Alejandro Escovado has lived his entire life immersed in music. After growing up in a musical family in Texas, he moved to San Francisco and joined the punk rock group The Nuns. His career then took him to New York City and back to Austin as a member of several roots rock and alternative country bands. His latest work, solo album Echo Dancing, traces his storied musical history as he reinvents his older works with inspiration from acts like Brian Eno and Suicide. James Mastro is a Hoboken-based rock and Americana musician who is coming along on the tour, both to join Escovedo’s band on stage and to support his newest release, Dawn of a New Error. Mastro has a history of touring with legends, among these Patti Smith, Judy Collins and Robert Plant. His new record is similarly star studded, including Brian Griffin and Steve Goulding. He describes it as, “Textural and otherworldly one minute and retro-rock the next.”
WHO: Alejandro Escovedo and James Mastro
WHEN: Thursday, Apr. 4, 7 p.m. (doors)
WHERE: 40 Watt Club
HOW MUCH: $25
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