Friendship with Little Mazarn

Music for sleeping and waking, walking and driving, hunting and fishing, for loitering outside a roadhouse on the haunted tundra. Okay in elevators, not great for dinner. On Caveman Wakes Up — Friendship’s new album and second for Merge Records — the band’s historically capacious definition of country music grows wider still. Shambolic guitars are offset by flute pads, bleary poetry is set against a Motown rhythm section, a song about Jerry Garcia and First Lady Betty Ford fades out with a drum solo, like if Talk Talk came from a dingy Philadelphia basement and was fronted by James Tate. Songwriter Dan Wriggins’s ragged baritone cuts through eleven murky, swirling country-rock songs with profound lyrical substance and sincerity.

Presented by Hotel Vegas.

Venue: Hotel Vegas — 1502 East 6th Street, Austin.

Note: This is a 21+ event. Tickets & info.