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Austin Ticket Giveaway: George Lopez at Bass Concert Hall

July 28, 2015 By Austin Vida Staff

George Lopez posterComedian George Lopez is bringing his new “Listen to My Face Tour” to Austin for one night at the Bass Concert Hall on Friday, July 31. The best part? We have a pair of tickets to giveaway to one of our lucky Austin Vida followers.

The giveaway will be conducted via Twitter. First, make sure to follow Austin Vida on Twitter HERE. You must be a follower. Second, as a follower, look for the George Lopez promo poster you see to the left in our Twitter feed with the accompanying text.

RT for a chance to win a pair of tickets to see @georgelopez from @austinvida. Details here:http://tinyurl.com/qxqqqpx

When you see it, retweet it from our page. That retweet from our Twitter page, along with being a follower of Austin Vida on Twitter, will be your entry in our drawing. One winner be randomly selected and notified on Thursday, July 30, via Twitter’s direct message from Austin Vida.

Bass Concert Hall is located at 2350 Robert Dedman Dr. 18+ welcome as show is for mature audiences only. 8 p.m. Parking information here. Advance tickets are available for purchase online here.

Filed Under: Entertainment, Giveaways, Slider Tagged With: bass concert hall, comedy, george lopez, ticket giveaway

Austin Ticket Giveaway: Dengue Dengue Dengue! at Empire Control Room & Garage

July 26, 2015 By Austin Vida Staff

Dengue posterIf Dengue Dengue Dengue’s unique take on Peruvian cumbia filtered through psychedelic techno and dancehall riddims was what first caught the world’s attention, it’s their ability to keep adding new rhythms and influences to their colorful sound that has confirmed them as one of the most inspiring acts of the Global Club Music scene.

On Thursday, Aug. 6, Dengue Dengue Dengue! will be performing a headlining concert in Austin at Empire Control Room & Garage. Austin’s DJ Orión of Peligrosa supports. The best part? We have two general admission tickets to giveaway to one of our lucky Austin Vida readers.

The giveaway will be conducted as a raffle from our email list. Just click “enter the drawing” below after submitting your full name and email address. Only submissions with full names will be officially entered. We will pick the winner from these submissions before 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 5, the day before the show. The winner will be notified via email from Austin Vida.

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Empire Control Room & Garage is located at 606 E. 7th Street. Doors open at 8 p.m. 18+ are welcome. Concert presented by HE^RD and Peligrosa. Advance tickets for this event are available for purchase online here.

Dengue Dengue Dengue!

DJ Orión

Filed Under: Giveaways, Music, Slider Tagged With: dengue dengue dengue, dj orion, empire control room & garage, peru, ticket giveaway

Austin Ticket Giveaway: Los Lobos & Los Lonely Boys at ACL Live

April 2, 2015 By Austin Vida Staff

Los Lonely LobosOn Friday, Apr. 10, East L.A. legends Los Lobos and Texas’ own Los Lonely Boys will be performing a co-headlining concert in Austin at ACL Live. The best part? We have two tickets to giveaway to one of our lucky Austin Vida readers.

The giveaway will be conducted as a raffle from our email list. Just click “enter the drawing” below after submitting your full name and email address. Only submissions with full names will be officially entered. We will pick the winner from these submissions before 6 p.m. on Thursday, Apr. 9, the day before the show. The winner will be notified via email from Austin Vida.

ACL Live is located at 310 Willie Nelson Blvd. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Show at 8 p.m. all ages are welcome. Advance tickets for this event are available for purchase online here.

Los Lobos

Los Lonely Boys

Filed Under: Giveaways, Music, Slider Tagged With: acl live, los lobos, los lonely boys, ticket giveaway

Austin Ticket Giveaway: Compass (Mexican Institute of Sound + Toy Selectah) at Scoot Inn

March 26, 2015 By Austin Vida Staff

Compass promo
Mad Decent’s Toy Selectah with Camilo Lara, aka Mexican Institute of Sound, are collectively known as Compass.
Monterrey, Mexico music icon and producer Toy Selectah and Camilo Lara, more popularly known as Mexican Institute of Sound (MIS), came together last year to form a Latin Alternative super duo of sort. Collectively referring to themselves as the music moniker Compass, the two have worked diligently on the upcoming album due out this year. The album features more collaborations than you can count and is going to be supported with multiple tour dates and festival appearances.

On Saturday, Apr. 4, Compass will be performing a headlining concert in Austin at Scoot Inn. The concert is part of the Holiday Mountain residency who will open the show.  The best part? We have two tickets to giveaway to one of our lucky Austin Vida readers.

The giveaway will be conducted as a raffle from our email list. Just click “enter the drawing” below after submitting your full name and email address. Only submissions with full names will be officially entered. We will pick the winner from these submissions before 6 p.m. on Friday, Apr. 3, the day before the show. The winner will be notified via email from Austin Vida.

Scoot Inn is located at 1308 E. 4th Street. Doors open at 7 p.m. Show at 8 p.m. All ages are welcome. Advance tickets for this event are available for purchase online here.

Compass

Filed Under: Giveaways, Music, Slider Tagged With: compass, Mexican Institute of Sound, pachanga fest, scoot inn, ticket giveaway, toy selectah

Interview: QUITAPENAS made SXSW a little more tro-pi-cal

March 25, 2015 By Estefania de Leon

QUITAPENAS promo
QUITAPENAS Promo photo provided by Qvolé Collective.

The music of tropical Afro-Latin band QUITAPENAS is here to take all your worries away, which is exactly what their name means in Spanish – ‘Quita’ meaning taking away and ‘penas’ meaning embarrassments or worries.

“I feel like it’s very appropriate to what we are able to provide to people who come to our shows,” QUITAPENAS lead singer Hector Chavez said. “They come, they let loose, they dance, they meet new people and we just want them to leave our show feeling positive, feeling happy, feeling like things are going to be okay.”

The five-person band from Southern California formed in 2011. They’re Hector Chavez as lead vocals and on the sax, percussion and ukulele, Daniel Gomez on guitar, vocals and ukulele, Mark Villela on the guacharaca, backup vocals, David Quintero on tambora and campana, and Eduardo Valencia on the congas and percussion.

QUITAPENAS album cover
The self-titled release from QUITAPENAS is available now at https://quitapenas.bandcamp.com/.

QUITAPENAS released their first self-titled album in February. In 2013 they released an EP titled Más Tropical Vol 1.

Many of the band members are first-generation here in the United States and their parents are in the working class. Through their upbringing in California comes a message that focuses on the community and songs like “Valle Moreno” protest the social injustices.

“We see people in the community who work hard to try and win this for their kids,” Chavez said. “But it’s not in a negative way it’s in a positive way because we see people around us in a hustle, whatever they do, and that inspires us and motivates us to try and work as hard as our fans do.”

Chavez has also noticed that there are more people that are singing along to their songs when they perform.

“It’s given us more confidence,” Chavez said. “Not just confidence, but it was definitely a motivator. We weren’t too sure if we were going to keep going with it but we decided to work at it and we were able to do this album and we proved to ourselves that it is definitely possible to keep doing this.”

They are working on another album that they hope to finish by the end of the year to release early next year.
The style of music began mainly as cumbia but has since evolved to explore and incorporate other genres of music pulling inspiration from very parts of the world to create their interpretation of world dance music.

“For the rhythms and the beats we got inspiration from bowler music, music that was happening during the ’60s and ’70s,” Chavez said. “As far as the lyric content from our everyday lives and places we’ve lived in.”

For Chavez, the music QUITAPENAS is creating is bringing back a style that had been forgotten for a bit and is refreshing to the audience because it is a break from what is heard in the mainstream.

“We give them music that is different that people can enjoy with their entire family,” Chavez said. “There are kids dancing and older folks relate to the music because it reminds them of the music they were listening too in their youth.”

The upbeat rhythm and message that QUITAPENAS’ music has makes it easy to dance too and Chavez said that during performances he has seen how the music can change people’s moods.

“Eventually we’d like to take it to another country, another continent – that probably our end goal,” Chavez said. “Take the show on the road, share with as many people as possible and hopefully make a small difference in people’s everyday lives.”

Listen to the self-titled release from QUITAPENAS below.

Filed Under: Features, Music, Slider Tagged With: Afro-Latin, interview, QUITAPENAS, SXSW, tropical

Interview: Buyepongo brought the ruckus from Los Angeles to SXSW

March 25, 2015 By Estefania de Leon

Buyepongo promo
Los Angeles-based Buyepongo was one of the many Latino acts to perform during this year’s SXSW. Promo photo by Edgar Robles.

Buyepongo’s aim is pretty simple – to cause a ruckus.

Their Latin American roots show in their music, a complex fusion of Afro-Cuban rhythms mixed with merengue, cumbia and punta.

“We started off with a cumbia-flavored sound, and cumbia is still a big part of our foundation, but we evolved to different sounds,” Modesto said. “We like to add our upbringing of music we add a little punk, jazz, you can hear a little bit of hip-hop in there and our musical compositions have become way more complex and our stories are more in the world-wide spectrum.”

Los Angeles-based Buyepongo is currently on their Buyangú tour and came to Austin for this year’s SXSW. In January, Buyepongo released their well-received vinyl, Maestros.

The group formed in 2008. Edgar Modesto is lead vocals and the guacharaca, Larry Harvey on percussion, the palago, and vocal, Randy Modesto on bass, Angel Hernandez on the saxaphone, clarinet, and flutes, Jorge Vallejo on the clarinet and vocals, Richard Hererra on percussion and the bongo and Kris Castro on the keyboard.

Buyepongo album
‘Maestros’ available now at https://buyepongo.bandcamp.com/

“It’s the classic story of kids growing up in an urban city trying to find a voice,” Buyepongo lead singer Edgar Modesto said.

“But at that time we were starting to get serious on the stuff we were doing so a couple of us had been drumming around the city with some other local rumberos and drummers [where] we started learning Afro-Cuban, Afro-Colombian rhythms.”

The name of the band itself shows the culture and inner-city roots of the Buyepongo. ‘Buye’ meaning something that is very loud and causing madness and ‘pongo’ which is Spanish for provide.

“We’re sometimes stuck between one place and another and we kind of create our own languages among the inner city,” Modesto said. “Like Buyangu is [what] we like to call the Buye Beat, it’s like how you call salsa, cumbia, Buyepongo is buyangu.”

Buyepongo is working on not confining itself to the idea that its music is just for a Latin American audience and does so by including the audience. They are currently in the middle of finishing up a full-length album titled Todo Mundo.

“We have the audience in our music,” Modesto said. “Without the audience we wouldn’t be Buyepongo. And when people ask us ‘are you guys Latin?’ we just say it’s world music and that’s the way we approach it.”

What really brings everything together for Buyepongo is knowing that they will able to represent where they come from which they consider the biggest inspiration.

“The Buye Beat is the sound of the future,” Modesto said. “It’s the sound of the now, it’s something you can also relate to the past.”

Buyepongo lives by one philosophy – life is too short so make the best of it. This translates into their shows and they hope to the audience.

“We want you to come to our show and leave with an extra skip,” Modesto said. “To find these rhythms and everyone else that you see in life – that’s what we want people to take away just. Be happy because life’s too short. We are guaranteed death and everything else just dies.”

Watch the music video for “Maestros” from Buyepongo below.

Filed Under: Features, Music, Slider Tagged With: buyepongo, interview, los angeles, SXSW

Pachanga Latino Music Festival announces first round of performers

March 3, 2015 By Austin Vida Staff

Pachanga Fest posterOrganizers of the Pachanga Latino Music Festival announced the first round of performers for their eighth annual event happening Saturday, May 16 at Fiesta Gardens. A limited number of discounted tickets for the event will go on sale on Mar. 6 at pachangafest.com.

The first wave of artists confirmed for the 2015 Austin festival roster includes the following: former Mexican child-actress turned critical darling Ximena Sariñana; synth-pop hit makers Motel; acclaimed Spanish female rapper Mala Rodríguez; iconic Latin alt-electronic group Kinky; binational nostalgic rockers Enjambre; Compass: Mexican Institute of Sound & Toy Selectah, a collaboration between Camilo Lara aka Mexican Institute of Sound and legendary DJ producer Toy Selectah; Latin Grammy nominee Ceci Bastida, former Julieta Venegas bandmate and member of Tijuana No!; and alternative Chilean songstress and former lead singer of Los Abandoned, María del Pilar.

Fiesta Gardens is located at 2101 Jesse E Segovia St. A limited number of “Pachanga Ganga” General Admission and VIP tickets will go on sale Mar. 7 at 10 a.m. and will be available through April 1. Discounted prices are as follows: GA, $40; and VIP, $80. As of April 2, prices will increase to $50 for GA and $100 for VIP.

VIP aka “Very Important Taco” ticket holders will be treated to a complimentary five-taco tasting showcasing offering from local Austin restaurants 3:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m. In addition to the taco tasting, VIP ticket holders will have access to salsa bar, paletas, aquas frescas and other complimentary non-alcoholic drinks throughout the day. The VIP ticket also offers a host of amenities that include indoor restrooms, an air-conditioned lounge, and private patio area from 2:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m.

Filed Under: Music, News, Slider Tagged With: music festival, pachanga fest

Austin punkeros Sober Daze release new music video and announce unofficial SXSW performances

February 26, 2015 By Ian Morales

Sober Daze
Austin punkeros Sober Daze. Photo stolen from their Feisbuk.

Earlier today Austin-based punkeros Sober Daze released their new skate/music video for “Live To Shred.” The single is their first from their forthcoming 7” split with San Antonio’s Knockin’ Chucks, scheduled for an April release from the group’s own Dazed Records. The 7″ will be made available in both vinyl and digital download formats.

Sober Daze was formed in Puerto Rico in 2002 by friends Peter Figueroa, Alex “Korn” Rivera, and Chris “Fatty” Bourcy. Shortly after they moved to Austin in 2003, they became notorious for their punk rock house parties with half pipe skateboard ramps and a tree house bar in their back yard at one point. The group currently performs as a four piece thanks to their addition of guitarist Alex “Rager” Loughborough in 2013.

Those in Austin can see Sober Daze live at the Punk Vs. Rockabilly 5 showcase on Mar. 16 at Flamingo Cantina and at the Eastside Throwdown Day Party on Mar. 20 at The Sahara Lounge.

Watch “Live To Shred” from Sober Daze below. Listen to more music from Sober Daze on Bandcamp.

Filed Under: Music, News, Slider Tagged With: Austin, music video, puerto rico, punk, sober daze

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