Paranormal Activity screened for the press last night at AMC Studio 30, and by the looks of the crowd this may be one of the only reviews you’ll see in Houston, as everyone else appears to have been “Caller Number 9” on an FM radio station. They, and many people you know have petitioned Paramount […]
Capitalism: A Love Story Reviewed by Creg Lovett At the preview screening for Michael Moore’s new movie Capitalism: A Love Story people hissed, booed, gasped in horror, applauded, laughed out loud and cried real tears. Liberal Democrats Chris Dodd and Barney Frank bore the brunt of the films heavy handed guilt trip, and Republican congressman […]
An interesting cinematic-type thing in town tonight (Sat., September 26th, that is) — the Alamo Drafthouse Theater at West Oaks Mall is hosting a special night with the folks behind hysterically funny/sad found-video blog Everything Is Terrible!. The site dredges up ridiculously awful VHS footage from the past several decades and manages to make it […]
I’m Creg Lovett, and I’m going to be writing a column on Alternative Cinema in Houston. I first came to Space City Rock 4 years ago when a magazine I was writing for crashed and burned, and left me hanging with no place to publish my cover story on Michael Haaga’s Plus and Minus Show […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
I’m not generally a fan of black metal, no; beyond my overall aversion to Cookie Monstering when it comes to any kind of singing, my gut reaction when I see somebody in corpsepaint, looking Mëtäl and wannabe-badass, is roughly the same as when I see barbarians with gigantic beer bellies and rode-hard wenches in chainmail […]
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 — […]
So…who here remembers the Pain Teens? Ridiculously influential, crazy-ass psychedelic, punkish noise band, signed to Trance Syndicate, then broke up a decade later, after like a half-dozen albums and a weird, not-really-into-it dance with the edges of fame? Yeah, them. Well, ex-Pain Teens/Culturcide/Truth Decay member Ralf, now of Future Blondes, and FB bandmate Kirston have […]
Alright, so it’s not really “Take Two,” but the last attempt at doing a BandCamp booking thing ended up being somewhat scuttled by the asshole-ish theft of Caroline Collective/BandCamp honcho Matthew Wettergren‘s laptop & all its contents. That said, the aim this time out is a little different — the next installment of BandCamp, BandCamp: […]
We’re veering rapidly towards the end of the week and all the work-dodging that entails (not that I’m doing it myself, but y’know), so it seemed appropriate to post some YouTube clips I’ve seen recently of and/or by local H-town folks… First is a bit of an afternoon show last weekend at Cactus Music, with […]
Another one (er, two) I can’t believe I let sneak up on me; I still have yet to see The Paper Chase live, although I’ve been a fan of John Congleton and his dark, creepy-ass indie-noise-rock for a few years now. They’re playing tonight, thankfully, up at Walter’s on Washington, along with cool (although more […]
Can’t believe I let this one creep up on me like this — one of my absolute favorite, most intrigued-by music-makers going, and I nearly freaking forgot she was playing here this week. Gah… Anyway, Santigold will be playing tonight, Wed., June 17th up at the House of Blues, and while I’ve been burned by […]
Mentioned this briefly earlier on, but the next installment of the BandCamp series up at the Caroline Collective is set for today (again, Sun., June 14th). I haven’t seen a lot in the way of details, unfortunately, but here’s what I’ve got from co-organizer Matthew Wettergreen: Next Bandcamp: Booking Party Bring your press kit, a […]
= 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, […]
This is a cool one; I’d missed it last time out, but apparently the folks at Houstonist are doing a followup photography show to 2007’s 600 sq mi: Photos from Houston exhibit, and the idea this time is to get local photogs here in our fair city to come up with pictures of the “hidden […]
Okay, so that’s stretching it a bit — the show tonight at the Mucky Duck isn’t technically a Trout Fishing In America show. What is is, though, involves the TFIA guys and happens to be pretty cool. See, TFIA are originally from right here in H-town; bassist Keith Grimwood went to school at U of […]
Any fans out there of local electro-fuckery maven Limb (which is basically one of the ex-members of legendary post-rockers By the End of Tonight, if I understand correctly)? Anybody just want to get pseudo-famous on Youtube or (considerably less likely) MTV/Fuse? Well, here’s your shot. At 5PM today (Wed., May 27th, for the time-travelling or […]
Oh, man. After stumbling across Breakfast at Sulimay’s recently, I think I just need to quit this reviewing racket; after all, there’s no way I could ever possibly top these people, reviewing-wise, so why bother? I can’t tell if Ann is serious or taking the piss with the whole thing — she likes Young Jeezy? […]
Damn, that sounds like a Chumbawumba song… (And for the uninitiated, no, the band didn’t begin & end with that asinine “I get knocked down / and I get up again” football-lad singalong.) Local “infoshop” Sedition Books is a welcome anomaly in our Metropolis of Greed and Conformity — they’re an out-and-out anarchist collective, lending […]
A bit early, but after missing Steve Earle at Cactus this past weekend, I do not want to drop the ball on this one, especially since the wife & I had to miss ’em the last time they came through town, back in 2007… So, here we go with the good news: weekend-after-next, Friday, May […]
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 […]
Hey, all — the astute & keen-eyed may notice a few changes to the SCR site over the past week or so, so I wanted to mention what’s new and/or different both so’s nobody gets confused and to perpetuate the illusion that this freaking thing actually does change occasionally (kidding! kidding…um, kinda?). New Classifieds/Board: Yes, […]
If you pay much attention at all to music ’round these parts, then yeah, you probably already know what went down at the recent (and first) Jandek show here in his own stomping grounds. The enigmatic “outsider music” icon showed up and got on the Rudyard’s stage with two session musicians who were obviously talented […]
I’ll be honest about it: the whole MUNNY thing? I don’t get it. Maybe I would’ve as a kid, back when I was a D&D nerd who loved (but sucked at, frankly) painting miniatures, but these days, eh, it ain’t really for me. A totally blank, featureless toy I’ve gotta paint myself? Why the hell […]
For those who like things cinematic (and good, obviously), there’s some really, truly cool stuff coming up. Today (Thursday, April 16th, that is) marks the start of the third-annual Houston Palestinian Film Festival, a showcase of movies by Palestinian filmmakers, and it looks pretty great. Here’s the overall mission statement, if you’re curious: The second […]
Wow. Well, last weekend may’ve been light, but this weekend’s certainly making up ground quick. I’ll hit Saturday later on, but here’s what up for tonight, Friday, April 10th. Now, I’d originally intended to post separately about a few of these — notably the Mango’s grand opening show & the Psychedelic Sock Hop Travis from […]
Yep, it’s Friday, it’s a holiday weekend, and we here at SCR realize that you desperately need some freakin’ entertainment. So here you go; just for you. Who loves you, man? This first one’s a badass video for “Le Kick”, by one of my current fave H-town bands, American Fangs — the song makes me […]
What? I’m posting a report on the Free Press Houston Westheimer Block Party this damn late, more than a week after? Hell, yes. That’s just how I roll, yo. (Come on; it’s not like anybody out there was actually eagerly waiting for this, right? Nah…) Okay, actually, it’s just been a crazy couple of weeks, […]
It’ll sound odd, but I really can’t express how happy it makes me to see that they’re now sporadically showing movies outdoors downtown at Discovery Green. Stupid, I know, but in movies of “cool” cities, the thing that always kills me is when Protagonist & Love Interest manage to end up at an outdoor showing […]
Just a quick, quick mention of where you should probably be this evening — 7PM! free! — and that’s up at Sound Exchange on Richmond, (gently) rocking out to the quirky, ridiculously clever (yet not pretentious) nerd-pop of The Mathletes. Imagine the sweetest, friendliest bunch of people you know, throw in large heaping helpings of […]
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’ve dodged the Twitter bullet so far, and I have to say, I’m fairly glad of that. Heck, ’til the recent dive into Facebook hell and not counting the Myspace “mirror” for this wee blog, I’ve mostly avoided the whole social-networking thing completely. Yeah, I’m a cyber-Luddite on some levels, it’s true; it just feels […]
Yeah, I’m a fantasy nerd; I’m not going to deny it. I spent my formative years devouring every sci-fi and fantasy book, TV show, movie, and comic book imaginable, pretty much starting with a family trip across Europe when we lived in Germany — I read The Hobbit traveling past ancient castles and snow-capped mountains, […]
All band folk who want to get noticed & play to bigger crowds & get reviewed & whatnot: a half-assed Myspace page is not enough. As somebody who writes about this stuff quasi-professionally, I can’t even count the number of times I’ve heard/heard of a band, then tried to check out their site — on […]
[UPDATE: Well, apparently my attempt at embedding the Far video below didn’t work as well as I’d hoped; it appears to work in some browsers (like Firefox on my home Macbook) but not in others (like Firefox on my work PC). Dang. I’ve included the actual link to the video below, for folks who can’t […]
Ah, Rad Rich — man, you amaze me. Not only is he a walking embodiment of H-town skate-punk, but he also comes up with some craaaaazy-yet-entertaining ideas. The latest? He’s planning to dress up in his wrestling gear to go see tonight’s 10PM showing of (duh) The Wrestler over at the River Oaks Theatre. And […]
No, I’m not talking about doing comedy — anybody who knows me probably knows that I’d pass out cold on the stage were I ever to attempt that — but rather about, um, me in comic-strip form. This is waaaaay old, at this point, mostly because I could never find the thing anywhere online, so […]
