Okay, so it seems I inferred incorrectly from a very-very-very brief conversation w/Jacob Calle that he was also doing some kind of organizing for the Creature Comforts Art Show this coming July 12th, and I’m currently feeling like a big ol’ idiot. Per more informed sources than me, Jacob’s not running the show, but just […]
UPDATE! Argh, I screwed up — ignore the art show stuff at the bottom & check the next post, instead… Yesterday evening I dragged homeboy Jowell on up to Notsuoh for the rescheduled, shifted-around, and somewhat downsized (Ex-)Keene St. Warehouse Party. I had some serious misgivings about the whole thing, I have to admit — […]
Okay. So…it is on, albeit in a much-changed form. The Keene St. Warehouse Party has so far had its headliner (Andrew W.K., for those not paying attention) cancel, discovered that the venue (the Keene St. Warehouse — duh) had not been rebuilt/renovated after it got hit by a fire a while back and was soaked […]
I haven’t seen a lot of press on it (although, admittedly, I haven’t been scouring Google Reader much this week), so I figured I’d make a quick mention of a show this evening… Nairobi-by-way-of-NY band Extra Golden is coming through town, playing tonight at the ever-interesting Orange Show (2402 Munger) at around 7PM. And it […]
I’ve been very remiss in posting about local faves Sharks and Sailors lately — sorry about that, y’all — but as part of my penance, I feel compelled to mention that this member of the “H-town’s Most Likely to Succeed” crew will be playing tonight, Friday, June 13th, up at Walter’s on Washington. It’ll be […]
Damn. I am so on the wrong press-release lists, y’all, seeing as I missed out on this one from local hip-hop house Rap-A-Lot Records: Fresh off the heels of a #1 Rap/R&B album, Bun B and Rap-A-Lot Records are looking for the nation’s next rap superstar and have teamed with Microsoft Zune to launch the […]
Okay, so I just rechecked cool ex-Proletariat person Shawna’s initial post about this and saw it listing the party as being on Friday (i.e., last night), not today like I’d thought, and had a brief moment of panic…crap, did I miss another of these damn things? Lucky for me/you, though, it turns out that tonight […]
Been meaning to do this for a long damn while now, gathering up tidbits of info here, there, & everywhere. It’s a testament to how vibrant our much-bemoaned local scene actually is that there’s a bona-fide shitload of stuff going on: bands breaking up, bands forming, CDs coming out, local press shakeups, side projects, yadda, […]
Ran across this today on the Hands Up board & thought somebody might be interested… Hello Musicians, I’m with a local production team that is entering the 48 hour film competition this weekend, and am looking for local artists that would be willing to let us use their music in the film project. All types […]
If you’re in a band, odds are you need someplace to stow your stuff, practice your hot guitar licks and/or faces, yell at your guitarist for not playing the riff right for the seventh time, and sit around and try to think of stupid words/phrases to sing over Bush’s “Glycerine” for hours on end (okay, […]
I know a ton of local bands have been vying for spots on this year’s Warped Tour when it hits Houston, but the only one I’ve seen so far that’s made the cut (there may be more) is the supremely awesome Western Civilization, who’ll be playing on the “Kevin Says” stage (whatever the heck that […]
In case you’re some foolhardy soul who only reads this here e-zine/blog thingy (hah!), right now feels like high time to point you elsewhere, at least temporarily. ‘Cause our compatriots in local music coverage have been pretty fucking on lately, and they deserve some recognition. And y’know what? No one blog, website, e-zine, or print […]
Man. Is it just me, or have we really been hitting a string of bad-ass weekends for shows lately? I can tell I’ve been watching too much Deadliest Catch, ’cause the analogy that keeps popping into my head is of H-town sitting on a big biomass of, uh, good bands and consistently hauling in a […]
Spent most of the day either having an impromptu pool party with The Munchkin or driving to & from the in-laws’ house, but I managed to make a relatively quick stop at the Zine Fest Houston up at The Shady Tavern (still going on, actually, so stop on byi; check the details here). And while […]
Late notice, I know, and I think both shows are already going on…argh. Anyway, if you’re at a loss for something to do this evening, you’ve got at least two charitable-type choices amongst the pile of very cool things to check out: A Benefit for Alex Arizpe @ The Meridian This one was somewhat of […]
Behind the curve, as always…damn you, New House/Day Job! I’d like to vow that if I ever win the lottery this here blog will be so kickass and up-to-the-millisecond current that it’ll fry your hair just to look at it. Except that I know I’m inherently too lazy for that, and so — hey, I […]
Yeah, you read that title right — tonight’s another “damn, I wish I had a cloning machine…” night, with great, great things happening all over our (not-so-)fair city… Option Uno: Tops on my list is tonight at Rudyard’s, where Clevelanders mr. Gnome will be blowing the roof off, setting hair on fire, and creeping everybody […]
(I know, I know; it was so easy, I just couldn’t pass it up, sorry…) Tonight marks the last-ever show by H-town hardcore stalwarts Will to Live, who’re “retiring” from the music thing to focus their energies elsewhere. They’ve had a long, long, long run, originally rising out of the ashes of early-’90s straightedge legends […]
Well, I’m trying to wrap up work so I can run to the post office, but I just can’t bring myself to bail w/o mentioning some of the extremely, extremely cool things going on tonight. This weekend initially looks pretty scary, when you look at it — I mean, on Saturday we’ve got not only […]
Okay, so y’all all know about the Secret Saturday Shows deal by now, and some have even been; I was fortunate enough to finally be able to drag my little girl out to The Shady Tavern for a surprise performance by Judas Bear a few weekends back, despite the moving insanity, and we both had […]
Damn, this makes me really, really sad (and big “thanks” to David over at the ever-stellar Houston Calling for breaking the news…). In spite of my being smack-dab in the middle of The Week From Hell (job promotion + new responsibilities + immediate deadlines + selling house + buying house + moving all our crap […]
Three words (well, technically two words, but y’know) come to mind when I look at the ginormous pile of cool stuff that’s going on this weekend: why, God, why? See, ’cause while all you fortunate town-bound people will see your respective cups overfloweth, I will be shepherding three screaming children (not all my own) around […]
This is absolutely priceless — check out the video at the end. I’m bummed that there’s no footage of Something Fierce, and Be My Doppelganger sound like they would’ve been cool to see, despite the blown-out videocam mic, but honestly, the part that kills me is the spliced-in post-shutdown commentary by Ramon & Rosa’s adorable […]
Damn, I swear I was gonna post about this earlier today… From Ramon over at the Free Press, it ‘pears local cool kids (and my personal heroes) Something Fierce will be playing today at 5PM over at the Starbucks at 2050 W. Grey. They’ll be joined by Indianites Be My Doppelganger & fellow locals alarma!, […]
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 […]
Sorry, couldn’t resist the song reference… I know I’ve been somewhat quiet lately on local fave band The Western Civilization (since we ran the interview last spring, actually, although they did appear in our best-of-2007 wrap-up), and frankly, that’s pretty inexcusable. My only defense is that they’ve been somewhat quiet themselves lately, since coming back […]
Damn, I’m beat. Not because I spent today trudging around Austin in the hot, hot sun, mind you, but because I spent today kiddie birthday party-hopping, hitting two exhausting, extremely loud gatherings of munchkins in one long, long afternoon. I managed to overdose pretty severely on frosting, greasy pizza, bouncy castles, and Hannah Montana, all […]
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, […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
phew…another late night, another update. Big thanks to all the hard-working writer folk, by the by, for getting this stuff in — this little e-zine would die a sad and lonely death with only yours truly doing the writing for it, I swear. Everybody, your efforts are very much appreciated. I owe you all beers. […]
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, […]
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 […]
