The Twangfest eBay Auction is an annual tradition, and a lot of fun. This year the hot items include:

• Sealed copy of Trace by Son Volt on vinyl
• Signed Ray Wylie Hubbard Digipak
• Signed Marty Stuart CDs and vinyl
• Signed Carolina Chocolate Drops CDs
• Out of print Alison Krauss vinyl albums
• Signed Alejandro Escovedo CDs and vinyl

Plus tons of rare and wild punk 7″ singles, all in near mint condition, posters, CDs, vinyl, and much much more.

Bid today!

We’ve got a great in-store at Twangfest sponsor Euclid Records on Saturday, June 12 with Ha Ha Tonka at 3 p.m. Plus, tune in to 88.1 KDHX all week for live, in-studio sessions with Big Smith, Shannon McNally and Ray Wylie Hubbard. Get all the details and times here.

This is huge. Become a Friend of Twangfest, get 4-night badge access to the festival, the house concert invite, all the merch, and, this year, a copy of the brand new Twangfest: Live at KDHX CD.

Order the Friends Pack and get the CD!

The CD features 17 exclusive tracks by past and present Twangfest performers, all recorded live at the Magnolia Avenue Studios of 88.1 KDHX in St. Louis, Mo. Artists include Old 97’s, Alejandro Escovedo, Chuck Prophet, Slaid Cleaves, Ha Ha Tonka, and the Bottle Rockets.

There’s nothing like it anywhere.

Twangfest: Live at KDHX

1 Deadstring Brothers “Talkin’ Born Blues” (3/9/06)

2 Amy LaVere “Washing Machine” (12/8/07)

3 Tim Easton “Lexington Jail” (6/7/07)

4 Carrie Rodriguez “Absence” (11/13/07)

5 Alejandro Escovedo “Evita’s Lullaby” (8/17/06)

6 Slaid Cleaves “Drinking Days” (5/15/08)

7 Chuck Prophet “Would You Love Me” (6/5/08)

8 Jon Hardy and the Public “I Will” (5/17/08)

9 Ha Ha Tonka “The Outpouring” (8/26/08)

10 JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound “Baltimore Is the New Brooklyn” (1/30/10)

11 Old 97’s “Dance With Me” (6/6/08) 2:38

12 The Dynamites featuring Charles Walker “Own Thing” (1/10/08)

13 The Bottle Rockets “Hard Times” (10/6/09)

14 Big Smith “Don’t You Ever” (11/1/07)

15 Theodore “Furnished Room” (2/8/10)

16 Will Johnson “I, the Kite” (6/4/08)

17 Dolly Varden “Truth Is Told” (6/8/07)

If you’re traveling to St. Louis for Twangfest, don’t miss the special Twangfest hotel discount at the Best Western by the Lambert Airport. Discount expires May 9, 2010.

Twangfest Hotel Discount

And finally, if you haven’t gotten your deluxe Friends of Twangfest “Dan Pack,” do it today. The first 70 orders will receive an exclusive invitation to a Special House Concert and Reception with Warner Hodges and Jason Ringenberg of Jason & the Scorchers.

Buy Friends of Twangfest “Dan Pack”

Twangfest 14. June 9-12, 2010 in St. Louis.

Single night advance tickets on sale now for Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights at the Duck Room through Ticketmaster.

No advance single night tickets for Tap Room show. Single night tickets for Wednesday, June 9 at the Schlafly Tap Room are available at the door for $15 flat. Cash only.

Become a Friend of Twangfest and get: Badge access to all 4 nights of Twangfest 14, invite to reception at the Schlafly Tap Room, t-shirt, poster, and CD. PLUS: The first 70 orders will receive admission to a Special House Concert & Reception with Warner Hodges and Jason Ringenberg of Jason and the Scorchers! Friends packs will be available at the door June 9 and 10 for $125 cash. Budget 4 night passes also available at the door for $70 cash.

Wednesday, June 9: Schlafly Tap Room
Big Smith
Shannon McNally
Colonel Ford

Thursday, June 10: Blueberry Hill’s Duck Room
Ray Wylie Hubbard
Blue Rodeo
These United States
Magnolia Summer

Friday, June 11: Blueberry Hill’s Duck Room
Detroit Cobras
Those Darlins
JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound

Saturday, June 12: Blueberry Hill’s Duck Room
Jason and the Scorchers
Ha Ha Tonka
Magnolia Mountain

More info, including details about the Special House Concert and Reception with Warner Hodges and Jason Ringenberg, in the press release below!

For immediate release.

14th annual Americana, rock, soul and roots music festival returns to St. Louis

Headliners include: Jason & the Scorchers, Detroit Cobras, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Blue Rodeo and Big Smith

St. Louis, April 21, 2010. Twangfest, the non-profit, grassroots music festival presented by 88.1 KDHX, celebrates its 14th year of booking legendary and up-and-coming artists in American music.

This year’s lineup features one of the seminal figures in the alt-country, cow punk, roots rock, whatever-you-want-to-call-it revolution: Jason & the Scorchers. Formed in 1981, the band, known for its incendiary live shows, and led by founders Jason Ringenberg and Warner Hodges, has regrouped for a new album, Halcyon Times, and an international tour. The band appears at Twangfest, on Saturday, June 12 at the Blueberry Hill Duck Room.

Also on the bill for Saturday is Springfield, Mo.’s Ha Ha Tonka, whose star has been steadily rising since the 2009 release of Novel Sounds of the Nouveau South, hailed by Spin.com as “violent, literate, unapologetic Southern rock.”

Friday, June 11, Twangfest presents a garage soul showcase at the Duck Room, featuring headliners the Detroit Cobras. With the beyond sultry vocals and stage-melting presence of Rachel Nagy, the Cobras enter their 16th year together as, in the words of Amplifier magazine, “the most intuitive and soulful garage band on the planet.”

Joining the Detroit Cobras are Those Darlins, who just may be Murfreesboro, Tenn.’s answer to the Runaways, and JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound, who could be Chicago’s answer to Otis Redding fronting the Kingsmen.

On Thursday, June 10, Twangfest is proud to present legendary songwriter Ray Wylie Hubbard, who makes his first appearance in St. Louis in nearly a decade. Hubbard started out in the same hard-drinking honky tonks as his friends Jerry Jeff Walker and Willie Nelson, but he’s gone on to become one of the most respected and engaging performers in acoustic music (though he’s just as likely to rev up an electric guitar).

Co-headlining Thursday night is definitive Canadian country pop band Blue Rodeo. Formed in 1984, Blue Rodeo has released over a dozen records, and has influenced a generation of Americana artists both north and south of the border. The band is currently touring in support of the ambitious double album The Things We Left Behind. Also on the bill for night 2 of Twangfest is eclectic indie band These United States and lyrical St. Louis rockers Magnolia Summer.

Kicking it all off on Wednesday night, June 9, is Big Smith, a rambunctious acoustic rock band from Springfield, Mo. The collective of cousins combines acoustic guitars, mandolin, bass, fiddle and washboard to revel in the good, the bad and the wild side of Ozark life. Twangfest is also pleased to welcome a rare St. Louis appearance by Oxford, Miss. group Shannon McNally and Hot Sauce, who has just released the album Coldwater, produced by the legendary Jim Dickinson.

Single night tickets are $15 for Wednesday, June 9 at the Schlafly Tap Room, and $20 for Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights at the Blueberry Hill Duck Room. Four-night passes to Twangfest are available online through Twangfest.com for a discount rate of $70. Single night tickets for Duck Room shows go on sale through Ticketmaster on Friday, April 23 at 5 p.m. Central. Single tickets for Wednesday, June 9 will be available at the Tap Room the night of the show.

This year, KDHX and Twangfest are pleased to offer the Friends of Twangfest “Dan Pack” for $125. This deluxe package includes admission to all 4 nights of Twangfest, plus an invitation to a Special House Concert and Reception with Warner Hodges and Jason Ringenberg of Jason and the Scorchers. This afternoon party will be held Saturday, June 12 from 1-4 p.m. Central, and is exclusive to Friends of Twangfest, and limited to the first 70 individuals to purchase the Friends of Twangfest “Dan Pack.” Beverages will be provided, and the band will be performing acoustic and taking advance requests from Friends of Twangfest.

All proceeds from the Friends of Twangfest packages and the 4-night passes go directly to KDHX Community Media, a non-profit, non-commercial radio, TV and film institution, celebrating over 22 years of enriching the cultural life of the St. Louis metro region and beyond. Purchases of Friends of Twangfest “Dan Packs” are tax deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.

For the complete Twangfest 14 schedule and online orders for the Friends of Twangfest “Dan Packs” and 4-Night passes visit Twangfest.com.

Media contact:
Nico Leone  Co-Executive Director KDHX
nico at kdhx dot org   (314) 664-3955 x 301

Where: Jovita’s in Austin

When: Thursday, March 18 and Saturday, March 20, 2010. Noon-5 p.m.

Who: Get the lineup here.

How: E-mail sxsw at twangfest dot com to RSVP.

It’s the best party in Austin.

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We’ve got a fresh order of the skull-tacular Twangfest 13 t-shirts and striking posters, designed by Jason Baldwin, on sale now at the KDHX store. Click here to order shirts. Click here for posters.

And finally, Twangfest is proud to announce the finalists and winner of the first Twangfest Flickr Contest. For his winning photo of Andre Williams, Chad Williams (no relation), will receive a Twangfest 13 poster and a KDHX t-shirt. Thanks to everyone who participated!

Twangfest Flicker Contest Finalists

Photo by Shane Epping

Photo by xxmolls

Photo by Lisa Dickmann

Photo by Tom Lampe

Twangfest Flicker Contest Winner

Photo by Chad Williams

Listen!

Here’s how it works: Take some great photos at Twangfest 13, upload them to Flickr, and tag them with “twangfest” and “kdhx.” After the festival, we’ll peruse them all and a panel of Twangfest judges will choose the most fantastic photo as our winner. The photographer will get the swag!

KDHX and Twangfest staff are not eligible for this contest.

See you at Twangfest! And don’t forget your camera!

And join Twangfest after Night One at the Pageant on Wed, June 10 for an after party at the Halo Bar, featuring the Dock Ellis Band and the Incurables. Music runs from Midnight to 2:00 am.