Hacienda...

G-Man with Hacienda bassist Rene Villanueva
at Mercury Lounge in NYC

G-Man & Yvette took in a Hacienda concert at the Mercury Lounge on Saturday night.  The band is produced by the Black Keys' Dan Auerbach and was his backup band on his solo tour.

(Wikipedia)- Hacienda is a Rock and Roll band from San Antonio, Texas. Formed by cousins Abraham Villanueva (piano/vocals) and Dante Schwebel (guitar/vocals), together with Abraham's brothers Jaime (drums/vocals) and Rene Villanueva (bass/vocals), this Mexican-American quartet blends a raw yet sophisticated style of pop music with harmonies reminiscent of The Beatles and The Beach Boys

Cousins Abraham Villanueva and Dante Schwebel created the foundation for what would become the Hacienda sound, but the two were unable to secure additional members on the same page musically and personally in 2004. Meanwhile the two remaining Villanueva brothers were making a name playing together in a band at bars and house parties outside of San Antonio. There band however was short lived, so when the opportunity to play in Hacienda appeared, Jaime and Rene completed the lineup and set Hacienda into full swing. In late 2005 the band purchased a small digital recorder and began tracking demos. A demo of 6 songs made it to the hands of Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys and since then, the band's future would be changed indefinitely. Hacienda made quite a buzz in the music world when their 6 song demo was passed around from musicians to record execs, managers, and the like.