Who doesn’t like a birthday, as long as it’s not yours, right? I swear, I am going to make it over to this place the next time I’m in the Montrose, because Movies! The Store is truly a cool, cool, idea, and I’m guessing (based on reports from other folks, of course) that it’s equally […]
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 […]
Got some MP3s I’ve run across lately that I wanted to mention, esp. since some of ’em are fairly timely for shows tonight & in the near-beyond. I’ve got a bunch more to post, too, but am on half-time Baby Duty, so this’ll have to do for now. Enjoy… The Jealous Sound – “Priceless (Alternate […]
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, […]
Capitalism: A Love Story Reviewed by Creg Lovett At the preview screening for Michael Moore’s new movie Capitalism: A Love Story people hissed, booed, gasped in horror, applauded, laughed out loud and cried real tears. Liberal Democrats Chris Dodd and Barney Frank bore the brunt of the films heavy handed guilt trip, and Republican congressman […]
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, […]
An interesting cinematic-type thing in town tonight (Sat., September 26th, that is) — the Alamo Drafthouse Theater at West Oaks Mall is hosting a special night with the folks behind hysterically funny/sad found-video blog Everything Is Terrible!. The site dredges up ridiculously awful VHS footage from the past several decades and manages to make it […]
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 […]
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. […]
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, […]
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 […]
Yep, got one new review up today, in time for a show tonight (Wed., September 2nd, that is) — SF psych-rock outfit Sleepy Sun are playing this evening over at The Orange Show (as part of their cool-sounding 2009 Fall Concert Series), and after hearing the band’s most recent full-length, Embrace, well, wow. It’s going […]
Sweet — it makes me damn happy that the Zine Fest Houston folks are still doing their thing, and it’s nice to see ’em re-running the Zine Night thing they did a while back, over at CopyDotCom on Westheimer. Tomorrow night, Wed., September 2nd, the ZFHers are throwing their second installment, with the doors thrown […]
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. […]
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 […]
Just a quick update this week, I’m afraid — thanks to indefatigable writer (and token in-house Metal Dude) Scott W., we’ve got two brand-new reviews of two bands, both on cool-ass label Tee Pee Records, that’re playing here in town this very weekend. First up is Iron Age, a throwback metal crew from Austin who […]
Yep, it’s the weekend again, thankfully, and although this weekend’s not quite as insanely busy as some have been lately, well, I’m looking at it as a quality-vs-quantity type thing, y’know? Here’s what I’m liking tonight, Friday, August 28th; more on the rest of the weekend later on… Spain Colored Orange/The Watermarks/ Paris Falls @ […]
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 — […]
Sometimes The Weekend arrives early, folks, and tonight, Thurs., August 27th, is one of those days. There aren’t that many shows going on this evening, compared to your average Saturday in the city, but damn, they’re nearly all freaking cool: Springfield Riots/Loxsly/Dan from Glasnost @ Boondocks I suck, suck, suck. I swore to myself that […]
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. […]
A bit of a late notice on this one, I know — just got back from some much-needed Galveston vacationizing and realized that holy freaking crap, that Mos Def show is tonight (Wed., August 19th, you calendrically-impaired people), with Jay Electronica (about whom I know zero) over at the House of Blues. And yes, this […]
