Monday, February 29, 2016

Unknown Mortal Orchestra Plays Emo's in ATX

Unknown Mortal Orchestra stopped by Emo's on February 7, 2016, for a show. Their latest album, Multi-Love, was released last year.

UMO is an American and New Zealand rock band which consists of lead singer, guitarist, song-writer Ruban Nielson, bassist Jake Portrait, keyboardist Quincy McRay, and drummer Riley Geare.



Ruban Nielson of UMO

Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Ruban Nielson

Riley Geare

Quincy McRay

Ruban Nielson


SetList for UMO:
Like Acid Rain
From The Sun
How Can You Luv Me
Ur Life One Night
Thought Ballune
The World Is Crowded
So Good At Being In Trouble
Swim and Sleep (Like A Shark)
Stage Or Screen
Ffunny Ffriends
Multi-Love

Encore:
Necessary Evil
Can't Keep Checking My Phone

Alessia Cara At Emo's

Canadian singer- songwriter Alessia Cara stopped by Emo's in Austin, Texas on February 6, 2016, for a sold-out show. Cara has been on tour in support of her debut album, Know-It-All, which was released in November 2015.










Set List for Alessia Cara:
I'm Yours
Wild Things
Four Pink Walls
Overdose
Stars Outlaws
Seventeen
Stone
River Of Tears
Scars To Your Beautiful
Here
Sweater Weather (The Neighbourhood cover)
My Song



Joining Cara on tour and opening the show were Kevin Garrett, Craig Stickland and Leaf.



Kevin Garrett
Kevin Garrett is an American soul-pop musician whose debut EP, Mellow Drama, was released in April 2015.







Craig Stickland
Craig Stickland is an indie rock, singer- songwriter performs his own music, as well as doubling as lead guitarist for Alessia Cara. His debut EP, Leave Me To The Wild, was released in January.






Leaf
Opening the night was rising rapper, Leaf.






Tuesday, February 23, 2016

I Love The 90's

The 1990's was an interesting decade with its own style of music and clothes. The Austin area was treated to a sampling of the decade's rap and hip-hop classics when the I Love The 90's tour stopped by the Cedar Park Center on February 5, 2016, for a night music presented by some of the 90's favorite hip-hop and rap stars.

Here's what the evening looked like.


Salt N Pepa with Spinderella


Cheryl "Salt" James

Sandra "Pepa" Denton

Cheryl "Salt" James

Sandra "Pepa" Denton

Salt N Pepa

Salt N Pepa



Vanilla Ice

Robert Matthew Van Winkle aka Vanilla Ice

Vanilla Ice

Vanilla Ice

Vanilla Ice




Coolio

Artis Leon Ivey Jr, aka Coolio

Coolio



Kid N Play

Christopher "Kid" Reid and Christopher "Play" Martin

Christopher "Kid" Reid and Christopher "Play" Martin



All 4 One


Delious Kennedy, Tony Borowiak, Alfred Nevarez, and Jamie Jones of ALL 4 ONE

Alfred Nevarez, Delious Kennedy, Tony Borowiak, and Jamie Jones of ALL 4 ONE


Rob Base

Robert Ginyard, aka Rob Base

Rob Base




Young MC


Marvin Young, aka Young MC

Young MC

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Dancing With The Stars Live

The Dancing With The Stars Live Winter Tour 2016 stopped by the University of Texas Bass Concert Hall on February 4, 2016.




The show featured dancers from the ABC hit reality show and one special guest who had participated in the last season of the show, Alek Slarlatos.  The cast members on tour include feature dancers Valentin Chmerkovskiy, Sharna Burgess, Peta Murgatroyd, Keo Motsepe, Emma Slater, Lindsay Arnold, and  Artem Chigvintsev. Rounding out the cast were studio dancers Brittany Cherry, Alan Bersten, and Jenna Johnson.


Here's just a taste of the action from the Austin tour stop.



Sharna Burgess

Valentin Chmerkovskiy

Emma Slater, Alek Skarlatos, and Lindsay Arnold

Lindsay Arnold, Alek Skarlatos, Brittany Cherry, Jenna Johnson

Alan Bersten, Jenna Johnson



Alan Bersten, Emma Slater

Artem Chigvintsev, Sharna Burgess

Peta Murgatroyd, Valentin Chmerkovskiy

Valentin Chmerkovskiy, Peta Murgatroyd