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Photo by Steve Souza / Courtesy of Concourse Project
Seismic dance event
The Concourse project, from Friday 12 to Sunday 14
This is the fourth annual seismic dance event and, for the Austin dance community, it is a coup.
On Friday, head to the Frequency stage for some bouncy, spirited house bass. On stage Volcano, the New York synaesthete Öona Dahl is an exciting first wildcard followed by her comrades from the Anjunadeep label bringing the trance before a live set by the German experimenter Stephan Bodzin, perfectly linking the slamming techno of the Belgian Amelie Lens. House and tech house fans are heading to Tsunami for British superstar Jamie Jones and shiny plague-masked German producer Claptone.
On Saturday, techno fans stay on the Volcano stage for essential blowouts from Detroit icon (seriously) Carl Craig, Swede Ida Engberg and Brazilian Anna. Stage Tsunami becomes the home of the bass for the day (think garage and funky house love child), with the Frequency range featuring darker and darker sets to culminate in the Middle Eastern inspired sounds of the Bedouin duo from Brooklyn and a DJ. Bonobo set.
Sunday’s tsunami scene is arguably the best of the festival. Detroit’s Seth Troxler greets a live set from Booka Shade, topped off with a two-hour appearance by Black Coffee from South Africa. Stage Volcano gives more trance, enveloping with a live set of the Berlin techno business duo Pan-Pot, then anyone (ghetto? Trance? Hardcore?) Of the unpredictable Russian jockey / producer Nina Kraviz.-Christine Garcia
Jazz in St. James’
St. James Episcopal Church, Friday 12 – Sunday 14
Headed by Church on Monday frontman Elias Haslanger, the 27th annual St. David’s Jazz Festival honors a pair of beloved ATX swingers. On Friday sax guitarist Mitch Watkins, trombonist Andre Hayward and Austin legend Dr James Polk will pay tribute to recently deceased CoM drummer Scott Laningham, while Saturday Haslanger, Hayward, ivory tickler Eddy Hozibal and others wink at late pianist / composer Rich Harney. . That night, Monks Jazz founder Collin Shook received the AD Mannion Award for keeping local jazz healthy throughout the pandemic with live broadcasts from his club. Haslanger attends Sunday Jazz Mass. – Michael Toland
Afterglow Sessions with Madison Baker, Tiarra Girls
Mohawk, Saturday the 13th
Latin grooves, singer-songwriter acoustics, soulful meditations, and electronic pop beats all take shelter from the cold in the warmth of Mohawk’s indoor stage. Tiffany, Tori and Sophia Baltierra merge reggae grooves and girl group harmonies into bilingual feminist hymns like the Tiarra Girls, while Dan Petra offers quiet soul-searching with their guitar. As a solo artist, Blumoon singer Kendra Sells raises her band’s neo-soul sound bar with experiments with drum loops, synths and guitar fuzz. Madison Baker, on the other hand, relishes the slow and heavy atmospheres of modern pop. A program as eclectic as the music magazine that organizes it. – Carys Anderson
Feels so good fest
Fine gentlemen from the south, Saturday the 13th
A dozen artists and over 20 vendors gather at the headquarters of the extraordinary screen printing artists, Fine Southern Gentlemen, also behind Feels So Good Records. Deemed “The Freestyle King” by DJ Screw, Houston hip-hop mainstay Lil ‘Flip brings “Sunshine” alongside local rappers The Teeta, fresh off a dynamic debut at ACL Fest with DJ Joaqu. n, and the decadent delights of Ladi Earth, Sailor Poon, and Big Bill promise nodding punk excellence, not to mention the psychedelic sounds of Sheverb, Crypt Trip, White Dog, and more. The festival is launching a new volume of Pozer Magazine, focused on women who drive their own motorcycles, vans and classic cars. – Rachel Rascoe
Susannah Joffe, the irons
Antone, Sunday 14
Young blood arrives in the blues crooner’s corral. The pop dream of a sad girl, Susannah Joffe, spews melancholy in the late September song “My California”, pulling the strings of every acoustic guitar. The aspiring Irons quartet stream bedroom distortions into a soul spoon through the weeklong single “Get Real Tough” spouting youthful struggles to a rhythm of bounce and optimism. Photokem, five pieces of soft rock, arrives with its 2021 EP Like riding a bike in the mud, a 13-minute serenade that pours rich voices like sipping Cognac through your ears. Straight out of Lone Star’s teenage heart, easy riders. – Mars Salazar
Amigo the devil
Scoot Inn, Tuesday 16
Here is the sensitive gravedigger. The macabre folk shovel of Florida-raised Austin resident Amigo the Devil broke new ground in April with a stellar sophomore plateau Born against, featuring several moving thoughts on death: The Banjo Led Anthem, Can’t Take It With You “24K Casket” and the reflective “Another Man’s Grave” in which titular Danny Kiranos compares life to a sewer: “We get what we put in it“- though the acoustic musician’s most visceral moment comes with” Different Anymore, “where his sweet, emotional voice emanates. Openings include IV & the Strange Band, led by Hank3’s son Coleman Williams. – Kevin Curtin
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