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Turquoise Jeep @ Red 7 - 5/4/2013

Turquoise Jeep, who are no strangers for taking their show off YouTube and onto the road, brought their tour through Austin for a show at Red 7 on May 4 with Kosha Dillz. Pictures of all the smashin' and bangin' are in this post.

More below...

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photos by Kevin Figueroa

Beach Fossil @ Old Emo's

Beach Fossils closed down the Jr stage at the Thursday BrooklynVegan Day Party at old Emo's during SXSW. We posted some pictures of their set. Here are some more, along with a chance to win tickets to see the band play again in Austin at Red 7 on April 17 with Foreign Mothers. Contest details, more tour dates, and pictures of Beach Fossils from the BV party, below...

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James Murphy on the S.S. Coachella (more by Greg Cristman)

Learning Secrets has just announced that James Murphy is coming to Austin on April 12 at Red 7 for what's being called a "Special Evening with James Murphy and Learning Secrets." He'll be spinning a DJ set which will no doubt keep things lively. Tickets are on sale now.

If you'd like to go for free we've got a pair of tickets to give away. Details are below.

Meanwhile, Murphy's getting ready to celebrate DFA Records' birthday with a huge Red Bull Music Academy show in Brooklyn in May.

Flyer from the event announcement and some videos from James' previous gigs below...

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Bleached, Hunters, and Flesh Lights coming to Red 7 on 4/12

As we mentioned over on Brooklynvegan, Bleached are heading out on tour with Hunters. Both bands, who were just here for SXSW, will be stopping by Red 7 on 4/12. Tickets to the Austin show with Flesh Lights are on sale.

Bleached's debut album, Ride Your Heart comes out on Saturday April 2 via Dead Oceans. Hunters just announced that they've signed to Mom + Pop.

Full tour details, including Club Dada in Dallas, below...

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Future Islands @ Red 7 - 11/11/2012

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Ceremony at FYF 2012 (more by )

BrooklynVegan is hosting one of the many Fun Fun Fun Nite shows happening this weekend as part of FFF Fest, and ours is at Red 7 on Sunday (11/4). We're on Red 7's outdoor stage with a lineup that veers a little more to the punk side of things with Old Poets (10 PM), Violent Bullshit (10:45), Bleached (11:30) and Ceremony (12:15 AM).

Meanwhile you can also wander into Red 7's indoor stage which has a mostly-metal line-up with Burnt Skull (9:30), Venomous Maximus (10:15), Wet Lungs (11 PM), Skycrawler (11:45) and post-punkers, Camp X-Ray (12:45 AM).

The show is free with your weekend or Sunday FFF wristband, first come first served based on capacity. More details at FFF's website. See you there!

Free Transmission Events' Shows During ACL

While Fun Fun Fun Fest Nites is still weeks away, Transmission Events is bringing some FREE show fun during ACL. As per a recent tweet, they are doing it out of love:

For some great shows to keep things going long into the night during ACL on the cheap (FREE!), check out the full listings below.

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Merchandise in Chicago @ Mousetrap - 4/25/2012 (more by Jimmy Farabi)

Tampa's Merchandise (recent BV favorites) are out on tour, and will be at CMJ later this October from the 17-20. This week they get to Denton, TX on October 2 (tonight), before hitting Red7 on Wednesday the 3rd.

They'll be headlining the inside stage with locals The Young and Thousand Foot Whale Claw. Tickets are available as of this posting.

Check out some videos, as well as Merchandise's remaining dates through CMJ, below.

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Ben Nichols @ Red 7 - 9/10/12

Ben Nichols, frontman for Lucero, came to Red 7 with Mike Herrera for the Bike Riders Southern Ride. Billed as "BIKERIDERS SOUTHERN RIDE... BEN NICHOLS SOLO TOUR! MUSIC, MOTORCYCLES AND TATTOOS!", it delivered on all three.

Herrera, best known for his bands MXPX and Tumbledown, opened the night and led the audience right to Nichols' door. Ben stepped through it, and as always when he's in Austin, he was at home.

After being introduced by Texas' own ink master Oliver Peck, Ben paused for a moment saying he had no idea [where to begin], which quickly got a call out from the audience for "100 Miles!". A quick glance and an "O.K." later he began. An hour and forty-five minutes flew by and it was done, with laughter, drinks, constant sing-alongs from the crowd, stage dives, and even a guest from the audience joining Ben for a song ('My Best Girl') to finish out the set.

The tour continues through Saturday 9/15, after which Ben rejoins Lucero for their world tour covering North America, Europe, The U.K., and Australia. Lucero will be back in Austin for Fun Fun Fun, and will close out the year in N.Y. and N.J.

More pictures from the show (with videos and tour dates, too) below....

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Jack Tatum of Wild Nothing @ Red 7 - 8/29/2012

On Tuesday (8/28), Wild Nothing released their latest album Nocturne (which you can stream here), and played Dallas. On Wednesday (8/29) they made their way to Red 7 in Austin to play a packed outside room with Boy Friend and Super Lite Bike.

Super Lite Bike kicked off the show, followed by Boy Friend (playing with Tiffanie Lanmon from Follow that Bird (now called Mirror Travel) on bass and drums.

Wild Nothing performed a 15-song set featuring many tracks off of their new album. They continue their tour through the end of the year, and will be hitting Tucson, AZ. next on Friday (8/31). Full list of tour dates are below.

See pictures of all three bands, an aluminum-foil bear sculpture, and Wild Nothing's set list below.

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Doors @ 9pm

Holy Wave
Cheap Curls
Fungi Girls
The Night Beats
The UFO Club (Christian Bland from BLACK ANGELS + Lee from NIGHT BEATS)

FREE!! w/ RSVP

Rock.

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Peelander-Z at the Great Googamooga, NYC May 2012 (more by Chris La Putt)

Japanese outerspace superhero punk band Peelander-Z have a couple Austin shows coming up: July 13 they'll be performing a special acoustic show at Guzu Gallery which will be displaying Peelander Yellow's art. The opening happens from 8 - 10PM and is free. The next night (7/14), Peelander-Z in full-on electric form will play Red 7 with Ghost Knife, The Biters and Neon Cobra. Tickets are still available.

Peelander-Z are releasing a new single from their Space Vacation album -- "Get Glasses" -- and you which you can download over at BV as well as enter a contest to win P-Z sunglasses and other fun stuff. Flyer for the Guzu Gallery show is below.

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Tragedy @ Red 7 - 5/4/2012

Portland d-beat greats Tragedy go in a slightly different, sludgier direction with Darker Days Ahead, the band's new and semi-suprise Billy Anderson-produced LP out now at your nearest merch table. The band is currently road-testing that material at dates across the US and Austin was the guinea pig on May 4th at Red 7, when Tragedy joined Screaming Females, Impalers, and Criaturas. Pictures from the show adorn this post.

Much like Tragedy, Screaming Females are on a tour of their own that crossed paths with the ex-members of His Hero is Gone. SF guitarist Marissa Paternoster who was recently ranked #77 in SPIN's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Good for her, go to the shows, like Beauty Ballroom on June 1st, and watch her rip it.

More pictures of the bands from Red 7 below... With the exception of Criaturas - missed while covering over at Mohawk (sorry!).

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Frankie Rose @ Red 7 on 4/14

Frankie Rose rolled into town with Dive (who just changed their name to Diiv) to play Red 7 along with Cheap Curls (whose member Katie aka Bambi, like Frankie, is an ex-Dum Dum Girls member) & The Young (who just announced a lot of dates). Here are some pictures from the 4/14 show. More below...

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Dax Riggs @ Red7 on 4/21

On Saturday, 4/21 (which was also Record Store Day), Dax Riggs, who recently got a shout out by Shooter Jennings, performed at Red 7 with The Sour Notes (who you can catch again at ND Studios on 4/30) and Nazi Gold.

Pictures of Dax, who may or may not be planning an Acid Bath reunion, and The Sour Notes below...

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Burning Love (more by Meghan McInnis)

Let the lineup leaks begin! Canadian hardcore band Burning Love (featuring ex-Cursed vocalist) have revealed they'll be playing Fun Fun Fun Fest 2012 in November (hopefully with At the Drive-In) (and many others). Anyone else leaked yet? Let us know in the comments.

You don't have to wait that long to catch Burning Love though. The band will be touring around a bunch this year, and that includes a run this summer as part of a Southern Lord Summer tour with Black Breath, Martyrdod, and Enabler. That tour visits TX for three nights:

6/27/2012 Club Dada - Dallas, TX [tickets/info]
6/28/2012 Red 7 - Austin, TX [tickets/info]
6/29/2012 Walter's - Houston, TX [tickets/info]

All Southern Lord dates HERE, with even more Burning Love dates HERE.

The Men at Bowery Ballroom (more by BBG)

The Men have scheduled a string of US dates that will include a stop at Red 7 on June 20th before the band heads to Pitchfork Fest. Tickets are on sale for the Red 7 show with The Creamers. Full tour schedule, which also includes shows in El Paso and Beaumont, is below.

KEXP recently revealed full live performance from a Men set at Mellow Johnny's during SXSW. View that performance, which includes much of the new LP Open Your Heart (out now via Sacred Bones), below...

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At The Drive-In @ Red 7 (more by Tim Griffin)

A few videos people took at last night's show...

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Cedric Bixler-Zavala of At The Drive In @ RED 7 on 4/9

After an opening set by Zechs Marquise, At the Drive-In played their first show since 2001 (as it said on the show poster) at Red 7 in Austin last night (4/9). It was also the first in a series of pre-Coachella warm up shows that continue in Dallas (tonight) and then Marfa.

According to show promoter Transmission Entertainment, the surprise gig sold out in 11 minutes after being announced via Twitter the other day. In addition to all those packed inside, there were many listening from the alley outside. Though some complained that Omar Rodriguez Lopez seemed a bit out of it (update: his mother recently passed away), the band was generally high energy with Cedric hanging from the rafters of the newly refurbished club, and the crowd going insane. If you haven't seen it already, take a look at the setlist, along with more pictures from the Austin reunion show, below....

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Walk away from the internet for an hour... and this happens!

At The Drive-In now have two Texas show scheduled before Coachella, one in Marfa, and one at Red 7 in Austin on MONDAY (4/9). Who got tix?

Carson Daly on stage w/ The Oh Sees @ Red 7 (photo by William Osceola)

As usual Thee Oh Sees played tons of shows while in Austin for SXSW. One of them was a showcase at Red 7 put on by Carson Daly. The host joined the band on drums for their set-closer,"Dead Energy." See video of the whole set (Carson comes in at 20:25), below...

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Spoon @ Fun Fun Fun Fest 2011 (more by Tim Griffin)

SPOON

APR 11 @ Red 7 in Austin, TX
APR 12 @ Granada Theater in Dallas, TX
APR 13 @ House of Blues in Houston, TX

And it looks like this:

RED 7 PATIO ON WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14
8:00PM Roll The Tanks
9:00PM Thee Oh Sees
10:00PM Tennis
11:00PM Lee Fields & The Expressions
12:00AM Bomba Estereo
1:00AM Cults

Red 7 (taken during Free Week) (more by Tim Griffin)

The club clears up some rumors. In their own words:

All of us here at Red 7 are flattered to know we're the occasional source of gossip. I mean, we get it. We closed down for a few weeks in December, threw in a couple of Playstations and some minor repairs, and now people are assuming we're leaving town just because Emo's moved off the block.

Well, I'm sad Emo's left downtown. A lot of us cut our teeth there, and it was a great venue that helped shape Red River. So was Liberty Lunch.

At the same time, our friends at Beerland down the street just resigned their lease (long live Beerland!), The Mohawk is in the midst of building out a fancy new viewing deck and our neighbors at Empire Automotive have really been stepping it up on doing more live shows than before. We're excited to see a combination of new blood and old veterans investing their time, money and talent in this district, and we're even more excited to be a big part of it.

We don't have any plans on going anywhere. We aren't moving South of the River, and we aren't closing our doors. Why would we? Red River is one of the most important neighborhoods in Austin, and we're fighting to keep it here for the long haul. Starting with re-signing our lease.

In the meantime, we've made some improvements to the facilities and programming and have a lot of great shows (and a few surprises) in store for you in the near future, so stay tuned.

Speaking of Red 7, Frankie Rose and DIVE just announced a show there, and Braid is playing there during SXSW. Cloud Nothings play there later this month.