Dance Your Way Across Texas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Feel like dancing next weekend? I hope so and if you find yourself in Austin or Houston, consider it on. Friday night in Austin, I’ll be playing some records alongside my friends Greg Most and Second Line Social at our regular Soul Happening night at the Legendary White Swan. A fantastic old juke joint that’s steadfastly stood at the corner of 12th and Chicon for well over 40 years. Saturday night, back in Houston, I’m honored to have my Dallas-based compatriot, Rerog play some fine soul 45s alongside me. I promise both shows will be chock-full of Houston’s funkiest 45s. Why not just come out to both for a super soul-filled weekend? Now who wants to carpool to Austin and back?

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Dirty Honey Friday August 7, 2010

Your monthly dose of rare funk and soul 45s is back with Brett Koshkin and special guest from Austin Second Line Social.

I’m very excited to have my Soul Happening cohort down to Houston to wreck the dance floor. He’s a busy man these days. When not doing Soul Happening in Austin with me, he’s DJing the Second Sunday Sock Hop at the Shangri La and providing some of the best soul music around to the public at his store Breakaway Records.

FREE as always, nothing but the best and rarest soul vinyl will be played.

Dancing the Gulf Coast Better

For close to ten years now, I’ve been DJing with a group of fantastic guys in Austin under the moniker “Soul Happening” formerly, WAXPLOITATION! The shows we do together are nothing short of awe-inspiring. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to toot my own horn, I just see more people having nothing short of a blast at the shows, something I’m very proud of.

We figure it’s time we do some good because, well… we can. We should. So we’ve put together this show with our very bitter friends/enemies the Second Sunday Sock Hop. I hope to see you there.

Soul Happening vs Second Sunday Sock Hop Benefit 07-30-2010

The Battle for Soul Supremacy!!!
Soul Happening vs. Second Sunday Sock Hop
A Benefit for the Gulf

Friday July 30th, 2010
At The Mohawk – 912 Red River
Austin, Texas

Nobody is happy about the BP spill in the gulf. We’ve watched friends and family lose their way of life, their livelihood, all they know striped from them by a black plague of sorts. States on the Gulf of Mexico have always played an important role in our lives. Most, if not all of the record collections you hear at the two big soul nights in Austin seem to have a rather large percentage of singles from these areas. Gulf States artists like Eddie Bo and Little Beaver have been staples at Soul Happening and the Second Sunday Sock Hop since their inception and have worn out many a dance floor. When Mardi Gras comes around, the Sock Hop celebrates it to the fullest, putting on a decadent party every year. When Katrina’s dark waters ran amuck, Soul Happening held a benefit show playing nothing but Louisiana soul and funk. These lands provide the food we eat, the music we love and more culture and traditions than entire countries could dream about having. And now these lands need our help.