I couldn’t tell you why, but somehow, this flyer speaks to me…very odd. Of course, it could be simply because it’s gonna be a freakin’ great show, with two awesomely cool locals — the indie-pop-ish Wild Moccasins and fractured country/folk-pop Buxton — and one intriguing out-of-towner — The Terrordactyls (three words: kazoo & toy piano). […]
As we mentioned a while back, an abbreviated version of local cool kids The Western Civilization, including just Reggie, Rachel, & a boombox, drove on up recently to The Great White North (aka Canada) to play the Halifax Pop Explosion festival. Reggie says the show went great, with the duo playing to a packed house […]
It’s been a while, I know, since I posted an update up here (like, um, August?), but believe it or not, SCR hasn’t been asleep — even with Ike delivering the smackdown on Houston, we’ve kept putting up new stuff… I’ll hit the whole list soon, but the most pressing one’s the brand-new review of […]
And now, for Part 2… True to their collective word, the crew behind the recent BandCamp deal have come back with the second installment, this time moving beyond the general “what can we do?” stuff and on to the more practical side of things. This time out — namely, Sunday, November 2nd from 1-3PM at […]
Gotta make this quick — I’m off to get pizza for a small-ish horde of midgets in costumes — but damn, there is a ton of cool shit going on this Halloween & following weekend. Before I go on, though, I’d like to call a Momentary Gripe Interlude: what the fuck is with this bizarro […]
Yeah, yeah — I know this is way, way, way overdue, considering that the event itself happened a few weekends ago, now. I’d been holding off posting anything ’til I could get down thoughts about the whole ball o’ wax, y’know? The whole OCD thing is my downfall, I swear… The tagline there’s a wee […]
No, I’m not talking about a Denzel Washington movie, The Scorpions, or any attempt at a lame-ass, after-the-fact “list of songs to listen to while a hurricane pummels your city” playlist (hell, in our ‘hood we barely listened to music, period, with the lights out & all). I’m actually talking about trying to help out […]
[UPDATE: Well, I’ve just heard that the other two “mystery promoters” behind this year’s Noise & Smoke are none other than Ditch Water creator & local photo-taker Rosa Guerrero & original Hands Up! Houston booking crew member Anna Garza; definitely not trying to avoid giving these two ladies their due, I swear, I just didn’t […]
I had a teeny bit of a panic attack yesterday, when I tried to visit the Website for Midtown hipster hang The Mink; instead of the bar/club/whatever it is’s standard stylish black flowers & such, the link brought up a GoDaddy.com page that makes it look like the Mink crew, um, maybe let their domain […]
Dang…got some bad news in the email recently & figured I’d better share. Part numero uno… RISE AGAINST/ALKALINE TRIO/THRICE/THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM: Due to Rise Against singer Tim McIlrath losing his voice, the politically-minded punks have had to cancel their Texas shows, both last night in Austin and tonight (Mon., October 27th) here in town at […]
Okay, so it’s kind of sad we apparently can’t do this around here, but it’s good news, even still. Per Sara @ HandStamp, a bunch of good-hearted folks up in Luckenbach are holding a benefit tomorrow, Sunday, October 26th, to help raise money to rebuild the fine, fine Old Quarter Acoustic Cafe down in Galveston. […]
This weekend’s pretty much filled to overflowing, so I’m having to kinda pick and choose which events to mention here; this one is obscure as hell but still sounds damn cool, so for the moment, it wins. The 7th Annual Gadabout Traveling Film Festival will be rolling into Houston tonight, Sat., October 25th, around 8PM […]
Again, we are all about the J.I.T. reviewing, and today is no exception… Just slapped up a review of Mechanical Boy‘s new album, Play Along, on the site, which is damned good timing considering that the Richmond-bred crew will be officially releasing the disc tonight, Fri., October 25th, up at Fitzgerald’s. The show was scheduled […]
Just saw the news from the Free Press crew — apparently last night’s badass-looking show up at Numbers with HEALTH, The Wiggins, B L A C K I E, The McKenzies, & Female Demand had to be called on account of torrential, car-swamping amounts of rain and dodgy electricity at the club. Damn. Condolences to anybody who tried to make it […]
Nope, not that Chris Bell, this one. Tonight (Tues., October 22nd) up at ever-excellent The Continental Club, longtime Houston music scene fixture Jesse Dayton will be playing at a benefit for Chris’s Texas Senate run, and it sounds like a good time. Chris Bell is good people, one of the few local Houston politicos whom […]
Met Joel from promising-looking local resource site Indiehouston.org this past weekend at BandCamp (more on that soon, I swear), and he threw this one out there, asking very nicely if we might be able to slap up flyers for this Japanther show they’d set up for this coming Sunday, October 26th (at the ever-versatile Caroline […]
Just a quick one, since the details are already up here; in case you haven’t already blocked out your afternoon this coming Sunday, October 19th, well, BandCamp, over at the Caroline Collective, is where you need to be. At least, if you’ve got any interest in seeing the scene in our fair city thrive & […]
Last-minute as always, but as of this afternoon there’s a brand-spanking-new review of the just-about-new album from local math-y, prog-y post-rockers Tambersauro, which is a lucky coincidence, since the band’s officially releasing the disc this very evening (Friday, Oct. 17th) up at The Mink. I’ve never managed to catch the band live, but going by […]
Yes, folks, I know this is really late — today’s been a rough day, believe me, and I’m only now able to sit down for a few seconds… The reason I’m late-late-late, of course, is because formerly-defunct local ska legends The Suspects are playing tonight downtown at the much-ballyhooed Discovery Green park, celebrating their climb […]
I know it seems possibly dangerous to do this, given that we here at SCR are generally desperately in need of talented writers ourselves (high turnover and a slacker publisher/editor are a bad combination, y’know), but we recognize that, um, people need to eat. And since we’re a broke-ass bunch, we fully get that people […]
Yes, it’s apparently true. First I hear that the only big-ish and non-local benefit for Ike survivors scheduled will be down at Moody Gardens in Galveston with Dad favorite The Beach Boys (see here for details), and now HandStamp (yep, they’re on a roll, at least with me…) is reporting that at his show here […]
Remember a month or two back, when I slapped up a glowing post about how wonderful ex-Yaz frontwoman and now-solo artist Alison Moyet is/was? Yeah, well, fuck that. The cool kids at HandStamp just posted the news that Moyet’s cancelled her two Texas shows, Dallas and Houston, which were supposed to be this freakin’ week, […]
I didn’t think I was going to make it at all, honestly; the wife was out of town all weekend, so it was just me & the midget on our own, which meant that during the day Saturday we spent our time at The Disney Store at the Galleria and watching Beverly Hills Chihuahua (no, […]
Okay, so I stand corrected; my dad told me today that one of his all-time favorite bands, The Beach Boys, is actually coming to Galveston — not just Houston, but Ground Zero G-Town — to play a benefit concert for Ike survivors (by way of the United Way of Galveston) on Saturday, November 1st at […]
Okay, so now I feel a little bad for the hoopla over the “big” stuff going on this weekend, because it’s seriously overshadowing some truly deserving “little” stuff. Some of which is, uh, almost certainly going on as I type this…sorry ’bout that (I’m on Solo Dad duty tonight, so y’know). Anyway, without further ado: […]
Okay, so a while back I got a very nice email from the folks at Nauset Concepts, asking us to list their upcoming “Rock the Vote” show slated for this coming Sunday, October 12th, during the run-up to the election next month. “No prob!,” we said, cheerily adding the show to Ye Olde Grand List […]
Yes, the coming weekend is shaping up to be the best one we’ve seen in a while, and a large, large, large part of that is because of, yes, the Energizer Bunny of local music/etc. festivals, Westfest, aka the Westheimer Block Party, which is set to explode this Saturday, October 11th. With each one of […]
Got a friendly email about this pre-Ike, but then it got swept to the side by all the storm winds & having no electricity at the house & yadda, yadda. Sorry about that, you guys! I swear I meant to post about it earlier on… At any rate, the deal is that the three guys […]
While I’ll freely admit I could generally give a crap about what SPIN publishes — no offense to the mag, but I barely have enough bandwidth to read all the junk I already read, so I have to limit the music mag-ness to CMJ NMM — I’m stoked as hell to see said big-time magazine […]
Remember Sugar Shack? I sure as hell do — I can remember a time when they were the one and only band (that I knew of, anyway) signed to a “big-name,” outside- of-Houston label (Estrus), and they were looking like H-town garage rock’s Last Great Hope. They were raw, loud, aggressive, angry, and reportedly tough […]
I know it’s been a while, so consider this somewhat of a mini-Rundown; there’s just so many cool, neat, entertaining things you can check out this weekend that I can’t help but list ’em out, however briefly… Fri., October 3: Generator House Show, featuring The Young, Something Fierce, & Teenage Kicks @ 1813 Marshall (7-10PM, […]
Ah, this is cool — and just in time for Halloween, too. (I’m guessing that was the general idea…) If you’re up for some weird cinema and eerie music in a tranquil urban-yet-green environment, well, tonight’s your night. KUHF is putting on a set of old-timey silent films that’ll be set to live music, meaning […]
Well, that didn’t last long…it appears somebody got excited & leaked some more info about the Long Live the Dead party on the 31st of October up at Walter’s, like with the whole lineup & everything. So, in the interest of letting y’all know as much as we know, uh, here’s the “full” flyer with […]
Hey, all — got handed this a few days ago (sorry, I know I’m slow…), in all its myserious glory, so I wanted to post it up here. I like the all-black motif, honestly; very Spinal Tap. Apparently there’s some kind of Halloween bash going down at Walter’s on (duh) October 31st, with a bunch […]
While I wasn’t super-keen on seeing most of the bands that were slated to play at this year’s edition of the now-venerable Buzzfest (seen The Offspring, seen Toadies, mildly curious about Hawthorne Heights and Seether, could care less about the rest — Staind, Seether, Papa Roach, Puddle of Mudd, Earshot, 10 Years, Saving Abel, Ludo, […]
Remember that whole Final Fridays thing at the Caroline Collective that got canceled back at the end of last month? Well, it’s back on, tonight, Friday, Sept. 26th — the night will kick off at 7PM with badass jams from local up-and-comers The Wild Moccasins, followed by short films by Michael Rodriguez, which will then […]
Mentioned this one previously, but intrepid writer/energy troubleshooter Nick H. threw over a cool-ass review of The Silver Jews’ latest album, Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea, so I thought it’d be good to point it out…especially since the band’s actually playing tonight here in town, doing their quasi-indescribable kinda-country, kinda-indie thing over at Walter’s. They were […]
UPDATE 9/24: Damn. Even more bad news, unfortunately — got some more to add to the list. sigh. I also found out that the On Your Feet kids down in Alvin had to cancel all their shows (some of which I missed taking off the shows list) and that Anderson Fair has been w/o electricity […]
I honestly can’t remember where the heck I stumbled across this site, but I’ve gotta mention it here — FWMJ’s Rappers I Know is pretty damn awesome, particularly for somebody who’s severely lacking when it comes to knowledge of the local H-town hip-hop scene. I’ve never been big on the cash-guns-honeys school of rap, and […]
Damn, damn, damn. I go to work this AM and it’s a normal, plain-jane day, ’til my boss comes in and says, “okay, start shutting down — we need to have all the computers off and locked up in an interior room by noon so we can go home.” Naturally, my schoolboy-at-heart self thinks, “whee, […]
