Complete event listing for
Esther's Follies
525 E 6th St
Venue infoAge Policy: All Ages
Saturday, March 8
Few names are as synonymous with improv as Matt Besser. Founding member of the Upright Citizens Brigade and a regular performer in the world-famous show ASSSSCAT, Matt has brought his talents to this fully improvised pod…
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Adam Pally, Jon Gabrus, Matt Besser
The Grawlix is a live comedy show featuring Adam Cayton-Holland, Andrew Orvedahl and Ben Roy that incorporates stand-up, videos and sketch comedy, all sprinkled with occasional bickering. Based out of Denver, the Grawlix…
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Adam Cayton-Holland, Andrew Orvedahl, Ben Roy, Matt Braunger, Matt Besser
From Paul Provenza and Troy Conrad, Set List: Stand-Up Without A Net is currently a TV series on Sky Atlantic in the UK starring Robin Williams, Maria Bamford, Gilbert Gottfried, Greg Proops, Fred Willard, Drew Carey, Re…
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Adam Cayton-Holland, Ben Kronberg, Greg Proops, Jonah Ray, Kate Berlant, Matt Braunger, Nate Bargatze, Paul Provenza
Sunday, March 9
Join host Scott Aukerman (“Comedy Bang! Bang!” on IFC, “Mr. Show”) for a weekly podcast that blends conversation and character work from today’s funniest comedians. While Scott begins by traditionally interviewing the ce…
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Scott Aukerman
Join host Scott Aukerman (“Comedy Bang! Bang!” on IFC, “Mr. Show”) for a weekly podcast that blends conversation and character work from today’s funniest comedians. While Scott begins by traditionally interviewing the ce…
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Scott Aukerman
The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail hails all the way from the back of a comic book store in Los Angeles, our home since 2010, where we've been named one of the best standup show in LA by LA Weekly, LA Times, and Hollywoo…
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Andres du Bouchet, Andrew Orvedahl, Byron Bowers, James Adomian, Jonah Ray, Kumail Nanjiani
Above Average and the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater present an evening with some of the freshest faces in comedy. Featuring performances from Fred Armisen, Sasheer Zamata, Good Neighbor, Chris Gethard and more. Hosted…
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Beck Bennett, BriTANicK , Chris Gethard, Dave McCary, Fred Armisen, Joe Wengert, Kyle Mooney, Nick Rutherford, Sasheer Zamata, Tim Robinson
Monday, March 10
Todd Barry (Louie, The Wrestler) hosts a live episode of his podcast, a conversation between a few funny friends that features plenty of Barry’s deadpan wit and dark humor.……
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Todd Barry
Comedian and director of the obscenely hilarious hit film The Aristocrats, Paul Provenza invites some of the biggest names in stand-up to sit down and try to beat each other to the punch line. From politics and racism to…
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Paul Provenza
The Creek and The Cave has turned Long Island City into one of NYC’s top comedy destinations, and this show features acts who frequently appear on their award-winning stage.……
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James Adomian, Jay Oakerson, Jerrod Carmichael, Kate Berlant, Pete Davidson
Tuesday, March 11
Affable host Pete Holmes (star of the Conan-produced Pete Holmes Show) presents a live episode of his podcast, where he explores the varied weirdnesses of friends and surprise guests.……
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Jim Breuer, Matt Braunger, Pete Holmes
The legendary New York City comedy club -- home of hit AXS.tv series 'Gotham Comedy Live' -- hosts some of their most popular performers, with headliner Jim Breuer joined by Nate Bargatze, Matt Braunger, and more. Presen…
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Byron Bowers, Jim Breuer, Maggie Maye, Matt Braunger, Nate Bargatze, Sinbad
The legendary New York City comedy club -- home of hit AXS.tv series 'Gotham Comedy Live' -- hosts some of their most popular performers, with headliner Jim Breuer joined by Nate Bargatze, Matt Braunger, and more. Presen…
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Jerrod Carmichael, Jim Breuer, Maggie Maye, Matt Braunger, Nate Bargatze, Sinbad
Wednesday, March 12
Proudly billed as "the most bizarre and often saddest talk show in New York City," this public access hit promises a truly unique, absolutely unpredictable live show. With special guests The Front Bottoms! Check out ww…
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Chris Gethard
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Cindy Lee Berryhill is a California musician-songwriter married to the late rock journalist Paul Williams. She has released six albums since 1988 on way cool indie labels like Rhino, Rough Trade, Cargo and Demon. Berryhi…
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Bred from brothers Blair and Ian Dewane, Rusty Maples started out as Las Vegas Strip busking sessions between singer Blair Dewane and Ian Dewane. In 2011 Rusty Maples was formed with the addition of Max Plenke and Mike …
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Gabby Young was on track to become an opera singer until Jeff Buckley and the jazz greats inspired her to switch teams. Gabby’s unique perspective of the world around her is inspired as much by imagination as real eve…
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Operating well beyond the remit of alt-folk, Cocos Lovers (pronounced Co-Coss) are a distinctive musical force, seamlessly channeling influences from Africa, the US Deep South and several other real and imagined corners …
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"Mike Love is a true artist... who uses ingenuity to create organic, multi-Layered, Live, Acoustic Reggae Soul Folk." ~ Usher Raymond IV "Mike Love is one of the most…
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Thursday, March 13
Superego began in 2006 when Matt Gourley and Jeremy Carter finally decided to record some of the stupid things they’d been saying. Luckily, Podcasts were just starting to emerge as an obscure form of media that no one wa…
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Jeff Bryan Davis
Loud Village is known for throwing some of LA’s best comedy and music parties. And this year, they’re doing both in Austin with help from their friends in Loveway Records! Come join in on the fun as they come together …
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Byron Bowers, Jake Weisman, Sean O'Connor, TJ Miller
Desert didn’t had enough time to be “the best kept secret in Barcelona”. With just two songs their name start to run from a blog to another blog around the World: they talked about Cocteau Twins, Laurel Halo, Broadcast a…
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Opus, a reference to Chopin’s Fantasie Impromptu, Opus 66 -- and Orange, a reference to Charles Mingus’ “Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress”, foreshadows Paul Bessenbacher’s (PB) ability to mesh together two seemingly dis…
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Nearly a year after self-releasing her debut LP, Wolfe teamed up with master producer Mike McCarthy (Spoon, Patty Griffin, Heartless Bastards, Trail of Dead) for "Mechanical Hands," a powerful and dynamic EP that hints a…
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TURBO GOTH is a young and fresh Electronic Rock Band from the Philippines circa 2008. Composed of PAOLO PERALTA (on guitars, drum beats, and electronic sampler) and Tattoo Artist/Freelance Illustrator/Model, SARAH GAUGLE…
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We don’t have to look far to find the result of what happens when filters are removed and people create what they think they want to create. Most often, it’s chaos. It takes a truly gifted artist, at the exact moment …
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Friday, March 14
Howard Kremer and his trusty chart keeper Kulap Vilaysack are here with the charts of the week. Learn what is hitting in music and movies, and learn about some of your favorite comedians with games like Chart Roulette at…
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Howard Kremer, Kulap Vilaysack
The Cold Start have unveiled their second release, Grateful Eyes, a six track indie pop record written, produced and recorded by four Englishmen living in Orlando on October 14th 2013. Grateful Eyes chronicles the bands …
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Buzz go these busy bees of Brooklyn as they collect a pollen of sight and sound to make mescaline-laced honey for your immediate consumption. Starlight Girls live in a swirling fun house of everything you don't hate abou…
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If you got a team of the greatest children’s book writers in the world together, they couldn’t invent Greenlandic indie singer Nive Nielsen. In her case at least, band bios are simply stranger than fiction. A few facts…
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With a couple of albums of original work under her belt, released in Europe and her native Denmark, CALLmeKAT is now back with a brand new EP. The Scandinavian alt psych-pop songstress has won over ears and hearts al…
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Youngblood Brass Band flouts convention in an ecstatic, raucous, incendiary fashion, taking the form of a New Orleans brass band and morphing it into a punked-out hip-hop behemoth of groove and purpose. The ten-member en…
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Saturday, March 15
Watching Emily Bell roll a South By Southwest crowd under her thumb within minutes of taking the stage, it’s evident she’s full of both sophisticated soul and strutting rock ’n’ roll. Raised in musical theater, tutored b…
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Colonies is the latest 7" from UK quartet Battle Lines. Haunting and fraught with inner conflict, 'Colonies' fuses intense, atmospheric guitars, surging rhythm and fragile lyrics that disarm the soul. Described by Noisey…
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"Grace London is a 14-year-old singer, songwriter, guitar player and foot stomper. The Austin native writes witty lyrics reminiscent of Kate Nash and sings with drama: incorporating repetition, breathing and warbling int…
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Lily & The Parlour Tricks dive deep into the well of musical Americana and resurface with a wild brew. With equally heavy doses of both early rock n' roll and millennial pop, Lily’s songwriting influences range from The …
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Ivan & The Parazol is a Hungarian rock’n’roll band. Formed in 2010, the group consists of five members. Their 21. century beat music incorporates influences from the the 60’s-70’s new wave genres. The garage rock band’s …
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Brooklyn, NY based artist, Ron Pope, is much more than the labels and stereotypes he’s acquired during his budding career. Pope is a musical Renaissance Man, writing, composing, recording, producing, managing, and igniti…
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