Here’s a list of shows happening this week in the Houston area:

Tonight (Wednesday, 10.13.04)
Senses Fail/Under Oath/The Bled @ The Engine Room
Mouse on Mars w/ Ratatat, Junior Boys @ Fat Cat’s
Arthur Yoria @ Clarks (314 Main)
Richie Havens @ McGonigel’s Mucky Duck

Thursday, 10.14.04
Over It/The Gamits/National Product/Donut Shop @ Fitzgerald’s
Homegrown/Spitalfield/Denver Harbor/Morningside Drive @ The Engine Room
Particle/DJ Logic @ The Meridian
Dead Moon/Baseball Furies @ Rudyard’s

Friday, 10.15.04
Norah Jones @ The Woodlands
Fu Manchu, w/ Cougars, Slunt @ The Engine Room
8 Track Charade @ Rudyard’s
The Shocker @ The Axiom
Slivered @ SideCar Pub
Brown vs. Board/Feeding James/The Phlematics @ Fitzgerald’s
Gomez, w/ Augie March @ The Meridian
Macha w/ The Mercury Program, Soviet Army Chorus @ Fat Cat’s
The Wheel Works/808/Next Best Thing/Amity @ Fitzdown
Volatil @ Buffalo Fred’s Icehouse (2708 North Shepherd @ Loop 610N)
Beryl Grady @ SRO (Northwest Mall)

Saturday, 10.16.04
The Toasters/Los Skarnales @ Fitzgerald’s
Rye Coalition w/ Division of Laura Lee/Your Enemies Friends/The Kinison @ The Engine Room
Recover (CD release) @ Fat Cat’s
Metal Mercy IV Benefit for the Houston Food Bank, featuring Escape, Mindcrime, Abbey Rode, & Lazy @ Forgettaboutit
Dieselboy @ 2401 San Jacinto
Every Passing Moment/The Dolliver Romance/From Heaven with a Gun/A Royal Tragedy/Orca/The Kidnap Soundtrack/Chris Laughter @ Walter’s on Washington
Kairos w/ Rotten Piece, Ossum, and About This Product @ The Southmore House
Sleeping Rubies/Lisa Novak @ Rudyard’s
4th Annual Pan Jam Steel Drum Festival, featuring Kelly McGuire & Tropical Daycare, Water’s Edge, Eric Stone, The OutRiggers Band, North Harris College Steel Drum Band, University of Houston PANtagonists, & Ellie Mannette @ The 600 Block of Sixth Street (Kemah)
Selia Qynn/Wayne Wilkerson @ Coffee Oasis (Clear Lake)
SSE/MGR (split-7″ release) @ Fuel Cyber Cafe (Humble)

Sat./Sun. –> Westheimer Street Festival, featuring Vatos Locos, F For Fake, Los Skarnales, The Delayed, The Slurpees, Silver Tongue Devils, The Grey Life, Hollister Fracus, Popsy, & more @ Westheimer

Sun, 10.17.04
Pixies w/ The Killers, The Thrills @ Reliant Arena
Bad Religion @ Numbers
Habitat House Concert Series, featuring Richard Julian @ 10037 Hazelhurst

Advance warning: Drop Trio‘s new CD, Leap, will be released on 10.23.04. The band will play an in-store at Cactus Music and Video at noon. The CD release party is that night.

Have fun at the shows.

Now Playing in My iPod: John Coltrane — Soultrane