August brings a big month of music to Houston. A lot of local bands release albums this month and a lot of touring acts come through town.
Highlights of this week include the Bodog Battle of the Bands at The Meridian. This is actually happening once a week all month long, so visit The Meridian’s website […]

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Be sure to make plans to come out THIS SUNDAY downtown to the Market Square area for the 2006 Houston Press Music Awards showcases, which features more than 60 bands for a mere $7.
The shows start in various venues downtown at 4pm and the fun lasts until 10pm or so. This is an excellent opportunity […]

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This month’s Sugar Hill Sessions will feature musician Todd Snider. The Nashville folk singer/songwriter plays plays songs from his new album, The Devil You Know, and talks with radioACTIVE DJ Rhonda Garner.
Tune in at 2pm today to hear The SugarHill Sessions, featuring Todd Snider. The show can be streamed live from http://www.kpft.org. Or, listen the […]

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Bright Men of Learning
Self-titled
This is an album the Rolling Stones wish they could still make. While the Stones’ output over the last decade or more has been mostly flaccid attempts at recapturing the fire of their long-ago youth, Bright Men of Learning take a few pointers from the elder statesmen of rock’n’roll and use their […]

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Remember The Church? “Under The Milky Way”? “Reptile”? “Myrrh”? “Terra Nova Cain”? Heydey? Gold Afternoon Fix? Well, one of Australia’s finest bands is coming to Houston TONIGHT at The Meridian for an acoustic show. The band’s new album, Uninvited, Like The Clouds, is good and it will be good to see the band play live.
I […]

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Don’t forget to make plans to come out to downtown this Sunday for the 2006 Houston Press Music Awards showcases. It starts at 4pm and goes until 9 or 10. There’s an outside stage at Market Square, plus bands will be playing at lots of clubs around the area.
Come out and see your favorite local […]

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I found out from jamhouston.com that the Apple Store in The Woodlands is going to feature more live local music.
Back in April Drop Trio performedd at the Store, which was a raging success.
July 29 will be Kayla Reeves & Triple Threat performing for the Store’s first anniversary.
September 2 will feature Dan Workman, Heba […]

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Special thanks to everyone who came out to last night’s show at The Proletariat. It was, in my opinion, a great show and it was good to see a lot of people checking out live local music (on a Monday, no less).
Thanks also to The Dimes, Sitka Sound, Miranda Sound, and Tody Castillo (and band) […]

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Here’s the line-up for today’s show at The Proletariat.
6:30-7pm: The Dimes
7:15-7:45pm Sitka Sound
8-8:30pm: Miranda Sound
9-9:45: Tody Castillo
Actual times may vary, but it’ll be over before 10pm.
Hope you can make it out.
View flyer here.

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I posted an MP3 of today’s radioACTIVE show from KPFT 90.1FM. You can listen to a discussion of THIS MONDAY’s happy hour show at The Proletariat (starts at 6pm, Monday, July 24th), and hear songs from the bands playing the show — The Dimes, Sitka Sound, Tody Castillo, and Miranda Sound.
Click here to get to […]

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