Is our songs hilarious?
You want funny—not chuckle-chuckle humorous, but laugh-out-loud-and-worry-about-peeing-your-pants funny? Check out the Austin Lounge Lizards, five long-in-the-tooth lads from the Lone Star State’s capital who, to the casual observer, might be mistaken for Weird Al Yankovic times five for the Prairie Home Companion set. Sure, their version of Pink Floyd’s “Brain Damage,” retooled as a high-octane bluegrass number, has a Weird Al ring to it. But “Hillbillies in a Haunted House” sounds like an Edward Gorey rewrite of the old summer-camp countdown “99 Bottles of Beer,” and who else could pull off a tune such as “The Illusion Travels by Stock Car” (from the group’s new album Never an Adult Moment), which imagines surrealist Luis Buñuel filming a biopic about NASCAR legend Richard Petty. Genius. The Lizards will appear at the Sierra 2 Theatre, 2791 24th St., at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 27. Tickets are $18.