Okay. So…it is on, albeit in a much-changed form. The Keene St. Warehouse Party has so far had its headliner (Andrew W.K., for those not paying attention) cancel, discovered that the venue (the Keene St. Warehouse — duh) had not been rebuilt/renovated after it got hit by a fire a while back and was soaked […]
And here I was, all gearing up to rant & rave, only to swing by the Hands Up board and learn that Andrew W.K. will now not be playing the Keene St. Warehouse Party this coming Saturday, July 5th. From AWK’s Website: “I’m very sorry that the Houston show fell through. We did our best […]
Yeah, this last update was a big one — we’re gonna have to skip a week or two after this, as I’ll be flying out tomorrow AM for Arizona, off on The Great Grand Canyon Adventure/March of Death ’08, so we tried to get a large bunch of new things up on the site… First […]
I haven’t seen a lot of press on it (although, admittedly, I haven’t been scouring Google Reader much this week), so I figured I’d make a quick mention of a show this evening… Nairobi-by-way-of-NY band Extra Golden is coming through town, playing tonight at the ever-interesting Orange Show (2402 Munger) at around 7PM. And it […]
Okay, not literally, but that’s kind of the idea. Y’see, yours truly will be hopping on a jetplane at the end of this month to fly to beauteously hot Tucson, Arizona (which is a lot neater, somehow, than it was when I was a child & was forced to spend my summers there). There I’ll […]
…this seems awful damn cynical, even to a non-fan like me: [Kiss manager Doc] McGhee said “I believe that Kiss can go on forever. I believe that there is a way – and we are talking to people and we’re pretty close to getting it done – about finding the four new members of Kiss.” […]
Damn. I am so on the wrong press-release lists, y’all, seeing as I missed out on this one from local hip-hop house Rap-A-Lot Records: Fresh off the heels of a #1 Rap/R&B album, Bun B and Rap-A-Lot Records are looking for the nation’s next rap superstar and have teamed with Microsoft Zune to launch the […]
Been meaning to do this for a long damn while now, gathering up tidbits of info here, there, & everywhere. It’s a testament to how vibrant our much-bemoaned local scene actually is that there’s a bona-fide shitload of stuff going on: bands breaking up, bands forming, CDs coming out, local press shakeups, side projects, yadda, […]
If you’re in a band, odds are you need someplace to stow your stuff, practice your hot guitar licks and/or faces, yell at your guitarist for not playing the riff right for the seventh time, and sit around and try to think of stupid words/phrases to sing over Bush’s “Glycerine” for hours on end (okay, […]
A mere handful of hours after yours truly blearily slapped up a post on how local indie-folks The Western Civilization (about whom you can read more here) won themselves a spot on the Warped Tour and are playing H-town next week, I logged back in to the email to find, lo and behold, a message […]
I know a ton of local bands have been vying for spots on this year’s Warped Tour when it hits Houston, but the only one I’ve seen so far that’s made the cut (there may be more) is the supremely awesome Western Civilization, who’ll be playing on the “Kevin Says” stage (whatever the heck that […]
In case you’re some foolhardy soul who only reads this here e-zine/blog thingy (hah!), right now feels like high time to point you elsewhere, at least temporarily. ‘Cause our compatriots in local music coverage have been pretty fucking on lately, and they deserve some recognition. And y’know what? No one blog, website, e-zine, or print […]
Man. Is it just me, or have we really been hitting a string of bad-ass weekends for shows lately? I can tell I’ve been watching too much Deadliest Catch, ’cause the analogy that keeps popping into my head is of H-town sitting on a big biomass of, uh, good bands and consistently hauling in a […]
[UPDATE: Anybody know how to convert all my blog posts over to WordPress? I posted this damn thing last evening, and yet, when I got back online this AM, lo and behold, it still wasn’t up there. Fuck. Sorry, y’all…] Update time, update time — if you happen to glance at our happy little homepage, […]
Okay, so now that I’m gonna have to enter Witness Protection or hope that the guys in the band alluded to repeatedly here are very forgiving, I feel the need for something entertaining. Serious discussion is great & all (and I think this thread is probably gonna go down in history as the longest this […]
Fuck. It happens once or twice a year, these days, but it never gets a whole lot easier — I guess I should be glad we’re not Pitchfork, ’cause I’d imagine they get a shitload of hate mail, given their prominence & the volume of stuff they review. We here at SCR recently slammed a […]
Late notice, I know, and I think both shows are already going on…argh. Anyway, if you’re at a loss for something to do this evening, you’ve got at least two charitable-type choices amongst the pile of very cool things to check out: A Benefit for Alex Arizpe @ The Meridian This one was somewhat of […]
Got this one courtesy of the good people at Nasty Little Man, and I find myself liking the song & wanting to hear it repeatedly, so I figured it was only just to post it to this here site. Sounds to me like “Chemtrails” is Beck finally making the full transformation from alt-rock hero into […]
[UPDATE: Whoops…I just realized I neglected to mention that the show’s also being put on by the I Heart U crew. Sorry about that, y’all…] Holy shit. Barring a surprise Houston stop by The Weakerthans or (less realistically) the ghost of Joe Strummer appearing in my living room to sing “Spanish Bombs,” I honestly didn’t […]
Been meaning to mention this for a little while now — with the “on hiatus” nature of things over at Super Not-So-Happy Fun Land, I was really, really worried that the Zine Fest Houston extravaganza was going to get cancelled or postponed indefinitely. Which would suck, frankly, because zines — not the digital kind like […]
Behind the curve, as always…damn you, New House/Day Job! I’d like to vow that if I ever win the lottery this here blog will be so kickass and up-to-the-millisecond current that it’ll fry your hair just to look at it. Except that I know I’m inherently too lazy for that, and so — hey, I […]
Yeah, you read that title right — tonight’s another “damn, I wish I had a cloning machine…” night, with great, great things happening all over our (not-so-)fair city… Option Uno: Tops on my list is tonight at Rudyard’s, where Clevelanders mr. Gnome will be blowing the roof off, setting hair on fire, and creeping everybody […]
…then you should be at one of these shows. No, really. Tonight’s a biggie, enough to make me want to peel myself away from hanging new fans & putting together endless book and CD shelves to go check something out. Hell, just close your eyes and pick one: Sat., May 10 – Pennywise/Strung Out/Authority Zero […]
(I know, I know; it was so easy, I just couldn’t pass it up, sorry…) Tonight marks the last-ever show by H-town hardcore stalwarts Will to Live, who’re “retiring” from the music thing to focus their energies elsewhere. They’ve had a long, long, long run, originally rising out of the ashes of early-’90s straightedge legends […]
Well, I’m trying to wrap up work so I can run to the post office, but I just can’t bring myself to bail w/o mentioning some of the extremely, extremely cool things going on tonight. This weekend initially looks pretty scary, when you look at it — I mean, on Saturday we’ve got not only […]
Okay, so y’all all know about the Secret Saturday Shows deal by now, and some have even been; I was fortunate enough to finally be able to drag my little girl out to The Shady Tavern for a surprise performance by Judas Bear a few weekends back, despite the moving insanity, and we both had […]
Meant to post this earlier, but eh, shit happens, and so… Seeing as how that whole Muxtape thing is so damn neat, it only makes sense that the Houston Press‘s John Lomax would be into it, too. I missed his “African diaspora” muxtape, sadly, but the one he put up this past week is damn […]
Damn, this makes me really, really sad (and big “thanks” to David over at the ever-stellar Houston Calling for breaking the news…). In spite of my being smack-dab in the middle of The Week From Hell (job promotion + new responsibilities + immediate deadlines + selling house + buying house + moving all our crap […]
I suck, suck, suck. In my frantic rush to post about Record Store Day, I woefully neglected to give even the briefest shoutout to the wondrous, magical Midtown haven that is Sig’s Lagoon (3710 Main, if you were wondering). Which is doubly stupid considering that in the past six months or so I’ve shopped there […]
Okay, so I was a bit confused about this one — I’d thought today’s Record Store Day thing I’d been hearing about from the Cactus Music crew was just something at their happy little store, but noooo…apparently it’s North America-wide, if not further. Turns out lots of indie music stores all across the country are […]
Just a quick note on this one, I’m afraid, since I’m still swamped as hell at work & barely have time to type things that aren’t instructions for IT security-type people…argh. Nevertheless, I feel compelled to post a little something, seeing as I’m stunned I hadn’t heard more about this before now. It seems that […]
How do I always end up like this? Argh…the day just slip-slides away from me, I swear… Anyway, I wanted to post ’cause in the past 7 days or so we’ve now put up two separate batches of reviews & such, and I was woefully unable to post about the first bunch before leaving town […]
Three words (well, technically two words, but y’know) come to mind when I look at the ginormous pile of cool stuff that’s going on this weekend: why, God, why? See, ’cause while all you fortunate town-bound people will see your respective cups overfloweth, I will be shepherding three screaming children (not all my own) around […]
I can’t believe this finally happened. I also can’t believe anybody still cares, especially enough that they’d do something dumb like this. Of course, “handed over” is not exactly “released” — who knows what the label’ll do with it now — but still. That’s what’s known as calling somebody’s bluff, y’all. Prepare to pony up, […]
Yep, got some more new stuff up online this week, including a review of shaggy-headed Tyler boys Ivoryline, who’re playing tomorrow (Sun., 4/6) at Warehouse Live with Family Force 5, The Myriad, & The Maine — I dunno a thing about the rest of the bill, but Ivoryline aren’t bad, at least not on record. […]
Since I’ve started trying to bring the little digital camera I got for Christmas to more shows lately, I’ve been feeling a bit nostalgic for the Days of Yore here in Houston’s murky-yet-vibrant scene. There was a time when I’d bring my trusty Pentax to every damn show — esp. the ones we played — […]
This is utterly, spectacularly, jaw-droppingly horrifying. Check out the brilliance of the quote in the 7th paragraph down; I can’t even bring myself to copy-and-paste it here. Fuck. People, what the hell is wrong with all of you? Because if you bought this crap, trust me, something most certainly is. Screw the prospect of another […]
Ladies & gentlepeeps, I give you, the first-ever super-official, fancy-shmancy SCR Muxtape, for your enjoyment and the hopeful elevation of the bands included therein. Gape in awe at its Houston-swelled glory. Yeah, yeah — I know they’re likely a fad and are being slapped up left & right, but I swear to God, the muxtape […]
Late notice, I know, but I only found out around lunchtime, & the day slipped away from me since then (darn day job…). Anyway, we here at SCR heard the news that Eisley, that quintet of elfin-looking post-emo popsters from Tyler, will be playing this evening up at the resurrected Cactus Music (now located at […]
[UPDATE: Since the original posting, I’ve gotten info one more show formerly at SHFL, the Ukebox/Poopy Lungstuffing show on 4/10, was shifted to Free Range Studio. Just so you know…] Damn. Despite reports to the contrary, it appears that the good people at recently-moved local venue/artspace Super Happy Fun Land are still shut down by […]
