tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10838882010-05-01T21:50:57.588-05:00The official Space City Rock Blog, featuring news on local Houston musical happenings and occurances, random venting about various things, and fervent ravings on the wonders of music, art, film, and anything else.gaijinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02055036034877426422noreply@blogger.comBlogger958125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1083888.post-85702978224048808152010-05-01T21:46:00.002-05:002010-05-01T21:50:57.597-05:00

Not sure if this'll go up before the Blogger cutoff, but hey, it's worth a shot... Earlier today the Free Press Houston gang pulled back the curtain and revealed some new details about the upcoming Free Press Summerfest (June 5-6). And honestly, it's kind of a mixed bag, for me. First and foremost, they've now got Houston/Beaumont rap legend Bun B playing, alongside Slim Thug. While that's

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Before I sign off for a bit, though, I wanted to hit some weekend highlights -- and yeah, there're quite a few, so I'm afraid I'm going to just have to list 'em off, for the most part. Tonight (Fri., April 30th) is a rough one, forcing yours truly to choose between the 2nd installment of the Lost In Space Festival (see here for more on that), checking out coolly old-school indie-rockers The

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...but don't worry -- that doesn't mean that SCR is dead, by any means. It does mean, however, that things are going to be changing fairly drastically in the next week or two, and we can't really flip the switch 'til everything's in place. I'm pretty psyched about the changes, and hopefully once everybody else sees 'em, they will be, too. The bad part is that after today the blog will be

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Y'know, I'm already pretty blown away by the lineup for this year's Free Press Summerfest (coming up in just over a month, June 5-6) -- I mean, they've already got The Flaming Lips, Lucero, Mix Master Mike, Cro-Mags, Detroit Cobras, Dead Prez, Stars...the list goes on & on -- so I'm having a bit of a hard time believing the word passed 'round the past couple of days that there's more on the way.

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Another one I'm woefully behind on mentioning here, I'm afraid... There's a Battle of the Bands show going on tomorrow at the Warehouse Live, sponsored by this Ford Fiesta Movement thing, and it sounds pretty damn cool. The gist is that a decent-sized pile of local Houston bands -- some of whom I'm already a big fan -- will be playing for a chance to play at this year's Bonnaroo festival (

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Meant to talk about this in detail long before now, but other stuff's been pressing down on me (some of which you'll hopefully be able to see the fruits of very soon), and it's kind of slipped down the pile -- sorry 'bout that, y'all. My lame slowness is made worse by the fact that tomorrow night's show (that's Friday, April 30th, btw) promises to be a truly badass deal. It's the second-ever

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Some cool, good, intriguing, and otherwise neat shows going on over the next couple of days, and I'm determined to not let 'em fall through the cracks (like, um, I normally do with the mid-week shows -- sorry, folks...). On top of the things musical mentioned below, I'd also heartily recommend humorist/writer/whatever guy David Sedaris's show tomorrow night at Jones Hall. Dunno for sure if

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Holy crap, I cannot believe I (well, nearly) forgot about this. Yes, Steve Martin, that Steve Martin, a man best known for his comedic work but who dabbles in both literary-type things and music, as well (and, um, wins freaking awards for it, no less), will be playing tonight, Monday, April 26th, down in Stafford at the aptly-named Stafford Centre. He and his backing band, The Steep Canyon

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Argh. Spent the day mostly blissfully disconnected from all things Internet-like, so I'm only seeing this now... Turns out that there's a surprise Resonant Interval Sound Series show tonight up at the group's new space, which is yet another currently-unused retail area in the Mekong Center building (2808 Milam). They're calling it "The Exoskeleton," which seems fitting after the demise of "The

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Last day of the weekend coming up fast, Sunday, April 25th, and while it's not quite as insane as the past couple of days, there's still plenty going on -- here's the list of what looks good to me, at least: Like Trains & Taxis @ Dean's Credit Clothing This one caught me somewhat off-guard, having never heard of Like Trains & Taxis 'til the past week or so. Nevertheless, debut album Tales

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Gotta keep this somewhat short, as an impatient midget is currently demanding I go with her on a bike ride through the 'hood, but there's a ton going on tonight/today (Sat., April 24th), and I didn't want to miss mentioning it: iFest, featuring George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women, Los Skarnales, Texas Johnny Brown, Steel Vibrations, Famous Squad DJs, Studio 8

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Damn, damn, damn. Well, I did have this grand plan of getting a bit of an early jump on the week's/weekend's shows, but sadly, other stuff intervened. And now, sadly, I am reduced to the grinding-it-out, day-by-day mess I typically end up doing. I need a time machine. Anybody got one I could borrow? Anyway...there's plenty of good stuff going on tonight, Friday, April 23rd, but first, a

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Yet another one of those weekends when we Houston-dwelling folks are spoilt for choice, seriously; there's enough good stuff going on tonight & tomorrow that if you claim to be bored & unable to find anything good in Houston, music-wise, you're a fucking idiot. Here goes: Sat., April 17: sIngs (CD release)/ Casiotone for the Painfully Alone/Sharks and Sailors/Young Mammals/ B L A C K I E @

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UPDATE: Argh. I suck. In my haste to slap something up here about Record Store Day, I totally neglected to mention one of my favorite bastions of music-dom, Sig's Lagoon. Which is particularly stupid since today they're having their quasi-annual Swap 'n Bop (both at Sig's and at The Pachinko Hut, nearby), with lots of cool stuff for sale, food, and music by The El Orbits, The Umbrella Man, &

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Hey, all -- it's been utter silence from over here this week, I realize, and I apologize wholeheartedly for that. My life got pretty well swallowed up by the Day Job these past seven days or so, to the point where I'd go home & spend most of my evenings on the couch with the laptop frantically trying to get work shit done. sigh. Goes that way sometimes, folks. I've got to keep this one (

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And now it's Sunday, April 11th, and (maybe) surprisingly, there's still quite a bit going on... Before I go into it, though I'm sad to have to report that it looks like the Wye Oak show I'd been told (a while back, admittedly) would be happening tonight at Mango's, um, isn't. Sorry, y'all -- it's no longer listed on the band's Myspace, and it never showed up on the Mango's calendar, so I'm

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Yep, it's Saturday, April 10th, Day #2 of your weekend musical madness, and plenty more going on; here's the rundown, although I'll have to keep it somewhat brief, I'm afraid: Black Congress (7" release)/Omotai/Golden Axe @ Rudyard's My top pick of the evening, although it's definitely a close thing. I still need to see instro-metal heroes Golden Axe live, but I've seen pseudo-supergroup

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Well, it seems the rain we've been seeing here at SCR HQ has also hit the Rice University campus, meaning that the organizers of the KTRU Outdoor Show have had to postpone a teeny-tiny bit, shifting the start time back from noon to 1:30PM in order to dodge the precipitation. So shift your schedules accordingly, and take an umbrella if you head over there if you're going, eh? If something more

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This is a pretty neat one... In case you haven't heard, longtime SugarHill Studios engineer Andy Bradley and veteran Houston music chronicler Roger Wood (whose book, Down in Houston, I've been wanting to read for a while now) collaborated on a new book about the history of SugarHill and its predecessor(?), Gold Star Studios. It's called House of Hits: The Story of Houston's Gold Star/

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Yep, it's that time again -- the ever-entertaining KTRU Outdoor Show (the 19th, apparently, as of this year) is tomorrow, Saturday, April 10th. The fun starts at noon and runs 'til 9PM or so -- actually, I first saw the end time as "nightfall," but the KTRU site lists it at "9PM," so that's what I'm going with. And as always, the lineup looks pretty great. I'll be honest and admit I've never

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Wow. Tonight, Friday, April 9th, is shaping up to be one hell of a night, I swear. And yes, I'm saying that primarily because of the slew of H-town's own who're playing, not the handful of bigger-name folks touring through town; sorry, y'all, but most nights I'd really rather be blown away by the locals... Anyway, here's what I think looks good, in quasi-preferential order: The Jonx/

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Ah, this one does my soul good. I've known Mel House for what, looking back, sure seems to be a long damn time now, from waaaay back in his days playing with Inbred Whiteboy, and he was also one of the first seriously consistent writers we had here at SCR (I still miss being able to pass off the hardcore stuff to him, even now), on top of being an all-round cool guy; take all that to mean that,

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Okay, so I fibbed a little; there is another especially cool, neat thing going on tonight, namely a benefit this evening for Girls Rock Camp Houston up at Boheme (307 Fairview from 5-10PM. The shindig's being put on by the always-cool Spacetaker (with whom we sometimes flatteringly get confused) doing their "Cultured Cocktails" thing to raise money for the first-ever, absolutely

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I've raved before in this here thing about Cleveland's mr. Gnome and their idiosyncratic, hypnotically awesome amalgam of noisy rawk, metal sludge, ethereal vocals, and trip-hop groove, but dammit, I'm going to do it again right here, at least briefly. The band's playing tonight (Thursday, April 8th) up at Rudyard's, and trust me when I say that it will be fucking amazing. I caught them at

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Dammit, people. I leave town for four freaking days, and y'all go batshit crazy. What the hell? I missed the initial news while preparing to travel, unfortunately, but apparently last Tuesday (March 31st) one or more raging asshats broke into the home of Marc Brubaker, the editor of Interwebs pals Houstonist, member of Prairie Cadets, and one hell of a freelance photographer, to boot, and

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