Y’know, I wish intersections like this happened more frequently; there’ve been a few collisions of the art, theater, and music worlds in town lately (like the production of Speeding Motorcycle a while back that included glam-y rockers Roky Moon & Bolt as the band and local musician Matt Brownlie in the lead role), but I […]
Hard to believe it, I know, but today (Tues., March 23rd) is actually the second-to-last day of the SXSW Overflow Fest, hosted for the past thirteen days by the kindly people at Super Happy Fun Land. The list is a little bit lighter than they’ve been ’til now, but from what I’ve heard of the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, 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 […]
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 […]
Man…what the hell day is this? I could’ve sworn it was plain-old, nothing-special Wednesday, the mid-week lull before the weekend storm, and yet tonight (February 10th) is pretty badass. Here are things that sound good to me: Retribution Gospel Choir/The Bloody Mushrooms @ Wired Live (formerly The Meridian) This first one’s the biggest deal to […]
UPDATE-UPDATE: Got some more info on tonight’s cancellation; according to the good people at SHFL, A Lull‘s tour vehicle broke down, and they couldn’t play, so the listenlisten guys decided to call the show a bust. Just fyi, folks. UPDATE: sigh. Looks like I was a little quick on the “Post” button, because yes, per […]
Holy fuck, I am loving this. Longtime Texas (and ex-Houston) scenester Mark Twistworthy has a new blog/site, Texas Punk Treasure Chest, where he’s started putting up classic albums/EPs/etc. of Texas-based punk, hardcore, emo, & whatever else from the past few decades for folks to download and enjoy. And while I probably shouldn’t even need to […]
These things always strike me as being damn cool, I have to say, and this year sounds like it’s no different… Today and tomorrow (Sat., November 21st & Sun., November 22nd), the Center for Hearing and Speech — a local Houston nonprofit that helps kids who can’t hear learn how to speak — is having […]
Late on this one, as always… Plenty going on this weekend, of course, so here’s some to start you off: Dax Riggs/Duncan, Johnson, and the Gentleman @ The Mink Ooh, yeah. Dax Riggs wasn’t here all that long ago, really, but hell, I’m not complaining. A kind friend handed me his 2007 album, We Sing […]
Mentioned this show briefly a few days ago, since we’ve got a review up of Moneen‘s first-ever DVD, but I figured I’d mention it again, ’cause it’s looking like a particularly good one. Say Anything headlines at Warehouse Live, which is a little bit shrug-worthy for me; I really liked the band’s stellar full-length Is […]
Another cool-sounding thing happening tonight (Thurs., Nov. 5th, again), this time for all your musicians & band members & whatnot out there. Seems Martin Atkins (ex-Killing Joke/PiL/Ministry/Pigface) will be holding a “band seminar” tonight from 7-9PM at the AvantGarden, where he’ll be talking about, well, the perils of touring. He’s apparently got a book out […]
Here’s another film-/music-type thing I ran across recently that sounded pretty damn cool, going on tonight (Thurs., November 5th) up at Röcbar in downtown. Caveat first, for this one: this is apparently an RSVP-only deal, where you have to go to this Website to sign up, and I’ve got no idea how many spaces they’ve […]
A bit early for the weekend rundown, I know, but I wanted to mention a pair of shows going on tonight (Tues., November 3rd) and tomorrow (Wed., November 4th; duh), because I’ve heard bits & pieces of the headlining band of each lately and have found myself mightily impressed… Surfer Blood/ Muhammidali/ Buxton @ Mango’s […]
Got some MP3s I’ve run across lately that I wanted to mention, esp. since some of ’em are fairly timely for shows tonight & in the near-beyond. I’ve got a bunch more to post, too, but am on half-time Baby Duty, so this’ll have to do for now. Enjoy… The Jealous Sound – “Priceless (Alternate […]
A huge pile of good stuff going on this weekend, starting, well, tonight (which would be Friday, September 25th). I’ll have to hit the Sat./Sun./etc. stuff later on, but for now, here’s your last-second list of good/cool things to do… Sadly, for yours truly this looks like a bit of a Walk of Shame, mostly […]
Yep, it’s that time — weekend roundup time, and plenty going on. (And yeah, it’s at least mostly good; those Blood On The Dancefloor kids are just way, way, way too young for me…) Here goes the first bunch: Scott H. Biram/The Wayward Sons/DeadEnd Cowboys @ Rudyard’s Oooh. This is gonna be a good one […]
Yep, another day, another review — sorry to be late on this one; I wrote it up last night but couldn’t get it posted ’til just now… I really wanted to review the Fruit Bats‘ latest, The Ruminant Band, btw, because I truly, truly dug Spelled In Bones and felt damned bad that we missed […]
Sweet — it makes me damn happy that the Zine Fest Houston folks are still doing their thing, and it’s nice to see ’em re-running the Zine Night thing they did a while back, over at CopyDotCom on Westheimer. Tomorrow night, Wed., September 2nd, the ZFHers are throwing their second installment, with the doors thrown […]
Just a quick update this week, I’m afraid — thanks to indefatigable writer (and token in-house Metal Dude) Scott W., we’ve got two brand-new reviews of two bands, both on cool-ass label Tee Pee Records, that’re playing here in town this very weekend. First up is Iron Age, a throwback metal crew from Austin who […]
Good news time, finally. In the midst of all the breakups and whatnot, it’s nice to see a cool, under-appreciated band that never quite hit it reuniting to give things a second shot. A few years back, Margot was one of a handful of mind-blowing bands that (briefly, at least) turned H-town into Texas Spacerock […]
Unless you’ve been dead for the past few months (or, okay, you don’t happen to live here in Houston), odds are you’ve heard about the sure-to-be-epic Free Press Summerfest spanning Saturday and Sunday of this next weekend (the 8th & 9th, non-calendar-having punks) at Eleanor Tinsley Park. And trust me, “epic” is the word — […]
I was able to interview Slug, half of Rhymesayers hip-hop masterminds Atmosphere, a couple of years back — he was one hell of a cool guy, very smart and laidback and cool, all at once. And I got out to see the duo on their tour for 2005’s You Can’t Imagine How Much Fun We’re […]
= UPDATE: FYI, since the initial post I’ve heard from The Golden Ghost himself, and apparently not only has he recovered from last year’s injuries, but he will be competing again this year. Go support, y’all! I know, it’s a little hard to fathom, even for somebody like me who’s spent countless hours air-guitar-ing (okay, […]
Yeah, yeah — I know I’ve griped in this very space about the House of Blues, but hell… Past antipathy/ disillusionment aside, I have to say that next Thursday’s (June 4th, that is) New York Dolls show is pretty awe-inducing. I mean, c’mon — it’s the fucking New York Dolls, for crying out loud. And […]
Ah, this is why I love checking the P.O. Box — if nobody’s able to get to it for a few days, stuff piles up like mad, & then when we do check, it’s like Christmas. And sometimes it’s Christmas for other folks (namely, you, good readers of this here site), which is just as […]
Yeah, yeah, I know — as if there wasn’t already a ridiculously huge pile of stuff to do this weekend? Don’t sideline this one, though, because it promises to be damn cool. This year’s edition of Zine Fest Houston will be happening this coming Saturday, May 16th, over at the ever-fun Caroline Collective, and will […]
I was a diehard Tori Amos fan for several years and a handful of albums, but I’m sad to report that I’ve drifted away from her work these past half-decade or so — I’m not actually sure why that was, except that maybe it was a combination of less $$$ to spend on music and […]
I’m a little hazy on the background of the whole Record Store Day thing — meaning that it seemed to magically appear out of nowhere a while back, and yet musical-type people I know acted like it was some long-standing holiday or something. Did I just miss those first ten years of Record Store Days, […]
A month or so ago, I picked up something I’ve been meaning to get for a while, a little gadget from Ion Audio they call both the U Record and the MixMeister (no, I have no clue why). It’s nothing fancy, just a little box I can hook up to my turntable & tape deck’s […]
UPDATE: And there they go…thanks to the folks who emailed in, but the pair of Duran Duran tix are now officially won. Congrats, Joe! Thanks to the kind efforts of Marni at Sneak Attack, the PR person for ’80s pop legends Duran Duran, we here at SCR have a pair of tickets to give away […]
[UPDATE II: And then…they were gone. poof! Congrats to James for being fastest and most articulate on the email. Apologies to other would-be ticket-claimers.] [UPDATE: Per the kindly, ever knowledgeable Marisa at Four Paws Media, it appears that Flying, who was supposed to be playing with Deerhoof tomorrow night, is actually now Fertile Crescent, instead. […]
Got a friendly email about this pre-Ike, but then it got swept to the side by all the storm winds & having no electricity at the house & yadda, yadda. Sorry about that, you guys! I swear I meant to post about it earlier on… At any rate, the deal is that the three guys […]
First of all, there’s really no need to read this review. Giant Princess isn’t even selling this album; they’re giving it away for free. You can download the whole thing with no jumping through hoops…
A mere handful of hours after yours truly blearily slapped up a post on how local indie-folks The Western Civilization (about whom you can read more here) won themselves a spot on the Warped Tour and are playing H-town next week, I logged back in to the email to find, lo and behold, a message […]
Got this one courtesy of the good people at Nasty Little Man, and I find myself liking the song & wanting to hear it repeatedly, so I figured it was only just to post it to this here site. Sounds to me like “Chemtrails” is Beck finally making the full transformation from alt-rock hero into […]
Behind the curve, as always…damn you, New House/Day Job! I’d like to vow that if I ever win the lottery this here blog will be so kickass and up-to-the-millisecond current that it’ll fry your hair just to look at it. Except that I know I’m inherently too lazy for that, and so — hey, I […]
Late notice, I know, but I only found out around lunchtime, & the day slipped away from me since then (darn day job…). Anyway, we here at SCR heard the news that Eisley, that quintet of elfin-looking post-emo popsters from Tyler, will be playing this evening up at the resurrected Cactus Music (now located at […]
