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This afternoon from 1-6pm, The Continental Club hosts the 3rd Annual Rory Miggins Memorial Irish Stew Cook-off. Cost is $10 and includes live music from local blues group The Mighty Orq, Irish rockers The Blaggards, and more.

More information and a full schedule of events, including the Guinness relay, may be found at the Houstonist.

The Gold Sounds plays its CD release show at Walter’s on Washington with Paris Falls, The Small Sounds, and TV Torso on Friday, 2.12.10. The band also plays a free in-store performance at Cactus Music on Saturday afternoon (2.13.10) at 3pm.

More information on The Gold Sounds may be found at www.myspace.com/thegoldsounds.

Legendary magazine JazzTimes is offering a free MP3 of “2012″ by local jazz trio The Rozz Zamorano Group on its website. You can get your copy of the group’s debut album, 2012, at CDBaby.com. More information on Zamorano’s music may be found at www.zamrecords.com.

In other Zamorano news, come help long-time local funk-rock group Fondue Monks celebrate the bassist’s 40th birthday at Last Concert Cafe this Saturday night (2.6.10). The band goes on around 11pm, and will be selling a limited-edition live EP, Five Finger Death Groove, which was recorded at a show in Austin.

This Saturday (2.6.10) at Mango’s, Fiskadoro and Somosuno play with Room 101, Cosmic Sound, and Austin’s Eets Feats.

Cover is $5. Showtime is 9pm.

Check out the latest installment of Live from Joe Mathlete’s living room, featuring Roky Moon & BOLT, on 29-95.com.

More on Roky Moon & BOLT may be found on MySpace.

More information below from Matthew Wettergreen:

Hope the year is off to a good start. I’m just writing to let you know that we’ll be having a Bandcampus this Sunday, January 31st from 2-4pm at Caroline Collective. The focus of this meeting is to get your band booked at venues around Texas within a four hour drive of Houston. This session is in response to Chris Gray’s article in the Houston Press which featured many people in the Houston Music Community calling for Houston bands to start touring more often. Read the article here.

Bandcampus: BOOKING PARTY will be perfect for bands whose 2010 goals are to play more often but don’t know how to get started. We’ll provide the tables, chairs and the internet. We’ll also be giving you an ebook (for free) that includes a venue list for Houston, Austin, Dallas, San Antonio and Victoria/Corpus Christi as well as a mad-libs style email contact form and a mad-libs style phone contact form and review the process of contacting (and following up with) a venue to book your band. This ebook will be published online the next day for those of you who want to spread it around or download a copy for yourself. More information about the ebook is here.

We held a similar Booking Party in July of 2009 and the results were exciting: One band, Liquid Kitchen, was able to book two shows within 72 hours of Bandcampus: BOOKING PARTY. Another band, Insert Name Here, booked one show for themselves that week and continue to use the scripts and venue guide to book shows.

More information can me found online here.

Caroline Collective is located at 4820 Caroline in Houston.

Muhammadali, B L A C K I E, Leg Sweeper, Somosuno, and Limb play at Notsuoh this Saturday (1.30.10) with Austin’s Followed By Static.

Should be a good show.

Something Fierce plays in Houston this Sunday (1.31.10) at The Mink’s Backroom:

Get your copy of the 7-inch single at Action Town Records.

Tonight (Friday, 1.22.10) at Warehouse Live’s studio, there’s another benefit to help out the Haiti earthquake victims. The Factory Party, The Failed Attempt, Shark Attack, and Versecity play live sets, and DJ Sun, Kung Fu Pimp, Brad Slack, and Chris Costello will spin in between sets.

No cover. Bring money for donations (all proceeds go to Yele Haiti).

Doors open at 6pm.