Dammit, dammit, dammit. Yes, it makes total fucking horribly perfect sense that once the Powers That Be (in this case, the Copyright Royalty Board, rather than the RIAA, but they’re all heads of the same terrible beast) took down Muxtape, they’d go after dear, sweet, kind Pandora. And yes, they are. Crap, crap, crap, with […]
Ah, fuck. I knew it was too good to be true for long… Apparently the joy-sucking, soulless, we-drowned-our-inner-child-in-the-bathtub-for-$5 jerks at the RIAA have taken down the very-popular Muxtape site. Ah, yes — another well-placed strike on that dastardly segment of the music-listening population that actually likes music they can’t hear on the similarly soulless radio […]
Some more good news, even if it’s a little bit late for the band. Ramon over at the Free Press posted last week that iconic local grindcore act Insect Warfare, who called it a day earlier in the year, was finalizing a deal with grind/power violence heavyweights Earache Recs to reissue the band’s World Extermination […]
Got a brief email a week or so ago from Mike Fuller, ex-lead singer/guitarist of back-n-the-day H-town power-pop band The Sperlings, with some pretty neat news: The Sperlings are being resurrected from the dead. All four members Mike Fuller Carl Sandin Rob Smith Bruce Stone Will be working on new material for release at the […]
I feel almost sacreligeous mentioning this right now, given the bad-bad-bad local news of the day/weekend, but fuck, I need the good to balance out the bad. And the good is that Wreckless Eric and Amy Rigby (who happens to be Eric’s wife, as of this past April) are apparently playing September 14th at The […]
Holy crap. Got this forwarded from good pal Mel, who apparently knows one of the women involved; apparently late Thursday night the co-owner & the sound guy over at local loud-shit club The White Swan attacked a group of kids who’d been at the show, one of whom had knocked on the club door to […]
I tend to not watch a whole lot of videos these days, partly because I get bored watching some band pretend to Rock Hard while actually just miming at their instruments (sorry, folks, but playing electric instruments in the rain just does not work the way you wish it would) and trying to look Badass […]
Mark yr calendars, all & sundry — Saturday, July 26th will see the cataclysmic return of The Skyline Network‘s Hootenanny, rechristened the Twotenanny this time around. Once again The Mink Backroom will play host to a slew of H-town’s best & brightest as they live out their totally un-ironic rockstar karaoke dreams. (I mean, c’mon […]
Okay, so maybe it’s not that bad, but check out Ramon’s chilling rundown of all the talented musician-type people leaving Houston for other parts. Danny from The Jonx I knew about, of course, but Sabra Laval, too? Papermoons? I know I mentioned before that one-fifth of The Church of Philadelphia‘s now living in Uganda (he […]
Okay, so it seems I inferred incorrectly from a very-very-very brief conversation w/Jacob Calle that he was also doing some kind of organizing for the Creature Comforts Art Show this coming July 12th, and I’m currently feeling like a big ol’ idiot. Per more informed sources than me, Jacob’s not running the show, but just […]
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 […]
Damn…my head’s spinning and I really, really need to get to bed, but dammit, this sounds too cool to pass up writing about. According to our inside source over at cool-ass Midtown record store Sig’s Lagoon (which is coming close to eclipsing my love of Cactus, I have to say), awesome poster artist Uncle Charlie […]
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 […]
Long-time e-zine/site readers and friends of SCR will probably recognize the name Marc Hirsh — back in the day, Hirsh was one this site’s earliest, best, and most hardworking writers, a guy who also served as the “Bad Cop” in the bugging-you-about-reviews realm. In the intervening years, he’s moved up to Boston, attended and dropped […]
So, I’ve had my 4G iPod for a few years now — same one I initially bought, never replaced or upgraded or anything like that. It kept me sane during my time as a contractor, esp. at The Big Red H and ExxonMobil’s Bell St. office (right next to the elevator; yay!), and while I […]
I’ve been very remiss in posting about local faves Sharks and Sailors lately — sorry about that, y’all — but as part of my penance, I feel compelled to mention that this member of the “H-town’s Most Likely to Succeed” crew will be playing tonight, Friday, June 13th, up at Walter’s on Washington. It’ll be […]
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 […]
Okay, so I just rechecked cool ex-Proletariat person Shawna’s initial post about this and saw it listing the party as being on Friday (i.e., last night), not today like I’d thought, and had a brief moment of panic…crap, did I miss another of these damn things? Lucky for me/you, though, it turns out that tonight […]
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, […]
Ran across this today on the Hands Up board & thought somebody might be interested… Hello Musicians, I’m with a local production team that is entering the 48 hour film competition this weekend, and am looking for local artists that would be willing to let us use their music in the film project. All types […]
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 […]
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 […]
[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 […]
(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 […]
Sorry for the quiet on the Space City Rock front, folks — your humble Editor-in-Chief (that is, me) has been working on selling the house and buying a different one for a while now, for a variety of reasons, and after many, many months of crossed fingers and a ridiculous number of house searches on […]
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 […]
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 […]
Quick note, ’cause I’ve got to run home to feed kittens & eat pizza (why do I hear Rowdy Roddy Piper in my head right now? weird…). There’s what sounds like a very cool documentary playing tonight @ 7PM at Avant Garden, called BRAD: One More Night at the Barricades — it’s about Brad Will, […]
Damn, I swear I was gonna post about this earlier today… From Ramon over at the Free Press, it ‘pears local cool kids (and my personal heroes) Something Fierce will be playing today at 5PM over at the Starbucks at 2050 W. Grey. They’ll be joined by Indianites Be My Doppelganger & fellow locals alarma!, […]
