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 […]
I cannot put into words just how much this angers and offends me, as a consumer and a human being. This is what happens when the almighty dollar trumps decency and common sense. Haven’t the poor woman and her family suffered enough? I can’t think of a worse hell imaginable than what she goes through […]
I’ve got a general distrust of members of the punditocracy, be they from the right or the left — I loathe the likes of Ann Coulter & Rush Limbaugh, but at the same time I’m not wholly sold on folks like Arianna Huffington or James Carville. Anybody who makes their living pontificating about their personal […]
Dammit, will the string of bad news just quit, already? I know it may not seem like much in The Grand Scheme of Things, but it feels frighteningly like the Scene is eroding right out from under us Houston music types, like sand being washed out by the tide. Case in point: as of today, […]
Since I’d threatened to mention this yet again…yep, SCR fave, indie-rock hero, Emo Implosion survivor, and all-round nice guy Jonah Matranga will be playing tomorrow night, Tues., March 11th, at a super-duper-D.I.Y. show up in The Heights. It’ll be at pal/SCR collaborator/high-falutin’ filmmaker Mel’s Upstart Filmworks warehouse, 3612 Mangum Rd., #209 (77092), starting around 8PM. […]
Yeah, of late the future of fabled local music-scenester blog The Skyline Network was looking a mite shaky, and frankly, folks were worried, including me. TSN’s ADR knows more about H-town’s indie-rock-etc. scene than, well, pretty much anybody, and the thought of his well-written, insanely in-depth glimpses of the H-town musical underbelly going away Houmidity-style […]
[UPDATE: A few more of the “orphaned” Super Happy bands listed below have now found homes; I’ll keep updating as I get more info…] I’ve been slacking on the Rundowns lately, but with Ramon @ Free Press taking a couple of weeks off to hit SXSW and ADR @ Skyline M.I.A., dammit, it seems it’s […]
Yeah, I know I’m late — had a whole ton of stuff planned for yesterday, including getting some blog-time in, but then my father-in-law came over and decided it was time to re-panel the wall of the toolshed and add a lean-to for the lawnmower, and it blew my whole goddamn day & left me […]
Dang, gotta make this quick. Some good, good, good stuff tonight, but I’ve blathered about Too $hort, Thee Armada, etc., once already, so I’m gonna skip those… If I could get out & about this evening, I’d be flipping my patented three-sided coin to decide which of these shows to be at: Treehouse Project/Slivered (CD […]
Big, big, big “thank yous” to Sara Cress & Joey Guerra over at HandStamp for this one. Earlier today they leaked a bit of the lineup for this year’s iFEST, formerly known as the Houston International Festival, and hot damn — Bettye LaVette is on the bill. There’re lots of other good folks, too, both […]
Okay, I’m getting some seriously mixed signals here, folks. According to their PR people and JamBase, funky, soulful, retro-indie-rockers Catfish Haven are playing up in the glorious ‘trose at Rudyard’s this very eve, possibly alongside another band of Chicago-dwellers, the excellent Redwalls (whose booking people also have the show listed). When I visit Rudz’s Myspace, […]
On the walls, not on canvases, mind you. The good people at DiverseWorks are reportedly going to be painting their main gallery space black, as black as Dick Cheney’s ebon-hued heart, this next Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 25th-26th, from 10AM-6PM (or is it 10PM-6AM? I seriously hope it’s the former…). If willing to lend a […]
If you’ve been paying attention at all to the H-town scene for the past while, you probably already know who the awesomely awesome Rosa Guerrero is, and if you don’t, you’ve probably seen her photos either way. She’s the sweet-yet-tough stepmom of the Scene Kids on the one hand, and on the other she’s a […]
Crap, crap, crap. Not only did I miss out on the “official” Hearts of Animals 7″ release this Tues., but I blew it Wed. night w/Sharks and Sailors opening for Dead Meadow, and with Grant Hart on Thurs. at the Continental Club, and with CEX and Satin Hooks last night. Damn. Sorry, y’all — my […]
I’ve found that since becoming a parent myself, stuff involving kids just breaks my heart, y’know? Not that I didn’t care at all before, but it seems to hit a heck of a lot closer to home now that I’ve got my own little person to watch over and worry about. I guess that’s kind […]
Yep, they finally pulled the trigger & did it — following a threat of lawsuit, H-town’s own The Dimes are now…dum-da-dee-dum…Young Mammals. Same band, they swear, just a different name. Not bad, not bad…
Well, at least they’re going out with a bang — you can’t really get more indie-hipster than the difficult-to-pin-down Fiery Furnaces, at least in my book. They’re a quirky, quirky bunch of people, whose latest release, Widow City, I’m still endeavoring to wrap my head around, honestly — it’s like ’70s rock gone totally freakin’ […]
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 […]
No, really — I do. Which is sad, ’cause there was once a time when I’d have laid down on a railroad track for that quirky little Web publishing tool. But now? No, no, nooooo. Why? Well, because while you’re probably reading this brilliantly witty missive only on the ol’ Myspace, you should be reading […]
Well, after last year’s ridiculously good bumper crop of local releases, I’d kind of wondered what 2008 would bring — I feared it’d be a quiet year, relatively, with everybody touring on past CDs & 7″s & such, and no new stuff out ’til later on. What the hell am I gonna do without new […]
Yes, tonight, Thurs., January 10th, is officially the last-ever show at the 2610 Ashland St. home of Super Happy Fun Land before they pack it all up (and believe me, there’s a lot to pack) and move the whole mess over to 3801 Polk Street — they’re sliding languidly southwest-ward from the Heights and over […]
Awesome, awesome… This coming Friday, January 11th, at Walter’s on Washington, local old-school punk kids Something Fierce — who happen to be one of my absolute-favorite bands in town these days, honest — are heading out on tour (for the first time? not sure…) with fellow badass rockers The Monocles (whose debut 7″ is a […]
I mentioned a short while back that a little bird told me H-town punk heroes Latch Key Kids were back together, at least temporarily. And when I came back into town after the holiday madness, I had real-live confirmation awaiting me from LKK singer Tim Guerinot, who had this to say: Absolutely!!! We’re writing some […]
Yep, as always seems to happen this time of year, the shows scheduled are changing faster than yours truly can keep up with — a few shows slipped by me this last week, unfortunately (damn, that River Oaks Theater show sounded cool, too…), and didn’t even make the most recent Rundown, so I figured I’d […]
At the risk of being totally meta-referential by patting a guy on the back while he’s patting me on mine, I’d like to urge all & sundry to check out Ramon Medina‘s two-barrelled blast of year-end wrapping up over at both the Free Press Houston and Nonalignment Pact sites. I’ve been meaning to point to […]
Jee-sus ‘effin Kee-rist, it’s been a hell of a couple of weeks. Yours truly has been hammered by multiple deadlines in advance of the coming days off (all next week! woo!), and as a result I’m just now managing to climb out from under my work-imposed rock to discover, holy crap, there’s been a lot […]
It’s gonna be a good weekend, y’all. Why? Well, because starting tonight we’ve got the damn-cool-sounding Texas Gone Garage festival going on at Rudyard’s and Walter’s on Washington, with a couple dozen of the best garage-y bands around (some local, some not) gracing the stage and getting rowdy (okay, I’m guessing on that one). Not […]
Yep, it’s happening again, believe it or not — since their last reunion show last January went off like a bomb, H-town ska legends The Suspects have decided to, well, do it again. They’ll be playing at The Continental Club next Friday, December 21st, with The Aqua Velva & ’80s cover act Molly and the […]
It just seems like it’s been one thing after another lately, doesn’t it? Clubs closing down left and right (R.I.P., Cosmos Cafe, the most recent casualty that I’ve heard about), musicians passing away or getting injured (I’m sure everybody’s heard about Pimp C‘s untimely death — heck, it made the nightly news last night — […]
Ooh, cool. Spoke (okay, emailed) recently with JD, the mystery being behind the Secret Saturday Shows phenomenon — previously posted about here, and which is a better and better idea the more I think about it — and he let slip a few details about upcoming SSSes. No dates, mind you, but for players he […]
Been meaning to mention this for a while now, but I wasn’t actually sure what the deal was — it’s a little hard to plug/describe, seeing as the participants are, well, pretty much anonymous (although ADR over at Skyline seems to know who’s gonna be playing from time to time, via his vast network of […]
Got an email the other day from SCR contributor Creg L., who happened to run into ex-Sprawl/-Middlefinger/etc. frontman Matt Kelly (who lives in Austin these days, I believe, or at least somewhere between H-town and there) at the Meat Puppets show a short while back. He got to talking to Matt and one of the […]
Y’know, I’m to the point with my cynicism that I almost expect to get screwed, on some level, by big corporations. I figure that if there’s a way to get my money and not give me what I thought I paid for, they’re gonna go for it. I’ve been burned before by a few companies/restaurants/car […]
Ah, dammit. I’m surprised I haven’t seen something else about this ’til now (haven’t checked the Press blogs lately, though) — Matt Sonzala of the way-more-in-the-know-than-I H-town hip-hop blog HoustonSoReal, the Damage Control radio show on KPFT, and a metric ton of cool local rap shows posted last week that he is moving the whole […]
Argh. Sometimes, I really, truly hate the holidays, mostly ’cause they totally fuck with my schedule of Stuff I Really-Really-Really Want To Do/See/Hear/Etc. There’s always some Christmas party to go to, some office thing, some trip out of town, some pile of lights and ornaments to put up. It’s totally non-conducive to getting to do […]
Following a recent discussion over on the Hands Up board, I figured it’d be a good time to post this. Pretty much everybody in town who likes music knows KTRU, the Rice University radio station that lives at 91.7 FM — whether you love it or hate it (and people seem pretty much to fall […]
Argh…meant to post earlier, but had to run out to eat & then do all the daddy stuff, I’m afraid. If you run/drive fast, though, you might be able to catch it — there’s a very cool art opening going on tonight up at Sound Exchange as I type this, and I’m really wishing I […]
Wow. I’m guessing that this has already been bandied about the Interwebs, but I hadn’t heard ’til this AM (courtesy of Vice‘s VBS.TV venture), and it’s utterly blown me away: My Bloody Valentine have reportedly reunited and are doing a new album (check out Soft Focus – Kevin Shields Part 1). Holy crap. Granted, Shields […]
When the hell is it gonna end? It seems like this week’s been a nonstop roll of bad-bad-bad news for Houston’s music scene, and all of that pales in comparison to the news broken on the Free Press Houston blog yesterday evening that local music scenester/journo Rick Smith has passed away unexpectedly. Damn, man. I […]
