Artistic Commons / Manfred Werner (Tsui)
Hip-hop outfit The Pharcyde performs at a competition in Vienna, Austria.
“Enjoyable” would be the phrase of the week relating to stay music within the Alamo Metropolis.
Irreverent hip-hop group The Pharcyde is bringing their quirky strategy to the style to San Antonio, and kitschy singer-songwriter Ian McConnell is sharing his offbeat have a look at the world with a tour cease. As if that is not sufficient, There I Ruined It — a web based challenge identified for hilarious and weird musical mashups like performing a bluegrass cowl of a System of a Down tune — might be placing disparate genres in a blender.
Let’s dive in for the small print.
Thursday, Aug. 15
The Pharcyde
Lengthy-running rap group The Pharcyde sprung from South Central LA onto the nationwide scene in 1991 because of an irreverent, humorous and soulful tackle hip-hop. Subsequent excursions with De La Soul and A Tribe Known as Quest, together with a spot at Lollapalooza solidified the act’s fanbase, launching a number of singles into the higher reaches of the Billboard charts. The group ultimately fractured however has soldiered on with all however certainly one of its unique members. Anticipate basic, enjoyable, catchy hip-hop from one of many surviving teams of a bygone period. $35, 8 p.m., Steady Corridor, 307 Pearl Parkway, stablehall.com. — Invoice Baird
Friday, Aug. 16
Mohama Saz, True Indigo, John Charlie’s Heavy Love
Madrid, Spain’s Mohama Saz headlines this showcase billed as “World Psych Night time.” The group’s sound pleasingly blurs boundaries as analog synths rub up in opposition to seductive rhythms and the non-Western scales of North Africa and the Jap Mediterranean. A lot of Mohama Saz’s sound appears like a spotlight of late-’60s Anatolian psych, a most well-liked time and place for aficionados and a transparent affect on beloved and trippy modern-day act Khruangbin. SA trippers True Indigo and John Charlie’s Heavy Love spherical out this wonderful invoice of recent psych-rock. $18, 8 p.m., Steady Corridor, 307 Pearl Parkway, stablehall.com. — BB
Saturday, Aug. 17
Cactus Lee, Sunjammer
Cactus Lee, the songwriting automobile for veteran Austin musician Kevin Dehan, has been charming the hippest of the hip for a number of years operating. His songwriting is straightforward, exact, shifting, witty and basic Texas — consider Hoyt Axton and Jerry Jeff Walker reducing a document along with a four-track recording gadget. Native psych-rockers Sunjammer conjure basic ’70s stoner grooves starting from the Grateful Lifeless’s Europe ’72 to the one-off cult basic Comparatively Clear Rivers. $10, 9:30 p.m., The Lonesome Rose, 2114 N. St. Mary’s St., thelonesomerose.com. — BB
Sunday, Aug. 18
Ian McConnell, Plum Tongue
San Antonio is without doubt one of the first stops on kitschy singer-songwriter and social-media character Ian McConnell’s coast-to-coast tour. Described as a “Kroger-brand Ed Sheeran” for each his look and sound, he’s grow to be a social media celeb because of his goofy, off-kilter have a look at the world. It’s troublesome to separate schtick from expertise relating to McConnell, however give his 2022 single “Mates” a pay attention to listen to the sincerity of his lyrics faraway from the zany package deal. $15, 8 p.m., Paper Tiger, 2410 N. St. Mary’s St., papertigersatx.com. — Danny Cervantes
There I Ruined It
There I Ruined It, musician Dustin Ballard’s on-line challenge, went viral because of its hilarious and weird mashups of presumably incongruous artists and genres — from performing Metallica as youngsters’s music to a swing model of Nirvana’s “Come As You Are.” On condition that these creations have emerged as a number of the Web’s most hilarious viral moments, there’s a superb likelihood you’re already aware of There I Ruined It. For this particular tour, a stay band will carry these creations to life. Anticipate acquainted songs in a horrifying new context — and be able to chortle so much. $15, 6 p.m., Paper Tiger, 2410 N. St. Mary’s St., papertigersatx.com. — BB
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