I saw the rough cut of this one a week or two back, but now that it’s finally “officially” released, I figured it’d be a good time to post the new Mark Armes-created video for “Wires and Buttons”, by local heroes Young Mammals. I must admit that it’s not my favorite YM song, unfortunately (mostly […]
A few days late, I know, but still this YouTube video unearthed by Ramon over at Free Press Houston has me giggling with delight, so I feel compelled to spread it around: It’s a brilliant little snapshot of life (the local PBS affiliate’s take on it, anyway) at Rice’s own much-loved/oft-hated radio station, KTRU waaaaaaaay […]
Got a company Christmas party to run to, but before I go I’ve got to mention a few of the damn cool-ass things going on this weekend. There’s good, good stuff going on tonight & tomorrow night, in particular, like the Insidious Decrepancy/Funeral Rites show tonight (Friday, Dec. 12th) at midnight (ooooooh…) up at the […]
I know I’ve posted sad stuff about this recently, but it looks like things are getting weirder & weirder. Per owner Jim Pirtle’s blog, he does have a buyer on the line for venerable downtown art-spot & oddball haunt Notsuoh, but now it looks like there’s some kind of legal difficulty standing in the way. […]
And here you thought all the electorializing was over, didn’t you? Well, no such luck — and no, I’m not talking, surprisingly, about Chris Bell’s impending runoff for that pesky Texas Senate seat, or even about the Al Franken/Norm Coleman thing still going on up north, nuh-uh. No, I’m talking about The Sammies, which is […]
Memo to the dirtbag who stole Tontons/Studemont Project guitarist Adam Martinez’s gear from his car: you’re a fucking waste of skin who needs to go jump off a building (or, alternatively, return it all right damn now). You’ve officially made the top of my own personal Worst Person in the World list. Beyond the fact […]
Damn, this is gonna be a good one, and it’s looking like I’m gonna miss it. Argh… Sucks to be me. Anyway, for those who don’t know, Peter and the Wolf are pretty fucking awesomely great, this kind of indie-folk-pop collective of sorts helmed by Red Hunter that plays strange, quirky, yet intensely catchy music […]
Yes, Jack Black irks me. I like some of his movies, admittedly, but a lot of the time his shtick wears thin fast. So when he showed up and was hysterically funny in the awesome, awesome Prop. 8: The Musical on FunnyOrDie.com, I nearly spit out my morning coffee. Seriously, it’s pretty great. Oh, and […]
Okay, it’s true — I am excited by all the awesomeness going on this weekend in part because I’ll be doing the Ramblin’ Man thing, all on my lonesome, once the wife takes The Munchkin and heads out to beautiful Shelby, TX. for a girls-only “retreat”-type thing at her boss’s country abode. What with the […]
Mind == blown. Wow. Hat tip, once again, to HoustonHipHop.com for pointing this guy out (although he’s apparently been fairly well-known for a little while now; I’m slow, I’m well aware…). They’ve got a handful of videos up (there’s an insanely huge pile of others on his YouTube channel, but here’s my favorite: And no, […]
Short notice, and I’m afraid I’ve gotta let the flyer do the talking for this one (gotta go do the Fam thing), but trust me: this will be a good show. Tonight, at The Mink (all in the upstairs area, apparently), $8, 7PM doors/8PM bands, and a ton of cool people, both local (Balaclavas, Guitars, […]
Yes, ladies and gents, it’s true — in the intervening time between now and my last post on the subject, I have indeed been working on revamping, updating, and expanding the Awesomely Huge and All-Encompassing Houston Band Map (anybody got any ideas for a better name?). Check the super-duper-sized version of it here, but be […]
UPDATE: And there they go…thanks to the folks who emailed in, but the pair of Duran Duran tix are now officially won. Congrats, Joe! Thanks to the kind efforts of Marni at Sneak Attack, the PR person for ’80s pop legends Duran Duran, we here at SCR have a pair of tickets to give away […]
Damn…I apparently missed the grand opening (was there one?) of new local music-and-stuff site Indiehouston.org back in September (gah!), but it’s now alive & running. Looking good, too — they’ve got some cool new interviews w/folks like San Serac and Fertile Crescent, plus writeups of badass locals like The McKenzies (woo!), a bunch of show […]
Far be it from me to criticize somebody for the way they decide to promote the things they do (’cause we’d never stoop so low as to criticize people, no, never…), but the crew over at HoustonHipHop.com — a site that goes sadly unappreciated by the indie-rock set in town, btw — have unearthed what […]
I’d originally hoped to do a big-ass update of all the reviews & interviews & such we’ve been stockpiling the past several weeks, but alas, that hasn’t happened. Instead, I’ve been piecemealing things up on the site as necessary, like the Coldplay review David Cobb did or the Caddywhompus and Parts & Labor reviews yours […]
Good, good, good news. Meant to post about this last week, but eh, Thanksgiving… Anyway, now I can say it with authority, having actually heard the new Something Fierce album, There Are No Answers: you really need to get yourself a copy. Really. It’s bad-fucking-ass, honest, a fiery burst of poppy punk with irresistible melodies […]
The title says it all, really. I should probably just leave it at that, but I feel compelled to explain myself when I make big declarations like this, so here it goes… I finally got a chance to check out Austin/expat Houston band The Eastern Sea this past Saturday night — although it turned out […]
Argh. Feels like deja vu, y’all… Power’s out here at SCR HQ, so I’m forced to e-blog from the iPhone; apologies if anything comes across garbled. CenterPoint assures us the lights will be back on soon, but seeing as the last time we heard that, we were powerless for 12 days, well, we’re a bit […]
Still reeling from/dealing with the Thanksgiving aftermath here — the family that puts up Christmas decorations together & all that — so I’ve got to keep it brief for right now, but for tonight, Friday, November 28th, you’ve got a few cool choices to fight the mid-holiday slump… First there’s the Secret Awesome Fest 9000, […]
This is what I get for staying off the email/message boards so I can hang with the family & all that. Trying to be good & do stuff with my mom & little girl & all that, and lo and behold, a fairly big-time show rolls surreptitiously into town, slipping right beneath my (admittedly often […]
Back when I was a wee DJ at KTRU, I ended up hearing a ton of stuff that sounded raw as hell to my relatively-untainted ears. I was reading a shitload of cyberpunk back then, digging up every two-bit Gibson/Sterling clone I could find, and I realized pretty quickly that this music I was hearing […]
My mom’s in town for the Thanksgiving holiday, and driving around with her has reminded me just how damaged Houston, Galveston, and the rest of our Gulf Coast area still is — she keeps pointing out how wow, those telephone poles are all leaning halfway out over that ditch, how there’re blue tarps all over […]
This is seriously causing me some cognitive dissonance, folks. First there’s the bill at blues & jam-rock haven Dan Electro’s Guitar Bar, which is renowned for being a downhome place to see good, bluesy, funky bands — tonight’s headliners are local street-punk badasses Deathbed Repentance, garage-y punk rockers The Delta Block, and fellow punks Molotov […]
Yeah, I know Part 1 wasn’t technically Part 1, but yesterday’s post about The Suspects, Latch Key Kids, Crystal Method, etc., was pretty much a Rundown-type deal, so eh… Tonight continues the run of Really Cool Shit going on, happily, with the biggie (for me, at least) being a last-minute-ish show with Austin band The […]
Meant to post about this sooner… Tomorrow & Sunday (November 22nd & 23rd) there’s a cool-sounding festival going on up on the edges of downtown, in Sam Houston Park, at Allen Parkway & Bagby. It’s called Via Colori, and it’s supposed to be a “street painting festival,” with over 175(!) artists creating their own unique […]
Damn, damn, damn. Yeah, I know it’s late as hell, but what the heck — I’ve been running nonstop all week & haven’t been able to catch up ’til now (more on why later). Which sucks, because there’s a ton of good stuff going on this weekend, starting tonight. Get on out while you can… […]
Some folks may remember that way back in the day, Space City Rock began life — as a journalistic-type endeavor, at least — as a real-live paper zine. Our first-ever issue had a bunch of stuff in it, including an interview with members of my soon-to-be-defunct heroes, Jawbox, that I still can’t really believe the […]
Yes, the disc’s been out a little while now, I realize, but what the hey — we sure as hell haven’t weighed in on it ’til now, and that’s what really counts, dammit. So, courtesy of Houston Calling honcho, sometime SCR contributor, and all-round cool guy David Cobb, we’ve now got a review of the […]
Never been to Boondocks, but tonight’s bill makes me want to give it a shot, in spite of my general exhaustion… I have a hard time resisting the lure of both Deer Park’s finest, The Gold Sounds, and the up-and-coming McKenzies. I’ve missed seeing the Sounds live so far, unfortunately, but their recorded stuff is […]
Last night for The Rundown for a bit; I ended up stuck with the fam this weekend & missed out/am missing out on all the festivities, sadly, but that doesn’t mean you have to, yourself. Tonight (Sunday, November 16th), then, is your last chance of the weekend to not fall into the same trap as […]
Man…what a week. The wife’s cousins from Soderfors, Sweden, are in town, so I played hooky from the day job yesterday to visit George Ranch & Brazos Bend, then dragged cousin Roger (pronounced “Row-hair”) to Midtown to check out The Tontons & The Iguanas (on recommendation from Thomas at Sig’s Lagoon). Separate shows, mind you, […]
Yep, this weekend has officially got me torn up, at least in terms of figuring out what the hell’s the best show to check out. Take tonight, Friday, November 14th, for the first part of it. Over at The Mink, local artiste & designer Forsa Pink is having her “Almost Famous Fashion Show”, and while […]
Man…again? Damn. I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised — the place has led a seemingly precarious existence in all its forms, at least since I’ve lived in this city — but it still makes me sad to hear that much-loved downtown haunt Notsuoh may be headed under once again. This time, unfortunately, it really […]
Meant to put this up sooner, but as it always is with life, things intervene. Time will tell if it’s the reality (I’ve got pretty high hopes), but right now, a week after, I’m still feeling like celebrating the fact that a smart, practical, rational guy who looks a heck of a lot like America […]
And then we all got sick. Yeah, all of us. There were six of us in the car, one of whom was sick on the way up and I guess all the coughing and sneezing in that cramped little car and then on the floor of that cramped little apartment got into the systems of […]
Just woke up from a long, incredibly long day in Austin at Fun Fun Fun Fest, and I’m fairly confident in saying that my god festivals take work. First, though, I wanted to say a big thanks to Jeremy (man, you gotta come to one of these some day!) for allowing me access to his […]
Aaaaaaaaaand, here we go. There’re just too many fucking cool shows coming up in the next several days for me to skip talking about ’em in good conscience. I’m sleep-depriving myself for you, people. Can you feel how much I sacrifice for you? You may, once you read the half-coherent writeups below… Sat., November 8: […]
No time right now to run down the whole list of awesomely awesome shows going on this weekend — gotta go greet the wife’s cousins, in town from little-bitty Soderfors, Sweden — but I’ve got to mention this one… Tonight (Friday, Nov. 7th), NYC noisemakers Parts & Labor are making their third stop through Houston […]
[UPDATE II: And then…they were gone. poof! Congrats to James for being fastest and most articulate on the email. Apologies to other would-be ticket-claimers.] [UPDATE: Per the kindly, ever knowledgeable Marisa at Four Paws Media, it appears that Flying, who was supposed to be playing with Deerhoof tomorrow night, is actually now Fertile Crescent, instead. […]
