Visit Space City Rock for an article on the new Houston-based indie label, ZenHill Records.

You can purchase/download one of the label’s first releases, an EP with three new tracks from Southern Backtones, via iTunes.

This Friday, locals Tax The Wolf celebrate the release of their new album with a show at Mango’s with Dead Confederate and The Futurebirds. Dead Confederate’s new album, Sugar, is a good listen and will likely make for a great live set. Showtime is 9pm.

Earlier on Friday, The Futurebirds plays a free show at Cactus music at 4:30pm. Dead Confederate also plays at Cactus at 5:30pm.

Tax The Wolf also plays this Saturday night (8.28.10) at Rudyard’s with Spain Colored Orange and You(Genious).

More information on Tax The Wolf may be found at MySpace.

Hollywood Black celebrates the release of its new new five-song EP, Devils That We Are, with a show at Walter’s on Washington this Saturday (8.27.10). Female Demand and The Ride Home are also on the bill, and cover is $10 (which includes a copy of the EP). Free beer for 21+ (until it’s gone).

Doors are at 8pm.

You can download an MP3 of Hollywood Black’s new song, “Wine Skin,” here.

Tonight (Tuesday, 8.24.10), Houston’s own The Gold Sounds play a show with Miniature Tigers at Mango’s Cafe.

Doors open at 8pm, showtime is 9pm. Tickets are $8 at the door or at Superunison.com.

Here’s more info on Miniature Tigers:

Miniature Tigers’ sound was forged in the bedroom of frontman Charlie Brand, only to quickly outgrow the space, with the band soon finding itself on stage, in the studio and signed to Phoenix’s Modern Art Records in short order. Brand’s lyrics – a mix of deeply personal insights and playful references to the disparate cultural artifacts that have informed his existence – and effortlessly constructed indie-pop arrangements have made fans in his native Phoenix and beyond. They stretch to Los Angeles, where he reconnected with drummer, collaborator and fellow charter member of the band Rick Schaier while living in Hollywood, and far beyond thanks to the Internet, which it seems people are into these days.

Visit The Gold Sounds online at www.myspace.com/thegoldsounds.

This Thursday (8.26.10) is a benefit concert for Mareshah Shepard, a 23-year-old woman who was hit by a drunk driver on the corner of Washington Ave. & Thompson. The purpose of the benefit is to help her family with medical bills and  to raise awareness to the fact that there are no crosswalks on Washington Ave.

The show includes: The Sideshow Tramps, Roky Moon & Bolt, Electric Attitude, Young Girls, and The Live Lights.

Visit PledgeMusic.com to contribute to the fund to help Arthur Yoria record songs for a new EP, which he’ll record in Houston with Steve Christensen.

Donations of $10 will get you a download of the EP once it’s released, $15 will get you a signed CD, $55 a handwritten lyrics sheet or a pledgers-only concert, $250 will earn a song about you, and $2K will get you a house party gig. Check the Pledge Music website for more details and offers.

Yoria plays the Museum of Fine Arts Houston next Friday (8.27.10) at 8pm.

Local musician and recent HPMA nominee Chase Hamblin will play a live set on KPFT 90.1FM’s radioACTIVE show this Friday (8.20.10) at 2pm.

On Saturday (8.21.10), Hamblin and band play at Walter’s On Washington with the Nightmare River Band.

Doors open at 9pm and the music starts at 10pm. Cover is a mere $6 at the door.

To celebrate the band’s Machowagon turning 11, dUNETX plans to play its entire album live from beginning to end at Big Top Lounge this Saturday (8.21.10).

Showtime is 10pm. No cover.

More information at www.dunetx.com.

This Saturday (8.21.10), Fitzgerald’s hosts The Progressive Collective Showcase, which features some of the state’s finest progressive rock bands. 2010 Houston Press Music Award winner Lotus Effect, Cavernous, After Time Has Passed, Hydra Melody (San Antonio), and Cirrus Minor are on the bill.

Doors open at 8pm and the $10 cover charge includes a free copy of The Progressive Collective Compilation CD Volume 1 (while supplies last). Presale tickets, which may be purchased from Lotus Effect’s MySpace page, are $8.