event Derek O'Brien

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• Mar 19
  • SXSW: April Smith And The Great Picture Show + Family Of The Year, Fanfarlo, Treetop Flyers, John Smith The Ale House, 8 p.m.

    Chamber-pop rarely proves confrontational, but Fanfarlo’s version goes down easier than most. That’s ...

    SXSW: Liars + Shearwater, Quasi, Basia Bulat, Plants And Animals, Lost In The Trees, Danny Barnes Antone's, 8 p.m.
    SXSW: Wolfgang Gartner + Felix Cartal, LA Riots, Congorock, Hussle Club, Bird Peterson, Harvard Bass, 12th Planet Aces Lounge, 8 p.m.
• Mar 20
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    Never Shout Never, Sum 41, Circa Survive, and The Rocket Summer Emo's, noon

    In case the eternal optimism of his alias isn’t a tip-off, Never Shout Never ...

    The Broderick, Frank And Derol, Lady Danville, Yula Berri, Still Time, Abe Vigoda, and The Lonely Forest Flamingo Cantina, noon
    The Rocky Horror Picture Show Alamo Drafthouse Village, 11:55 p.m.
• Mar 21
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    High Times Magazine Doobie Awards Emo's, noon

    Cypress Hill frontman B-Real dropped his first solo album, Smoke N Mirrors, in the early ...

    Spells, The Stuffies, Terrible Twos, Dikes Of Holland, Love Collector, Digital Leather, and Moth Fight Beerland, 10 p.m.
    Alejandro Escovedo and Dan Miller Continental Club, 10 p.m.
• Mar 22
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    Wale, PRGz, Camp Lo, Big Sean, and Shawn Chrystopher Aces Lounge, 8 p.m.

    Wale's clever wordplay and polymathic samples have garnered him quite a cult following. After ...

• Mar 23
  • The Ganjas, Intimate Stranger, Casino, L. Stadt, and Funky C The Parish, 8 p.m.

    Effortlessly transplanting the we-opened-for-Oasis, arena-destroying swagger of his former IV Thieves project, immigrant Englishman Glynn ...

    Gilberto Gil UT Hogg Memorial Auditorium, 8 p.m.
• Mar 24
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    Pee-wee's Big Adventure Quote-Along Alamo Drafthouse Village, 10:30 p.m.

    Defined by the cartoonish personality of Paul Reubens’ character, the funhouse music of Danny Elfman ...

    James McMurtry and Jon Dee Graham Continental Club, 10:30 p.m.
    Dale Watson Broken Spoke, 9 p.m.
• Mar 25
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    Clipse, Kevin Jack, Vonnegut, and The League Of Extraordinary G'z Aces Lounge, 9 p.m.

    Minus some early-career Billboard chart success, Virginia-based rappers Clipse have mostly eluded the mainstream spotlight ...

    Red X Red M, The Gary, and Scan Hopper Emo's Jr., 10 p.m.
    AFF Presents: Bring It On + Jessica Bendinger Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, 7:30 p.m.