Since I’ve started trying to bring the little digital camera I got for Christmas to more shows lately, I’ve been feeling a bit nostalgic for the Days of Yore here in Houston’s murky-yet-vibrant scene. There was a time when I’d bring my trusty Pentax to every damn show — esp. the ones we played — […]
UPDATE: And…poof, the tickets are gone. Damn, that didn’t take long at all. Congrats to winner JD! Yep, slam poet/rapper/artiste extraordinaire Saul Williams will be in town this next Tuesday, April 1st over at Warehouse Live — with the utterly awesome Dragons of Zynth, I’ve heard, although they weren’t on the venue’s Website the last […]
Working on an actual review of the show, but here’re some pics I took w/my little camera during last night’s Jonah Matranga show over. Sweet, quiet, friendly little gathering of folks, hanging out in a warehouse/movie set complete with blood-spattered chains, fake barbed wire, & monster props — nowhere near as big as I’d hoped, […]
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. […]
Big, big, big “thank yous” to Sara Cress & Joey Guerra over at HandStamp for this one. Earlier today they leaked a bit of the lineup for this year’s iFEST, formerly known as the Houston International Festival, and hot damn — Bettye LaVette is on the bill. There’re lots of other good folks, too, both […]
If you’ve been paying attention at all to the H-town scene for the past while, you probably already know who the awesomely awesome Rosa Guerrero is, and if you don’t, you’ve probably seen her photos either way. She’s the sweet-yet-tough stepmom of the Scene Kids on the one hand, and on the other she’s a […]
Yep, as always seems to happen this time of year, the shows scheduled are changing faster than yours truly can keep up with — a few shows slipped by me this last week, unfortunately (damn, that River Oaks Theater show sounded cool, too…), and didn’t even make the most recent Rundown, so I figured I’d […]
Okay, so I really should be doing, um, actual work, but I stumbled across a couple of things today that are begging me to post about ’em, even if ever so briefly. I’m not particularly up on what movies are coming down the pipe (I tuned out of the whole Cloverfield thing once I realized […]
Seemingly in an effort to prove once more that Houston drummers just don’t freakin’ sleep, local drum god, Houston Press writer, and SCR contributor guy Danny Mee deserves a mention today both for his brand-new band Kvalla and for a brand new track, “Highway At Night”, up on the Myspace page of his “real” band, […]
…this is just utterly, utterly horrifying. Dear God. And maybe it’s the Dad in me being all super-protective or something, but there’s something really disturbing to me about the sight of a little girl dancing, Britney Spears-like, surrounded by a bunch of buff older (than her, anyway) guys. Hell, at least Hannah Montana’s dancers are […]
Ah, dammit. I’m surprised I haven’t seen something else about this ’til now (haven’t checked the Press blogs lately, though) — Matt Sonzala of the way-more-in-the-know-than-I H-town hip-hop blog HoustonSoReal, the Damage Control radio show on KPFT, and a metric ton of cool local rap shows posted last week that he is moving the whole […]
Argh. Sometimes, I really, truly hate the holidays, mostly ’cause they totally fuck with my schedule of Stuff I Really-Really-Really Want To Do/See/Hear/Etc. There’s always some Christmas party to go to, some office thing, some trip out of town, some pile of lights and ornaments to put up. It’s totally non-conducive to getting to do […]
Hey, all — hope everybody out there had a good Turkey Day and didn’t get too festively plump in the process… I know we already did one update this week, but we’ve got a few more new reviews up, including one for new holiday-ish movie This Christmas, one of the new (and surprisingly good) odds-and-ends […]
Dang it, I’m later than I’d hoped to be…ah, well. Sorry, I didn’t get this posted in time for those poor souls who didn’t make it out of the house on this wet, freakishly un-cold night to check out Rustler, The Dead See, & Bowel up at Walter’s, see Carrie Ann and the Apocalyptics at […]
Argh…meant to post earlier, but had to run out to eat & then do all the daddy stuff, I’m afraid. If you run/drive fast, though, you might be able to catch it — there’s a very cool art opening going on tonight up at Sound Exchange as I type this, and I’m really wishing I […]
Yep, thanks to those crazy I Heart U people, tonight @ Notsuoh you can go witness the awe-inspiring, floor-punching hardcore fury of ex-Minor Threat/Fugazi guy Ian MacKaye’s new band with Amy Farina (ex-Warmers), The Evens. Okay, okay, I take it back — going by the songs on the band’s Myspace, there won’t be much in […]
I figured heck, I’m in a video-posting mood, so why not keep it rolling… The two videos below amply demonstrate why even now, a decade after the band broke up, I still can’t help but think of NYC madmen Barkmarket as the quintessential heavy rock (not metal, mind you, but loud, heavy, stomping rock) band […]
I sure do wish those sweet-singing popsters in Program played out more often — it seems like they hardly ever do, these days, which sucks for me, ’cause I’ve never been able to catch ’em live. In the meantime, I have to make do with stuff like the two videos below, recently posted on the […]
Wow. I’m guessing that this has already been bandied about the Interwebs, but I hadn’t heard ’til this AM (courtesy of Vice‘s VBS.TV venture), and it’s utterly blown me away: My Bloody Valentine have reportedly reunited and are doing a new album (check out Soft Focus – Kevin Shields Part 1). Holy crap. Granted, Shields […]
Stuck at home with The Munchkin today, so I’ve been dividing my time between, um, working and watching Dora The Explorer. Feeling intensely unproductive, so I figured I’d remedy that by reminding myself (and you, Dear Reader) of all the cool stuff coming up in the next week or so. Here goes… Thurs., November 1: […]
Why do I always start these freakin’ things in the late-lateness of the afternoon? I don’t have a clue, but I seem to, nonetheless. Argh. I figure I’d better get this out & up, though, because the postings may slow down a bit (ha!) in the next few days. By the by, if you ever […]
Hey, don’t laugh — I may be a big over-thirty dork with a kid & house & all that crap, but I, too, have known the wonders of the pit. I’ve gotten stomped into the mud (Fishbone @ Lollapalooza), come close to getting my jaw broken by arm-swinging gorillas (Helmet in San Antonio; that show […]
I’m fairly sure I’ve waxed eloquent before in these (digital) pages about the wonder that was Silkworm — simply put, they were one of the bands that truly formed my musical universe back in the college days, and one of the first to make me realize that songs don’t have to go verse-chorus-verse to work […]
My wife found this link while Googling the Russian Mafia after we went to see the excellent, excellent, excellent Eastern Promises a while back (seriously; we both hated A History of Violence and cringed when we realized at the theater that David Cronenberg was directing Viggo Mortensen in this one, too, but we were blown […]
Regular readers might remember that back at the end of July yours truly got to play a bloodthirsty, mindless creature of the night in a video for emo-indie guy Jonah Matranga’s new track “Not About A Girl Or A Place”, filmed by SCR bud Mel House. Well, I missed the big-screen premiere, sadly, but naturally, […]
I knew this had to be online somewhere: It’s been a long, long time since anything on SNL made me laugh so hard I cried, but this past Saturday, this one did the trick. Robert Smigel, you’re a god-damn genius. The voices are absolutely perfect (although no, they’re not done by the same folks; thanks, […]
Some of more astute/observant out there may know by now that Space City Rock writer & co-publisher guy Mel House is not only a darn good writer and musician, but that his first real love is making horror movies — the gorier and freakier, the better. Despite me being a big horror flick wuss (I […]
So, a while back indie-emo solo guy (and perennial SCR favorite) Jonah Matranga came to town to do one of those stop-by-on-the-way-to-SXSW shows. I caught his show up at Super Happy Fun Land and then hung out for a bit in the wee hours of the morn with Jonah and show organizer, temp Jonah bassist, […]
Yeah, so I’m probably overreacting just a smidge on this one, but c’mon: doesn’t this sound exactly like how Gamera got his powers? “Gamera is really neat / He is made of turtle meat / We are eating Gamera!” Ah, MST3K, how I miss you. (And hey, maybe JJ Abrams is as smart as everybody […]
Oh, man. I caught this one measly time on MTV, waaaaaaaay back in the day (like, when Illadelph Halflife came out, back in ’96), and it made me laugh so hard my stomach hurt. Flash-forward to the age of anything-in-the-damn-world-is-online, and here it is on YouTube, The Roots‘ video for “What They Do,” which happens […]
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:
Just a little time-wastage for the workday… If you’ve never seen any traceurs in action, you have got to check out the video below. I’ve seen some more involved parkour/free running stuff recently, both in Luc Besson’s District 13 (which stars the guy in this video, David Belle) and in the new James Bond flick, […]
Argh. Why does this happen to me every freaking year? Seriously, every year for the past half-decade or so, I manage to somehow miss the start of the WorldFest-Houston Film Festival, only finding out it’s going on a day or two after the fact, and this year has turned out to be no exception, sadly. […]
