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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]

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

By Gilbert Garcia

Published: 7/1/2009

Types: Music

It’s pretty common for pop stars to begin dabbling in the visual arts when they hit middle age, but how often do respected visual artists start writing songs after they turn 50? That’s exactly what happened in 2000 with local sculptor Ken Little. Over the last nine years, Little — in collaborat...[MORE]

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

By Gilbert Garcia

Published: 6/24/2009

Types: Music

It’s not often that a San Antonio band releases a new CD in Canada before it schedules a local CD-release show, but local pop-rock quartet Passenger found itself in that position last week, as one of 200 bands picked to showcase at NXNE, Toronto’s answer to South By Southwest. The group decided...[MORE]

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

By Gilbert Garcia

Published: 6/17/2009

Types: Music

Coming off a wild 2008 which found them getting a big Hollywood thumbs-up from Tommy Lee at a Guitar Center Battle of the Bands, The Heroine will celebrate the release of their new CD on Saturday, June 20, at Jiggers, along with The Conflict, Top Dead C...[MORE]

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

By Gilbert Garcia

Published: 6/10/2009

Types: Music

With Girl in a Coma busy promoting their new album, Trio B.C. (which dropped last Tuesday), one of the local beneficiaries of the band’s success has been Ledaswan. The alternative/dream-pop quintet, which includes former Current staffer Jaime Monzon, picked up...[MORE]

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

By Gilbert Garcia

Published: 6/3/2009

Types: Music

If you’re going to put together an unplugged show, it’s always more intriguing when the participating bands typically rely on extreme volume. After all, who would you be more fascinated to see without amplification: Black Sabbath or Bread? The Melvins or Jewel? That should explain the impetus beh...[MORE]

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

By Gilbert Garcia

Published: 5/27/2009

Types: Music

In ska terms, SA band Channel One qualifies as a local supergroup. The sextet formed two years ago when former Resistors Gerald Hooper, Laith Fisk, and Jeremy “Germ” Garza joined forces with former Spies Like Us guitarist Jason Trevino. Hooper, a former Columbia and RCA Records employee, views ...[MORE]

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

By Gilbert Garcia

Published: 5/20/2009

Types: Music

If you’ve ever wondered what Minor Threat would have sounded like with bagpipes and mandolin, Flatfoot 56 might not provide a satisfactory answer, but this Celt-obsessed Chicago Oi! punk quartet probably gets as close as you’re liable to find in this lifetime. With rampaging anthems such as “Ci...[MORE]

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

By Gilbert Garcia

Published: 5/13/2009

Types: Music

SA band the Blend? has based its sound on the improvisational, psychedelicized blues of the late ’60s, which singer-guitarist Marc Smith suggests has been a necessity as much as an aesthetic choice: For most of the group’s history, Smith attended Texas A&M University and drove three hours to San...[MORE]

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

By Gilbert Garcia

Published: 4/29/2009

Types: Music

Hardcore heroes Lie and Wait have decided to split up while they’re still in full possession of their raging bile, and the SA band will play their final show on Friday, May 1, at the Ten Eleven, formerly known as the Warhol. Over the last four years, L&W cranked out two EPs, two split singl...[MORE]

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

By Gilbert Garcia

Published: 4/15/2009

Types: Music

Although they’re based in Ypsilanti, Michigan, the brutal hard-rock quintet Chapstik has deep SA roots. Vocalist-guitarist Leighton Mann put the original lineup together here in 1994, with Kick It! beatmaster Ernesto Olivo on drums. Even after moving to Michigan, he maintained a long-distance, free-...[MORE]

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

By Gilbert Garcia

Published: 4/8/2009

Types: Music

It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly four years since Taco Land owner/icon Ram Ayala was killed at his own club. Both Ayala and his bar represented freedom from self-consciousness (or genre restrictions) and an unabashed devotion to good times, and Saustex Media’s Jeff Smith continues to honor that...[MORE]