Tonight (Wednesday) at 4:30 p.m. at Rave Motion Pictures-Ridgmar (2300 Green Oaks Rd, 817-566-0021) will be a screening of Bandslam, starring High School Musical’s Vanessa Hudgens, Alyson Michalka (from Aly & AJ), and Friends’ Lisa Kudrow and featuring Fort Worth’s The Burning Hotels, who are shown performing one of their most well known songs, “Stuck in the Middle.” The song also will appear on the soundtrack released by Hollywood Records (a label whose roster includes Jonas Brothers, Demi Lovato, and Miley Cyrus) along with tracks by Nick Drake, Wilco, Nico/Velvet Underground, and David freaking Bowie. No word yet on when the Hoteliers’ forthcoming sophomore album, Novels, will be released, but the first single, “Austin’s Birthday,” will be available at the band’s Fri., Aug. 14, show at Lola’s Saloon-Stockyards with Austin’s The Lemurs and Oklahoma City’s Pretty Black Chains. Tix are $6-9.
The movie will screen in about 3,000 theaters nationwide.
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