Yeah, I know it's a little bit late-notice, and we don't generally like to shill for specific shows & all that, but what the hey... If you're in the H-town area tonight, Monday, July 24th, swing by The Proletariat for the first-ever (that I know of, anyway) Houston Calling Happy Hour, put on by Space City Rock contributor and all-'round good guy David. Four good-good-good local bands/people will be playing -- The Dimes, Sitka Sound, Miranda Sound, & Tody Castillo -- and the whole shebang runs from 6PM or so to 10PM, so it's perfect for old-timers like me who get cranky when they're sitting in dingy bars 'til 1 in the AM. Make it out if you can...

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Once, long ago, your humble Editor had a vision of a tangled "family tree" of Houston bands, documenting the various links between folks like Middlefinger, Blueprint, and the Zydeco Dots. We put together a low-tech print version, but our schemes for an online, HTMLized version never materialized. Now, however, the Houston Press's John Lomax has picked up the torch -- he's beginning a brand-new Houston band map, and he needs the help of all you H-town band folk out there, past and present. If you've got some information about your band's ever-shifting cadre of members, drop him a line...

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