tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10838882010-03-16T17:18:31.681-05:00The 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.comBlogger912125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1083888.post-79281867369095027272010-03-16T17:16:00.001-05:002010-03-16T17:18:31.690-05:00

What the hell, y'all? I mean, I know this is a week sopping wet with spillover from SXSW (and St. Paddy's week, besides), but this is almost ridiculous -- there's a shitload of good stuff going on all damn week long, so much that I feel swamped even trying to talk about it. And yeah, tonight, Tuesday, March 16th, is no exception. First off, tune your radios to KTRU 91.7FM around-abouts 8PM

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Yep, it's Tuesday, March 16th, another day of the SXSW Overflow Fest up at Super Happy Fun Land, and while I've heard varying reports on attendance -- one writeup I saw said there weren't many actual fans there, which is damned depressing, but then apparently WB39 was supposed to be coming up last night to film, so I dunno -- the bands slated to play are pretty impressive. Get on out, H-town,

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Busy, busy Monday night, I've gotta say -- there's a surprising amount of stuff going on, even for a SXSW-centric time in our fair state. Get on out and support, and screw the SouthBy hype: Jookabox/ Pomegranates @ The Mink (9PM) I honestly wasn't sure if the Pomegranates listed here was the Pomegranates (the Mink site had 'em down as "The Pomegranates," which, ironically, got me more

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Sorry I haven't been able to more fully run down the piles and piles of SXSW-bound bands overflowing into Super Happy Fun Land as part of their SXSW Overflow Fest this weekend -- spent some much-needed time with the fam this weekend, instead, hiking around the Arboretum and then getting buried up to my head in freezing-ass cold sand, and y'know, that stuff kinda wins out, so... At any rate,

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Trying to get a little bit of a jump on tomorrow (Sunday, March 14th), 'cause it's looking like a good night, and I want to make sure I don't miss mentioning anything... Before I forget, though, I have a bit of sad news: it looks like Pierced Arrows cancelled their show at Rudz this coming Mon., March 15th, so fans are gonna have to catch 'em up in Austin on the 18th, sorry. Anyway, here's

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More fun things going on tonight, Sat., March 13th -- a lot more, in fact. Here's the list, not of absolutely everything that's going on, but everything that sounds at least promising to me: Benefit Show for Willow's Father, featuring Iron Age, Bitter End, Power Trip, Pride Kills, The Weight of Respect, Golden Axe, Killer Ape, Roots of Exile, One Against Many, & Hardside @ Walter's Damn.

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Gah. Running out of time, as usual, so I can only really hit the highlights right now, I'm afraid... There's a bunch of new stuff up on the site, some of it kinda-sorta timely, like Thomas McLuhan's interview with Noveller, who's opening tonight for Xiu Xiu, on over here, and yours truly's review of not one but two Hell City Kings releases, both their full-length from late last year and the

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Sadly, while I get a fair amount of H-town music news-like stuff sent my way, lately I've been having a hard time keeping up. There was a time when I tried to post every damn bit of Houston-related news I could find up here, but these days, there's just too much, and I've got too little time to digest it all, y'know? So the murky, shark-infested depths of my Inbox currently has a whole bunch of

gaijinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02055036034877426422noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1083888.post-25794137092912506602010-03-11T17:14:00.000-06:002010-03-11T17:15:33.711-06:00

As promised, I figured I'd give a quick overview of some of the bands playing tonight, the first night of Super Happy Fun Land's SXSW Overflow Fest; I'll try to do subsequent nights together, but I ran out of time (naturally) for this one... JODY SEABODY & THE WHIRLS: Really liking what I've heard of these guys (and no, there is no actual "Jody," as far as I can tell. Raw, somewhat messy,

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Oh, how I love me some acronyms... We're coming up on what I happen to think is one of the coolest local festival-type things to be found in this here city of ours, the quasi-annual SXSW Overflow Fest over at the most cheerily-named place in the Universe, Super Happy Fun Land. From tomorrow, Thurs., March 11th, on through Wed., March 24th, the SHFL gang is playing host to a huge, quirky

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Damn. I saw the horrible, terrible news yesterday, and I'm still somewhat stunned: Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse is dead, after shooting himself outside a friend's home. I'm reeling, awash in sadness and anger at the same time; sad that Linkous thought things were so bad that he had to step off the stage permanently and angry that he'd leave his family, friends, and fans bereft like this.

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JOSHUA STARNES: Joshua Starnes is Vice President of the Houston Film Critics Society. He is a contributor to Space City Rock. His Picks are below. 82nd Academy Awards ???Even if you've never heard of Punksawtaney Phil or you still get snowstorms after February it's still easy to tell when Spring is on the way, because that's when the annual Hollywood backpatting reaches the fever pitch

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I've got a few minutes to spare while the munchkins are napping, so let's hit the highlights for the rest of the weekend, namely Saturday, March 6th, & Sunday, March 7th. I'll be off tonight celebrating the happy union of a couple of friends of ours this evening (congrats, Angela & Kevin, in the unlikely event that you ever read this!), but that doesn't mean there isn't a crapload of stuff

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Yet another busy Friday night (March 5th, for completeness' sake), and plenty to do. Here's what I'd do, were I not likely to be rocking a sick kid to sleep this evening; there's some good stuff, but honestly, two shows really stand out, so I'm going to pretty much just talk about them. Good? Good. Here goes: Roky Moon & Bolt (tour kickoff)/Grandfather Child/Weird Party/Future Feature @

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Argh. If you've checked out either our cheery little blog or the much-loved shows list within the past 36 hrs. or so, you may've noticed that both parts of this site looked pretty damn weird and/or totally unformatted, with all the actual page content jammed over into the right-hand sidebar like a very large person in a very small swimsuit. sigh. Apologies for the weirdness -- I'd initially

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Busy night tonight, esp. for a Thursday (March 4th, that is). Gonna try to keep it brief, so I can get some other stuff posted up here relatively quickly, but here's what I think sounds cool this evening: B L A C K I E (tour kickoff)/ Rapeworm/ Wife @ 1816 Calumet (8PM; $5) Never heard Rapeworm or Wife, sorry, but damn, I fucking love B L A C K I E. Even if I can't fully describe him, I've

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A bit of a surprise show tonight -- I'd pretty much assumed garage-punks The Monocles were permanent denizens of Ye Olde Band Graveyard, what with frontman Pope Jon PPPP going off and focusing most of his time on Guitars and then, er, moving off to some podunk town in North Carolina to rock out. (And Jeoaf moving off to rock out behind the drum kit with Roky Moon & Bolt, to boot.) That sort of

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Damn, damn, damn. I did this last time, and I'm doing it yet again, I'm afraid -- running late in mentioning the latest Bandcamp/Bandcampus deal, going on today, Sunday, February 28th. (In my defense, I was up way, way too late last night & just couldn't bring myself to get back on the computer when I got back, ears & head ringing, from the Festival at the Mink; goddamn, White Rhino are

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And yep, there's plenty else going on this weekend -- today (Saturday, February 27th), in particular, is pretty damn crazy -- here what sounds good to me: Sat., February 27: Free Press Houston 7 Year Anniversary Celebration, featuring Golden Axe, Papermoons, The Wild Moccasins, Young Mammals, Juzcoz, The Mahas, The Handshake, Fat Tony, Woozyhelmet, Black Congress, & Ceeplus Bad Knives @

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Holy shit, what a weekend we're headed into, y'all. Tonight (Fri., February 26th) is actually a bit lighter than some, but there's still some good stuff going on... The Appleseed Cast/Dreamend @ Rudyard's I really have to hand it to these guys -- The Appleseed Cast came around as part of the first "wave" of Deep Elm Recs-bred emo, effortlessly throwing out the heartbreakingly gorgeous The End

gaijinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02055036034877426422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1083888.post-67496463033198596592010-02-25T22:46:00.004-06:002010-02-26T00:58:30.726-06:00

Mentioned it before, but seeing as people's minds (i.e., mine) tend to wander, I figured it'd be a good idea to post a little prod up here about this Saturday's coming second-ever installment of The Festival at Mink, "curated" (so to speak) by Alkari-an Jason Smith and boasting a ton of excellent bands & musician types. There've been a couple of changes to the previously-posted list of players

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Damn, it's looking like quite a Thursday night tonight... I've gotta keep this brief, but here's a quick-ish rundown of what you might go and see/hear, were you inclined to go out and see/hear things. (Hey, it could happen. I hear the Akron/Family show the other night was pretty packed.) Kennedy Bakery/Bright Men of Learning/ Christian Staehely @ Rudyard's First & foremost, friends of yore

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Yet another cool show in a week crammed ridiculously full of cool shows (have you seen what all's going on this weekend? yeesh...), tonight -- Wed., February 23rd -- is a pretty damn special deal for local '60s-pop re-envisioner Chase Hamblin, who got tapped to open for none other than Texas-bred psych legend and real-live '60s icon Roky Erickson up at The Continental Club. Now, while I can't

gaijinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02055036034877426422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1083888.post-44416854389388128682010-02-23T17:21:00.002-06:002010-02-23T17:40:43.412-06:00

Already talked about the other show this evening that I think sounds particularly cool, so I'm gonna hit the other one here -- Midwest-by-way-of-NY psych trio Akron/Family are swinging through town tonight (Tues., February 23rd, obviously), hitting Walter's with tourmates Warpaint and local heroes Buxton. And trust me when I say it's gonna be freaking incredible. I'll admit to near-total

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Henry Rollins always seems to me to be pretty much a love-or-hate thing, and I'll freely admit that I fall pretty much on the "love" side of the line. The guy drives my wife nuts -- she's thinks he's a self-important idiot, and yeah, I can get how she thinks that -- but dammit, I find him ridiculously entertaining. Not the music, so much, I'm afraid; the Rollins Band's always fe lt like

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