We regret to inform both of the ticket holders to that ill-advised Vanilla Ice gig, which drew even more negative national press to Austin at a moment when we were already awash in negative national press, has been indefinitely postponed.
All the more reason to STAY HOME this holiday weekend and get your Picnic on! Willie Nelson’s annual 4th of July Picnic is a virtual gig this year, hosted by Nelson boys Lukas and Micah and featuring the usual overload of kickass talent including Sheryl Crow, Asleep At The Wheel, Steve Earle, Robert Earl Keen, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Lyle Lovett, Edie Brickell, Margo Price, Nathaniel Rateliff and a ton more in a combination of new performances and flashbacks to some of the craziest moments of the Picnic’s almost 50-year era. There’s a cover of $35 and that goes up ten bucks on show day, so invest prudently.
And, the wifey and I are both great big fans of The Go-Go’s, so it’s a welcome pandemic distraction that they’re cranking out their first new music in years, and that Showtime will soon feature the rock doc on the band that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival back in the Before Times. (Meanwhile, Austinite and bassist Kathy Valentine’s memoir has been one of the buzziest reads of the pandemic.)
