Remember Sugar Shack? I sure as hell do — I can remember a time when they were the one and only band (that I knew of, anyway) signed to a “big-name,” outside- of-Houston label (Estrus), and they were looking like H-town garage rock’s Last Great Hope. They were raw, loud, aggressive, angry, and reportedly tough […]
I know it’s been a while, so consider this somewhat of a mini-Rundown; there’s just so many cool, neat, entertaining things you can check out this weekend that I can’t help but list ’em out, however briefly… Fri., October 3: Generator House Show, featuring The Young, Something Fierce, & Teenage Kicks @ 1813 Marshall (7-10PM, […]
Ah, this is cool — and just in time for Halloween, too. (I’m guessing that was the general idea…) If you’re up for some weird cinema and eerie music in a tranquil urban-yet-green environment, well, tonight’s your night. KUHF is putting on a set of old-timey silent films that’ll be set to live music, meaning […]
Okay, so this is somewhat of an urgent plea for assistance from local folk artist Cleveland “The Flower Man” Turner, whose house is a bona-fide landmark — his place is the kind of thing that makes me happy to live in a city where somebody can just let loose their creativity without a worry in […]
Well, that didn’t last long…it appears somebody got excited & leaked some more info about the Long Live the Dead party on the 31st of October up at Walter’s, like with the whole lineup & everything. So, in the interest of letting y’all know as much as we know, uh, here’s the “full” flyer with […]
Hey, all — got handed this a few days ago (sorry, I know I’m slow…), in all its myserious glory, so I wanted to post it up here. I like the all-black motif, honestly; very Spinal Tap. Apparently there’s some kind of Halloween bash going down at Walter’s on (duh) October 31st, with a bunch […]
While I wasn’t super-keen on seeing most of the bands that were slated to play at this year’s edition of the now-venerable Buzzfest (seen The Offspring, seen Toadies, mildly curious about Hawthorne Heights and Seether, could care less about the rest — Staind, Seether, Papa Roach, Puddle of Mudd, Earshot, 10 Years, Saving Abel, Ludo, […]
Remember that whole Final Fridays thing at the Caroline Collective that got canceled back at the end of last month? Well, it’s back on, tonight, Friday, Sept. 26th — the night will kick off at 7PM with badass jams from local up-and-comers The Wild Moccasins, followed by short films by Michael Rodriguez, which will then […]
Among the devastation wreaked by that wee hurricane we all just weathered, two local landmarks were hit badly. First off was that (formerly) awesome culinary institution called Brennan’s, which apparently was okay flooding/wind-wise but caught fire and burned to the ground while the staff watched, unable to stop the flames. Under normal circumstances, HFD maybe […]
Damn. I already knew our ‘hood got off lightly, but after seeing pictures here and here, I feel like an utter asshole for even bitching about not having power. The picture of Gilchrist wiped clean but for one solitary house makes me want to weep.
Mentioned this one previously, but intrepid writer/energy troubleshooter Nick H. threw over a cool-ass review of The Silver Jews’ latest album, Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea, so I thought it’d be good to point it out…especially since the band’s actually playing tonight here in town, doing their quasi-indescribable kinda-country, kinda-indie thing over at Walter’s. They were […]
UPDATE 9/24: Damn. Even more bad news, unfortunately — got some more to add to the list. sigh. I also found out that the On Your Feet kids down in Alvin had to cancel all their shows (some of which I missed taking off the shows list) and that Anderson Fair has been w/o electricity […]
Hey, all — well, it’s been a rough few days here in H-town, but yep, SCR HQ is indeed still standing. We were lucky enough to have a generator on-hand, so while the lights aren’t back on yet, hell, at least we’ve got fans. And, uh, water. And walls and roof. So we’re basically doing […]
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 […]
Damn, damn, damn. I go to work this AM and it’s a normal, plain-jane day, ’til my boss comes in and says, “okay, start shutting down — we need to have all the computers off and locked up in an interior room by noon so we can go home.” Naturally, my schoolboy-at-heart self thinks, “whee, […]
And here I’ll bet you thought not a damn thing happened out there in the south-of-Houston ‘burbs… There’s a new group operating down in the Alvin ‘hood called On Your Feet Foundation, and they’ve started putting on shows at the Alvin Bowling Center (300 Motel Drive — in Alvin, obviously). Which is very good news […]
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 […]
And behind Door No. 3… There’s a new music resource-type site starting up, called Indiehouston, and they seem pretty promising so far. Not a whole lot up there right now, but they’ve got a Myspace page up already. Of course, like any startup deal, they need a wee bit of help w/the financial end of […]
Aaaaaaaaand…if you’re not gonna be at Cactus tomorrow (again, Saturday, September 6th) but you still like A) good music and B) free beer, with the added benefit of C) good causes, you should head on over to The Orange Show for their Foam Raiser party in partnership with — wait for it — St. Arnold’s! […]
In dates a bit further afield… I heard the rumor a while back myself (in the Press‘s own Music Awards coverage, I believe) that long-gone ska heroes The Suspects were reuniting, and not just for some one-off show like they’ve done the past couple of years. I was a wee bit skeptical, so when rhythm […]
Well, at Cactus Music, at least; this coming Saturday, September 16th (from 1-5PM), Cactus is hosting its first-ever Mia Kat Empire Day, focused on the award-winning-est local label in town, they of the tyrannical-yet-lovable cat. And seeing as they’re an actual record label that puts out actual music, yeah, it kinda makes some sense that […]
This may not mean a whole lot to some of the folks who read this, but I did a total double-take when I happened to glance up at the Numbers sign the other night, on my way in to that epic Recession Thursdays show: 10/18 Alison Moyet. Wha? My wife happens to be a huge […]
Dang, what’s with these freakin’ postponings & cancellations? Argh. I got a note a few days ago about The Wild Moccasins playing at Caroline Collective as part of the artspace’s “Final Fridays” microcinema screenings, and it sounded very, very neat…except that when I go to the CC site today, lo and behold, the damn thing’s […]
That’s a hell of a lineup, right there, one mighty enough that yes, yours truly will attempt to drag his sorry ass off the couch this evening (although the thought of watching Dragon’s Den with the wife is sorely tempting) and rock out up at Numbers. This is part of the Free Press Recession Thursdays […]
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, […]
Bad news + possibly-confusing news, I’m afraid, w/a couple of tonight’s shows. First off, just got word from Jason, bassist for Alkari, that tonight’s Free Press Houston Recession Thursday show is a no-go. Something Fierce, Generation Landslide, Alkari, & Television Skies were all supposed to be braving the torrential downpour tonight at Numbers, but A) […]
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 […]
Hey, remember Super Happy Fun Land? Yeah, I know — with the quiet of the past few months, my hopes for the place’s eventual re-opening have been sinking lower & lower, sadly. The SHFL crew isn’t giving up the ghost, however; they’re reportedly still working on those pesky city permits for their new-ish digs at […]
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 […]
Sorry for the quiet, folks — we’ve had to undergo some fairly major behind-the-scenes changes of late, site-wise, and things aren’t quite yet working the way I’d like, so I’ve been having to put off the ranting/philosophizing a bit. Basically, Blogger started up with its semi-monthly Bartleby phase again, refusing to post sometimes ’til a […]
No, I’m not talking about those cheesy “we’ll buy your scrap metal and strip your wires for free!” ads on late-night TV, but about the upcoming Rock the Bayou metalliganza that’s coming this Labor Day, August 29th-September 1st, over at what used to be Astro World (S. side of 610 at the Astrodome/Reliant Stadium/etc.) but […]
Update time, and somewhat of an urgent one, to boot — in the spirit of Just-In-Time Reviewing (which is all the trend these days, don’tcha know), we’ve got a brand-new review up of Papermoons inaugural full-length, New Tales, and holy crap, they just happen to be playing tonight. Imagine that… Anyway, the band’s playing up […]
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 […]
Yeah, I got out there a bit late — I didn’t make it to this year’s Houston Press Music Awards Showcase downtown ’til 6PM or so, which meant I missed 2 hrs’ worth of cool-ass bands. Perils of domesticated life, unfortunately; it gets hard to force myself to hop in the car & abandon the […]
The best-laid plans, damn…every time I put off posting about this stuff, it bites me on the ay-uss. We got some new stuff up last week — brand-new show reviews! — and earlier this week — brand-new reviews! — but I procrastinated, figuring I’d post about it sometime this afternoon. I had a quickie medical […]
UPDATE II: Okay, so I started posting this yesterday at 3PM. When’s it go up? Today, long after at least a third of the listed shows actually happened. Fuck you, Blogger. Every time I think shit’s improved, you folks prove me wrong. UPDATE: I found out just a wee bit too late that yeah, the […]
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 […]
