Damn, I love stuff like this; tomorrow night (Wed., October 28th), Left Of The Dial mag and The Mink are presenting a showing of the indie documentary Let Them Know: The Story of Youth Brigade and BYO Records, and it sounds damn cool. Directed by Jeff Alulis, the film’s basically about the BYO Records label […]
Yes, i’s that time again, folks — the Westheimer Block Party has rolled ’round once more. I’m utterly in awe of how the Free Press Houston gang is able to consistently pull these things off, and not only that but make ’em bigger each freaking time. I have a theory that Omar doesn’t actually sleep… […]
Gah…late, late, late — spent today with the fam, so I’ve fallen tragically behind and missed mentioning a few things, like the nearly-over Foam Raiser over at The Orange Show with the awesome Grandfather Child & The Wild Moccasins, and this Low Carbon Rally thing that was at least supposed to happen in the early […]
First up for this weekend, I wanted to mention a show I’m really bummed to see crash & burn — for reasons I’ve been unable to dig out (online, at least), this Saturday’s A Wilhelm Scream show at The Meridian has apparently been cancelled. Not sure whose end it’s on, since the date’s still listed […]
Dangit, this is what happens when I try to be good and not obsessively check my email all damn day long: I miss things. And yes, for the last “Yr Weekend” post, I did indeed miss a few things, both for tonight’s (Sat., 10/17) shows and tomorrow’s (Sun., 10/18). Here’s the errata/ addendum-type stuff, y’all: […]
Yep, here’s this weekend’s second installment, starting with tonight (i.e., Saturday, October 17th). Get on out the house… Sat., October 17: Scale The Summit/Another Run/Golden Axe/The Pant Factory/After Time Has Passed @ Warehouse Live Oh, yeah. There are some really great shows going on, but I think this one’s my own personal pick, partly because, […]
Late, late, late, I know — all I can say in my defense is that every time I sit down to do something on this here site when I normally would, I get caught up instead in all those fun baby- maintenance activities like feeding, burping, changing diapers, cleaning bottles, changing clothes, etc. Not complaining, […]
How freaking cool is this? The next two nights (Fri., October 16th & Sat., October 17th), the good people over at DiverseWorks are hosting a music/dance performance piece called Heaven, created by Minneapolis- based choreographer Morgan Thorson, lighting designer Lenore Doxsee, set/costume designer Emmet Ramstad, and — wait for it — musicians/composers Alan Sparhawk & […]
Sorry, y’all, but I’m afraid this week’s rundown of Good Things to See is going to be bare-bones at best — I’ve spent just under two weeks now getting very little sleep and spending the non-sleeping hours doing the new-parent thing, so I’ve been far from focused on all the cool stuff that’s been going […]
Some of you might remember that I bitched & moaned a while back about the fact that local noise-rock dudes The Jonbenét are breaking up after their final show at the hopefully-moved Walter’s on December 19th. Anyway, after hearing the news from guitarist Dann Miller, I hit him up with a few questions about the […]
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 […]
Back again, still sleep-deprived but feeling at least a little bit healthier; thankyew, antibiotics… Which is good, because tonight, in particular, is a veritable bear of a night, show-wise. Sat., October 3: Tody Castillo (CD release)/ Springfield Riots @ The Continental Club Damn, damn, damn. I know it seems weird, given the amazing amount of […]
What, already? Seems like I just did one of these damn things… Sorry, folks, but I’ve been offline as of late — some of y’all may know that the wife & I have been expecting our second munchkin, and he arrived a bit earlier than expected (meaning “last Saturday night”), so I’ve been a bit, […]
Back again, yes, with the rest of this particularly action-packed weekend. Lot going on, and it starts pretty soon here, so I’ll just get to it: Sat., September 26: Rock Out For Peace: A Live Music Extravaganza, featuring Free Radicals, Two Star Symphony, The Sideshow Tramps, Smoke and Feathers, listenlisten, Elaine Greer, Chase Hamblin, Nosaprise, […]
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 […]
It’s pathetic as hell, I know, but it seems like it gets harder and harder to force myself out of the house these days, even when it’s to see a band (or bands, as the case may be) I really-truly love. There’s the fam, there’s the ever-present TV, there’s Netflix, there’s the insane pile of […]
Yep, got new stuff up this week, including one review for tonight, Sat., September 19th — local psych-hop mavericks Ghost Mountain are opening for what promises to be a mind-blowing Devin The Dude show tonight up at the Warehouse Live, so we’ve got a review up of the band’s most recent release, the VHS-only Summer […]
Okay, I give — there’s just too damn much going on for me to melt my brain listing it all. I’m afraid that instead of my usual semi-informed blather, I’m going to have to punk out and just list the stuff that sounds good, instead. Sorry, y’all, but I have to keep my head from […]
While I twiddle my thumbs wait for InMotion to get back to me on my support ticket, I figure it’s way, way past time for me to mention a second awesome-sounding show that’s going on this evening… Some might remember that way back in May or so, yours truly did a little writeup on the […]
Cool news — I’d worried for a while now that H-town-bred Pavement-gone-Wilco guys Bright Men of Learning had gone the way of Bring Back the Guns or the Guilloteens, fading out without so much as a final “seeya” message to their fans. Thankfully, that’s apparently not the case, and the band are back in action. […]
Seen some awesomely cool written things elsewhere lately, so I feel compelled to mention ’em here, for the edification of all and because, as said, they’re awesomely cool. Houston Press: “Ghosts of Washington Avenue” Man, this one makes me want to get all weepy. The Press‘s Chris Gray had a nice tribute piece to the […]
Ah, those crazy A Thousand Cranes folks — they’ve got a new cartoon/video thing up, and as always, it’s fairly bizarre (yet strangely entertaining). It’s an advert of sorts for their show tonight (Mon., September 14th), opening up at Mango’s for strangely-monikered out-of-towners Prince Rama of Ayodhya, who are trippy and Indian-sounding (duh), not to […]
As promised, here’s the rest of what I think looks good for this weekend, at least… Sat., September 12: Trail of Dead/The Secret Machines/The Watermarks @ Warehouse Live Damn, damn, damn. If this were any other time, and I was less broke… I’ve wanted to see The Secret Machines for years now, seriously, and Trail […]
Hey, all — got a new bunch of reviews up this evening, so I wanted to put a quick note up here about ’em, especially since two of the bands, Fake Believe and Electric Attitude, both happen to be playing tonight (Sat., September 12th) at The Festival at Mink (which I already blathered about here, […]
Damn, I love me some good news. And when puttering around on the Interwebs today, I came across a little note that local Christian metalcore boys Before There Was Rosalyn have some awesome news: as of late July, they’ve signed to big-name indie hardcore/metal label Victory Records, home to badasses like Hatebreed, Between the Buried […]
Just when you thought all the H-town festivals were done… While this weekend’s The Festival at Mink may not have quite the scale of the Summerfest, it’s still pretty damn impressive. The show’s this Saturday, September 12th (i.e., tomorrow), starting at 6:30PM over at (duh) The Mink, and it’s going to cram in a full […]
Weekend show recommendation time yet again, but first off, just a bit of an early note — apparently tomorrow’s You(genious) CD release show with Fat Tony & DJ Good Grief at The Orange Show has been cancelled, on account of the likelihood of torrential rain & The Orange Show being outdoors and all. Damn. The […]
As promised, albeit a bit late — I got caught up watching/reading new b-day stuff last night and totally procrastinated, I’m afraid, but eh. The State on DVD + DMZ graphic novels == buckets of awesome. I couldn’t look away, and I refuse to feel guilty. Anyway, here goes for the rest of the weekend […]
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 […]
Damn. Why is it I get the feeling there’s some kind of weird, cruel Law of Conservation of Coolness applied to the Houston scene, where for every awesome new band that emerges (Grandfather Child, Springfield Riots, Ghost Mountain), another band has to fall by the wayside or implode (The McKenzies, the performing version of The […]
Yep, got one new review up today, in time for a show tonight (Wed., September 2nd, that is) — SF psych-rock outfit Sleepy Sun are playing this evening over at The Orange Show (as part of their cool-sounding 2009 Fall Concert Series), and after hearing the band’s most recent full-length, Embrace, well, wow. It’s going […]
Whoa. A bit short-notice, for sure (yeah, like I never do that, right?), and it’s already been ably written up at Houstonist & 29-95.com, I know, but I figure it deserves some passing-along, in the unlikely event that there’re music lovers in this city who read this little blog and not one’a them big ones. […]
Okay, so I now know why I’ve been feeling twitchy & off-kilter lately: it’s been too damn long since I posted anything about fave pop-punks Something Fierce, obviously. Remedying that right now, then. Singer/guitarist Steven G. just sent word (along with some sort of kinky threat/invite that I’m not gonna go into here) that the […]
More going on this weekend, of course — like I said, not as much as a lot of weekends, but some good stuff, nonetheless. Here goes… Sat., August 29: The McKenzies (last show!)/Fat Tony/The Tontons/Tax the Wolf @ Mango’s sigh. The heartbreaker of the weekend, hands down; if you’ve been paying attention to local music-media […]
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 […]
Yep, it’s the weekend again, thankfully, and although this weekend’s not quite as insanely busy as some have been lately, well, I’m looking at it as a quality-vs-quantity type thing, y’know? Here’s what I’m liking tonight, Friday, August 28th; more on the rest of the weekend later on… Spain Colored Orange/The Watermarks/ Paris Falls @ […]
Glad to get some good news from that crew of seemingly ever-dwindling Northside(?) emo/post-emo bands — female-fronted, light-handed yet majestic emo-rockers While You Were Gone have finally come back out of seclusion. About damn time, y’all. To be fair, in the intervening time since they released their excellent debut EP, Heavy Lies the Crown — […]
Sometimes The Weekend arrives early, folks, and tonight, Thurs., August 27th, is one of those days. There aren’t that many shows going on this evening, compared to your average Saturday in the city, but damn, they’re nearly all freaking cool: Springfield Riots/Loxsly/Dan from Glasnost @ Boondocks I suck, suck, suck. I swore to myself that […]
Holy freaking crap. Y’know, I really hate it when one’a them pesky Internet rumors pops up on the screen and makes my stomach feel like it’s dropped into my feet, and I had that exact thing happen this AM when I read that now-venerable H-town venue Walter’s on Washington is moving (or maybe closing). My […]
