Live music review: Hacienda packed in fans at Blackheart for 101X Homegrown

Hacienda (San Antonio) is one of those bands our musician friends and fellow writers have been telling Examiner we should see live. Fast forward a year and half later and we have yet to see Hacienda perform. The buildup of hype in our minds before Friday was evident in our apprehension. We wanted the band that backed Dan Auerbach... Continue reading at Examiner.com

Live music preview: Fear and Loathing in Hotel Vegas and Hacienda at Blackheart

Austin music fans should feel like it is Christmas even though it is middle of summer because there is not one, but two free shows of note this week. The first happens tonight when Fear and Loathing in Hotel Vegas takes over not just HV, but the Volstead Lounge next door. The second, is Hacienda on Friday at new Rainey Street bar, Blackheart. The Hotel Vegas event will feature Christian Bland of the Black Angels with his band, the Revelators.


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Live music preview: Dwight Yoakam slated for ACL Live performance Thursday

Dwight Yoakam is not your typical country music performer. Like Johnny Cash who was recently memorialized at ACL Live, Yoakam gravitated towards the rock n' roll, punk attitude while many of his contemporaries were singing urban pop country. One could safely say that the headliner at ACL Live at the Moody Theater Thursday (and Friday) is an indie artist at heart who cut his teeth on the organic punk scene in Los Angeles of the 1980s.


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Live Music Preview: Win tickets to Suite 709 album release party at Antone's

In Austin, where musicians proliferate like actors in Los Angeles, presenting something audiences have not seen before is a challenge. Local R&B, rock and world music upstarts Suite 709 is an act that has effectively developed their own sound that separates the band from the flock of groups clamoring for attention in Central Texas. Suite 709 wants you, loyal Austin Concerts Examiner reader, to be their guest this Saturday for their album release party at the legendary Antone's Nightclub downtown.
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