So…there was this third installment of the “no, The Scene’s not broken, but we can make it better!” BandCamp originally scheduled for Sunday, December 7th and meant to be focused on how local H-town bands can get their shit together to actually tour and play shows outside of the Houston Metro area. (Which is a […]
I saw the rough cut of this one a week or two back, but now that it’s finally “officially” released, I figured it’d be a good time to post the new Mark Armes-created video for “Wires and Buttons”, by local heroes Young Mammals. I must admit that it’s not my favorite YM song, unfortunately (mostly […]
A few days late, I know, but still this YouTube video unearthed by Ramon over at Free Press Houston has me giggling with delight, so I feel compelled to spread it around: It’s a brilliant little snapshot of life (the local PBS affiliate’s take on it, anyway) at Rice’s own much-loved/oft-hated radio station, KTRU waaaaaaaay […]
Yes, Jack Black irks me. I like some of his movies, admittedly, but a lot of the time his shtick wears thin fast. So when he showed up and was hysterically funny in the awesome, awesome Prop. 8: The Musical on FunnyOrDie.com, I nearly spit out my morning coffee. Seriously, it’s pretty great. Oh, and […]
Again, lots of good stuff going on this weekend. And since I mentioned the microcinema thing, two of H-town’s indie-est theaters, the Rice Media Center and the Aurora Picture Show, both have intriguing-sounding films this afternoon & evening. (Damn, I love that picture…) The Aurora (800 Aurora in the Heights, if you didn’t know) is […]
Of course, it being the holidays and all (not to mention Houston in general; when people gripe about this city, they fail to recognize that in a place this big, there’s always something cool going on, somewhere. There’s literally a festival every freaking weekend in some part of the city, some film being shown at […]
Mind == blown. Wow. Hat tip, once again, to HoustonHipHop.com for pointing this guy out (although he’s apparently been fairly well-known for a little while now; I’m slow, I’m well aware…). They’ve got a handful of videos up (there’s an insanely huge pile of others on his YouTube channel, but here’s my favorite: And no, […]
Yes, ladies and gents, it’s true — in the intervening time between now and my last post on the subject, I have indeed been working on revamping, updating, and expanding the Awesomely Huge and All-Encompassing Houston Band Map (anybody got any ideas for a better name?). Check the super-duper-sized version of it here, but be […]
Back when I was a wee DJ at KTRU, I ended up hearing a ton of stuff that sounded raw as hell to my relatively-untainted ears. I was reading a shitload of cyberpunk back then, digging up every two-bit Gibson/Sterling clone I could find, and I realized pretty quickly that this music I was hearing […]
Some folks may remember that way back in the day, Space City Rock began life — as a journalistic-type endeavor, at least — as a real-live paper zine. Our first-ever issue had a bunch of stuff in it, including an interview with members of my soon-to-be-defunct heroes, Jawbox, that I still can’t really believe the […]
Last night for The Rundown for a bit; I ended up stuck with the fam this weekend & missed out/am missing out on all the festivities, sadly, but that doesn’t mean you have to, yourself. Tonight (Sunday, November 16th), then, is your last chance of the weekend to not fall into the same trap as […]
Man…what a week. The wife’s cousins from Soderfors, Sweden, are in town, so I played hooky from the day job yesterday to visit George Ranch & Brazos Bend, then dragged cousin Roger (pronounced “Row-hair”) to Midtown to check out The Tontons & The Iguanas (on recommendation from Thomas at Sig’s Lagoon). Separate shows, mind you, […]
Meant to put this up sooner, but as it always is with life, things intervene. Time will tell if it’s the reality (I’ve got pretty high hopes), but right now, a week after, I’m still feeling like celebrating the fact that a smart, practical, rational guy who looks a heck of a lot like America […]
Decidedly non-music-related, but this guy’s my dad’s personal hero, right up there with John Wayne. Travel guru, TV star, author, & all-round strange guy Rick Steves will be speaking this coming Friday, November 14th, at the University of Houston Cullen Performance Hall. I’m not entirely sure what the heck he’ll be talking about, but he’s […]
As we mentioned a while back, an abbreviated version of local cool kids The Western Civilization, including just Reggie, Rachel, & a boombox, drove on up recently to The Great White North (aka Canada) to play the Halifax Pop Explosion festival. Reggie says the show went great, with the duo playing to a packed house […]
This weekend’s pretty much filled to overflowing, so I’m having to kinda pick and choose which events to mention here; this one is obscure as hell but still sounds damn cool, so for the moment, it wins. The 7th Annual Gadabout Traveling Film Festival will be rolling into Houston tonight, Sat., October 25th, around 8PM […]
I don’t get out to art exhibits as much as I’d like, but the stuff they have at The Station always grabs me, for some reason; they seem to have a lot of art from downtrodden, oppressed folks, and that kind of thing tends to be stark, raw, and intriguing. (At least to me, anyway.) […]
Met Joel from promising-looking local resource site Indiehouston.org this past weekend at BandCamp (more on that soon, I swear), and he threw this one out there, asking very nicely if we might be able to slap up flyers for this Japanther show they’d set up for this coming Sunday, October 26th (at the ever-versatile Caroline […]
At today’s BandCamp deal, artist/Hurricane Bear/all-round cool guy Jacob Calle clued me in to something that’s at least supposed to happen next weekend, October 25th, and to my addled brain, at least, it sounds pretty fucking cool. I’m not gonna really spoil the thing here, but if you’re curious, look here, here, and here. If […]
I didn’t think I was going to make it at all, honestly; the wife was out of town all weekend, so it was just me & the midget on our own, which meant that during the day Saturday we spent our time at The Disney Store at the Galleria and watching Beverly Hills Chihuahua (no, […]
While I’ll freely admit I could generally give a crap about what SPIN publishes — no offense to the mag, but I barely have enough bandwidth to read all the junk I already read, so I have to limit the music mag-ness to CMJ NMM — I’m stoked as hell to see said big-time magazine […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
I’ve been somewhat out of the political realm the past few years, after diving head-on into it back in 2001 or so; when my daughter came into my life, I simultaneously realized I needed to quit worrying about this shit quite so much and that I really, truly enjoy the music side of things more […]
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 […]
In somewhat cheerier news: the awesome-sounding Toypunks documentary will be showing tonight & tomorrow night (August 16th-17th) at the Aurora Picture Show. Showtimes are 8PM tonight & 3PM tomorrow. The film looks at the crazy, Technicolor world of Japanese toys, which these days blend in with fashion, design, and art in general, w/lots of interviews […]
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 […]
Back at the keyboard once again, post-Grand Canyon debacle (which I will post about, btw, for those who give a crap; still trying to organize thoughts & force myself to actually type it up), and we’ve got two updates’ worth of new stuff up for all to ogle and admire and deride, as they/you see […]
Long-time e-zine/site readers and friends of SCR will probably recognize the name Marc Hirsh — back in the day, Hirsh was one this site’s earliest, best, and most hardworking writers, a guy who also served as the “Bad Cop” in the bugging-you-about-reviews realm. In the intervening years, he’s moved up to Boston, attended and dropped […]
Big, big, big “thank-yous” to my little bro for pointing out this news. Not only will The State, probably the funniest sketch-comedy troupe outside of the original SNL cast (okay, and maybe SCTV), be finally releasing their long-awaited DVD set(?), but they’ll be doing a reunion show, to boot. Holy fuck. Once I see that, […]
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 […]
Okay, so now that I’m gonna have to enter Witness Protection or hope that the guys in the band alluded to repeatedly here are very forgiving, I feel the need for something entertaining. Serious discussion is great & all (and I think this thread is probably gonna go down in history as the longest this […]
Been meaning to mention this for a little while now — with the “on hiatus” nature of things over at Super Not-So-Happy Fun Land, I was really, really worried that the Zine Fest Houston extravaganza was going to get cancelled or postponed indefinitely. Which would suck, frankly, because zines — not the digital kind like […]
Okay, so I was a bit confused about this one — I’d thought today’s Record Store Day thing I’d been hearing about from the Cactus Music crew was just something at their happy little store, but noooo…apparently it’s North America-wide, if not further. Turns out lots of indie music stores all across the country are […]
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 […]
Quick note, ’cause I’ve got to run home to feed kittens & eat pizza (why do I hear Rowdy Roddy Piper in my head right now? weird…). There’s what sounds like a very cool documentary playing tonight @ 7PM at Avant Garden, called BRAD: One More Night at the Barricades — it’s about Brad Will, […]
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 […]
Fuck. I’ve been steaming about this for a couple of weeks now, but I just can’t get over it — I’m still mad as hell that Jericho got cancelled for the second damn time, this time permanently. Beyond the fact that the CBS rocket scientists, in their infinite wisdom, put the show in a weird-ass […]
