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Data Society’s ’80s work appeared like the longer term, and the band remains to be forging forward with its digital sounds.
San Antonio’s high-profile stay music exhibits this week appear to be largely rock-adjacent: there’s the alt-rock of Canada’s Softcult, the post-rock of Austin’s My Training and the digital dance-rock of Data Society. And for these craving a barely extra unique taste, revered DJ Tropicana Joe will spin Exotica sounds of yore in an upstairs tiki bar.
The world is your oyster, music followers.
Wednesday, July 17
Softcult
Canadian twin sisters Phoenix and Mercedes Arn-Horn used the pandemic to deal with their imaginative and prescient of creating music collectively, and Softcult is the outcome. Influenced by their childhood heroes Bikini Kill and Smashing Pumpkins, Softcult gives vaulting melodies with riffing guitars greatest showcased within the group’s 2021 single “Spit It Out.” The music of Softcult straddles a number of genres, together with grunge, shoegaze and riot grrrl to provide you with their distinctive sound. Its newest launch, the six-song EP Heaven, evokes Soccer Mommy. $22, 8 p.m., Paper Tiger, 2410 N. St. Mary’s St., papertigersatx.com. — DC
Thursday, July 18
My Training, Gary Davenport
Austin band My Training constructs evocative instrumental post-rock soundscapes that really feel timeless. The group has earned reward for performing stay movie scores, notably a stirring reimagining of F.W. Murnau’s Dawn. Opener Gary Davenport, in the meantime, is considered one of SA’s nice pop-weirdo geniuses, and his work spans all the best way again to the ’70s. A latest reissue by famed label Numero Group has helped carry Davenport again to the general public eye. $10, 8:30 p.m., Lonesome Rose, 2114 N. St. Mary’s St., thelonesomerose.com. — BB
Friday, July 19
Data Society, Something Field, Machine X
Again within the ’80s, Data Society’s synth- and sequencer-heavy hit “What’s on Your Thoughts (Pure Power)” appeared like our digital near-future. Apparently the act’s prescience gave it endurance. InSoc has endured by way of the MTV Membership tour, the CD-ROM period and the Web age. Sam’s common and fellow ’80s hitmaker Something Field opens. $40-$65, 8:30 p.m., Sam’s Burger Joint, 330 E. Grayson St., (210) 223-2830, samsburgerjoint.com. — DC
Saturday, July 20
Tropicana Joe
Immediately recognizable by his panama hat, high-waisted trousers, pencil-thin mustache and tucked-in tropical shirts, Tropicana Joe is a mainstay of the Austin and San Antonio music scenes as a self-described ambassador for the Exotica sound. Exotica reached its peak within the ‘50s and ‘60s when U.S. troopers returned from the Pacific Theater of World Battle II with wild tales of even wilder lands. Thought of by many to be pseudo-tropical imitation for armchair adventurers, the style largely fell out of vogue for its fetishizations. Because of this, the style is oft misunderstood and maligned. As a result of his work shedding gentle on this area of interest style and for his intensive assortment of uncommon wax tracks, Tropicana Joe was honored as Greatest DJ within the 2024 Austin Music Awards. As Joe says, “Don’t cease the conga line” for this evocative style, however don’t drop your tiki drink both. Free, Saturday, July 20, 10 p.m., Holy Diver, upstairs at Hello-Tones, 621 E Dewey Place, instagram.com/HolyDiverTikiLounge. — Stephanie Koithan
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