Most people know the afroed ?uestlove as the drummer for the Roots, the versatile hip-hop-soul group that's currently the house band for NBC's "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon."
But they might not know that he's also a DJ, with a record collection of more than 50,000 titles. He's DJed at the Winter Music Conference, NBA All-Star Parties and a Sundance Film Festival after-party.
Now he'll be DJing here at 7 p.m. Nov. 13 at Wet Ultra Lounge, 524 San Francisco in the Union Plaza entertainment district.
It's part of the one-year anniversary celebration of LNSC, or Late Night Social Club, a local DJ collective and promotion group that's been doing shows and theme nights all over town. Some of their DJs will perform that night, as will Austin's Noveltone.
Tickets for ?uestlove's set are $25, on sale now at All That Music & Video, El Pisto, Hommework, the Headstand and Ticketbully.com.
The LNSC crew is keeping busy, hosting its "The Terror" Halloween costume party at 8 p.m. Oct. 29 at Republic, 200 Anthony in the Union Plaza.
It will include DJ sets by Holy Ghost!, Peanut Butter Wolf, Nosaj Thing, JT Donaldson, El Paso's the D.A. and others.
It's an 18-and-older show. Tickets are $20 and $25 in advance, on sale at All That Music, El Pisto, Hommework, Republic and Ticketbully.
Details: 999.9696, myspace.com/latenightsocialclub.
That's not all. Wu-Tang Clan's Inspectah Deck and Masta Killa bring their "Wu-Nited States of America" tour to Republic at 9 p.m. Nov. 12.
They'll be joined by Casual of Hieroglyphics.
Tickets are $15 in advance, $50 VIP, on sale at All That Music, the Headstand, Wet Ultra Lounge, Club Peoria and Republic.
It's an 18-and-older show, with admission $20 and $55 (VIP) at the door for those 18-20.
In other show news:
• The LNSC DJs aren't the only ones celebrating. UTEP Dinner Theatre has extended its run of "Singin' in the Rain" through Nov. 14. It originally was scheduled to play through Nov. 7. Added performances will be Nov. 10-13 at 7 p.m. and Nov. 14 at 2:30 p.m. (no meal will be served for that performance).
Tickets range from $24-$40 and are on sale at the UTEP Ticket Center, Ticketmaster outlets, ticketmaster.com or by calling 800.745.3000.
• Fuerza Bruta, the Argentinian acrobatic and percussion troupe, won't be performing here Nov. 4-20 after all, though promoter Ricardo Fernandez expects to bring them here in the spring. You may recall the group originally was slated to be here in late September, with performances at the Union Depot. Then it was pushed back to November.
But Fernandez said he had to work out a few things locally, including the parking situation, and with the performers, whose tagline is "Look up!," and predicts they'll be here to perform their Amor Por Juarez fund-raising concerts around March.
• How would you like to see "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," one of the greatest TV Christmas specials of all time, on the big screen? You'll get that chance when it joins another TV classic, "It's a Wonderful Life," among the holiday movies Dec. 4-5 at the Plaza Theatre. More titles should be announced soon.
• In case you're just dying to get tickets to see "Wicked" at the Plaza in 2012, you should know that your best shot at tickets right now is to buy season tickets for the theater's 2010-2011 Broadway series, which opens Nov. 29 with "Disney's Beauty and the Beast." Season tickets will give you first crack at season tickets next season.
This year's season tickets come in two packages. The "premiere" subscription includes tickets to all five shows ("Beauty and the Beast," "Monty Python's Spamalot," "All Shook Up," "Legally Blonde" and Blue Man Group) and cost $145, $215 and $275. The four-event "Classic" package, which doesn't include "Beauty," ranges from $115 to $215.
Call the Plaza hotline at 231.1111 for more info.
• Tickets for the El Paso Youth Ballet's second annual "The Nutcracker" are on sale now. Performances will be Dec. 17-19 at UTEP's Magoffin Auditorium (it was at El Paso High School last year).
Tickets are $15, $20 and $25, plus service fees, with 20 percent discounts for groups of 10 or more. They're on sale at the University Ticket Center, Ticketmaster outlets, ticketmaster.com and 800.745.3000.
• Gregg Carthy will celebrate 25 years of co-hosting KTEP's "Folk Fury" show with couple of special editions. The Oct. 30 broadcast will include performances by Zoomer Roberts and Buddy Winston, Kat Tyler and Russ Kallman and Tim Green. The Nov. 13 show will feature singer Robin Russell and Bob Banta, one of the most talented guitarists in town, of Effie Munro, plus Celtic Lie, Carthy's group.
The show, which airs from 7-10 p.m. Saturdays, has been hosted by Dan Alloway, an Eastwood grad, for 30 years.
• The ever-friendly Ashley Tantimonaco, who does marketing for the Convention and Visitors Bureau's Plaza and Chavez theaters, says that 31,000 people attended the 23 free shows by local bands in this year's Alfresco! Fridays series at the Arts Festival Plaza.
About 16,500 watched the free movies, known as Movies in the Canyon, that were shown over a six-week period in August and September at the McKelligon Canyon Amphitheater.
Not bad, huh?
The deadline for applying to play Alfresco in 2011, which will feature at least 20 weeks, is Jan. 7. Go to alfrescofridays.com or call 534.0615 for more info.
Deadline for the city's Music Under the Stars free concerts series is Nov. 11. Call 541.4280 or go to elpasoartsandculture.org for more information.
You can click this link for an application: ci.el-paso.tx.us/mcad/summerprograms.asp.
Here's hoping Jim Ward and Sleepercar, who got rained out last summer, apply again!
• Melodic Australian pop-rockers the Jefferson, touting debut album "Safe Return to Earth," headline a free show at 9 p.m. Nov. 2 at Soho Cocktail Lounge, 500 N. Oregon.
They'll be joined by local bands Cigarettes After Sex and the Musicianers. It's a 21-and-older show.
• The Low Brow, 112 E. Robinson, one of the new kids on the local club block, hosts the return of Chalk the Block standouts Peelander-Z, the goofy Japanese punk rockers, and Japanese punk band TsuShiMaMiRa at 8 p.m. Nov. 3. Tickets are $6 for 21 and older, $8 for 18-20.
The club will have Hawaiian reggae-rock band Iration in at 7 p.m. Nov. 7. Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 at the door, on sale at All That Music, Black Market and the Headstand.
• Austin blues-rocker Jeff Strahan will be in town for a couple of shows. The singer-guitarist, who walked away from a law career to pursue music, is doing a free, 21-and-older show Nov. 5 at King's X, 4119 N. Mesa, followed by another freebie at 9:30 p.m. Nov. 6 at Ardovino's Desert Crossing, which has a cool room for shows.
• Carlos Flores, the guy who gave you Elektro Bash 1 and 2 is at it again. Elektro Bash 3 will be at 8 p.m. Nov. 6 at the Reyn Theatre, 209 El Paso. It's being billed as an "After Halloween DJ and Gogo Party," and will feature more than 20 DJ sets on two stages, including jams by Charlie Star, Teen Wolf, Party Sex and Bull---- and 104.3's Johnny Cage.
It also will include a costume contest, candy and go-go dancers.
Admission is $11 in advance, on sale at All That Music and the Headstand, and $17 at the door.
• Two Ton Live is bringing L.A. Music Award-winning reggae group the Mystic Roots Band to 6 Strings, 1160 Airway, at 9:30 p.m. Nov. 9. It's a 21-and-older show, $5 at the door.
• Last but not least, Texas' own Los Lonely Boys will play the El Paso Hispanic Chamber of Commerce's Fiesta Celebration and Pinata Bash on Nov. 19 at the Judson L. Williams Convention Center.
It's billed as a tribute to heroes, especially the military, and will include awards and a speech by Major Gen. Dana Pittard, Fort Bliss' new commanding general and another Eastwood High School grad (hey, I went to high school with that guy).
Doors open at 6 p.m. The band goes on at 9:30 p.m.
Tickets are $75, with tables of 10 going for a cool $1,000.
Details: 566.4066, ephcc.org/2010fiestacelebration.aspx.
Comments