Here are some shows happening this week in Houston:
Wednesday, 9.1.04
Studemont Project/The Oots @ The Proletariat
Black Dice/Animal Collective/The Sugarbeats @ Fat Cat’s
Thursday, 9.2.04
The Queers/Dynamite Boy/The Gamits @ Fitzgerald’s
Flowers in the Attic @ Super Happy Fun Land
Friday, 9.3.04
Further Seems Forever/Brandtson/The Kicks/Salem @ The Meridian
Bottle Rockets/Nathan Hamilton @ The Engine Room
Rosta Jazz Avengers @ Super Happy Fun Land
Sammy […]

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The Damnwells are playing tonight (Saturday, August 28th) at Engine Room with Phantom Planet. Check out the band’s website for more information on the band, and get their latest album, Bastards of the Beat.
Read the interview I did with The Damnwells’ Alex Dezen late last year here.
If you haven’t yet checked out The Damnwells, you […]

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From Pale:
Hey everyone! Well, this is the week — hour by hour, we’re getting closer to the official release of our brand new CD. And yeah, we have a quick announcement to make!
Thursday, August 24, The Proletariat will be hosting a listening party! For 2 hours, from 8 – 10pm, we’ll be playing […]

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This Sunday night, a band from donewaiting’s hometown of Columbus, Ohio, takes the stage in Houston. Tom Foolery and The Mistakes, whose 2003 album Take One For The Team featured such nuggets as “Urkel’s Lament,” “Hollis Queens,” and “Seven Degrees of Kevin Bacon.”
But don’t let the name fool you–Tom Foolery and The Mistakes and are […]

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Disclaimer: By now, you know I am a huge music fan. And if you’ve read Houston Calling recently, you’ll know I have loved The Cure since the mid-eighties. When I found out they were touring with three or four modern bands that I really enjoy, I couldn’t believe it. I was able to get some […]

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The new issue of Space City Rock is now online. Visit the website here for more information.
Pale’s new CD, “Here,” is ready for the masses (!) and the band will play a gig at Rudz this Friday night, August 20, with Austin’s Endochine and Johnny Goudie. The music starts around 10 p.m. The official CD […]

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Today’s the day –> Mogwai, The Rapture, Interpol, and The Cure are playing at The Woodlands with The Cooper Temple Clause, Head Automatica, and Auf Der Maur. Muse are not playing. Mogwai will be headlining the second stage.
Read my interview with Barry from Mogwai here.
Enjoy the show!

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Rock reunions tours by seventies-era bands are nothing new. KISS has been playing a farewell tour it seems like 10 years now. Even the hair metal bands of the eighties are getting back together in droves these days. Sometimes it seems like you wish they’d leave well enough alone and stop even trying.
Then you hear […]

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Early last month, I went to see The Damnwells and Juliana Hatfield play at Engine Room. Opening the show was Absolute Pistol, a local act I had heard of but had never seen live. Their music was an interesting mix of funk, rock, blues, and pop, and the crowd responded to their onstage energy. I […]

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On Saturday night, while at a show featuring national touring acts, I was again astounded at the fact that a crowd member took it upon himself to “talk back” when the lead singer started talking about a concert preview written in the local press that had nothing nice to say about the headliner.
My most recent […]

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