Aural Sex 6/26

Take the jump for this weekend’s live music break down. You kids be safe out there.

Mucho take it easy.

Asheville
Friday and Saturday – Vortex Music Festival

Austin
Thursday – Alejandro Escovedo/The Mother Truckers (Continental Club), Band of Heathens (Saxon Pub)
Friday – Alejandro Escovedo/The Mother Truckers (Continental Club), Patrice Pike (Nutty Brown Cafe), Matt Wertz (Stubbs), James McMurtry (Threadgills)
Saturday – Alejandro Escovedo (Auditorium Shores), Muchos Backflips (Flamingo Cantina)

Atlanta
Thursday – Merle Haggard (Cobb Energy Perf. Arts)
Friday – Emmylou Harris/Sam Bush (Chastain Park)
Sunday – REO Speedwagon/Joan Jett (Chastain Park)

Bayfield, WI
Thursday – Willie Nelson (Big Top Chautauqua)

Carrboro/Chapel Hill/Durham
Friday – Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band (Music on the Lawn)
Monday – King Khan & the Shrines (Local 506)

Charlotte
Friday – East Coast Dirt (Double Door Inn)
Tuesday – Dave Matthews Band/Michael Franti (Verizon Wireless)

Chicago
Thursday – Dickey Betts & Great Southern (Bevery Arts Center)
Friday – Chaka Kahn/Angie Stone (Taste of Chicago), Kevin Costner and Modern West (HOB), Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey (Lakeshore Theater), Jakob Dylan (Metro)
Saturday – Stevie Wonder (Taste of Chicago), Signal Path (Kinetic Playground), Uncle Boogie Pants (Lucille’s)
Tuesday – Fareed Haque/Garaj Mahal (Taste of Chicago)
Wednesday – Tom Petty/Steve Winwood (United Center)

Council Bluffs, IA
Friday – Willie Nelson (Harrah’s Casino & Hotel)

Dallas
Thursday – Bob Schneider (Belmont Hotel)
Friday – Bob Schneider (Granada Theater)
Saturday – Stone Temple Pilots/Black Francis (Nokia Live)

Denver
Thursday – Crosby, Stills & Nash (Wells Fargo Theater)
Friday – Col. Bruce/Jerry Joseph (Cervantes’ Materpiece), Bobby Lee Rogers & the Codetalkers (Quixote’s True Blue), Widespread Panic (Red Rocks)
Saturday – Gnarls Barkley (Coors Field), Bobby Lee Rogers & the Codetalkers (Quixote’s True Blue), Widespread Panic (Red Rocks)
Sunday – Greyhounds (Dulcinea’s 100th Monkey), Widespread Panic (Red Rocks)
Tuesday – Snoop Dogg/311 (Red Rocks)

Ft. Worth
Friday – Muchos Backflips! (The Moon)
Saturday – Hootie and the Blowfish (Billy Bobs)

Houston
Thursday – Greyhounds (Continental Club)
Saturday – Stone Temple Pilots/Black Francis (Woodlands)

Knoxville, TN
Sunday – Tom Waits (Civic Coliseum)

Milwaukee
Thursday – Stevie Wonder (Marcus Theater)
Friday – Rush (Marcus Amphitheater)
All Week – Summerfest

New York, NY
Thursday – Soulive (poisson rouge), Theivery Corp (Central Park SummerStage)
Friday – Cold War Kids (Prospect Park Bandshell)
Saturday – The Black Angels/The Warlocks (Southpaw), Benevento/Russo Duo (The Yard)

Odessa, Texas
Saturday – Willie Nelson (Dos Amigos)

Raleigh
Thursday – Will Hoge (Pour House)
Friday – Yonder Mountain/Keller Williams (Regency Park-Cary), Dirty Dozen Brass Band (Lincoln)
Sunday – Jeff Sipe (Lincoln Theater)
Wednesday – Dave Matthews Band/Michael Franti (Walnut Creek)

Richmond, VA
Thursday – Richmond Afrobeat Movement (Emilios Tapas Bar)
Friday – DJ Le Spam & the Spam Allstars (Brown’s Island)
Monday – Burning Brides (The Canal Club)

San Antonio
Friday – Stone Temple Pilots/Black Francis (AT&T Center)

Santa Barbara
Thursday – Snoop Dogg (Santa Barbara Bowl)

St. Louis
Friday – Tom Waits (Fox)
Tuesday – Modest Mouse (The Pageant)
Wednesday – Garaj Mahal (Lucas School House Music Hall)