First up for this weekend, I wanted to mention a show I’m really bummed to see crash & burn — for reasons I’ve been unable to dig out (online, at least), this Saturday’s A Wilhelm Scream show at The Meridian has apparently been cancelled. Not sure whose end it’s on, since the date’s still listed […]
This is a cool one… Over the past several years, I’ve seen some truly amazing show posters floating around, most of ’em created by awesomely talented local H-town artists. Seriously, in all the time I’ve spent in this scene, I’ve never seen poster art as good as this, and that’s the truth. So it seems […]
Dangit, this is what happens when I try to be good and not obsessively check my email all damn day long: I miss things. And yes, for the last “Yr Weekend” post, I did indeed miss a few things, both for tonight’s (Sat., 10/17) shows and tomorrow’s (Sun., 10/18). Here’s the errata/ addendum-type stuff, y’all: […]
Yep, here’s this weekend’s second installment, starting with tonight (i.e., Saturday, October 17th). Get on out the house… Sat., October 17: Scale The Summit/Another Run/Golden Axe/The Pant Factory/After Time Has Passed @ Warehouse Live Oh, yeah. There are some really great shows going on, but I think this one’s my own personal pick, partly because, […]
Late, late, late, I know — all I can say in my defense is that every time I sit down to do something on this here site when I normally would, I get caught up instead in all those fun baby- maintenance activities like feeding, burping, changing diapers, cleaning bottles, changing clothes, etc. Not complaining, […]
How freaking cool is this? The next two nights (Fri., October 16th & Sat., October 17th), the good people over at DiverseWorks are hosting a music/dance performance piece called Heaven, created by Minneapolis- based choreographer Morgan Thorson, lighting designer Lenore Doxsee, set/costume designer Emmet Ramstad, and — wait for it — musicians/composers Alan Sparhawk & […]
Sorry, y’all, but I’m afraid this week’s rundown of Good Things to See is going to be bare-bones at best — I’ve spent just under two weeks now getting very little sleep and spending the non-sleeping hours doing the new-parent thing, so I’ve been far from focused on all the cool stuff that’s been going […]
Paranormal Activity screened for the press last night at AMC Studio 30, and by the looks of the crowd this may be one of the only reviews you’ll see in Houston, as everyone else appears to have been “Caller Number 9” on an FM radio station. They, and many people you know have petitioned Paramount […]
Some of you might remember that I bitched & moaned a while back about the fact that local noise-rock dudes The Jonbenét are breaking up after their final show at the hopefully-moved Walter’s on December 19th. Anyway, after hearing the news from guitarist Dann Miller, I hit him up with a few questions about the […]
Back again, still sleep-deprived but feeling at least a little bit healthier; thankyew, antibiotics… Which is good, because tonight, in particular, is a veritable bear of a night, show-wise. Sat., October 3: Tody Castillo (CD release)/ Springfield Riots @ The Continental Club Damn, damn, damn. I know it seems weird, given the amazing amount of […]
What, already? Seems like I just did one of these damn things… Sorry, folks, but I’ve been offline as of late — some of y’all may know that the wife & I have been expecting our second munchkin, and he arrived a bit earlier than expected (meaning “last Saturday night”), so I’ve been a bit, […]
Back again, yes, with the rest of this particularly action-packed weekend. Lot going on, and it starts pretty soon here, so I’ll just get to it: Sat., September 26: Rock Out For Peace: A Live Music Extravaganza, featuring Free Radicals, Two Star Symphony, The Sideshow Tramps, Smoke and Feathers, listenlisten, Elaine Greer, Chase Hamblin, Nosaprise, […]
A huge pile of good stuff going on this weekend, starting, well, tonight (which would be Friday, September 25th). I’ll have to hit the Sat./Sun./etc. stuff later on, but for now, here’s your last-second list of good/cool things to do… Sadly, for yours truly this looks like a bit of a Walk of Shame, mostly […]
It’s pathetic as hell, I know, but it seems like it gets harder and harder to force myself out of the house these days, even when it’s to see a band (or bands, as the case may be) I really-truly love. There’s the fam, there’s the ever-present TV, there’s Netflix, there’s the insane pile of […]
I’m Creg Lovett, and I’m going to be writing a column on Alternative Cinema in Houston. I first came to Space City Rock 4 years ago when a magazine I was writing for crashed and burned, and left me hanging with no place to publish my cover story on Michael Haaga’s Plus and Minus Show […]
Yep, got new stuff up this week, including one review for tonight, Sat., September 19th — local psych-hop mavericks Ghost Mountain are opening for what promises to be a mind-blowing Devin The Dude show tonight up at the Warehouse Live, so we’ve got a review up of the band’s most recent release, the VHS-only Summer […]
Okay, I give — there’s just too damn much going on for me to melt my brain listing it all. I’m afraid that instead of my usual semi-informed blather, I’m going to have to punk out and just list the stuff that sounds good, instead. Sorry, y’all, but I have to keep my head from […]
While I twiddle my thumbs wait for InMotion to get back to me on my support ticket, I figure it’s way, way past time for me to mention a second awesome-sounding show that’s going on this evening… Some might remember that way back in May or so, yours truly did a little writeup on the […]
Cool news — I’d worried for a while now that H-town-bred Pavement-gone-Wilco guys Bright Men of Learning had gone the way of Bring Back the Guns or the Guilloteens, fading out without so much as a final “seeya” message to their fans. Thankfully, that’s apparently not the case, and the band are back in action. […]
Seen some awesomely cool written things elsewhere lately, so I feel compelled to mention ’em here, for the edification of all and because, as said, they’re awesomely cool. Houston Press: “Ghosts of Washington Avenue” Man, this one makes me want to get all weepy. The Press‘s Chris Gray had a nice tribute piece to the […]
Ah, those crazy A Thousand Cranes folks — they’ve got a new cartoon/video thing up, and as always, it’s fairly bizarre (yet strangely entertaining). It’s an advert of sorts for their show tonight (Mon., September 14th), opening up at Mango’s for strangely-monikered out-of-towners Prince Rama of Ayodhya, who are trippy and Indian-sounding (duh), not to […]
As promised, here’s the rest of what I think looks good for this weekend, at least… Sat., September 12: Trail of Dead/The Secret Machines/The Watermarks @ Warehouse Live Damn, damn, damn. If this were any other time, and I was less broke… I’ve wanted to see The Secret Machines for years now, seriously, and Trail […]
Hey, all — got a new bunch of reviews up this evening, so I wanted to put a quick note up here about ’em, especially since two of the bands, Fake Believe and Electric Attitude, both happen to be playing tonight (Sat., September 12th) at The Festival at Mink (which I already blathered about here, […]
Damn, I love me some good news. And when puttering around on the Interwebs today, I came across a little note that local Christian metalcore boys Before There Was Rosalyn have some awesome news: as of late July, they’ve signed to big-name indie hardcore/metal label Victory Records, home to badasses like Hatebreed, Between the Buried […]
Just when you thought all the H-town festivals were done… While this weekend’s The Festival at Mink may not have quite the scale of the Summerfest, it’s still pretty damn impressive. The show’s this Saturday, September 12th (i.e., tomorrow), starting at 6:30PM over at (duh) The Mink, and it’s going to cram in a full […]
Weekend show recommendation time yet again, but first off, just a bit of an early note — apparently tomorrow’s You(genious) CD release show with Fat Tony & DJ Good Grief at The Orange Show has been cancelled, on account of the likelihood of torrential rain & The Orange Show being outdoors and all. Damn. The […]
As promised, albeit a bit late — I got caught up watching/reading new b-day stuff last night and totally procrastinated, I’m afraid, but eh. The State on DVD + DMZ graphic novels == buckets of awesome. I couldn’t look away, and I refuse to feel guilty. Anyway, here goes for the rest of the weekend […]
Yep, it’s that time — weekend roundup time, and plenty going on. (And yeah, it’s at least mostly good; those Blood On The Dancefloor kids are just way, way, way too young for me…) Here goes the first bunch: Scott H. Biram/The Wayward Sons/DeadEnd Cowboys @ Rudyard’s Oooh. This is gonna be a good one […]
Yep, another day, another review — sorry to be late on this one; I wrote it up last night but couldn’t get it posted ’til just now… I really wanted to review the Fruit Bats‘ latest, The Ruminant Band, btw, because I truly, truly dug Spelled In Bones and felt damned bad that we missed […]
Damn. Why is it I get the feeling there’s some kind of weird, cruel Law of Conservation of Coolness applied to the Houston scene, where for every awesome new band that emerges (Grandfather Child, Springfield Riots, Ghost Mountain), another band has to fall by the wayside or implode (The McKenzies, the performing version of The […]
Whoa. A bit short-notice, for sure (yeah, like I never do that, right?), and it’s already been ably written up at Houstonist & 29-95.com, I know, but I figure it deserves some passing-along, in the unlikely event that there’re music lovers in this city who read this little blog and not one’a them big ones. […]
Okay, so I now know why I’ve been feeling twitchy & off-kilter lately: it’s been too damn long since I posted anything about fave pop-punks Something Fierce, obviously. Remedying that right now, then. Singer/guitarist Steven G. just sent word (along with some sort of kinky threat/invite that I’m not gonna go into here) that the […]
More going on this weekend, of course — like I said, not as much as a lot of weekends, but some good stuff, nonetheless. Here goes… Sat., August 29: The McKenzies (last show!)/Fat Tony/The Tontons/Tax the Wolf @ Mango’s sigh. The heartbreaker of the weekend, hands down; if you’ve been paying attention to local music-media […]
Glad to get some good news from that crew of seemingly ever-dwindling Northside(?) emo/post-emo bands — female-fronted, light-handed yet majestic emo-rockers While You Were Gone have finally come back out of seclusion. About damn time, y’all. To be fair, in the intervening time since they released their excellent debut EP, Heavy Lies the Crown — […]
Holy freaking crap. Y’know, I really hate it when one’a them pesky Internet rumors pops up on the screen and makes my stomach feel like it’s dropped into my feet, and I had that exact thing happen this AM when I read that now-venerable H-town venue Walter’s on Washington is moving (or maybe closing). My […]
Saturday, and of course, there’s still plenty to do tonight & tomorrow, so I wanted to do a little rundown of all of it (although I’ve blathered/ranted about some already). First off, though, I wanted to note a couple of things… I was very bummed to see that Chicagoans A Lull had dropped off the […]
That Matt Brownlie, he just doesn’t stop moving, apparently… The latest thing he’s involved with is called Dharma Punx Houston, and the idea is that it’s a Buddhist meditation/ discussion group for folks who want to, well, learn to be better Buddhists. (I think?) They’re welcoming all comers, regardless of “age, dress or lifestyle”; hence […]
Yep, it’s late-breaking update time — we’ve got a bunch of good new stuff up this week, in typical kinda-timely fashion… First up is a nice little chat with Toby Butler of The Duke Spirit, courtesy of Houston Calling (which you should really be reading, btw, if you don’t already) headman and SCR contributor David […]
Good news time, finally. In the midst of all the breakups and whatnot, it’s nice to see a cool, under-appreciated band that never quite hit it reuniting to give things a second shot. A few years back, Margot was one of a handful of mind-blowing bands that (briefly, at least) turned H-town into Texas Spacerock […]
I know I’ve mentioned this before, but hell, I happen to think it’s very cool, so I think it’s worth re-mentioning. Local musician and all-round cool guy Jason Smith, who plays bass/keys in sweet, flat-out rock band Alkari, also happens to be an architecture nerd, focusing on a particular local H-town architect named William R. […]
