My mom’s in town for the Thanksgiving holiday, and driving around with her has reminded me just how damaged Houston, Galveston, and the rest of our Gulf Coast area still is — she keeps pointing out how wow, those telephone poles are all leaning halfway out over that ditch, how there’re blue tarps all over […]
This is seriously causing me some cognitive dissonance, folks. First there’s the bill at blues & jam-rock haven Dan Electro’s Guitar Bar, which is renowned for being a downhome place to see good, bluesy, funky bands — tonight’s headliners are local street-punk badasses Deathbed Repentance, garage-y punk rockers The Delta Block, and fellow punks Molotov […]
Yeah, I know Part 1 wasn’t technically Part 1, but yesterday’s post about The Suspects, Latch Key Kids, Crystal Method, etc., was pretty much a Rundown-type deal, so eh… Tonight continues the run of Really Cool Shit going on, happily, with the biggie (for me, at least) being a last-minute-ish show with Austin band The […]
Meant to post about this sooner… Tomorrow & Sunday (November 22nd & 23rd) there’s a cool-sounding festival going on up on the edges of downtown, in Sam Houston Park, at Allen Parkway & Bagby. It’s called Via Colori, and it’s supposed to be a “street painting festival,” with over 175(!) artists creating their own unique […]
Damn, damn, damn. Yeah, I know it’s late as hell, but what the heck — I’ve been running nonstop all week & haven’t been able to catch up ’til now (more on why later). Which sucks, because there’s a ton of good stuff going on this weekend, starting tonight. Get on out while you can… […]
Some folks may remember that way back in the day, Space City Rock began life — as a journalistic-type endeavor, at least — as a real-live paper zine. Our first-ever issue had a bunch of stuff in it, including an interview with members of my soon-to-be-defunct heroes, Jawbox, that I still can’t really believe the […]
Last night for The Rundown for a bit; I ended up stuck with the fam this weekend & missed out/am missing out on all the festivities, sadly, but that doesn’t mean you have to, yourself. Tonight (Sunday, November 16th), then, is your last chance of the weekend to not fall into the same trap as […]
Man…what a week. The wife’s cousins from Soderfors, Sweden, are in town, so I played hooky from the day job yesterday to visit George Ranch & Brazos Bend, then dragged cousin Roger (pronounced “Row-hair”) to Midtown to check out The Tontons & The Iguanas (on recommendation from Thomas at Sig’s Lagoon). Separate shows, mind you, […]
Yep, this weekend has officially got me torn up, at least in terms of figuring out what the hell’s the best show to check out. Take tonight, Friday, November 14th, for the first part of it. Over at The Mink, local artiste & designer Forsa Pink is having her “Almost Famous Fashion Show”, and while […]
Man…again? Damn. I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised — the place has led a seemingly precarious existence in all its forms, at least since I’ve lived in this city — but it still makes me sad to hear that much-loved downtown haunt Notsuoh may be headed under once again. This time, unfortunately, it really […]
Aaaaaaaaaand, here we go. There’re just too many fucking cool shows coming up in the next several days for me to skip talking about ’em in good conscience. I’m sleep-depriving myself for you, people. Can you feel how much I sacrifice for you? You may, once you read the half-coherent writeups below… Sat., November 8: […]
I couldn’t tell you why, but somehow, this flyer speaks to me…very odd. Of course, it could be simply because it’s gonna be a freakin’ great show, with two awesomely cool locals — the indie-pop-ish Wild Moccasins and fractured country/folk-pop Buxton — and one intriguing out-of-towner — The Terrordactyls (three words: kazoo & toy piano). […]
Y’all might recall that I’d briefly mentioned The Skyline Network’s SceneWiki a while back when talking about the BandCamp stuff, but I’ve finally, finally started delving into it myself over the past few days. And I have to admit, it’s pretty fucking addictive. I still have some issues with the interface, I’ll admit, like the […]
As we mentioned a while back, an abbreviated version of local cool kids The Western Civilization, including just Reggie, Rachel, & a boombox, drove on up recently to The Great White North (aka Canada) to play the Halifax Pop Explosion festival. Reggie says the show went great, with the duo playing to a packed house […]
It’s been a while, I know, since I posted an update up here (like, um, August?), but believe it or not, SCR hasn’t been asleep — even with Ike delivering the smackdown on Houston, we’ve kept putting up new stuff… I’ll hit the whole list soon, but the most pressing one’s the brand-new review of […]
And now, for Part 2… True to their collective word, the crew behind the recent BandCamp deal have come back with the second installment, this time moving beyond the general “what can we do?” stuff and on to the more practical side of things. This time out — namely, Sunday, November 2nd from 1-3PM at […]
Gotta make this quick — I’m off to get pizza for a small-ish horde of midgets in costumes — but damn, there is a ton of cool shit going on this Halloween & following weekend. Before I go on, though, I’d like to call a Momentary Gripe Interlude: what the fuck is with this bizarro […]
Yeah, yeah — I know this is way, way, way overdue, considering that the event itself happened a few weekends ago, now. I’d been holding off posting anything ’til I could get down thoughts about the whole ball o’ wax, y’know? The whole OCD thing is my downfall, I swear… The tagline there’s a wee […]
[UPDATE: Well, I’ve just heard that the other two “mystery promoters” behind this year’s Noise & Smoke are none other than Ditch Water creator & local photo-taker Rosa Guerrero & original Hands Up! Houston booking crew member Anna Garza; definitely not trying to avoid giving these two ladies their due, I swear, I just didn’t […]
I had a teeny bit of a panic attack yesterday, when I tried to visit the Website for Midtown hipster hang The Mink; instead of the bar/club/whatever it is’s standard stylish black flowers & such, the link brought up a GoDaddy.com page that makes it look like the Mink crew, um, maybe let their domain […]
Dang…got some bad news in the email recently & figured I’d better share. Part numero uno… RISE AGAINST/ALKALINE TRIO/THRICE/THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM: Due to Rise Against singer Tim McIlrath losing his voice, the politically-minded punks have had to cancel their Texas shows, both last night in Austin and tonight (Mon., October 27th) here in town at […]
This weekend’s pretty much filled to overflowing, so I’m having to kinda pick and choose which events to mention here; this one is obscure as hell but still sounds damn cool, so for the moment, it wins. The 7th Annual Gadabout Traveling Film Festival will be rolling into Houston tonight, Sat., October 25th, around 8PM […]
Again, we are all about the J.I.T. reviewing, and today is no exception… Just slapped up a review of Mechanical Boy‘s new album, Play Along, on the site, which is damned good timing considering that the Richmond-bred crew will be officially releasing the disc tonight, Fri., October 25th, up at Fitzgerald’s. The show was scheduled […]
Just saw the news from the Free Press crew — apparently last night’s badass-looking show up at Numbers with HEALTH, The Wiggins, B L A C K I E, The McKenzies, & Female Demand had to be called on account of torrential, car-swamping amounts of rain and dodgy electricity at the club. Damn. Condolences to anybody who tried to make it […]
I don’t get out to art exhibits as much as I’d like, but the stuff they have at The Station always grabs me, for some reason; they seem to have a lot of art from downtrodden, oppressed folks, and that kind of thing tends to be stark, raw, and intriguing. (At least to me, anyway.) […]
Met Joel from promising-looking local resource site Indiehouston.org this past weekend at BandCamp (more on that soon, I swear), and he threw this one out there, asking very nicely if we might be able to slap up flyers for this Japanther show they’d set up for this coming Sunday, October 26th (at the ever-versatile Caroline […]
At today’s BandCamp deal, artist/Hurricane Bear/all-round cool guy Jacob Calle clued me in to something that’s at least supposed to happen next weekend, October 25th, and to my addled brain, at least, it sounds pretty fucking cool. I’m not gonna really spoil the thing here, but if you’re curious, look here, here, and here. If […]
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 & […]
Last-minute as always, but as of this afternoon there’s a brand-spanking-new review of the just-about-new album from local math-y, prog-y post-rockers Tambersauro, which is a lucky coincidence, since the band’s officially releasing the disc this very evening (Friday, Oct. 17th) up at The Mink. I’ve never managed to catch the band live, but going by […]
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, […]
I didn’t think I was going to make it at all, honestly; the wife was out of town all weekend, so it was just me & the midget on our own, which meant that during the day Saturday we spent our time at The Disney Store at the Galleria and watching Beverly Hills Chihuahua (no, […]
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 now I feel a little bad for the hoopla over the “big” stuff going on this weekend, because it’s seriously overshadowing some truly deserving “little” stuff. Some of which is, uh, almost certainly going on as I type this…sorry ’bout that (I’m on Solo Dad duty tonight, so y’know). Anyway, without further ado: […]
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 […]
