BEST BETS: THIS WEEK IN AUSTIN – JANUARY 3-JANUARY 9, 2013

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BEST BETS: THIS WEEK IN AUSTIN – JANUARY 3-JANUARY 9, 2013

AUSTIN FREE WEEK 2013 – “NO COVER, NO EXCUSES!”

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Antone’s: Darren Hoff & the Hard Times, Mayeux & Broussard, These Mad Dogs of Glory, Jack Wilson – FREE WEEK SHOW

Cheatham Street Warehouse: Randy Rogers

Club DeVille: Electric Attitude, Dead Peasants, Fever Bones, Voluptuous Neighbors, the Train Wrecks, Korkus, Gabe Hascall – FREE WEEK SHOW

The Continental Club: Ben Kweller, The Whiskey Sisters, Dan Goebel

The Continental Club Gallery: Tameca Jones, Dan Dyer

Holy Mountain: Hydra Melody, Megafauna, O Conqueror, the Baker Family, Featherface – FREE WEEK SHOW

The Mohawk: Whalers, ((Sounder)), Guns of Navarone, 10YR, Les Rav, Black Books, End Wave, the Harms – FREE WEEK SHOW

The Rattle Inn: Silas Lowe

Ruth’s Chris Steak House: Jeff Lofton Trio

Strange Brew: Garrett LeBeau & the Working Man’s Revival, Van Wilks

Swan Dive: La Guerrilla, Suns of Orpheus, Afrofreque, Money Chicha

Friday, January 4, 2013

The Blackheart: Borrisokane, Politics, Mike & the Moonpies, These Mad Dogs of Glory, Black Owl Society

Club DeVille: The EarthTone Players, ThinkNoThink, the Preservation, Superlite Bike, Alkari, Scorpio Rising, Blind Tactic – FREE WEEK SHOW

Emo’s: Ume, the Calm Blue Sea, the Black & White Years, My Jerusalem, Soft Swells

Flamingo Cantina: Los Skarnales, Este Vato, Cinco Doce, Los Banditos Cosmicos – FREE WEEK SHOW

Gruene Hall (Gruene, TX): The Jeff Strahan Band, Slim Bawb

The Mohawk: The Ugly Beats, Bobby Jealousy, the Ripe, Sip Sip, Mixed Use Media, the Laughing – FREE WEEK SHOW

The Saxon Pub: Jake Levinson, Lennings, Johnny Nicholas, Denny Freeman

Saturday, January 5, 2013

Antone’s: Soul Track Mind, Hard Proof Afrobeat, Larry Gee

Beerland: The Crack Pipes, Dikes of Holland, John Schooley’s One Man Band, Church Shoes – FREE WEEK SHOW

Club DeVille: The Blind Owls, Obscured by Echoes, Mighty Mountain, Texas Never Whispers, the Gents, Tump, Microphonic – FREE WEEK SHOW

Flamingo Cantina: Afrofreque, Canastica!, Foot Patrol, LZ Love – FREE WEEK SHOW

Gruene Hall (Gruene, TX): The Gourds, Bo Phillips

Holy Mountain: Hardproof Afrobeat, East Cameron Folkcore, the Lost Counts, Mirror Travel, Mrs. Glass – FREE WEEK SHOW

The Mohawk: Sphynx, Native America, Ghostbunny, Waldo & the Naturals, Lomelda, Marmalakes, Whiskey Shivers, Cartright, Little Lo – FREE WEEK SHOW

One-2-One Bar: Baby Atlas, the Karl Morgan Band, Carson Brock & the Effect

Red 7: Eagle Claw, Fleshlights, Tia Carrera, Woodgrain, Crooked Bangs, My Education, Smoke & Feathers, Megafauna, Sweat Lodge, Megabi – FREE WEEK SHOW

The Saxon Pub: Bracken Hale, the Bobby Whitlock & Coco Carmel Band, the South Austin Moonlighters, Wounded City

Stubb’s BBQ: Vallejo, Vitera, Patricia Vonne – FREE WEEK SHOW

The White Horse: Josh Lightnin’ & the Lonestar Drifters, the Carper Family, Wood & Wire

Sunday, January 6, 2013

Antone’s: David Holt, Van Wilks, Colin Brooks, Luke George, Nathan Fleming, David Moerbe, Robbie Venturini

Central Presbyterian Church: Guster

Club DeVille: Classy Nude, Your Boyfriends, Oyster Catcher, Royal Forrest, the Dead Left, Heart & Soul Sound System – FREE WEEK SHOW

The Continental Club: Junior Brown & the Lovely Tanya Rae, Planet Casper, Heybale!

The Continental Club Gallery: Dupree, Jon Dee Graham and Friends

Holy Mountain: Ancient VVisdom, Headress, La Migra, Camp X-Ray, Commununion, Sweat – FREE WEEK SHOW

The Saxon Pub: Dustin Welch, Resentments, the South Austin Moonlighters, the Texas K.G.B.

Strange Brew: The Matt Butler Quartet, Jeff Plankenhorn, Jon Dee Graham, Scrappy Jud Newcomb, Brannen Temple, Jeff Lofton

Monday, January 7, 2013

The Continental Club: Dale Watson & His Lone Stars, The Peterson Brothers

The Continental Club Gallery: The Marshall Hood Band, Church on Monday

Flipnotics: The Bluegrass Outfit, Bottom Dollar String Band

Holy Mountain: Language Room, Holiday Mountain, Les RAV, Migrant – FREE WEEK SHOW

The Mohawk: Ink Blot, Opposite Day, Oak Is Keeping, Diesel Is Dixie – FREE WEEK SHOW

The Saxon Pub: James Bullard, the Leavers, Bob Schneider’s “Lonelyland,” Edison Chair

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Club DeVille: Holiday Mountain, Kingdom of Suicide Lovers, Videoing, Suspirians, the Del Vipers, the Dead Space, Manikin – FREE WEEK SHOW

The Continental Club: Toni Price, Hard Proof Afrobeat, Barfield, The Tyrant

The Continental Club Gallery: Ephraim Owens, James McMurtry

Holy Mountain: Grape Street, Golden Boys, Shivery Shakes, Broken Gold, Gentleman Rogues – FREE WEEK SHOW

Hotel Vegas: Elaine Greer, Frank Smith, Will Cope, Bitter Birds

The Mohawk: My Empty Phantom, Knifight – FREE WEEK SHOW

The Rattle Inn: James Hyland & the Joint Chiefs

Strange Brew: Durawa, The Apostles of Manchaca

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Beerland: Trip Crystals, Bloody Knives, Air Traffic Controllers, Salted – FREE WEEK SHOW

Club DeVille: Eets Feats, Corpus Gold, Tijuana Bible, the Astronaut Suit, ukemi, Baby Robots, Scan Hopper – FREE WEEK SHOW

The Continental Club: James McMurtry, Jon Dee Graham, the Jitterbug Vipers

The Continental Club Gallery: Trube, Farrell & Snizz, Barbara K

Gruene Hall (Gruene, TX): Warren Hood, Casper Rawls, Marvin Dykhuis

The Hole in the Wall: Texas Tycoons, the Sweet Nuthin’, Elijah Ford & the Bloom

The Parish: Shakey Graves

The Rattle Inn: Shinyribs

The Saxon Pub: Bad Intentions, Amanda Cevallos, Sis Deville, Johnny Nicholas & Hellbent with Cindy Cashdollar