Pencil in June 30, Vans Warped Tour fans.
That's when the venerable post-punk mobile, multi-stage festival will return to NMSU's Practice Field in Las Cruces, marking its eighth stop to the campus in nine visits to this area over its 16 years.
More than 50 bands are listed for the Cruces show, the sixth stop on the tour, which will run June 24-Aug. 10.
Among them are the All-American Rejects, Sum 41, Andrew W.K., Pierce the Veil, Reel Big Fish, Emmure, Anarbor, Attack Attack, Breathe Carolina, Mayday Parade, Motion City Soundtrack, Dillinger Escape Plan, Riverboat Gamblers, VersaEmerge, We the Kings and Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band.
The date's firm, according to Bobbie Welch, booking and marketing coordinator for the Pan Am Center, but she doesn't know when tickets will go on sale.
In other concert news:
• Rapid-fire (and record-setting) rapper Twista will headline the Sun City New Year's Eve Bash at 7 p.m. Dec. 31 at the Judson L. Williams Convention Center.
DJ Lady Tribe also will perform, and El Paso DJ Big Al will host.
Various rooms in the former arena (I saw everyone from King Crimson to Yes there) will be used for dancing and revelry.
Tickets are $25 general admission, $50 GA (plus access to one of the dance rooms), $100 VIP (GA, access to all rooms, plus two drink tickets). They're on sale at the Plaza Theatre box office, Ticketmaster outlets, ticketmaster.com and 800.745.3000. They should be available at the door, too.
• El Paso Community Foundation VP Eric Pearson had hoped to stage an Academy Award viewing party this year at the Plaza Theatre, but couldn't pull it off. Well, looks like someone's going to do it next year. "Oscar Night at the Plaza" will be a 5:45 p.m. March 7. It's a fundraiser for Insights El Paso Science Museum.
Tickets are $75, on sale at 10 a.m. Monday at the box office, Ticketmasters, ticketmaster.com and 800.745.3000.
• Promoter Ramiro "Ram" Guzman will follow his fifth Tejano Legends concert, the New Year's Eve Black & White Ball with Jimmy Edward at the Coliseum, with the sixth Tejano Legends concert on March 15 at the Plaza Theatre. Little Joe will headline and Raulito will also be on the bill. No ticket info yet.
• You don't always see El Paso Symphony Orchestra tickets for sale at Ticketmaster, but you do when it's someone like El Paso cellist Zuill Bailey headlining. Bailey's headlining two EPSO concerts at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 22-23 at the Plaza Theatre, part of the orchestra's regular season and El Paso Pro-Musica's 20th annual Chamber Music Festival, of which he is artistic director.
Tickets are $11, $17, $28 and $37, on sale at the box, Ticketmasters, ticketmaster.com and 800.745.3000. They're also available from EPSO at 532.3776 and epso.org.
• El Paso's Axis Radius, which books a lot of shows at Whiskey Dicks, is bringing rowdy Texas country-rocker Kevin Fowler back to town. He'll play Whiskey Dicks at 10 p.m. Jan. 30. Tickets are $12, on sale now at ticketbully.com.
• Tickets for the Plaza Theatre's March 15 Broadway series presentation of "Cabaret" don't go on sale until Jan. 15, but the presale starts in a little more than a week.
The Ticketmaster presale runs from 10 a.m. Jan. 6 to 11:59 p.m. Jan. 14. Tickets are $25 and $48.50 and will be available at the box office, Ticketmasters, ticketmaster.com and 800.745.3000.
• A couple of shows are headed to UTEP's Magoffin Auditorium in February and no one bothered to tell me about it! I found 'em on Ticketmaster's Web site. One is TAO: The Martial Art of the Drum, a Japanese drum troupe, which will be at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 21 ($25, $32).
The other is the Glenn Miller Orchestra, led by Larry O'Brien, at 8 p.m. Feb. 24 ($20).
Wish the promoters would promote this stuff in the press! It's free!!!
• Promoter and Applejack frontman Charlie McDonald will bring venerable husband-and-wife folk duo Robin and Linda Williams back to town on June 19. It's a house show — at Charlie's house. Tickets are $60 and will go on sale sometime in January. We'll keep you posted.
• It's the return of the Texicans. I wasn't here in the '90s when the band was a fixture at local clubs, so I missed out. But you don't have to. The group has regrouped to celebrate its 20th anniversary with shows at 9 p.m. Dec. 29 at Ruli's International Kitchen, 318 N. Mesa, and 9 p.m. Dec. 30 at Club 101, 1148 Airway.
Band members are Jason Crouch (now in Austin), Ken Andree (Tucson), Chad Morrow (Datil, NM), Willie Lopez (El Paso) and Scott Merristein (El Paso and drummer for Radio La Chusma).
• Fuga! frontman Kiko Rodriguez's other band, Frontera Bugalu, joins the Sons of Villa for a show at 9 p.m. Dec. 26 at The Percolator. It's an all-ages show, with a $5 cover for 21 and over, $8 for under 21.
• El Paso metal band Aeons of Abyss has just released its self-titled debut album. The group is playing a CD release party at 9:30 p.m. Dec. 30 at Bombadiers, 109 E. Castellano. Dark Aria and Black Wolf Howl open the 18-and-up show. Check 'em out at myspace.com/aeonsofabyss.
• Austin singer-songwriter Aly Tadros returns to The Percolator, 217 N. Stanton, on Jan. 9. Douglas Jay Boyd will open the 8 p.m. show. Cover is only 3 bucks. Check her out at myspace.com/alytadros.
• That Cash'd Out Johnny Cash tribute show I posted on this blog a week or so ago has been moved from Uncle Paulie's, which closed, according to an email from Davey, drummer for El Paso rockabilly band Hot Rod Boogie.
The Jan. 10 show now will be at Take II. Tickets are $7 and $10 and may be purchased at holdmyticket.com/event/7470. It's an 8 p.m. show.
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