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Bob Schneider

April 23, 2016, 9:00 PM

The Maintenance Shop

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Doors open at 8:30pm
$20 ($15 w/ ISU student ID) in advance
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Bob Schneider is a fixture on the Austin, TX music scene, having kicked around for years in various bands before embarking on a solo career in 1999. Born in Michigan and partially raised in Germany, he dropped out of the University of Texas at El Paso to front his first band, the funk and rap outfit Joe Rockhead. The band released three independent albums before disbanding immediately prior to signing with a major label. A stint with a jam-band-esque, slightly Phishy outfit called the Ugly Americans followed, gaining some success as an opening act for the Dave Matthews Band. In 1997, Schneider went on to co-found the Scabs, where he made a further name for himself as a crotch-grabbing frontman. He then went solo in 1999, although initially performing under the name Lonelyland.

Schneider's musical approach as a solo artist proved to be as eclectic as the diverse musical styles of his former bands, combining the traditional singer/songwriter aesthetic with elements of funk, country, rock, and folk. His scruffy good looks and strong, husky voice attracted attention too, but it was Schneider's music — reminiscent of '70s icons from Neil Young to Paul Simon, with a slightly more modern sensibility of Beck and edgy lyrics about alienation, drug addiction, and lost romance — that maintained his popularity around Austin.

He began courting a national fan base with 2001's Lonelyland, his major-label debut for Universal Records, and followed it up with 2004's I'm Good Now. Schneider left Universal later that year and moved over to Vanguard; all-the-while continuing to release albums of various "side projects" via his own label, Shockorama Records. Most of those side projects would be re-released by Vanguard, as was another proper solo album, 2006's The Californian. Continuing to release material at a rapid rate, Schneider issued When the Sun Breaks Down on the Moon in 2007, Lovely Creatures in 2009, and A Perfect Day in 2011. His latest album, The King Kong Suite, was released in three 5-track EPs over the course of 2015: King Kong Vol. 1 in February, King Kong Vol. 2 in June, and King Kong Vol. 3 in October.

 

TICKETS: $20 ($15 w/ ISU Student ID) in advance $2 increase day of show

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