009

Types: Music

Egshan — Nick Pacheo on vocals/guitar/keys, brother Rickey on bass, and Robert Luna on drums, a local self-proclaimed “bar-rock in baroque times” kind of band — spent nine months recording the fine Full Time Daydreamer at SA’s the Farm, and will celebrate with a show Saturday at Rock Bottom Tattoo B...[MORE]

THE SOUND & THE FURY: (a week on the scene)

By Jeremy Martin

Published: 8/12/2009

Types: Music

Gilbert Garcia’s gone, but don’t cry. He bit the mailman again, so we’ve taken him out to a farm where he can run, frolic, and review albums all day long in a big sunny field. We’ve got you a new writer to play with, though — none other than the Kamikaze himself, Enrique Lopetegui, who’ll be taking ...[MORE]

THE SOUND & THE FURY: (a week on the scene)

By Gilbert Garcia

Published: 8/5/2009

Types: Music

Ask In & Outlaws guitarist Matthew Rose how long his band has been together, and he’ll quickly reply “too long, man.” That wry note of world-weariness seems fitting for an outlaw C&W quartet that, based on its “illicit and under the table” new CD, finds cause for gloom at nuptials (“I A...[MORE]

THE SOUND & THE FURY: (a week on the scene)

By Gilbert Garcia

Published: 7/29/2009

Types: Music

Bett Butler, one of S&F’s favorite local jazz artists, hosted a four-hour songwriting workshop last Saturday for Gemini Ink’s Summer Literary Festival, and says the class-preparation process taught her a few things about some highly familiar, beloved standards. For instance, Butler says she...[MORE]

THE SOUND & THE FURY: (a week on the scene)

By Gilbert Garcia

Published: 7/22/2009

Types: Cover Story, Second Story

As KRTU music director and host of the station's daily "Lunch Feature," Aaron Prado has always seemed equal parts radio personality and jazz scholar: someone who could break down the contours of a masterful Ben Webster solo or the historical significance of a particular Sarah Vaughan voca...[MORE]

The Sound & The Fury: (a week on the scene)

By Gilbert Garcia

Published: 7/15/2009

Types: Music

Druggist, one of SA’s finest bands, will soon be relocating to San Francisco, and the ever-adventurous indie-pop group is commemorating the news with a farewell show at the Ten Eleven (formerly the Warhol). Frontman Blake Cormier says he and guitarist Zach Dunlap feel considerable sadness about...[MORE]

THE SOUND & THE FURY: (a week on the scene)

By Gilbert Garcia

Published: 7/8/2009

Types: Music

For the third consecutive year, our friends at Drunken Monkey Promotions are daring to inject some energy into a sweltering SA summer with Monkeyfest, a three-night festival spotlighting some of SA’s finest underground bands. While there are a few holdovers from last year (Sons of Sancho, Whit...[MORE]