Some of the Houston area’s finest indie rock bands, Satin Hooks and Bring Back The Guns, Balaclavas, and Million Year Dance play together tonight at Walter’s On Washington. Doors open at 8pm, and all ages are welcomed. The cover charge is $6/$8.
This will undoubtedly be a packed show so get there when doors open.
Also, Scattered […]

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Spain Colored Orange were the big winners at the 2006 Houston Press Music Awards. The band took home the Local Musician of the Year, Best Indie Rock, Best Keyboardist (Gilbert Alfaro), and Album of the Year (Hopelessly Incapable of Standing in the Way) awards. Congrats!
John Evans (of John Evans Band) took home the Songwriter of […]

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Tonight (Tuesday, 8.8.06) is the next installment in the Bodog Battle of the Bands at The Meridian. This show features The N Crowd, The Portrait of Dorian Grey, Rose To My Dear, Sevenfold, Brown vs. Board, Another Run, Acanthus, Frizz Bee, & NecroFaith.
Also tonight, The Dimes play with The Prids at Super Happy Fun Land. […]

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Local indie rockers Sitka Sound, who recently played the Houston Calling Happy Hour show, play at Walter’s this Friday, 8.11.06, with UK-based The Clientele. Great Lakes, a Brooklyn-based band, are also on the bill. Sitka Sound will open, so be sure to come out early.
Walter’s is located at 4215 Washington Ave., not too far off […]

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Dean’s Credit Clothing hosts some modern acoustic music tonight with no cover charge. Gary Burgess, Marcus Cone, and Ron Scott will perform.
A collection will be taken for the musicians.
More info here.

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Envy magazine’s August issue is now available and contains, among other things, an expanded music section that focuses on local musicians.

Included in the issue are articles/interviews with The Dimes, The Contingency, Rozz Zamorano, Tody Castillo, God’s Temple of Family Deliverance, Southern Backtones, Masiah, Arthur Yoria, Spain Colored Orange, Lanky, Chris Knudson, John Evans Band, Prognosis, […]

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Bill Curtner has put together a collage of new songs to serve as a trailer for The Black Math Experiment’s upcoming November release, Last Transmission From The Blue Room. It can be heard over at the band’s MySpace page.
Houston Chronicle‘s HandStamp has a funny story about The Black Math Experiment’s song, “You Cannot Kill David […]

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The Scattered Pages play at Rudz tonight with Catch 35 and Tody Castillo. That’s tonight (Friday, 8.4.06) at 10 p.m.
You can also catch Tody at an 8pm early show at the Mucky Duck opening for Austin Collins.
Enjoy.

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Be sure to come out to Rudyard’s tonight to catch local musician Lanky (who appears on the cover of the July issue of 002 Magazine and is interviewed in the August issue of Envy Magazine). Also on the bill are Dave Doobinin, a musician from Brooklyn, and Krista Hartman from Toronto.
Visit Lanky online here. More […]

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Austin musician Mo Pair, accompanied by Wayne Houle on harmonica, pays tribute to the late Syd Barrett this Friday (8.4.06) at Brasil in Houston. The show starts at 10pm.
The duo recently released a live album of Pink Floyd songs recorded in Houston this past March. The album, Pink Floyd Happy Hour, can be found online […]

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