Okay, so that’s stretching it a bit — the show tonight at the Mucky Duck isn’t technically a Trout Fishing In America show. What is is, though, involves the TFIA guys and happens to be pretty cool. See, TFIA are originally from right here in H-town; bassist Keith Grimwood went to school at U of […]
Two excellent-sounding shows going on tonight, plus one a few days out, and while all three (er, four, technically) are of the “one guy and a guitar” variety, they really couldn’t be more different… The first is a little further afield than usual — it’s a house show at the i.am.we. house down in Richmond […]
Missed yesterday, unfortunately, other than the Ditchwater 7″/Zine Release Party, and seeing as I’ve spent most of today either working like a dog out in the yard or lazing around the neighborhood pool a block from our house, yeah, this one’s going to have to be quick-fast, too. And believe me, there’s a ton of […]
Tonight, tonight, tonight…punker-than-you H-town label/print conglomerate Ditchwater Records is staging its second-ever (I think?) record release show extravaganza tonight, Friday, May 29th, up at Rudyard’s. It’s a joint 7″ release thing, celebrating new releases from both sneering, knife-wielding glam-rockers The Wrong Ones (not to be confused with the Glaswegians of the same name) and crazed […]
Busy, busy, busy-ass Thursday night, so I wanted to post a bit about what all’s going on. First things first: just got a few new things up on the site, like two surprisingly-timely live reviews by hardworking writers Quinn & Teri Sue, who ably covered the recent shows here in town by Nico Vega & […]
Yeah, yeah — I know I’ve griped in this very space about the House of Blues, but hell… Past antipathy/ disillusionment aside, I have to say that next Thursday’s (June 4th, that is) New York Dolls show is pretty awe-inducing. I mean, c’mon — it’s the fucking New York Dolls, for crying out loud. And […]
Any fans out there of local electro-fuckery maven Limb (which is basically one of the ex-members of legendary post-rockers By the End of Tonight, if I understand correctly)? Anybody just want to get pseudo-famous on Youtube or (considerably less likely) MTV/Fuse? Well, here’s your shot. At 5PM today (Wed., May 27th, for the time-travelling or […]
Okay, so I’ve gotten word that a band I don’t know much about called Achachay! is playing Super Happy Fun Land this coming Monday, May 25th. Which wouldn’t elicit more than a shrug from me, normally (folks, you have no idea how many damn press releases I/we get in a day; it’s a little insane), […]
Missed today/tonight’s shows, sadly, doing the family thing, which sucks, but fret not, because tomorrow, Sunday, May 23rd, is sounding pretty damn good, as well. Here’s what sounds cool to me: Apple Miner Colony/georgia’s horse./Maco Terr/Everyone Only @ Super Happy Fun Land This one’s my absolute top pick, not really because of headliners Apple Miner […]
We’re headed for a badass Memorial Day Weekend, folks — there’s a ton of stuff going on, seriously. I’ll try to post more about the remainder of the weekend, soon, but for tonight, Friday, May 22nd, you’ve got some choosing to do… First of all, I need to mention that we got a couple of […]
Ah, this is why I love checking the P.O. Box — if nobody’s able to get to it for a few days, stuff piles up like mad, & then when we do check, it’s like Christmas. And sometimes it’s Christmas for other folks (namely, you, good readers of this here site), which is just as […]
Sweet…looks like the Houston Press‘s Chris Gray (on whom I flaked ridiculously a while back and am sincerely apologetic, btw, should he ever read this; sorry, man…) has put up the list of nominated folks for this year’s much-anticipated Houston Press Music Awards. And when I say “much-anticipated,” I swear I’m serious; more awesomely good […]
Damn, that sounds like a Chumbawumba song… (And for the uninitiated, no, the band didn’t begin & end with that asinine “I get knocked down / and I get up again” football-lad singalong.) Local “infoshop” Sedition Books is a welcome anomaly in our Metropolis of Greed and Conformity — they’re an out-and-out anarchist collective, lending […]
A bit early, but after missing Steve Earle at Cactus this past weekend, I do not want to drop the ball on this one, especially since the wife & I had to miss ’em the last time they came through town, back in 2007… So, here we go with the good news: weekend-after-next, Friday, May […]
Yeah, yeah, I know — as if there wasn’t already a ridiculously huge pile of stuff to do this weekend? Don’t sideline this one, though, because it promises to be damn cool. This year’s edition of Zine Fest Houston will be happening this coming Saturday, May 16th, over at the ever-fun Caroline Collective, and will […]
New week (er, two weeks), so new stuff up on the site, in typical oh-so-timely SCR fashion. First up, San Franciscans City Light will be opening for the also-excellent Her Space Holiday (see Wes B.’s review of the last time HSH came through town here) tonight up at Walter’s on Washington, along with the utterly […]
Holy crap…of all the damn nights. sigh. Got a standing “thing” Wednesday nights, so it kills me when stuff like this suddenly appears & leaves me out in the cold… Just checked the email & saw a missive from Omar, he of Free Press Houston & now Mango’s fame, trumpeting the fact that freaky/cool folk-popsters […]
Y’know, it’s funny, but I hadn’t realized just how long it’d been since somebody put out a comp of Houston (or at least Houston-area) bands. Back in The Day, when CD burners & whatnot were prohibitively expensive, that often seemed to be the only way a band would get on a CD, to go in […]
In case you hadn’t noticed, venerable funk superstars Parliament swung through town back on April 30th, playing to what was reportedly a good-sized crowd over at the House of Blues. A friend of SCR (who shall remain anonymous to save ’em from any reprisals & whatnot) went and said the show itself was great, but […]
I mean, what the hell? These next two weekends are so over-the-top insane it’s ridiculous; you (and me, too) have your hands full trying to decide where to go & what show to check out. Here’re my personal picks for the next couple of days: Fri., May 8: American Fangs/Dremnt The End/Fat Tony/The 71’s/A Dream […]
Yep, it’s the latest installment of the Bandcamp deal this Sunday, May 10th, over in Midtown at the Caroline Collective, and once again it’s a damn useful topic for folks in bands & labels & whatnot. They’re calling it Bandcamp: COPYRIGHT, and as the name (hopefully) suggests, the focus this time out is on copyrighting […]
Damn, damn, damn. I don’t honestly yearn for my not-misspent-enough youth real often, but there are days when I miss the freedom of being a kid & being able to just get up and hit the bars any damn night you want to, watching bands play & hanging out ’til the cash runs out. Tonight’s […]
Yeah, like always, I’m way, way after when I originally thought I’d be. sigh. I’m gonna catch up, one of these damn days… I ended up heading out to Rudyard’s a handful of Fridays back (4/17, to be precise) to check out Springfield Riots; I didn’t know a lot about ’em at the time, except […]
Y’know, Mondays don’t have to suck — it’s not like it’s a requirement or anything, but rather more about mindset, at least to me. And hey, when you’ve got two cool-ass shows going on the same damn Monday (namely, tonight, May 4th), what the hell’s there to complain about? MC Chris/Whole Wheat Bread/I Am The […]
If you pay much attention at all to music ’round these parts, then yeah, you probably already know what went down at the recent (and first) Jandek show here in his own stomping grounds. The enigmatic “outsider music” icon showed up and got on the Rudyard’s stage with two session musicians who were obviously talented […]
Well, thanks to fucking Blogger fucking not fucking posting the damn posts it’s supposed to, the past 24 hours or so were blown clean out of the water. Argh. I swear, things will be changing on that front, and hopefully soon… At any rate, we got a bunch of new stuff up on the site […]
I’m generally a non-drinker, myself, it’s true, but even still, the entire concept of Poison Girl‘s Drink Houston Better deal. What’s the idea? Well, you go to a bar (Poison Girl — duh), drink up, and the bar donates the proceeds from every bottle, shot, etc., you buy to a truly worthy cause. This Sunday, […]
Yes, yes, yes, folks — it’s that time of year, again, when we Houstonians get to fly the middle finger high in the face of other burgs and say, “our bands could wipe the sidewalk with yours.” Yep, I’m talkng about the Houston Press Music Awards, for which the nominating started yesterday. So go, go, […]
I was a diehard Tori Amos fan for several years and a handful of albums, but I’m sad to report that I’ve drifted away from her work these past half-decade or so — I’m not actually sure why that was, except that maybe it was a combination of less $$$ to spend on music and […]
Absolutely non-music-related, but still, this is amazingly cool. At one not-too-distant point in my life, I went on a seriously heavy travelogue-reading jag, devouring books by smart, quirky people going places nobody in their right mind (or, at least, nobody I actually know) ever goes to. Not all of it was great, I’ll freely admit […]
It’s a full-on, no-holds-barred psychedelic throwdown tonight at Boondocks, folks… In one corner, lay-dees and gents, we have the booze-/pot-fueled fury of the Linus Pauling Quartet, all 500-something pounds (okay, I’m estimating, here) of unhinged stoner-rock geetars, stomping proto-punk rhythms, and sung/howled lyrics about mighty barbarian warriors, alien abductions, and gettin’ down. They’re loose and […]
Gotta make it quick for the rundown of good things to check out today, Sunday, April 26th — doing the family thing, manning the grill all day & now gearing up for the sporadic game of Scattergories. Here’s the list: Phantom Orchard: Zeena Parkins & Ikue Mori @ Barnevelder Movement/Arts Complex (2201 Preston St.) Definitely […]
I’ve been giving somewhat short shrift to the Houston International Festival this year, I’ll admit it — and that’s a little weird, given that the theme country this time is Ireland, a country that’s fairly near & dear to my heart, being that I’m a Generic Western European Mutt who’s marginally more of Irish descent […]
Late, late, late — I’m afraid some of these shows are already underway, but I just couldn’t get this up here ’til now, having spent the day bouncing between hardware stores & kids’ birthday parties…ah, the joys of parenthood. Here’s what’s going on tonight, Sat., April 25th, that I think looks pretty badass, and yeah, […]
Some weeks, it seems like every time I turn on the computer there’s a new Website/ezine/whatnot focused at least partly on the H-town music scene. And hey, that’s pretty awesome — the more exposure this stuff can get, the better it’ll be for all parties: the bands, the fans, the labels, everybody. As I think […]
I have to admit that my heart did a weird little skip-step when I saw the flyer: “Java Jazz Farewell Show”. (I’m guessing I may’ve not been the only one, because I’ve since seen a much-modified version of the flyer for the same show…) I mean, what the hell are screamo/emo/hardcore kids from the northern […]
Fuck…has it been a week already? This week feels like it’s gone screaming past me, leaving me confused and behind on everything. Not good… Anyway, I figured I’d do a quick hit on what all’s going on this evening, Friday, April 24th, so here’s the stuff I think is going to be worth checking out; […]
I’ll be honest about it: the whole MUNNY thing? I don’t get it. Maybe I would’ve as a kid, back when I was a D&D nerd who loved (but sucked at, frankly) painting miniatures, but these days, eh, it ain’t really for me. A totally blank, featureless toy I’ve gotta paint myself? Why the hell […]
Yes, it’s Saturday, and no, the rock doesn’t stop. Rain or no rain, still plenty of things going on; I’m not sure what they’re doing for the downtown International Festival (go, Ireland! Woo!) in the wet, but the Texas Crawfish Festival out at Old Town Spring proudly declares that the show out there’ll go on, […]
I’m a little hazy on the background of the whole Record Store Day thing — meaning that it seemed to magically appear out of nowhere a while back, and yet musical-type people I know acted like it was some long-standing holiday or something. Did I just miss those first ten years of Record Store Days, […]
