from the Express-News, by Jim Beal:
Bloodfeast 3
It's not a horror movie, though it'll likely sound like one now and then. It's not a human sacrifice fest, though there might be some blood, real and imagined. And it's not going to be quite as dangerous as it sounds.
Bloodfeast 3 is a gathering of the psychobilly tribe, the place where roots rock, punk, metal and all-out energy, not to mention upright basses galore, meet and mingle with horror themes. And Friday night it's set to invade Sam's Burger Joint before moving to Club Clearview in Dallas on Saturday.
Staged by the San Antonio-based Texas Psychobilly Company working with Hairball 8 Records and Psychobilly*US, Bloodfeast 3 will feature an array of area, national and international psychobilly purveyors.
The gathering kicks off at 6:30 with a screening of the film "The Psychobilly Sickness." Live music downbeat is set for 8:30 with, in order of appearance, Dead City Shakers (Dallas), Blood Moon Howlers (San Antonio), Zombilly (Houston), G-String (France), The Koffin Kats (Detroit) and, at 12:30 a.m., Concombre Zombi (Austin). Tickets cost $12 at the door; it's an all-ages show.
For the uninitiated, psychobilly has less in common with rockabilly than punk, but is nonetheless built on rockabilly's upright-bass/guitar/drums foundation. Some bands take the horror/psycho themes more seriously than others, but, for the most part, the slapping bass and driving sounds overcome everything else.
The French G-String, described as a "slap-punk" band just in case you thought you knew every music description, is likely to be the rudest and crudest band on the bill. Touring with a CD with a title that won't be printed in a family newspaper, the trio is designed to shock.
Detroit's Koffin Kats, working with the disc "Inhumane," are among the most musically accomplished bands on the psychobilly circuit. There are only three of them, but the KKs never let up. Songs such as "Chainsaw Massacre," "Demon Demon" and "She's Deadly" would sound just fine if they were called "Pillow Fight," "Bunny Bunny" and "She's Nice." But then that would require a whole new subgenre on the order of "smileybilly" or something that just doesn't sound cool.
Austin-based Concombre Zombi, a trio that has been around for a while, is celebrating the release of its "Daylight Comes" CD. Rest assured most of the Bloodfeast 3 participants don't relish seeing daylight at all.
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Women will rule Casbeers all weekend. Friday night Sisters Morales move in with their eclectic repertoire that includes classic Mexican songs, honky-tonk, rock and combinations thereof.
Apparently it's official, or it's an egregious typo. Girls in a Coma, one of San Antonio's most popular alt-rock, etc. bands, tried to change its name a few months ago and the name change didn't take. Friday night at The Sanctuary it looks like the band will again attempt a name change, and make it official via a record, yes, record, release party.
And the new moniker? Girl in a Coma. The all-female trio of Jenn, Nina and Phanie is celebrating the release of an honest-to-goodness 7-inch vinyl single, "Both Before and Gone" b/w "Please, Please, Please." And not only is it a vinyl single, it's pressed on white vinyl. And the band name on the record is Girl in a Coma.
Girl in a Coma will get assists Friday night from Meek, Doom to Bloom, The Shim Shams, Thomas Cunningham & the Locofocos and D esdemona. It's an all-ages show.
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