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Concert update: Lady A; Martin Solveig; Film Salon, Stoney LaRue, Authority Zero

Tickets for Lady Antebellum's Nov. 16 show at the Coliseum will go on sale at 10 a.m. Sept. 10.

They'll sell for $37 and $67, plus service charges, at the box office, Ticketmaster outlets, ticketmaster.com and 800.745.3000.

It's part of their fall "Own the Night" tour, named for the trio's third album, due Sept. 13.

Presales run Sept. 6-9.

In other concert news:

• It looks like French artist/producer/DJ Martin Solveig won't be saying "Hello" to fans at this weekend's first Sun City Music Festival at Cohen Stadium.

His publicist reports that a back injury rendered him unable to fly, forcing him to cancel his appearance, which was scheduled for Sept. 3 on the Electro Cactus stage.

Promoter Adam Lucero of SMG Events said he was scrambling to find a replacement or adjust the schedule, which has not been announced or posted yet.

The music starts at 6 p.m. Sept. 3-4 at the stadium. More than 30 acts will perform on three stages on the field.

• The ink has barely dried on the last Plaza Classic Film Festival and already its artistic director, Charles Horak, is back at his other gig, running the free, monthly Film Salon series at Trinity-United Methodist Church.

It's fall schedule is devoted to British chillmaster Alfred Hitchcock, but will feature his first American films, not necessarily the ones you might think.

It opens at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 3 with "Rebecca," which won the 1940 Academy Award for Best Picture and stars Joan Fontaine as the haunted second wife of Laurence Olivier, whose first bride died.

It will be followed by the 1940 thriller "Foreign Correspondent" (Oct. 1); "Suspicion" (Nov. 5); and "Shadow of a Doubt" (Dec. 3).

You can keep up with the Film Salon at filmsalon.org.

• Speaking of the film festival, all the extra hours I put in attending and writing about it put me behind on monitoring the music scene around here.

For example, I kept forgetting to post something about former Smiths' bassist Andy Rourke, who will be in town for a DJ set at 9 p.m. Sept. 1 at the Lowbrow.

Tickets are only $10 at the club and Ticketbully.

• Red Dirt country vet Stoney LaRue, pushing new album "Velvet," will be at Whiskey Dicks at 10 p.m. Sept. 14.

Tickets are $10 for 21 and older, $20 for 18-20, on sale at Ticketbully.

Wade Bowen returns to WDs at 10 p.m. Nov. 5.

Those tickets also are $10, $20 for 18-20 at Ticketbully.

• Punkers Authority Zero will play the House of Rock Live at 7 p.m. Sept. 24.

Tickets are $10, on sale at Ticketbully.

 

Theater update: UTEP theater/dance tix; 'Rocky Horror' fundraiser

They've come to suck your blood, well, ticket money anyway.

Actually, the UTEP theater and dance department do quality work. They've recently put tickets on sale for their 2011-2012 season, which includes a Halloween appropriate production of "Dracula" in late October.

The season opens, for the first time, with a dance concert called "Shallow Waters Bury Me Deep/Poco Rio Me Pilla Profunda," which takes its inspiration from what's going on in Juarez and our proximity to it.

Performances are 8 p.m. Sept. 21-24 and 2:30 p.m. Sept. 25 in the Fox Fine Arts's Studio Theatre. Tickets are $9, $8 for non-UTEP students, seniors, military and groups, $7 for UTEP students and children 11 and under.

The theater side kicks in with "Dracula" at 8 p.m. Oct. 28, 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. Oct. 30, 8 p.m. Oct. 31 and Nov. 3-5 and 2:30 p.m. Nov. 6 in the Fox Fine Arts' Wise Family Theatre.

Tickets are $12, $10 for non-UTEP students, seniors, military and groups, $9 for UTEP students and children 11 and under.

UTEP's annual production of "A Christmas Carol" will be at 2:30 p.m. Dec. 11, 8 p.m. Dec. 16-17 and 2:30 p.m. Dec. 18 in the Wise. Tickets are $12, $10 and $9.

The dance department, which usually has only one concert per season, will stage another locally inspired program called "Pachuco Zoot: A Tale of Identity" at 8 p.m. Feb. 10-11 , 2:30 p.m. Feb. 12, 8 p.m. Feb. 17-18 and 2:30 p.m. Feb. 19 in the Wise. Tickets are $12, $10 and $9.

A production of Anton Chekov's love story "The Seagull" will be staged in the Studio Theatre at 8 p.m. March 14-17 and 2:30 p.m. March 18. Tickets are $9, $8 and $7.

The season will end with Michael Frayn's comedic look at the theater world, "Noises Off," at 8 p.m. April 20-21 and 26-28 and 2:30 p.m. April 22 and 29 in the Wise Family Theatre. Tickets are $12, $10 and $9.

You can get them, with service charges, at the UTEP Ticket Center, Ticketmaster outlets, ticketmaster.com and 800.745.3000.

In other show news:

• The Hot PAWtooties Shadow Cast will perform to a midnight screening of local fave "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" at midnight Sept. 10 at the Scottish Rite Temple Theatre, 301 W. Missouri, a cool place to watch that.

It's a 17-and-over show.

Tickets are $10, $8 students, military and seniors with ID.

It's a fundraiser for Pets Alive-El Paso, for its feral cat sterilization program.

You're encouraged to dress up as your favorite depraved character and do "The Time Warp," but please don't bring props.

They will have venue-approved prop bags for sale for $2.

Info: 873.PETS, 247.5975, hotpawtooties.com, petsaliveelpaso.org.

 

 

Concert update: UDT's 'Xanadu,' NMSU Cultural, 'Border Lords,' Border Theatre and more

Greg Taylor is back and will be directing UTEP Dinner Theatre's season-opening production of the spoof "Xanadu."

It opens Sept. 30, but tickets went on sale today.

Taylor, the company's founder, was on hiatus last year and is back in the fold for the new season.

Performances of the musical, a take-off on the awful movie that starred Olivia Newton-John, will run through Oct. 16 unless it is extended, as many  UDT shows are.

Dinner will include chicken wellington, pasta roma, julienne vegetables, salad and dessert.

Tickets range from $14 to $40, and are on sale now at the UTEP Ticket Center, Ticketmaster outlets, ticketmaster.com and 800.745.3000.

In other news:

• New Mexico State University has announced its 2011-2012 Cultural Series, which includes performances by Albuquerque-based Cuban son group Son Como Son (Sept. 22), Canadian banjo virtuoso Jayme Stone (Nov. 3) and the veteran vocal group New York Voices (Feb. 16).

Also performing: the multi-culti Jose Conde Quartet, which mixes Latin and American music and storytelling (Oct. 6); uillean pipe band McPeake and Detroit Celtic singer-songwriter Cathie Ryan (March 1); and classical music's Eden Stell Guitar Duo (April 5).

All performances will be at 8 p.m. in the NMSU Atkinson Recital  Hall.

Tickets are $15, $10 for NMSU students with ID. Series tickets are $81.

They are on sale at the Pan Am Center box office, Ticketmaster outlets, ticketmaster.com and 800.745.3000.

• That Plaza Classic Film Festival screening of the Billy Townes/Mark Love movie "Border Lords II: Dark Secrets" that was wiped out by a water main break has been reset for Sept. 17.

It was going to show Aug. 14, the last day of the festival, but a water main break shut down water service to the El Paso Museum of Art, which was forced to close.

The Sept. 17 showing will be free and start at 2 p.m. that day in the museum's El Paso Electric Energy Auditorium.

• That Natalie Grant concert Sept. 29 at the Coliseum is a fundraiser for the Salvation Army's anti-human trafficking program. 

In addition to Grant and rapper KJ-52, Poema, Josiah James and El Paso's Altarmotive will perform at what organizers are calling the Save the Brave Music Fest.

Tickets are $10 GA, $20 for box or floor seats, on sale at the box office, Ticketmaster outlets, ticketmaster.com and 800.745.3000.

• Pony Productions has firmed up four shows, starting with British comedian and hypnotist Peter Kingsley at 8 p.m. Sept. 7 and 6 and 11 p.m. Sept. 8 at The Percolator.  

They're all-ages shows, $10 at the door.

Tickets for the Black Dahlia Murder Club show Oct. 20 at Club 101 are $15, on sale at Ticketbully. Doors open at 6 p.m.

Also performing: All Shall Perish, Cannibis Corpse and A Day of Bloodshed.

Pony also is bringing the Motel 6-sponsored "Rock Yourself to Sleep" tour with Alesana, A Skylit Drive, Sleeping with Sirens, Attila and Memphis May Fire at 6 p.m. Nov. 9 at Club 101.

Tickets are $15 at Ticketbully.

• Border Theatre will celebrate its one-year anniversary with a new staging of its first performance piece, "Exhibitions in Dis/Connection" at 7 p.m. Sept. 23-25 and Sept. 30-Oct. 2 at the Glasbox, 1500 Texas.

Founder Austin Savage is promising "more plays, more artists, more bands, more vendors, better food, better ticket deals and a greater sense of community appreciation."

It will feature six short plays, which will be performed sequentially, instead of simultaneously, at three locations inside the Glasbox.

Tickets are $5 online at bordertheatre.org and ticketbully.com, $7 at the door. Sundays will be free for military, police and firefighters.

The Sept. 22 preview performance will not have a set admission price. Instead, patrons can pay what they want, or what they can afford.

Ten percent of ticket proceeds will be donated to the Sunset Heights Block Party.

• Mexicans at Night will headline the Sept. 2 "Go Local Fest" at Bombardiers, 109 E. Castellano.

Also performing are Shaka Toki, Rubicon, Touch Tone Telephone, Frank Zavala, the Bella Fusion bellydance group, APT Movement (an offshoot of the Border Theatre) and Mindy Chanson.

Doors open at 4 p.m., show starts at 8 p.m. It's a 21-and-older show. Admission is $10 at the door.

• San Diego Chicano comedy and political satire troupe Teatro Izcalli will perform free sh0ws at 7 p.m. Oct. 7-8 at the Studio Theatre in UTEP's Fox Fine Arts Building.

The group will be performing some of its greatest hits from throughout its 15-year history.

Doors open at 6. Seating is limited.

• Ceramic artist Kurt Weiser, who judged the Las Cruces Museum of Art's "From the Ground Up XXV" exhibit, is still speaking Sept. 1, but at a new location.

His free talk will be at 2:30 p.m. Sept. 1 at the Branigan Cultural Center, 501 N. Main, Las Cruces.

 

Concert review: Bullish stage ruins Morrow/DRB show

Suppose they gave a concert and a comedy of errors broke out.

That's what happened Friday when El Paso's Dirty River Boys and Cory Morrow's Red Bull Bus Tour made its third stop at Fort Bliss' Freedom Crossing mall.

The idea is simple. Take one of Texas music's most hyped up acoustic groups. combine it with one of the Lone Star state's most popular singers, songwriters and bandleaders, put them on a bus together and have them perform on a bus that turns into a stage in five college towns and on three Army posts.

Well, it sounded good on paper.

But problems have plagued the first third of the tour. The bus stage wasn't operable for the first two shows, forcing organizers to rent backup stages.

The first show Aug. 24 in Fort Hood was held on a replica of an Afghanistan village. The turnout was light but the dust was not, according to some of the musicians.

The second show in San Marcos went much better, with the stage set up in the parking lot of a student apartment complex and a crowd of about 2,500 turning up, pretty much what you'd expect for two acts that do well with college crowds.

Then there was the Fort Bliss gig, a homecoming (and first on-post) for DRB, who've been touring the Texas circuit for more than a year now, meaning local shows come fewer and farther between.

The problems started when the Red Bull bus, now working, arrived two hours late for a gig that was supposed to start at 7 p.m. — apparently the bus driver's GPS routed him from Indiana, where the bus was deployed, through the mountainous Ruidoso area instead of the less cumbersome Guadalupe Peak route.

The stage took forever to set up. The big problem was the lighting rig, which failed to raise properly, forcing the harried crew to dismantle it and get uniformed soldiers to help carry away the pieces.

When the show did start around 10 p.m., the rugrats who'd been running around the grassy area in front of the stage, just east of the Grand Theatre, had not run out of gas.

The young scenesters who skipped a night at the club to make the journey to the post drank and behaved like they were at the club.

Some of the young soldiers, who may have just been there for something to do, let those little kids keep running around during the show. Before the show, I watched as one guy not only let his two boys fight, sometimes viciously, but encouraged them.

Those of us who sat on blankets didn't have much of a chance by the time the show started, so I moved back near the sound board and still got hit with a flying doll and a wayward toddler. Fun.

I knew I wasn't in a club, but ...

This would have been tolerable had the performances been more compelling.

There was not much of an audience to play to immediately in front of them. Most of the crowd, which may have numbered a couple of thousand at its peak, around 8 or so, had disippated some by 10. The bulk of the crowd was seated on the two patios on either side of the grassy area in front the stage, with only a few dozen closest to the stage, which was a good 10 feet away from them. That's hard for a band, which was elevated a good five feet, when there's no one in front of them to feed off.

They tried gamely to capture the kind of energy you might expect from such a high-adrenaline pairing, but they expended most of it in the first 30 minutes of what was supposed to be about a 90-minute set. Without a crowd directly in front of them, without a knowledgeable crowd and, frankly, with an uneven sound mix that buried vocals, the energy just wasn't sustainable.

Morrow and the band seemed to have lost most of their energy before they hit the stage. The back and forth between DRB's more frenetic music and Morrow's mixed tempo stuff also worked against them. They're, commendably, not working with a set list, but a set with the peaks and valleys spread out a little more might have worked better.

Then again, I'm not sure much would have worked very well under those conditions. It was one of those well-intended, inventively conceived ideas that will work under the right circumstances.

But when a corporate sponsor puts its name on a tour, generously underwrites it and uses it to promote its product, the least it can do is having a working stage for the entire tour, not just part of it. Otherwise, it's just bull.

 

Concert review: Cirque, symphony concert soars — literally

The El Paso Symphony Orchestra found an interesting way to kick off its 81st year — with people flying overhead, tossing pins and rings and even tying up its conductor.

That's the kind of spectacle you get when Georgia's Cirque de la Symphonie comes to town, in this case the first time the five-member troupe of European-style circus performers has come to town.

Their performance Thursday at the Plaza Theatre was both a hit with the orchestra, which had to be happy with a turnout of 1,300 despite some overly high ticket prices (the top price was $75), and the audience, a refreshing mix of EPSO faithful and new faces, many of whom, including obviously amused children, probably seldom, if ever, attend EPSO concerts.

The orchestra typically stages some kind of concert/fundraiser in August to warm up for the season ahead, this season being one of transition as the organization looks for a replacement for the departed maestra Sarah Ioannides. Eroica Trio headlined last year at the El Paso Museum of Art, San Antonio alt-country group Sisters Morales played a dinner-dance the year before at the El Paso Country Club.

This one beat them both and had a more populist bent to it, something groups like EPSO, El Paso Pro-Musica and El Paso Opera should do more of to cultivate new audiences.

This one amounted to a pops concert, with the orchestra as backup band playing familiar selections from the Bizet opera "Carmen," and Tchaikovsky ballets "Swan Lake" and "Sleeping Beauty," and Saint-Saens' "Danse Macabre'  illustrated by aerialists, a gymnast and a juggler.

It's a logical, if unusual match, the kind that got more than a few "oohs" and "aahs" out of the crowd and had more than a few in the audience pointing their cellphone cameras at the performers to capture some of their visual magic.

The first half of the program served to both introduce the concept, introduce the orchestra to the novices in the crowd, promote its conductor search (six different men each will conduct six different programs this season) and give the audience a taste of what was to come.

Opening with two selections from "Carmen," the orchestra served as the warmup on the first piece, starting a little roughly but quickly rallying, then accompanied Russian Vladimir Tsarkov's rib-tickling Red Harlequin, who is part mime, part comic and wholly impressive as he juggled, tossed, kicked, bounced and caught a series of colorful rings that grew from four to eight.

Russian gymnast Elena Tsarkova combined hand balancing, rubbery body-bending contortions and some breathtaking poses, at one point nearly doubling over backwards, at another twisting herself into a human pretzel, during "Sleeping Beauty."

While Tsarkov's harlequin provided plenty, but not too much, kid-friendly comic relief, Mongolian Byamba Jigdengombo, American Christine Van Loo and Russian Alexander "Sasha" Streltsov supplied all the aerial dramatics.

Tiny Jigdengombo choreographed her aerial ring dance to Bizet's Middle Eastern-flavored "Samson and Delilah," at times using little more than the back of her neck, an ankle or the tops of her feet to balance herself as she created various lines and geometric shapes with her body, some while spinning upside down.

Van Loo draped, doubled up, spun and fell like poetry in motion during "Danse Macabre," which featured some mesmerizing violin work from Mark Schuppener, filling in at concertmaster for the performance.

She returned for a climactic program closer of "Swan Lake," with the company's director and co-founder, Streltsov, for a riveting routine performed on what looked like a long, red, billowing sash. Streltsov turned it into a makeshift harness that allowed him to take a running leap and sore gracefully over the first few rows, a feat he repeated later in the piece.

Even more impressive was a sequence in which she wrapped her legs in the sash and held Streltsov as he formed a straight line with his taut, muscular body, perfectly parallel with the stage, then held him with one hand. He returned the favor, as she slowly poured her body over itself in a backward motion, then suspended her from his feet.

Pretty impressive, as was her climactic roll down the sash with her arms and legs out straight. A very cool visual.

Even conductor Andy Moran, whose boyish enthusiasm is a good fit for pops concerts, got into the act, helping Tsarkov tie a female performer's arms behind her back, then disappeared behind a black curtain as she managed to slip off his coat jacket and wear it under her restraints.

El Paso audiences clearly have taken to the European circus arts. They filled the Don Haskins Center several times last year for Cirque du Soleil's local debut (they are rumored to be returning), and Cirque Dreams had a full house for its 2009 show at the Plaza.

Cirque de la Symponie head Bill Allen said he'd like to come back with a bigger group of performers. Maybe it can become an August tradition — at a lower price.

 

Concert update: SCMF, Wayne Static, Billy Gibbons, Cinema Novo, All That Music, Jimmy Daze and more

A total of 26 artists have been announced for next weekend's inaugural Sun City Music Festival at Cohen Stadium, including recent additions Crystal Castles, Nero and a Sub Focus DJ set.

Up to 30 acts are expected to perform on three stages at 6 p.m. Sept. 3-4 at the baseball stadium in what promises to be the biggest electronic music event in the city's history.

The main stage, called the Sun City stage, will feature Armin Van Buuren, Afrojack, Gabriel & Dresden and Funkagenda on Sept. 3;  Paul Van Dyk, Sander Van Doorn, Cosmic Gate, Chris Lake and Joachim Garraud on Sept. 4.

Wolfgang Gartner, whose debut album "Weekend in America" comes out Sept. 20, tops the Electro Cactus stage on Sept. 3. He'll be preceded by sets from Martin Solveig, Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano and LA Riots. Crystal Castles headline the EC stage on Sept. 4, with opening sets from Chuckie, Sidney Samson, Zedd and Ambivalent.

The third, or Bass Dunes stage, will have Andy C & Armanni, Feed Me, Cookie Monsta and Exceed on Sept. 3; Sub Focus, Nero, Showtek and High Contrast on Sept. 4.

Local promoter SMG Events, which is organizing the festival, is expecting a total turnout of between 10,000 and 15k.

Tickets are $46 GA , $61 VIP for a one-day pass; $82 GA and $112 VIP for a tw0-day. You must be 21 or older to buy a VIP pass, which includes a separate entrance, viewing decks, VIP areas and bars and a souvenir lanyard.

They are on sale at All That Music & Video and the Headstand in El Paso, LA Underground in Albuquerque and online at groovetickets.com and suncitymusicfestival.com.

SMG plans to donate 50 cents from each ticket sold to the city's Museums and Cultural Affairs Department for programs music and arts programs for kids, and 50 cents per ticket sold to the El Paso Police Foundation.

In other show news:

• Tickets for Wayne Static's Oct. 7 show at the new Tricky Falls nightclub are $16 in advance ($20 at the door), on sale at 9 a.m. Aug. 26 at holdmyticket.com.

It's part of his first solo tour and comes three days after the release of the tall-haired, Static-X frontman's first solo album, "Pighammer."

Eye Empire, Kyng, One-Eyed Doll and Gemini Syndrome open the show, which starts at 7 p.m.

• You probably read in the Times that ZZ Top guitar man Billy Gibbons will be in town Sept. 17 to sign autographs, flashy his pearly-whites and promote Pura Vida Tequila, a Houston-based label that is coming to our market.

It will be from 1-4 p.m. Sept. 17 at the new Spec's Liquor Store, 655 Sunland Park. 

Gibbons and the rest of ZZ Top will perform Sept. 28 at the Inn of the Mountain Gods.

• UTEP's Cinema Novo movie series returns this weekend with showings of "Easy A" at 7 p.m. Aug. 26-27 at the UTEP Union Building East. After that, there are several documentaries and features that haven't played here yet.

Also booked: "Echotone," a documentary about the Austin music scene (Sept. 9-10); "Presunto Culpable," a docu about two Mexican attorneys to free a wrongly convicted man (Sept. 16-17); "Exit Through the Gift Shop," a comedy documentary centered on the graffiti artist Banksy (Sept. 23-24); "West Side Story" (Sept. 30-Oct. 1); "Bread and Roses" (Oct. 6-7); "Beginners" (Oct. 14-15); "Shaun of the Dead," a personal fave (Oct. 27-28); "Submarine" (Nov. 4-5); "Fantasia" (Nov. 10-11); and "Dance With the One" (Nov. 17-18).

Tickets are cheap: $1 for UTEP students, faculty and staff with ID; $2 for everyone else.

• George Reynoso and the helpful, knowledgeable folks at All That Music & Video, 1506 Lee Trevino, will have another vinyl  sidewalk sale beginning Aug. 27. They plan to put "thousands" of LPs on sale for $1.

To make it a little easier on buyers this time — there was some chaos at the first one four months ago — they'll start a line at 8 a.m. and limit entry to the LP sales area to 25 people at a time. Purchases will be limited to 25 albums until 10 a.m. The store will be open until 7 p.m.

Call 594.9900 with any questions.

• Jimmy "Daze" Portillo will sign copies of the sixth and last edition of his locally based, historical comic, "Hell Paso: The Story of Dallas Stoudenmire," from noon-6 p.m. Set. 3 at All-Star Comics, 4406 Dyer.

Artists Arturo Delgado Molina and Chris Shehan will hand out free sketches.

 

 

Concert update: Mannheim Steamroller Christmas concert chugging here

Chip Davis' Mannheim Steamroller has been synonymous with high-end audio, pretty, instrumental and classically oriented pop and Christmas tours.

I don't know if El Paso's ever been a part of that, what with Trans-Siberian Orchestra dominating this area for more than 10 years.

But it will be indoctrinated Nov. 30 when one of two touring versions of Davis' band perform at the Plaza Theatre.

At the peak of their popularity, the group could fill a place like Detroit's The Palace of Auburn Hills, not just with music and visuals, but it would turn the entire arena into a Christmas wonderland.

The Christmas tour is now in its 26th year, more than twice as long as TSO has been around, and it's popular enough that Davis sends out two versions of the band, just like TSO.

No ticket details yet.

 

Concert update: Joan Sebastian, Natalie Grant

A couple more Coliseum shows to report.

The 60-year-old ranchera and pop singer-songwriter, Joan Sebastian will perform there at 6 p.m. Oct. 2.

Tickets to see "El Rey del Jaripeo (The King of the Rodeo)" are $49.50, $69.50, $89.50 and $110.

They're on sale at the box office, Ticketmaster outlets, ticketmaster.com and 800.745.3000.

The Coliseum also has booked four-time Dove Award winner Natalie Grant.

She'll perform at 7 p.m. Sept. 29.

Christian rapper KJ-52 will open the show.

Those tickets are $10 and $20, on sale at 10 a.m. Aug. 22 at the box office, Ticketmaster and 800.745.3000.

 

 

Concert update: Speaking Rock adds Polo Polo, Korn and Chevelle openers

Ribald Mexican comic Polo Polo will play a free outdoor show at 10 p.m. Aug. 27 at Speaking Rock Entertainment Center.

He may be 67, but the Mexico City native doesn't seem to have lost much of his popularity. His Facebook pages has more than 1 million friends.

Not too shabby.

Speaking Rock also has added some more openers for previously announced shows.

Star City Meltdown has been added to the Korn show on Oct. 8. Crossfade also is on that bill.

Rev Theory is not part of the "Share the Welt" tour stop at Speaking Rock on Oct. 28. The original tour announcement did not include them as being on the bill and stated it was part of the Share the Welt tour.

Now, it is. Rev joins a bill with Five Finger Death Punch, Hatebreek and All That Remains.

Also, Adelita's Way and Art of Dying have been added to the Oct. 29 Chevelle show there.

 

Concert update: Solo Wayne Static to Tricky Falls

Static-X founder and frontman Wayne Static has announced the first dates for his first solo tour, including an Oct. 7 show at Tricky Falls, the new club Jim Ward, Chase Cardenas and others are opening in the former Reyn Theatre.

The tour is in support of his debut solo album, "Pighammer," out Oct. 4.

The album, he says, delves into the sick and twisted side of his mind, when he was still doing drugs, but also deals with cleaning up his act.

"It's about a mad plastic surgeon, with a pig fetish, that likes to convert hot chicks into pigs," he said in a tour announcement. "It is the total opposite of what a plastic surgeon would do. He has this crazy hammer device made from a pig foot."

He'll be backed by an all-new band. Joining him on the tour are Eye Empire, Kyng, One Eyed Doll and Gemini Syndrome.

No ticket info yet.

It joins previously announced shows at the new club including Bright Eyes (Sept. 16), Taking Back Sunday (Oct. 5), the Radio La Chusma CD release party (Oct. 22) and the Sparta reunion (Nov. 17).