Yr. Weekend, Pt. 3: Inaugural Walter’s Bazaar + Something Fierce + The Wrong Ones + Brave New Waves + More

And here we are, heading into Sunday, May 27th; it’s a wee bit quieter than the past two days, but there is still some great stuff going on:

Walter’s Bazaar, featuring Odessa, Muhammad Ali, & Big Fiction (CD release) @ Walter’s (1120 Naylor)
This first one’s courtesy of the Treaty Oak Collective folks, and it looks like it’ll be a regular event over at the “new” Walter’s, located at 1120 Naylor.

The idea is to make this a regular swap meet for local musicians, artists, and whoever else — there don’t appear to be any restrictions — to come and put out their wares for sale to whomever might want ’em; if you want a table, you can reserve one for a measly $20 from the TTOC. It’ll be every last Sunday (like this one), and it sounds very freaking cool, at least to me. I’m all for anything to build a tighter-knit community here in H-town, and this looks like a neat step in that direction.

Beyond the buying & selling, of course, there’s BBQ, drinks, and yes, a handful of bands, musicians, or DJs. For this inaugural edition, they’ve got the ever-excellent {Muhammad Ali}, whom I love like crazy for their ripped-from-my-nostalgic-brain, no-rules take on late-’90s indie-rock, plus Dallas post-hardcore/metal band Big Fiction, who’re having their CD release at the show, and practically hypnotically, ear-crushingly loud black metal dudes Odessa, all of whom are damn good. The fun starts at 6PM…

The Cry!/Something Fierce/The Wrong Ones @ Rudyard’s
Then, up at Rudyard’s, there’s some straight-up, old-school punk rawk, courtesy of local retro-punk heroes {Something Fierce}, who get better & better with each release, and sleazy dudes {The Wrong Ones}, who are in that middle ground between punk and grimy glam-rock. I dunno The Cry at all, sorry, but hell, this is worth it just for the other two bands. Both are badass.

Brave New Waves #001, featuring Cyclea, Michelle Yom, Astr0g3nic Hallucinauting, & Brent Fariss @ 14 Pews (800 Aurora St.; 7PM)
And lastly, there’s this show, the first in the Brave New Waves series, apparently — replacing the {Binarium Sound Series} shows, maybe? — which features some very cool local experimentalists, folks like {Michelle Yom} and Spike the Percussionist‘s {Astrogenic Hallucinauting} project. I’m not the biggest expert on this sort of thing, I’ll freely admit it, so I’m going to defer to Ramon over at {Free Press Houston}; he’s got a much better writeup than anything I could come up with, right over here.

Runners-Up:
The Texas Buzz, featuring The Hunger, Elysian, & An Ivy League Summer @ The Scout Bar (Clear Lake)
Milton Hopkins & Jewel Brown (CD release) @ The Continental Club
Memorial Day Open House Parking Lot Party, featuring Irene, Wild Rabbit Salad, Patrick Bring Band, Devil Killing Moth, Glenn Bryant Band, Albert Storo & The Soul Hustlers, Third Ear Caravan, Robin Kirby, A Spanish Disposition, & Gideon Chesser @ Dan Electro’s Guitar Bar (4PM-1AM)