In the Store

Saturday September 4th @ 6pm - Sleep Good

Friday September 10th @ 6pm - The Authors

Saturday September 11th @ 6pm - The Weird Weeds

At the Alamo Ritz

(End of an Ear is a proud sponsor of Music Mondays)

Monday, August 30th - Zachariah
In this loose retelling of Herman Hesse's Siddhartha, Zachariah (John Rubenstein) and his best friend Matthew (Don Johnson) are small-town boys who decide to become gunfighters. After first taking up with a band of musical outlaws, the Crackers (hilariously played by the legendary agit-prop pop group Country Joe and the Fish), the two decide to join ace gunslinger Joe Cain (legendary drummer Elvin Jones) and his gang (The James Gang featuring future Eagle Joe Walsh). Finding himself disturbed by killing, a shift to a pacifist philosophy (prompted by Crazy Cajun oracle Doug Kershaw) sends Zach back to farming, while Matthew blasts his way through the gunfighter ranks, inexorably working his way to a showdown with the one marksman he's not sure he can beat - Zachariah. Featuring heavily homoerotic overtones and a script by the Firesign Theatre comedy troupe.

Monday, September 6th - Wattstax
"100,000 brothers and sisters turning on to being black...telling it like it is!" Soul music and R&B were never better than in the late '60s and early '70s, and despite what Motown fans would say, no record label captured the sound of the era better than Memphis' Stax Records. The home to such artist as Otis Redding, Booker T & the MGs, the Staple Singers, Rufus and Carla Thomas, the Bar-Kays and the late, great Isaac Hayes, Stax would create a musical legacy that remains potent to this day. On August 20, 1972, Stax cemented this legacy by holding a concert at the L.A. Coliseum that was dubbed "the black Woodstock" by many, and the resulting concert film WATTSTAX remains one of the best ever made.