Comedian Demetri Martin is heading out on tour in March and will hit Scottish Rite Theater in Austin twice on April 4th. Tickets are still available for both the early and late show. All dates are listed below...

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The Residents @ Scottish Rite - 1/31/2013

The Residents have been bringing their particular art to audiences for more than four decades, and are currently on the aptly-named Wonder of the Weird Tour. That tour hit Austin's Scottish Rite Theater on 1/31 where it brought a bit of warped Christmas-y eccentricity for those who didn't get enough the month previous. For more pics from the show, head to BrooklynVegan.

As discussed, Dana Falconberry's BVAustin-presented Leelanau release party is happening later today at The Scottish Rite Theater (tickets). Check out the video flyer, one of the new songs, and more details below.

And, as Dana pointed out, it's National Taco Day! Go eat some before the show, but get there in time for Marmalakes and Good Field. See you there!

Meanwhile you can hear the whole album streaming over at SPIN.

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Dana Falconberry @ Frontier Bar - 9/9/2012

Dana Falconberry's new album, Leelanau, is coming out on October 9. As we mentioned previously, the release party is this week at The Scottish Rite Theater on Thursday (10/4). KUT and BVAustin will be presenting the show and tickets are available now.

She'll be accompanied for the performance by the Tosca String Quartet and Elaine Barber on harp, with special guests Marmalakes and Good Field.

After the party she'll be headed up to Dallas, hitting the road with My Jerusalem through the first half of October. Besides both being from Austin, the two bands have more in common: My Jerusalem's album Preachers also comes out October 9.

The second half of the month has her touring with fellow Austinites Heartless Bastards, as well as Futurebirds (who are from R.E.M.'s hometown of Athens, GA).

Back in early September Lucy The Poodle presented a free show featuring Dana at Frontier Bar with Silver Ships, Eliza Rickman, and Technicolor Hearts (who will be at CMJ this year with BVAustin for The Texas Takeover Party). Unpublished pictures from the Frontier Bar show are in this post.

See more pictures from all of the bands from the September show, along with Dana's upcoming tour dates below.

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Dana Falconberry 'Leelanau' Release Party @ Scottish Rite Theater

We are very excited to announce Dana Falconberry's album release party for 'Leelanau' at Austin's Scottish Rite Theater on October 4 with Marmalakes and Good Field. BVAustin will be presenting the show along with our favorites KUT, and it should be a great one.

From the Facebook Event Page:

KUT and BrooklynVegan Austin present:
Dana Falconberry's Album Release Show (featuring Tosca String Quartet and Elaine Barber) with special guests Marmalakes and Good Field!

8pm - doors
9pm - Good Field
10pm - Marmalakes
11pm - Dana Falconberry featuring Tosca String Quartet and Elaine Barber on harp
Tickets - 10$ advance, 12$ door http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/276095

Come party with us in celebration of our new LP, Leelanau! This is gonna be the show of shows, y'all. Weeeeee!!

www.danafalconberry.com
www.marmalakes.com
www.goodfieldband.com
www.kut.org
BrooklynVegan.com/austin

poster by Dan Grissom!

Dana Falconberry will be performing with her usual suspects, and as it says above, the Tosca String Quartet will join along with Elaine Barber on harp. Having seen a few DF shows, we're very much looking forward to hearing the additional string section fill out her already-great arrangements.

Tickets are available now.

In other Dana news, she'll be at UTOPiAfest on Friday (9/28 at 4:45pm on the 'Cypress' stage) before heading to Marfa for her El Cosmico performance Saturday (9/29).

Check out Dana's Video for 'Lake Charlevoix' from her new album, along with a link to NPR's stream of 'Crooked River' below...

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Henry Rollins in NYC in 2011 (more by Tamara Porras)

Henry Rollins will be going on a spoken word tour later this year, which he's dubbed the "Capitalism Tour." The tour will kick off in early September, hitting the capitals of all 50 states, and ending in Washington, DC on November 5, the day before the Presidential election (11/6). That tour brings him to Texas's capital, Austin, for a show on September 23 at Scottish Rite Theater. Tickets for that show are on sale now. All dates are listed below.

Rollins recently spoke to TheIndependent.ca about his views on capitalism:

So what are you looking toward in terms of identifying root causes of the inequality that's in the world, and the reason why?

Oh, I think that's easy to nail down. I think it's deregulated capitalism. I think it's a crass and gross disregard for natural resources, and for making a more sustainable planet. Instead of going for solar panels people still have this idea that we have to keep drilling into the ground for resources. A long time ago (big) companies started very quietly taking over major water reserves, and they are in fact able to play God -- because he who has the water rules the day. Without water, it doesn't matter how blonde your hair is or how blue your eyes are, you're going to die.

And so I think there's been a very strong and quiet push to acquire water rights. A book called 'The End of Food' was very instructive to me, where I learned about Nestle, maybe one of the biggest food providers in the world, and how they control a lot of water. So I think capitalism--I have 10 'x' but 20 would be better. Now I have 50 'x', now I need 1,000 'x'. But when you live on one 'x' a century how come you need all the rest? Because I want it. And that kind of mindset -- it doesn't always lead to things that are good for people. And so there's gonna be winners and losers in this century, and there will be far fewer winners and far more losers with the present paradigm.

I mean, if people are satisfied with how this is going--if this is OK for them--this is the result you're going to get. And you can call that whatever you want. You can say, 'What, you're a socialist?' Well, I don't know, I like capitalism quite a bit actually, because it rewards me for thinking outside of the box. It rewards me for working hard, which is what I like to do. But when it has no rules and when the corporations can dictate the politics, there's no level playing field and there's gonna be, like I said, a few winners and a whole lotta losers. And a lot of the losers are global, you know. Africa -- the continent will probably be the number one loser.

All dates of the "Capitalism Tour" are listed below...

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Reggie Watts and his considerable coiffure @ The Scottish Rite Theatre

Comedian, musician, genius Reggie Watts (whose gadgets were just profiled on Gizmodo), stopped by Austin on his tour for two nights at Scottish Rite Theater (5/26 and 5/27). More pictures of Reggie from the sold-out night one below...

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Funny NYC comeedy great Todd Barry will hit the road in May leading up to his performance at the Gorge for the 2012 Sasquatch Festival on May 26. Along the way he visits The Korova in San Antonio, Sones of Hermann Hall in Dallas, and Scottish Rite Theater in Austin on May 18th. Tickets are on sale now for the latter. All dates are listed below...

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Quintron & Miss Pussycat at Emo's last year (more by Tim Griffin)

After cancelling their massive tour last year, Quintron & Miss Pussycat will make up for it with a massive set of tour dates that will last three months this year. The husband-wife duo will land in Austin on June 16th at Scottish Rite Theater, where they'll meet up with Dent May. Ticketing info is forthcoming.

While Quintron & Miss Pussycat are still touring off of their Sucre Du Sauvage LP, Dent May is preparing to release a new LP in Do Things via Paw Tracks. Look for that LP on June 13th or preorder it now, and stream the new single "Best Friend" below.

All tour dates and other stuff, below...

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Reggie Watts getting his picture taken @ SXSW (photo by jesshallett)

Speaking of handsome comedians that were at SXSW and also ROCK, the great Reggie Watts just announced a tour that brings the afro'd one back to Austin on May 26 at Scottish Rite Theater. Tickets are on sale.

Reggie Watts is also on the just-announced lineup of comedians that will be at Bonnaroo this year. Others are Aziz Ansari, Steven Wright, Marc Maron, Brian Posehn, Judah Freidlander, Rhys Darby, Colin Hay, Garfunkle & Oats, Amy Schumer, Pete Holmes, Rory Scovel, Mike O' Connell, Ali Wong, and Kyle Kinane.

Some of those other comedians were also at SXSW, and some will be in Austin in April for Moontower.