The above title is true on both counts. Not only am I a huge Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan, but I am indeed also a big, big dork. Not that the one follows the other, mind you — I was a dork long before Buffy ever aired (see: AD&D, comics, Star Wars/Star Trek, fantasy/sci-fi novels, […]
[UPDATE, 8/3/07: Yep, things’re changing fast…got confirmation that no, Sugar Shack won’t be playing, but a pseudo-“supergroup” of Joint Chiefs & Fleshmop members will be. Awesome.] [UPDATE, 8/2/07: Just got a note from Kyle of Sugar Shack; seems they’re actually not playing the reunion show and had never planned to in the first place. Damn…] […]
Yes, sometimes I do. I’ll admit to being a late-late-late, almost-past-its-peak Myspace user, but I have to admit that I’ve been able to hear some damn cool bands (local and otherwise) just by bumbling about from profile to profile. Did some of that today and found some very cool stuff I’d never heard before: Piano […]
It’s been an odd few days, that’s for sure… I dragged the wife out to the Houston Press Music Awards this past Sunday in downtown, and although we got there late (right at 8PM), we still managed to catch some darn good bands. First we saw part of The Scattered Pages’ set at Venue (they […]
Well, I haven’t heard anything yet about a rain date, so keep yr fingers crossed… After much eager anticipation, tonight is the Houston Press Music Awards up in never-this-genuinely-cool-otherwise downtown H-town. A ton of bands, a fair amount of rain, and lots of hipsters & wide-eyed suburbanites, all for a mere $10. Check here for […]
Okay, so this makes me feel a bit better — got my very own copy of the new Something Fierce/The Hangouts split-7″ (out on Manic Attack!!! Records) yesterday in the mail. And unsurprisingly, it fucking rocks. Alright, so I haven’t yet listened to the Hangouts side (sorry; I will soon, I swear), but I couldn’t […]
Ah, crap. I’m not a drama geek, really, despite being a do-you-want-fries-with-that? English/History major in college (which tends to require a lot of dramatic lit-reading), but this makes me sad: Infernal Bridegroom Productions is no more. Fuck. Due to “insurmountable financial difficulties,” the indie theater company’s 14-year run ends this month. And trust me, that’s […]
This is probably going to be old news to the poor souls who braved the sporadic downpour to drive from God-knows-where (Alvin/Spring/Tomball/etc.) down to Reliant Park yesteday for the Houston stop of the Warped Tour, but the weather forced the Tour crew to shut down this past weekend & reschedule for, yes, today, Monday, July […]
Yes, it’s that heady time of year, when local musicians, fans, and media types alike all swoon and pant in eager anticipation of the year’s Houston Press Music Awards — who will win the coveted “Best Experimental” award? Who will get snubbed, both by the voters and the indie-hipster elite? Who will be left crying […]
It’s probably at least partly because I just finished watching American Hardcore, a decent documentary that covers a scene I missed out on utterly and completely — the two local bands I knew of in beautiful Killeen, Texas, were both crappy metal bands (we had nothing but metal, rap, and country, in various combinations); I […]
Yes, ladies & gents, today is officially the Feel Good Hits of the Summer Fest down at The Proletariat. There’s been a minor lineup change or two, I believe — due to scheduling conflicts, the Bright Men of Learning are no longer gonna be there, for one — but the whole shebang’s still scheduled to […]
Man, it’s been a rough fucking week. Not even getting to rock out live and in-person to The Hold Steady last night made me feel much better, although stopping back in the old ‘hood at 1AM and sitting out on the Hazard St. Bridge over 59 with some M&Ms and Gatorade (I was dehydrated as […]
Some days it really does seem like humanity as a whole really, truly sucks. No, I’m not talking about the dipshit in the black pickup who nearly killed me when he decided his turn-only lane that merged into mine was actually a go-straight lane, or even about the fact that there are apparently still people […]
Yes, I feel the need to lighten the mood now, and besides, I absolutely have to post this (and besides, I love the fact that I just did two posts in a row with the word “fucking” in the title). More info here, and more to come on this little blog, as well. Just watch:
Yeah, you read that right. According to unnamed-yet-credible sources (okay, it was Kurt of SoundEx, over on the Hands Up! board), this coming October 12th and 13th will see a once-in-a-lifetime Axiom “reunion weekend”, dragging back together bands from those heady days of Helltown industrial noise-rock. Apparently the former Axiom proprietor, J.R. Delgado, is bringing […]
Damn, damn, damn. Y’know, I just knew it was too good to last; when Brian McManus moved off to Philly, I’d pretty much figured that, hey, that would be that for H-town’s own Fatal Flying Guilloteens, aka “The Joke Band That Not Only Wouldn’t Die, But Kept Getting Stronger as the Days Went By.” They’d […]
It’s late, I reek of smoke, and my ears are ringing like somebody switched the TV to static and then cranked it all the way up, but what the fuck, I’ve gotta mention a couple of upcoming things in the realm of musical festivalness. It’s gonna take me a while to come down from tonight’s […]
Dang. Gonna have to make this one (relatively) brief, ’cause I’m just about outta here for the day — still recovering from this godawful sinus thing that’s been kicking my ass all week, so I’m a homebody for the evening, sadly. I’m planning to kick back with the wife and watch either The Prestige or […]
Man, it’s getting so that this is my favorite part of the year, H-town music-wise — the Houston Press Music Awards are coming up. The festival itself is still a little ways off (here’s me crossing my fingers that it’s actually on while I’m in town and not gallivanting around Michigan or Sweden in the […]
Yep, here we are once again. Just hanging here at the house, frantically attempting to pack up the family truckster to go see the fam and hang out with some very friendly killer whales. Tried to get this in earlier, while waiting to go see a friend’s newly-born baby (“newly-born” as in “born at 2PM […]
Yes, you too can join the ranks of the elite, unpaid, unloved host of KTRU DJs who spin strange, intriguing music at all hours of the day and night on H-town’s/Rice University’s wonderful KTRU 91.7 FM. Since most of the DJ kids are headed home for the summer, KTRU lets non-Rice students apply every year […]
Hey, if you happen to be looking for something to do this weekend, the ever-cool Lawndale Art Center is looking for volunteers to help out with their “20th Century Modern Market” exhibition deal. They need folks to help set up before and clean up after the Preview Party tomorrow night (Fri., April 27th), and if […]
Well, it’s looking like a damn good weekend to check out some of the bands of one of the coolest record labels currently calling the H-town area home, Mia Kat Empire — they’ve got two shows this weekend w/different bands, but haven’t been able to really publicize ’em much. (They’ve been in the process of […]
I’m a little late on this one, sadly — there’s an art/music exhibition/festival-type thing being put on this weekend by the Aurora Picture Show (and curated by Nick Hallett of Harkness A/V), and it, uh, technically started Thursday night with art by cinema experimentalists Brian McClure and Ray Sweeten and continued Friday with a Nautical […]
Not sure when they put ’em up, but local boys Radio Pioneer (ex-The Tie That Binds/-Guns of August/-etc.) have got two new awesome songs up on their MySpace page. Both “We’re Not Sorry” and “The World” hit all those emo-indie touchstones we (well, me, at least) love so damn much, from Samiam to Face to […]
Anybody remember de Schmog? Sure, you do; you can’t lie to us. Well, ex-de Schmog frontman and all-round nice guy Kilian Sweeney (who happens to possess one of the coolest names ever, by the by) will be back in town next week from the windy wilderness of Chi-town. On Thurs., April 12th, he’ll be playing […]
Just a quick early warning-type note: yours truly spent a good 2 hrs. last night at the Empire Cafe (mmm…Milky Way good…) chatting with the large crew of people involved in either/or soft-rockers The Western Civilization or their record label Mia Kat Empire, and a real-live interview thingy will be coming once I can actually […]
Sadly, I am neither quick nor witty enough to have come up with a decent April Fool’s post, so instead I’ll just point you to somebody who has: “Jandek: It’s Truck Month” Props to a.different.ryan for making me read the damn thing about twelve times before realizing what fucking day it is. Funny and terrifying, […]
Okay, so hopefully me posting this isn’t letting the cat out of the bag to their current drummer or anything — one would hope he’s been informed and not just left hanging a la Dave Mustaine getting booted by Metallica — but local indie-rock kids .belville have made it known that they do indeed need […]
Yep, apparently His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso (I’m including the whole “His Holiness…” thing ’cause it’s in the press thing I got, which makes it sound like an official title & all that), will be appearing at Rice University on Tuesday, May 1st. There’re two events scheduled, one “general” event at 10AM […]
It’s been a good week for power-pop, at least ’round SCR HQ. First off we got word that bizarrely catchy British power-popsters Art Brut have released five sneak-a-peek tracks from their soon-to-be-released next album on Downtown Recs. And thankfully, they’re damn good, albeit somewhat of a love-or-hate proposition — if frontman Eddie Argos’s Jonathan Richman-esque […]
Yep, I’m gonna get all Karnak with this one: this band will be a big, gigantic, fucking huge deal, and it’s going to happen soon. I’m talking about The Western Civilization, a bunch of local kids who tomorrow night (Sat., 3/23 @ Walter’s w/Peekaboo Theory and Buxton, who’re pretty good themselves) will be dropping Letters […]
This really, truly makes my week. A while back, I stumbled across a two-year-old post over on The Skyline Network about the glory of the ancient-but-amazing It Came From Nowhere… 7″ comp, where long-ago scene vets Mark Caperton of Ojet Recs and former Celindine/etc. guitarist/singer Trey Pool both popped up and offered a copy of […]
[UPDATE: Yep, listings have been updated slightly (thanks, a.different.ryan); now Spain Colored Orange, The Generic Tribe, Noon, and Generation Landslide are playing instead of Skyblue 72, Free Radicals, & Prodigal Sons…] Okay, so I’ll admit it freely: I’m bitter about music festivals these days. Us here at SCR don’t rate press passes to most of […]
Well, it turns out ska heroes Los Skarnales aren’t quite dead yet. Sort of, anyway. I’d heard a while back that after a long run — if I remember right, these guys had started not long before yours truly was going to ska shows, and that was more than a decade ago now — the […]
I’ve got the skin of a shark / And I’m gonna make a muscle… Weird; in the span of just a couple of days, I’ve had a series of “remember when?”-type happenings that’ve made me think back to the Good Old Days of H-town rock (in this case, primarily defined as the period in the […]
Yep, it’s gonna be a busy weekend, shows-wise. I’ll hopefully be able to post again before tomorrow PM & mention a few more, but I wanted to make a note of one in particular, the 3rd Annual Rockin’ for Rise Concert. It’s a benefit deal for the Rise School of Houston, which is an awesome, […]
Damn, this makes me mad. Got word earlier today that Sedition Books, a local co-op bookstore/meeting place/library/clothing exchange (formerly at 4420 Washington) run by a crew of hardworking local activists, burned Monday morning, between 3 and 4AM. HPD’s saying the fire was deliberately set, and since the two residents of the co-op were asleep inside […]
Sadly, I don’t read as much as I should of the various blogs & such floating around H-town. I’d like to, really, but honestly, doing that on top of all the other crap I have to attempt to fit into my day would melt my brain. That said, I’m currently wasting a whole lot of […]
Damn. It really feels at times like I’ve neglected the Houston “side” of Space City Rock for the better part of five years now. And that sucks. Nobody to blame but me, unfortunately — with the house, the wife, the kid, and the attempt at making the e-zine “side” of the site work like, well, […]
