Why Stop At One? H-Town Gets a Second Big-Ass Summer Music Festival

I saw some mysterious promo stuff about this a while back & didn’t know what to make of it, but now the full lineup’s been released, so…

Apparently H-town’s in for not one but two awesome-sounding summertime music fests this year (and hopefully the next, if all goes well?); along with the Free Press Summerfest, now there’s the Texas Heat Music Festival, scheduled for Sat., July 4th & Sun., July 5th downtown at Jones Plaza. It’s a little pricier than the Summerfest, at $15 a day or $25 for both right now (soon to go up to $20/$25 or $30/$40), and it aims a bit more at the dance-minded than Summerfest, but hey, both festivals have excellent lineups.

Here’s who all’s lined up for Texas Heat:

• The Rapture (DJ set only)
• RJD2
• People Under The Stairs
• 2020 Soundsystem
• Drop The LimeHot Pink Delorean
• Uzi and Ari
• Roky Moon and Bolt
• The Factory Party
• Grandfather Child
• The Mathletes
• Spain Colored Orange
• American Sharks
• Glasnost
• Alpaca
• Benjamin Wesley
• Electric Attitude
• Female Demand
• Warbler
• Shina Rae
• The Gold Sounds
• Peekaboo Theory
• Sad Gorilla
• Tax The Wolf
• Working Girls
• Grizzly
• Searching for Signal
• The Button Freak
• Ceeplus Bad Knives
• GRRRL Parts
• Josh Dupont
• DJ Red
• James Reed
• Damon Allen
• Bjorn Larsen
• Chris Calix
• Suraj K
• Bmc
• SDFONE
• Page
• TDBZ
• Brandon Silva
• Steve Mok
• Bloxwerth
• Kung Fu Pimp
• DJ Dayta
• G-Wizz
• They Call Me Jep
• El Roy Boogie
• DJ Brad Slack & MC Gremlin
• DJ Maximilian

I dunno a fair number of the out-of-towners (that first eight or so), but RJD2‘s one of my favorite producers ever — I like his Soul Position stuff w/Blueprint better than the vocal-less stuff, but I’ll take what I can get of the guy. Plus, there’s The Rapture, although for my money a full-band show’d be much cooler than a DJ set. And hell, I didn’t even know People Under The Stairs were still around.

The Music Lords, it would seem, are smiling down on us all, dancefloor mavens & indie-hipsters alike…