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Holiday music picks

December 21st, 2004 · No Comments

Enjoy the music of the holidays.

Tonight (Tuesday, 12.21.04)
The Unicorns w/ Fatal Flying Guillotines & Animals of the Bible @ Engine Room

Wednesday, 12.22.04
Lisa Novak w/ The Sleeping Rubies @ The Continental Club
Absolute Pistol w/ Hellbound Hearse @ The Proletariat
Route To Nowhere @ Super Happy Fun Land

Thursday, 12.23.04
Clouseaux/Mike Haaga/Beetle @ The Continental Club
Pride Kills/Love $ponge/Grave Robbers/Everybody Freeze/Formula for Victory @ Fat Cat’s
Roger Creager/Jack Ingram/Billy Joe Shaver/Cory Morrow/Kevin Fowler @ Club V
Mark Needs A Chick (final show**) @ Java Jazz Coffeehouse (Spring)

Christmas Day
30footFALL @ Fitzgerald’s
Tody Castillo w/ Scattered Pages @ Rudyard’s
The Handsomes w/ Hi-Five @ The Continental Club
Lil’ Flip w/ Z-Ro/Bun-B/Herschel Wood Hard Headz/Street Gang @ Moody Gardens Expo (Galveston)

Sunday, 12.26.04
Petesimple/The Spencer Project @ Dean’s Credit Clothing

Wednesday, 12.29.04
Slivered @ The Proletariat
The Down Home Southernaires/The Saw Wheel/The Engaged/Opioneers! @ Super Happy Fun Land
Los Lonely Boys* @ Verizon Wireless Theater

Thursday, 12.30.04
A New Year’s Dream, featuring The Wheel Works, Death by Desire, & DJ Sharing Needles @ Fitzgerald’s
Asylum Street Spankers @ McGonigel’s Mucky Duck
Bob Schneider @ The Engine Room
The Oots/Better Everyday/Nervewreck @ Rhythm Room
The Iguanas @ The Continental Club
Martinisque @ Fitzdown

New Years’s Eve
Ume w/ The Fatal Flying Guilloteens, Dead Roses @ The Proletariat
Clouseaux/Pale/Three Fantastic @ Rudyard’s
New Year’s Noise, featuring Black Mayonaise, Murderous Vision, Rotten Piece, Rusted Shut, Oscillating Innards, Jason Crumer, A Fail Association, Deadly Orifice, Kairos, Chiasma, Rainbow Blanket, Bully Pulpit/Organ Failure, & Concrete Violin @ Super Happy Fun Land
Dead Roses/Fatal Flying Guilloteens/UME @ The Proletariat
Robert Earl Keen, Jr. @ Hobby Center
Us and Them (Pink Floyd tribute) @ Fitzgerald’s
Little Brother Project @ Dean’s Credit Clothing
The Allen Oldies Band/The El Orbits @ The Continental Club
Shake Russell/Ann Armstrong & Steve Hughes @ Anderson Fair
Hollister Fracus/Prognosis/Lonestar Pornstar/Soul Xchange @ The 19th Hole (The Woodlands)

Have a great holiday. Check back soon for my year-end recap, album reviews and more interviews — plus live music updates.

Be sure to check out my favorite albums of 2004. I also posted mt top 10 favorite Houston albums. Discuss in the message boards.

*Remember when these guys opened for Fondue Monks at Velvet Elvis circa 1998? How times have changed…

**I will rerun my interview with Mark Needs A Chick soon. RIP guys…

Now Playing in My iPod: Jimmy Chamberlin Complex — Life Begins Again

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