We were surprised when we heard that Three Dog Night is going to perform at Carlos ‘n Charlie’s on Saturday, May 14. Mostly because we didn’t even know they were still around, and also because they’re playing with the Lake Travis High School Jazz Ensemble. So if you’re feeling lonely Saturday night (one is the loneliest number) and you’ve got a shitload of money lying around, why not cruise out to Lake Travis to check it out. The show starts at 8 and tickets are $45 (Proceeds benefit students & teachers of Lake Travis Independent School District), oh and its also 21 and up (but who under 21 knows who Three Dog Night is anyway?).

Venue Info [C ‘n C]
Band Info [Threedognight.com]
Buy Tix Online [Star Tickets]

News Flash! You can check out the electronic dance party madness that is Ghostland Observatory at the release party for their new album “delete.delete.i.eat.meat” this Saturday upstairs at the Ritz. Apparently for $10 you get in and you get a copy of the CD. Sweeeeeeeeet. Bring your dancing shoes.
Austinist also has an excellent interview up with the Indierect superstars themselves, link below.

Ghostland Observatory Interview [Austinist]
Band Website [Ghostlandobservatory.com]
Venue Location [Google Maps]

We just about flipped our shit when we heard that KVRX was going to be throwing a Prom. This is what high-school Prom should have been like. Great music, spiked punch, a professional photographer, special-guest chaperones, and baby blue tuxedos. But the administration always saw to it that none of the above ever went down, so thank you KVRX for making our dreams come true. The Prom is Saturday, May 7 (right after class ends) at Iron Gate Studios at 8pm. Austin’s own self-descriptive dance band Clap! Clap! will be providing tunes, and it will only cost you $5. Better start booking your limo and hotel rooms.

Description [KVRX]
Event Details, Directions [Irongatestudios.org]
Clap! Clap! [Clap-clap.com]

From this week’s Chronicle:

“‘With the Disney-fication of Sixth Street, we’ve had live [original] music venues get outpriced and move onto Red River,’ says Wickham. ‘And the bars that are on Red River right now, we’ve survived the economic downturns that have happened over the last three or four years. We’ve survived poor city planning that put a homeless shelter right across the street from my bar. And yet this smoking ordinance threatens me in a way that poor city planning and economic downturns never could. That’s the concern.

‘This is something real, and quite frankly, all the live music venues and all of the bands I’ve talked to, we’re scared. There are no two ways about it. I’m not going to lie and say we think we can beat this thing. We’re scared. We’re really scared. This is going to change not only our business but what Austin is to everybody who comes here, and the only thing we can do about it is try to better inform people right now.’”

The Austin City Limits Festival organizers are going to try to do something about the massive crowds that have been showing up the past couple years. This means that there will be less tickets available, 10,000 less to be exact. So to prevent being one of those 10,000 that would have gotten a ticket you should know that three-day passes go on sale tomorrow: Friday, April 15. Hopefully you make more money than you did last year too, because the starting prices have risen $15 (Inflation?). $85 will get you a three-day pass (day passes will go on sale this summer). And when the first allotment of tickets runs out (which probably shouldn’t take too long) you can expect that price to go up again.
Of course they aren’t releasing the lineup until May 5, so you’ll just have to go on faith that they’ll get some good acts. Organizers are also planning to stagger the headliners more so there won’t be a huge traffic jam when everyone leaves. I’ll believe that when I see it.

Buy Pass Online [austincitylimits.com]

If you like reggae music and you havn’t checked out Austin’s annual Bob Marley festival, then you must be really really stoned.
The festival is this weekend, April 16 and 17, at Auditorium Shores. Tickets are $7 for one day or $10 for both days. But make sure you bring two cans of food to donate to the Capital Area Food Bank. As usual, there are tons of reggae bands playing, and of course the wonderful smell of pot mixed with B.O.

More Info [austinmarleyfest.com]

Friday 4/29, The Parish
The guys from Okkervil River will soon be home from their tour with The Decemberists (and what a tour it was). And they’ll be right back on the road before long, this time with Los Angeles based indie-act Earlimart. And you better catch a show before they leave. They will be celebrating the recent (April 5) release of their new album Black Sheep Boy at The Parish on Sixth Street. Earlimart will be there as well to kick off their tour right here in Austin, so it should be a good show.

Advance tickets go for $10, a marginal discount off the $12 door price. Doors at 9pm, show at 10.

Event and Venue Details [theparishroom.com]
Okkervil River [okkervilriver.com]
Earlimart [earlimartmusic.com]
Buy Black Sheep Boy [scdistribution.com]