Anybody who knows me knows, most likely, that I’m a big, big sucker for animals of all types — hell, I don’t even like squishing spiders or ants unless I absolutely need to (mosquitoes are another story, but hey, I’ve gotta draw the line somewhere). So when I heard about Operation Baghdad Pups, it smacked […]
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 & […]
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, […]
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 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 […]
Okay, so this is somewhat of an urgent plea for assistance from local folk artist Cleveland “The Flower Man” Turner, whose house is a bona-fide landmark — his place is the kind of thing that makes me happy to live in a city where somebody can just let loose their creativity without a worry in […]
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 […]
Get this widget! Just a quick note about a good cause, here, not to mention a somewhat unique fundraising idea: on October 18th, SCR writer/local H-town music scenester Jonathan Updegrove is doing the Extra Life 24-hour gaming marathon to raise money for treatment of kids with cancer and research into a cure at the Texas […]
Man…before now, I’d never really considered how totally & completely I rely on electrical things all around me to work — now that the power’s back on at SCR HQ, as of yesterday afternoon, I find myself giddily amazed at the fact that the lights actually come on when I hit the switch. Getting into […]
Among the devastation wreaked by that wee hurricane we all just weathered, two local landmarks were hit badly. First off was that (formerly) awesome culinary institution called Brennan’s, which apparently was okay flooding/wind-wise but caught fire and burned to the ground while the staff watched, unable to stop the flames. Under normal circumstances, HFD maybe […]
Damn. I already knew our ‘hood got off lightly, but after seeing pictures here and here, I feel like an utter asshole for even bitching about not having power. The picture of Gilchrist wiped clean but for one solitary house makes me want to weep.
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 […]
Hey, all — well, it’s been a rough few days here in H-town, but yep, SCR HQ is indeed still standing. We were lucky enough to have a generator on-hand, so while the lights aren’t back on yet, hell, at least we’ve got fans. And, uh, water. And walls and roof. So we’re basically doing […]
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, […]
And here I’ll bet you thought not a damn thing happened out there in the south-of-Houston ‘burbs… There’s a new group operating down in the Alvin ‘hood called On Your Feet Foundation, and they’ve started putting on shows at the Alvin Bowling Center (300 Motel Drive — in Alvin, obviously). Which is very good news […]
Cool one tomorrow evening… As part of Tuesday’s KTRU Local Show, host Ian has thrown down the glove to local destructo-hip-hop hero B L A C K I E, who’ll be doing an actual live set downstairs from the KTRU studios in the Rice Student Center courtyard while Ian channels it all live out onto the airwaves. If you can’t be […]
And behind Door No. 3… There’s a new music resource-type site starting up, called Indiehouston, and they seem pretty promising so far. Not a whole lot up there right now, but they’ve got a Myspace page up already. Of course, like any startup deal, they need a wee bit of help w/the financial end of […]
Aaaaaaaaand…if you’re not gonna be at Cactus tomorrow (again, Saturday, September 6th) but you still like A) good music and B) free beer, with the added benefit of C) good causes, you should head on over to The Orange Show for their Foam Raiser party in partnership with — wait for it — St. Arnold’s! […]
In dates a bit further afield… I heard the rumor a while back myself (in the Press‘s own Music Awards coverage, I believe) that long-gone ska heroes The Suspects were reuniting, and not just for some one-off show like they’ve done the past couple of years. I was a wee bit skeptical, so when rhythm […]
Well, at Cactus Music, at least; this coming Saturday, September 16th (from 1-5PM), Cactus is hosting its first-ever Mia Kat Empire Day, focused on the award-winning-est local label in town, they of the tyrannical-yet-lovable cat. And seeing as they’re an actual record label that puts out actual music, yeah, it kinda makes some sense that […]
This may not mean a whole lot to some of the folks who read this, but I did a total double-take when I happened to glance up at the Numbers sign the other night, on my way in to that epic Recession Thursdays show: 10/18 Alison Moyet. Wha? My wife happens to be a huge […]
Dang, what’s with these freakin’ postponings & cancellations? Argh. I got a note a few days ago about The Wild Moccasins playing at Caroline Collective as part of the artspace’s “Final Fridays” microcinema screenings, and it sounded very, very neat…except that when I go to the CC site today, lo and behold, the damn thing’s […]
Got a recent note from John of local power-pop/punk trio Teenage Kicks about new songs they’ve got up on their Myspace, saying that we SCR folks were apparently among a select few who really liked the band’s demo earlier this year. And frankly, that’s fucking ridiculous, because these three guys craft some of the best, […]
Crap. It’s been a long, long, looooong time since I listened to any Seaweed, but the announcement that they’d reformed & were coming through town had me pretty excited — felt like I’d stepped into the Wayback Machine and rewound back to college, all of a sudden. I was rarin’ to get my mid-’90s indie-rock […]
From SCR Writer Scott Whitt: In a recent blog, our erstwhile leader showed extreme displeasure with the ticket prices for the Rock The Bayou fest (August 29th-September 1st). Jeremy stated that even though he was once a longhair ne’er-do-well, the price tag out weighs the chance to relive his youth. I want to show that […]
Nope, it’s not here in H-town, but it’s still damn ridiculous. I’ve been a fan of Austin rockers The Boxing Lesson for a few years now, since their 2005 EP, so the news out of Austin about the band left me stunned. Apparently Boxing Lesson drummer Jake Mitchell got busted for growing pot and has […]
Bad news + possibly-confusing news, I’m afraid, w/a couple of tonight’s shows. First off, just got word from Jason, bassist for Alkari, that tonight’s Free Press Houston Recession Thursday show is a no-go. Something Fierce, Generation Landslide, Alkari, & Television Skies were all supposed to be braving the torrential downpour tonight at Numbers, but A) […]
