Sad News Time: The Jonx Bow Out, Next Thursday

Damn, damn, damn. Apparently I missed the real-brief note about it on the band’s blog last Friday, but I happened to see this AM that the guys in the band had gotten back online and explained a bit further… Sadly, {The Jonx} are calling it quits, as of, well, next week.

Read their post for the full explanation, but the gist is that bassist Trey Lavigne will be moving out-of-state soon (to Washington state, I think?), and with drummer Danny Mee already living up in Austin, being a real-live “band” is about to get pretty unworkable. sigh.

I can’t fault ’em, honestly — Real Life trumps The Band nearly every time, especially in a city like ours where it’s rarely possible to make a full-time living doing music. I’m sad to see the band and Trey go, though; after responding recently to somebody who declared that there weren’t any “groundbreaking” bands in this city, I smacked myself in the forehead for not pointing out that The Jonx themselves are one of those bands. There’s nobody around that does what they do, not exactly — they’ve got the SST and post-punk and math-rock influences in there, sure, but they evolved into their own wholly unique and distinct animal quite a while ago now.

Of course, it always sucks when bands go out with a whimper (or a shrug, at least) rather than a bang, so I’m glad to see they’re playing one last show before bowing out. Next Thursday, October 14th, the band will be hitting the stage at Walter’s on Washington, alongside fellow noisy/fist-punch-y post-punks and cool dudes {Black Congress}, so celebrate the almost-decade they’ve been making music.

Jonx-ers, we will miss y’all. Houston’s music scene will feel a bit sadder without you here.