I know, I know — spent the last two days running around like a chicken with my head cut off, for reasons I’ll hopefully enumerate soon in another post, and so I’ve been slacking big-time on writing up the good shit going on this weekend. And yeah, there’s a ton of it (hell, that almost […]
This illness thing has me way, way behind — I’m still pissed that I missed this Tuesday’s reportedly-excellent Loney, Dear/News on the March/Alkari show, not to mention the fact that I totally blanked on awesome post-hardcore guys A Wilhelm Scream coming to the Javajazz. Argh. But dammit, I am determined — I won’t be in […]
Many, many, many moons ago, when this wee ezine was but a shade of its present self, the Internet was in its infancy, ska bands drew crowds of hundreds of kids to Fitzgerald’s, and a Democrat was in the White House (oh, wait…), I got sent a CD out of the blue by a pair […]
At least, I will be tomorrow (Fri., January 30th), if all goes according to plan — not fumbling around on a guitar or anything, don’t worry, but just chatting and shooting the shit with the guys of “The Revelry Report” show up at KTRU (91.7FM, in case you live under a rock). Matthew of TRR, […]
Enjoyed posting about the last few piles of MP3s & whatnot back in December, and since we’ve got an assload of stuff flying by, I figured to take a crack at a handful of the cooler free bits o’ music that’ve flowed through the inbox lately. Funeral Party – “Carwars” (The Bootleg EP) It’s easy […]
A good one tonight up at Walter’s on Washington — Austinites Followed By Static will be playing, as will fellow out-of-townies (Dallasians) Nervous Curtains and very, very, very cool local folks Antarctica Starts Here. Beyond the fact that I’m extremely happy to see ASH playing once more (it seemed like there was a quiet period […]
No, it’s not what you think — it’s just that the HandStamp folks broke the news that local old-school country diva Miss Leslie, who’s utterly phenomenal, is giving away autographed copies of her 2008 album, Between the Whiskey and the Wine to anybody who sends her their email addy (to be put on her mailing […]
We’re not an MP3 blog. Nope — I’d never claim SCR to be one of those blogs that breaks/hypes new bands by posting new tracks and whatnot; it’s just not what we do, really. I mean, I’m not against posting MP3s we like by bands we like, but honestly, there just aren’t enough hours in […]
A month or so ago, I picked up something I’ve been meaning to get for a while, a little gadget from Ion Audio they call both the U Record and the MixMeister (no, I have no clue why). It’s nothing fancy, just a little box I can hook up to my turntable & tape deck’s […]
Damn, this is gonna be a good one, and it’s looking like I’m gonna miss it. Argh… Sucks to be me. Anyway, for those who don’t know, Peter and the Wolf are pretty fucking awesomely great, this kind of indie-folk-pop collective of sorts helmed by Red Hunter that plays strange, quirky, yet intensely catchy music […]
Mind == blown. Wow. Hat tip, once again, to HoustonHipHop.com for pointing this guy out (although he’s apparently been fairly well-known for a little while now; I’m slow, I’m well aware…). They’ve got a handful of videos up (there’s an insanely huge pile of others on his YouTube channel, but here’s my favorite: And no, […]
UPDATE: And there they go…thanks to the folks who emailed in, but the pair of Duran Duran tix are now officially won. Congrats, Joe! Thanks to the kind efforts of Marni at Sneak Attack, the PR person for ’80s pop legends Duran Duran, we here at SCR have a pair of tickets to give away […]
Back when I was a wee DJ at KTRU, I ended up hearing a ton of stuff that sounded raw as hell to my relatively-untainted ears. I was reading a shitload of cyberpunk back then, digging up every two-bit Gibson/Sterling clone I could find, and I realized pretty quickly that this music I was hearing […]
Meant to put this up sooner, but as it always is with life, things intervene. Time will tell if it’s the reality (I’ve got pretty high hopes), but right now, a week after, I’m still feeling like celebrating the fact that a smart, practical, rational guy who looks a heck of a lot like America […]
I honestly can’t remember where the heck I stumbled across this site, but I’ve gotta mention it here — FWMJ’s Rappers I Know is pretty damn awesome, particularly for somebody who’s severely lacking when it comes to knowledge of the local H-town hip-hop scene. I’ve never been big on the cash-guns-honeys school of rap, and […]
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 […]
Lame-ass attempt at hip-hop lingo aside, this past week’s Recession Thursday deal at Numbers turned out to be pretty freakin’ awesome. I managed to drag along coworker and fellow music snob Jowell, forcing him to haul his ass all the way in from the Heights, and we both walked away stunned & amazed. (Some pics […]
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, […]
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 […]
Got this one courtesy of the good people at Nasty Little Man, and I find myself liking the song & wanting to hear it repeatedly, so I figured it was only just to post it to this here site. Sounds to me like “Chemtrails” is Beck finally making the full transformation from alt-rock hero into […]
Meant to post this earlier, but eh, shit happens, and so… Seeing as how that whole Muxtape thing is so damn neat, it only makes sense that the Houston Press‘s John Lomax would be into it, too. I missed his “African diaspora” muxtape, sadly, but the one he put up this past week is damn […]
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 […]
Ladies & gentlepeeps, I give you, the first-ever super-official, fancy-shmancy SCR Muxtape, for your enjoyment and the hopeful elevation of the bands included therein. Gape in awe at its Houston-swelled glory. Yeah, yeah — I know they’re likely a fad and are being slapped up left & right, but I swear to God, the muxtape […]
UPDATE: And…poof, the tickets are gone. Damn, that didn’t take long at all. Congrats to winner JD! Yep, slam poet/rapper/artiste extraordinaire Saul Williams will be in town this next Tuesday, April 1st over at Warehouse Live — with the utterly awesome Dragons of Zynth, I’ve heard, although they weren’t on the venue’s Website the last […]
Yeah, yeah, I know it’s from back in 2005 or so, but homeboy Marc brought it to my attention recently, and now I feel completely and utterly compelled to post it here: Robbie Fulks’ “Fountains of Wayne Hotline”. The first time I listened to the song (sorry, Marc, it took a while for the iPod […]
This week’s killing me, I swear. In addition to needing to tend to the work & home life, I feel awash in the head-high tide of SXSW sideswipes with which our fair city’s currently being blessed — tonight, for example, what would otherwise have been a humdrum, nothing-goin’-on Tuesday night is instead filled to overflowing […]
Mentioned these folks already, but I was able to snag a couple of MP3s today & listen to ’em while I wait for the Phone Company Man to show up & make my telephone all better, and now I feel much more knowledgeable about Boston’s The Motion Sick and qualified to say that, yeah, they’re […]
This reunion thing is getting really, really old. For example, I honestly, I just can’t get excited over the “ha-ha, just kidding!” Pavement maybe-reunion that’s being bandied about; the band was interesting while they were around the first time, but that doesn’t mean I still give a crap about seeing ’em play live. Most of […]
So, if you happen to not be able to escape from the house this evening to check out the NOFX/Latch Key Kids show, the Wiggins/Aunt Dracula show, or the Aiden/Schoolyard Heroes show (or, heck, even if you can get out of the house), all is not lost. Simply turn on that trusty stereo and point […]
I’m a bit embarrassed to admit that I’ve been out of the loop on the whole Secret Saturday Shows deal for the past month or two — while I dearly love the idea, it gets a little hard to plug something where the participants are meant to be a surprise each week, y’know? “Hey, everybody, […]
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 […]
Dang, two updates in a week; must be on a roll (okay, technically the last update was for stuff that went up last week, but still…). This time out we’ve got a brand-spankin’-new interview with La Porte’s own Buxton, who’ll be releasing their 2nd full-length — as we’ve mentioned here before — this coming Saturday, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
As any more-than-casual reader of this little site probably knows by now, I really and truly heart Austin folk/rock/pop/whatever band Okkervil River. Frontman Will Sheff is hands down one of the best, most talented songwriters going these days; ignore ’em, and you’re seriously missing out. Anyway, the reason I’m bringing up OR now is because, […]
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 — […]
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, […]
Just a quick note to let you know that this next week’s installment of the Grey Ghost CD-R series is gonna be ever more supremely badass than it usually is — it’s reportedly one eleven-minute Hell’s Angels clusterfuck entitled “Hawg!”, by none other than the Linus Pauling Quartet, who thanks to their latest album All […]
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, […]
