A mural optimistically titled Everything s Gonna Be Alight (painted by Sloke One and Chris Rogers and designed by Noel Waggener) that was on the front of Antone s in April. (Photo by David Brendan Hall)
Since applications opened for the Live Music Venue Preservation Fund last Friday, operators of 79 different venues have filed for assistance that could total up to $160,000 for each business.
The effort, a component of the City of Austin’s SAVES resolution, includes two phases: $20,000 of “emergency funding” and additional “enhanced funding” of up to $140,000 that would be doled out in monthly installments to qualifying venues based on a variety of factors.
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Chronic: The post-blues sci-fi licks of guitarist Jonas Wilson (aka Deluxe Peroux) on future s-so-bright opener Space Invaders are strictly big league. A Midnight Stroll alongside Ghostland Observatory s Aaron Behrens for a pair of vinyls more recently also ranked locally major despite never appearing on the grid of most homies.
Behind his first proper solo LP
Science Fiction Post Blues, the Bastrop string-bender, musical mayor pro tem, and growing cottage industry (producer/label runner) demonstrates a tiny blip in the sonic universe of the former Deluxe Peroux.
As the title brands, Wilson mucks around in the South s grittiest genre, emphasizing his harmonica skillz and silver lining slide guitar. Opener Ruling the World begins with a spike, a cacophony note that quickly settles into an electro-analog groove of disembodied, isolationist blues. JW s vacuum-lock vocal intonation hovers botlike, vulnerable in its monotone stoi