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Friday: Bully at Emo’s. The New York Times recently published an in-depth package titled “Rock’s Not Dead, It’s Ruled by Women.” The thesis was simple: In the current crop of garage rockers, the dudes can’t wave a grungey guitar at the ladies. Bully’s Alicia Bognanno wasn’t mentioned in the story, but she’s part of the same wave of post-riot-grrl rockers making thoughtful confessional songs backed by muscular riffs. Smut opens. $17-20. 8 p.m. 2015 E. Riverside Drive. emosaustin.com. (The band also will play a free in-store at Waterloo Records at 5 p.m.) — D.S.S.
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Friday-Saturday: Chuck Prophet & the Mission Express at Continental Club. With fewer touring acts out on the road in December, nightclubs often focus on holiday shows and local favorites. Leave it to the Continental to break that mold: Following last week’s two-night stand by Grammy-winner Dave Alvin, the club hits another home run this weekend with two nights of Bay Area rocker Chuck Prophet, one of the best live performers on the planet. He’ll play three times altogether, with a 10 p.m. set on Friday (the LeRoi Brothers play after) followed by Saturday shows at 8 p.m. and midnight (Mike Stinson opens the latter at 10:30 p.m.). $22. 1315 S. Congress Ave. continentalclub.com. — P.B.
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Saturday: KOOP Radio 23rd birthday party at Spider House Ballroom. Over the past few decades, as commercial radio has steadily declined into bland homogeneity, Austin’s community radio station has remained a solid provider of weird and wonderful programming you can’t hear anywhere else. Our October Austin360 Artist of the Month, Tomar & the FCs, kicks the party off with searing soul. Then Bubble Puppy, a regional psych rock phenom who scored a top 20 hit with the 1969 track “Hot Smoke and Sassafras,” closes out the night. $20. 7:30 p.m. 2908 Fruth St. spiderhouse.com. — DSS
Director Margaret Moser kicks off the 2006 Austin Music Awards. Kelly West 2006 AMERICAN-STATESMAN
Sunday: Margaret Moser memorial at Antone’s. The death of music journalist and Austin Music Awards founder Margaret Moser from cancer on Aug. 25 brought an outpouring of sentiment from the local music community. Ever the event-planner, Moser arranged many of the details for this show herself before her death. Names of performers are being kept under wraps, but sharing musical-director duties will be Charlie Sexton, working things in between his busy schedule playing guitar with Bob Dylan, and Monte Warden, frontman of longtime Austin country band the Wagoneers and new pop-jazz trio the Dangerous Few. $20. 2 p.m. 305 E. Fifth St. antonesnightclub.com. — P.B.
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Sunday: Radney Foster at Waterloo Records. It’s a special treat to hear the Del Rio native and longtime Nashville country star in such an intimate setting. Foster’s newest release, “For You to See the Stars,” is a CD-and-book package that includes a collection of short stories plus nine new songs (and a re-recorded version of his tune “Raining on Sunday,” which became a big hit for Keith Urban). Free. 5 p.m. 600 N. Lamar Blvd. waterloorecords.com. — P.B.
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Friday
Chris Fullerton at Townsend
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Grizfolk, Unlikely Candidates, Walker Lukens at Empire
Wye Oak, Moving Panoramas, Folk Uke at 3Ten
Norman Brown’s Joyous Christmas with Bobby Caldwell & Marion Meadows at One World Theatre
Bill Bill record release, Annabelle Chairlegs, Infinites, Pollen Rx at Hotel Vegas
Roast & Toast the Holidays with Carolyn Wonderland & Guy Forsyth at One-2-One Bar
Ray Bonneville, Gurf Morlix at El Mercado Backstage
South Austin Moonlighters, Denny Freeman at Saxon Pub
Carson McHone, Little Mikey & the Soda Jerks at ABGB
The Slackers (playing “Wasted Days”) at Flamingo Cantina
Tomar & the FCs at C-Boy’s
Elias Haslanger Quintet, Sharon Bourbonnais at Elephant Room
Rubilators, Michael Ubaldini at Hole in the Wall
Royal Forest, Good Field, Dan Ryan, Linen Closet at Sidewinder
Brandon Luedtke, Graham Weber, Willie Carlisle at Cactus Cafe
Betty Soo at Threadgill’s North
White Label Analog at Stubb’s
Saturday
Black Fret Ball at Paramount Theatre
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A Charlie Brown Christmas with Austin Chamber Music Center at Stateside at the Paramount
Drums, Hoops, Duncan Fellows at Emo’s
Sango at the Parish
Wanda Jackson at C-Boy’s
John Hartford tribute with Robert Ellis & Courtney Hartman at Cactus Cafe
Lou Ann Barton at Antone’s
KJ Sawka at Empire
Swass 6 at Barracuda
Communion, Crypt Trip, Glassing at Hotel Vegas
Blitzens, Churchwood, Transgressors at Carousel Lounge
Yawpers, Scott H. Biram at Mohawk indoor
Van Wilks, David Grissom, Staehely Brothers at Saxon Pub
Ugly Beats, Peachfuzz, DJ Sue at ABGB
Altercation Records Frost Giant Ball at Lost Well
Alex Ruiz at El Mercado Backstage
Russel Taine Jr., Vagabond Band, James Junius, Erica Michelle at Townsend
Saturday-Sunday
Timothy B. Schmit at One World Theatre
Sunday
Randy Newman at Paramount Theatre
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Gustafer Yellowgold at Spider House Ballroom
Kids in a New Groove benefit at Beerland
10th annual Flak Christmas Record Swap with Rite Flyers, Wannabes, Mike Nicolai, Utley3, Tontine, more at Carousel Lounge
Prayers, War of Icaza at Mohawk indoor
Soul of a Musician series with Dawn & Hawkes at Iron Cactus North
Hilary York, Aimee Bobruk, Dale Watson at C-Boy’s
Dialtones, A. Sinclair at Cheer Up Charlies
Willie Pipkin & Friends, Heybale, Jesse Lege & Bayou Brew at Continental Club
Interrobang Brass Band at Stay Gold
