Damn, this one kind of fell by the wayside in all the Summerfest madness… Last week yours truly got some fine new writing-type things up on SCR, and it’d be a shame to let them slip on by without a word, especially since a couple of bits here and there are a sorta-kinda timely. The […]
In case you hadn’t seen/heard of it yet, local H-town scene icon and Bring Back The Guns frontman Matt Brownlie has a new plan, which happens to sound a bit like an old plan. Back in the day, Matt had the grand vision of a series of self-perpetuating showcases for local bands, and he called […]
I desperately need to talk about what all’s going down this weekend, but I’ve got to first mention, though, that we’ve got a bunch of new reviews up, most notably for the recent full-length from Deleted Scenes, who’ll be playing up at Mango’s with Young Mammals, News on the March, & Flowers to Hide tonight. […]
Apologies to anybody else who’s playing a show this evening, but if you’re in town tonight, there’s only one place you really, truly need to be: The Wild Moccasins‘ tour kickoff party at Mango’s, on Westheimer next to the Avant Garden/Helios. In honor of the event, I hit the band up with some (fairly lame) […]
Hey, all — heading off to yet another family dinner thing for the long weekend, but before I go I wanted to mention the new stuff that’s up as of, well, just now… For one, we’ve got a brand-spanking-new interview with the mysteriously cool georgia’s Horse., purveyor of dark, sweet-yet-melancholy folk-country rock, up right here, […]
Gotta make it quick for the rundown of good things to check out today, Sunday, April 26th — doing the family thing, manning the grill all day & now gearing up for the sporadic game of Scattergories. Here’s the list: Phantom Orchard: Zeena Parkins & Ikue Mori @ Barnevelder Movement/Arts Complex (2201 Preston St.) Definitely […]
Fuck…has it been a week already? This week feels like it’s gone screaming past me, leaving me confused and behind on everything. Not good… Anyway, I figured I’d do a quick hit on what all’s going on this evening, Friday, April 24th, so here’s the stuff I think is going to be worth checking out; […]
I’m gonna make it quick this time, I think… Got some new stuff up on the as of this AM/evening, including a new feature on Canadian alt-/emo-rockers Silverstein by new contributor Rafael here, and a handful of reviews. There’s a review of the new split-7″ The Eastern Sea & News on the March officially released […]
Yep, yep, yep — Friday night, and so here I am again posting this last-minute little note to mention that we’ve got a pile of brand-new reviews up (along with the excellent MI Ami interview I blathered about a few days ago). The reason for the hurried posting? Well, because this latest batch includes a […]
I’ll admit that I’m tempted by tonight’s show at Fitzgerald’s, because The Hudson Falcons are pretty great, but honestly, The Mink is The Place to Be this evening. Local boys Tambersauro will be opening this evening (Wed., March 4th), starting around 9PM, for Baltimoreans (Baltimories?) Thank You and San Franciscans (and ex-Black Eyes members) Mi […]
Got two updates for the week, although if I get my shit together, there’ll hopefully be a few more reviews going up soon… First of all, I owe a big thank-you to new writer Michelle, who tracked down Scottish free-improvisation vocalist Maggie Nicols for what turned out to be an intriguing interview (check it out […]
I know the Punk Revolution of the late ’90s has come and gone, and punk as a musical genre is now all mainstream and accepted and moving upwards, but y’know what? It just hasn’t worked for me. The bulk of punk bands who’ve managed to hit on some kind of success leave me cold, and it’s not because I’ve outgrown the music or anything like that…
I’d originally hoped to do a big-ass update of all the reviews & interviews & such we’ve been stockpiling the past several weeks, but alas, that hasn’t happened. Instead, I’ve been piecemealing things up on the site as necessary, like the Coldplay review David Cobb did or the Caddywhompus and Parts & Labor reviews yours […]
As hinted at previously, it’s been a loooong time since I posted up here about all the reviews, interviews, featured bands, & such. That doesn’t mean, though, that we’ve been sleeping — not even a fucking hurricane can keep this li’l e-zine down, y’all. So, in the interests of letting y’all know about all the […]
Update time, and somewhat of an urgent one, to boot — in the spirit of Just-In-Time Reviewing (which is all the trend these days, don’tcha know), we’ve got a brand-new review up of Papermoons inaugural full-length, New Tales, and holy crap, they just happen to be playing tonight. Imagine that… Anyway, the band’s playing up […]
Yeah, this last update was a big one — we’re gonna have to skip a week or two after this, as I’ll be flying out tomorrow AM for Arizona, off on The Great Grand Canyon Adventure/March of Death ’08, so we tried to get a large bunch of new things up on the site… First […]
[UPDATE: Anybody know how to convert all my blog posts over to WordPress? I posted this damn thing last evening, and yet, when I got back online this AM, lo and behold, it still wasn’t up there. Fuck. Sorry, y’all…] Update time, update time — if you happen to glance at our happy little homepage, […]
phew…another late night, another update. Big thanks to all the hard-working writer folk, by the by, for getting this stuff in — this little e-zine would die a sad and lonely death with only yours truly doing the writing for it, I swear. Everybody, your efforts are very much appreciated. I owe you all beers. […]
Dang, two updates in a week; must be on a roll (okay, technically the last update was for stuff that went up last week, but still…). This time out we’ve got a brand-spankin’-new interview with La Porte’s own Buxton, who’ll be releasing their 2nd full-length — as we’ve mentioned here before — this coming Saturday, […]
Merry Chrismahanukwanzaamas to all! We here at SCR HQ are currently hip-deep in holiday insanity, with bellies full of cookies & eggnog & wassail & whatnot, but I didn’t want to leave y’all hanging & wondering, “hey, what the hell happened to Space City since November?” We are still here, yes, and before the actual […]
A little late for this week, I know; what’re you gonna do, eh? Anyway, we’ve just posted a real-live interview with H-town-by-way-of-Katrina prog-metal outfit Rustler — they haven’t been in town long, really, but they’ve already made quite an impact, and their debut EP, Phonetic Whips, gets me frantically air-drumming and head-banging every time. Plus, […]
Yep, more stuff up for Sept. — this time out we’ve got a little pseudo-interview/preview of electroweirdo Dan Deacon, who’ll be playing this next Monday, Sept. 24th, up at Walter’s on Washington, plus a live review of the recent pre-Labor Day show at The Proletariat with Buxton, Digan, The Church of Philadelphia, and Hollywood Black. […]
[Ed. Note: Whoops. It’s been pointed out to me that there are actually four people in S&S, not three. Which I knew, but blanked on, somehow, when I posted. Sorry, y’all…] Tonight NYCers Parts and Labor return to H-town for the second time in, what?, three months? And damn if we (well, me, at least) […]
For the better part of a decade, Brooklyn trio Parts and Labor have been tearing up and down the U.S., on a perpetual quest to scare us out of the collective slumber of everyday life. Their music combines the anthemic hardcore of Hüsker Dü and the political consciousness of the Minutemen with the squealing electronics of Baltimore’s burgeoning Future Shock movement…
Yep, tonight’s (Saturday, June 16th, that is) a good one — crushing, pummeling, NYC noise-rock pioneers Unsane are playing up at The Proletariat, along with 400 Blows, Mouth of the Architect, and locals Dizzy Pilot. Reliable sources (meaning pretty much anybody who’s ever heard the damn band) say this show’s gonna be freakin’ insane. Seriously. […]
Yeah, I’m pretty happy with this one — I interviewed The Western Civilization, one of my current super-duper-duper favorite bands of the crew who dwell in and around this fair city, a short while back, and we’ve finally got it online. It’s a hell of a lot harder than you’d think to transcribe a rambling, […]
Yep, got a bunch of new stuff up, just in time for tonight — two of the bands reviewed, ADULT. and Parts & Labor, are playing together at The Mink, and they sound like they should be darn cool to see/hear. ADULT.’s not really up my alley, but they sound interesting, at least, and P&L’s […]
Got some new stuff online, including an interview with Louis Posen (of Take Action! Tour/Hopeless Recs/Sub City) fame and a bunch of reviews: Palomar; Bayside; Unsparing Sea; Karrie Hopper; Jihad Jerry and the Evildoers; Smoke Or Fire; This Moment In Black History; & Tomihira.
Hey, all — meant to post when all the stuff went up late-late-late Friday night/Saturday morning, but I was too damn wiped out… As of yesterday, we’ve got some new stuff up here on the ol’ e-zine, including our first-ever attempt at year-end Top Ten Lists (for 2006, naturally); your humble editor/publisher guy threw his […]
Yep, new stuff up on the site — there’s a fairly, um, illuminating interview w/Mark Adkins of SoCal punk icons Guttermouth (be warned: it ain’t strictly P.C., but that’s Adkins for you…), plus reviews of Ferocious Eagle, Paleo, The Transit War, Nic Garcia, 24hourflu, and Million Dollar Mouth. Enjoy; more next week…
Yep, late again, I’m afraid — sorry, sent out the update to the list, but forgot the blog… At any rate, there’s some more cool stuff up on the site, just in time for Christmas, like an interview with Murder by Death and reviews of Paolo Nutini, Lambchop, The Downfall, Helmet, Sex Slaves, and Robin […]
I know, I know — it’s been a ridiculously long time since we updated this little blog. Apologies for that; we’ve run into some (ahem) technical difficulties of late with Blogger, and they only recently magically resolved themselves. We’ve got our fingers crossed that it doesn’t happen again. At any rate, the shows list is […]
What the hell? Yes, we’ve got even more stuff up, folks, and it ain’t yet November. Welcome to the first step towards becoming a real-live weekly e-zine — if all goes well, we’ll be putting reviews, live reviews, and interviews online every single freakin’ week from now ’til eternity. This time out, we’ve got love […]
New month, so there’s new stuff up — interviews with rapper Del the Funky Homosapien and pop-rockers OK Go, both just in time for their appearances in or around H-town this weekend (check the shows list for details). Beyond that, we’ve got some cool live reviews and reviews of everything from White Whale to J […]
~ In which singer Mike Weibe of The Riverboat Gamblers describes their views on music, their love of Texas, and their preference of Lone Star over Shiner… ~…
Some bands are just so bizarre they don’t let you look away. I meandered up to Rudyard’s a while back to catch a friend’s band and watched with a mixture of dread and fascination as this motley quartet called The Octopus Project (the opening band, it turned out) spent a half-hour setting up a cluttered mass of instruments, black boxes, and cables…
The Mountain Goats are John Darnielle. Literate, energetic, sincere, and acoustic, he’s one of the best things going in music today. His lyrics manage to paint knowing pictures of real humanity with an economy and emotional strength…
