Sorry for the quiet, folks — we’ve had to undergo some fairly major behind-the-scenes changes of late, site-wise, and things aren’t quite yet working the way I’d like, so I’ve been having to put off the ranting/philosophizing a bit. Basically, Blogger started up with its semi-monthly Bartleby phase again, refusing to post sometimes ’til a […]
Yeah, I got out there a bit late — I didn’t make it to this year’s Houston Press Music Awards Showcase downtown ’til 6PM or so, which meant I missed 2 hrs’ worth of cool-ass bands. Perils of domesticated life, unfortunately; it gets hard to force myself to hop in the car & abandon the […]
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 […]
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 […]
[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 […]
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 […]
Man, what a week… There was supposed to be a nice, big update to the site this past week, including a few of our growing pile of need-to-get-posted live reviews, but then yours truly got laid real low by the flu — I don’t remember a thing from roughly last Monday evening to Tuesday night, […]
SXSW defeated me. For the past two days I’ve hardly been able to get out of bed (by which I mean floor) my bones have ached so completely. My brain hurts, my body hates me, and I’m sad because it’s over. And churches are stupid. Anyway, my last day in Austin for this year’s sxsw […]
Damn, I’m beat. Not because I spent today trudging around Austin in the hot, hot sun, mind you, but because I spent today kiddie birthday party-hopping, hitting two exhausting, extremely loud gatherings of munchkins in one long, long afternoon. I managed to overdose pretty severely on frosting, greasy pizza, bouncy castles, and Hannah Montana, all […]
Thank god for tap shoes. But more on that later. Day three at sxsw was fucking strange. I’ve been trying and trying to think of ways to capture it for you guys, but I’m afraid I’m going to come up a bit short. Words won’t do it. I’ll try anyway. I know each day I […]
Tried to get this up last night after watching more episodes than intended of Jericho Season 1 on DVD — just couldn’t shut the damn TV off, somehow — and I couldn’t do it; sorry, y’all, for this being a bit down-to-the-wire. sigh… I wanted to make absolute damn sure to get some new reviews […]
Wow; that was probably the best night’s sleep I’ve ever had. But more on that later. I’m halfway into this year’s sxsw and already I feel like I’m taking advantage of the festival–I know a badge seems like a ton of money (and when I get home and see my electric bill then look in […]
Greetings, spacecity-ers. I’m here in Austin at the annual music orgy that is sxsw, ready to embark on the monumental task of trying to remember my days. I want to first say thank you to Jeremy for allowing me to contribute to his blog and for giving me the assignment to be the first ever […]
Well, I pretty much lucked out, I think, this past Thursday. The wife was having a moms’ group thing (something involving chocolate & a lot of women) at our house, so the munchkin went to Grandma’s for the night & I was banished temporarily from the premises. And lo and behold, in spite of it […]
This is late, late, late — eh, I’m still sick, so I’m excused (the flu I’ve been fighting feels like it’s turning into bronchitis or something…shit…). Anyway, it’s been a busy few days for yours truly, even still; stood in the freezing fucking cold for a really long time to see Sharon Jones and the […]
A little slow, I know, but what the hey — that’s how I roll, generally. Managed to drag my couch-sitting/munchkin-minding self out of the house this past Saturday, mostly because there was just too damn much Rock going on in H-town to ignore. I had a hard time deciding, considering that Thee Armada, Alkari, My […]
Seemingly in an effort to prove once more that Houston drummers just don’t freakin’ sleep, local drum god, Houston Press writer, and SCR contributor guy Danny Mee deserves a mention today both for his brand-new band Kvalla and for a brand new track, “Highway At Night”, up on the Myspace page of his “real” band, […]
Dang it, I’m later than I’d hoped to be…ah, well. Sorry, I didn’t get this posted in time for those poor souls who didn’t make it out of the house on this wet, freakishly un-cold night to check out Rustler, The Dead See, & Bowel up at Walter’s, see Carrie Ann and the Apocalyptics at […]
Yep, thanks to those crazy I Heart U people, tonight @ Notsuoh you can go witness the awe-inspiring, floor-punching hardcore fury of ex-Minor Threat/Fugazi guy Ian MacKaye’s new band with Amy Farina (ex-Warmers), The Evens. Okay, okay, I take it back — going by the songs on the band’s Myspace, there won’t be much in […]
I sure do wish those sweet-singing popsters in Program played out more often — it seems like they hardly ever do, these days, which sucks for me, ’cause I’ve never been able to catch ’em live. In the meantime, I have to make do with stuff like the two videos below, recently posted on the […]
Stuck at home with The Munchkin today, so I’ve been dividing my time between, um, working and watching Dora The Explorer. Feeling intensely unproductive, so I figured I’d remedy that by reminding myself (and you, Dear Reader) of all the cool stuff coming up in the next week or so. Here goes… Thurs., November 1: […]
Dammit. I was all set to slap a just-in-time post up about this afternoon’s Radio Session with the very cool Laura Veirs & the Saltbreakers on KPFT (90.1FM) when, right as I was about to click “Post,” the network connection died. Completely. For nearly two freakin’ hours. As in, “I got zero done this afternoon, […]
I have to say that one of the best, most wonderful things about this crazy Interwebs tube thing is the ease with which you can find music. Sometimes I think fondly back to the days of my youth, when I’d comb the racks of tapes at the local music store — which seemed like the […]
Time for Pt. 3 of our upcoming-festivality coverage, again for this coming weekend (er, tomorrow, that is): Sat., October 13 — Free Press Westheimer Block Party @ 300-500 block of Westheimer (Numbers/Avante Garden/La Strada/Mangos) Man, that crazy Free Press Houston crew just won’t quit; gotta love ’em for it. They’re bound and determined to resurrect […]
Here’s my damn-near-perfect evening, as of this past Saturday, after dropping the munchkin off at Grandma’s for a little spoilage (I love the midget, but y’know…): Dinner with the love of my life at Spaghetti Western. Sweet-ass Italian margaritas, vintage memorabilia for Westerns you’ve never heard of (call me a Philistine if you will, but […]
Yeah, it might be a little sad, but this made my week — I honest-to-Yahweh thought Katy-dwelling pop-punk dorks The Phlegmatics had gone the way of the dodo ’til I ran across the band’s MySpace page (as far as I can tell, their “real” Website is toast). I’d seen the band once and only once […]
Y’know, it always seems to go this way, dammit. I’ve got the best of intentions, have wondrous visions of deeply insightful blog posts I’m gonna put up in time for you, Dear Reader, to decide what the hell to do for the evening…and then an afternoon full of meetings swings my way, and I’m screwed. […]
I think one of the best things about the whole Myspace thing, at least w/regards to bands & music, is that it brings me back to the experience of actively looking for new music that knocks me on my ass. When I was a kid I’d scour tape bins for that ultra-obscure band (mostly cheesy […]
Okay, so this is a little weird. When I was a wee musical tadpole back in college, there were a handful of bands that really smacked me sideways, music-wise, and made me realize that hey, maybe there really was all this incredibly cool music out there on the edges where the radio didn’t go. Superhunk, […]
Yep, I’m dragging my sorry ass out of the house this evening to catch The Rentals (Myspace) up at Warehouse Live (with Copeland and Goldenboy, neither of which I know a damn thing about; sorry…). And I’m really, truly looking forward to it; believe it or not, Matt Sharp & co. are one of those […]
Well, I hadn’t planned on posting about tonight’s Times New Viking show over at DiverseWorks — nothing against DW (who I like quite a bit), but I just hadn’t heard Times New Viking and didn’t think I’d have time to check ’em out before the show hit. Here I am, though, with a wee bit […]
Yes, sometimes I do. I’ll admit to being a late-late-late, almost-past-its-peak Myspace user, but I have to admit that I’ve been able to hear some damn cool bands (local and otherwise) just by bumbling about from profile to profile. Did some of that today and found some very cool stuff I’d never heard before: Piano […]
Okay, so this makes me feel a bit better — got my very own copy of the new Something Fierce/The Hangouts split-7″ (out on Manic Attack!!! Records) yesterday in the mail. And unsurprisingly, it fucking rocks. Alright, so I haven’t yet listened to the Hangouts side (sorry; I will soon, I swear), but I couldn’t […]
Man, it’s been a rough fucking week. Not even getting to rock out live and in-person to The Hold Steady last night made me feel much better, although stopping back in the old ‘hood at 1AM and sitting out on the Hazard St. Bridge over 59 with some M&Ms and Gatorade (I was dehydrated as […]
Had this one listed in the Rundown from the other day, but now it turns out its even cooler than I’d figured it would be: Sun., June 3 (i.e., tomorrow), theAUDITION, New Atlantic, The Graduate, and now also Monty Are I and 1997 are all playing at the Java Jazz Coffeehouse up in Spring. Now, […]
It’s late, I reek of smoke, and my ears are ringing like somebody switched the TV to static and then cranked it all the way up, but what the fuck, I’ve gotta mention a couple of upcoming things in the realm of musical festivalness. It’s gonna take me a while to come down from tonight’s […]
This is gonna be a good one, trust me — tonight at The Proletariat promises to be an (early) evening of bliss-the-fuck-out spacerock/ambient wonder. Headliners Caspian are damn good, at least going by the songs on their MySpace page; they’re all majestic, distant guitars, thundering drums, and thick layers of fuzz, like a dirtier, less […]
Yep, here we are once again. Just hanging here at the house, frantically attempting to pack up the family truckster to go see the fam and hang out with some very friendly killer whales. Tried to get this in earlier, while waiting to go see a friend’s newly-born baby (“newly-born” as in “born at 2PM […]
Well, it’s looking like a damn good weekend to check out some of the bands of one of the coolest record labels currently calling the H-town area home, Mia Kat Empire — they’ve got two shows this weekend w/different bands, but haven’t been able to really publicize ’em much. (They’ve been in the process of […]
I’m a little late on this one, sadly — there’s an art/music exhibition/festival-type thing being put on this weekend by the Aurora Picture Show (and curated by Nick Hallett of Harkness A/V), and it, uh, technically started Thursday night with art by cinema experimentalists Brian McClure and Ray Sweeten and continued Friday with a Nautical […]
