The Chronicle has a short interview with Sparta, who is playing tonight at The Meridian with Aloha and mewithoutYou.
Read it here. Get tickets here.

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Tomorrow night (Tuesday, 2.27.07), Sparta plays at The Meridian with mewithoutYou and Aloha. Sparta’s 2006 album, Threes, was one of my favorites last year. This should be a good show.
The Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo gets started with George Strait at Reliant Stadium on Tuesday night. Since the rodeo’s starting up that means it’s […]

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Anyone interested in joining Mia Kat Empire‘s street team or starting one in your area, please send an email to info@miakatempire.com. The label says it needs help of local music fans to get it going strong.
Here is the scoop on the label’s current happenings:
Hollywood Black‘s fantastic CD, Two Thousand Years of Progress was released earlier […]

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The Continental Club hosts a great line-up tonight (Saturday, 2.24.07): The Scattered Pages, Arthur Yoria, and Tody Castillo.
This is sure to be a good show, so come early. I have heard some of Yoria’s new songs, which find him going in a pretty different musical direction–you should come check it out.
Stop by The Mink beforehand […]

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Landfall plays its first gig since 2005 this Saturday (2.25.07) at Fitzgerald’s.

The band is now a four-piece, with a new guitar player, Matthew Trana, who also plays keyboards. Landfall has a new song on Myspace here and their website.
Check it out.

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This Friday (2.23.07) at Walter’s on Washington is a great line-up, which includes Houston band extraordinaire Sharks and Sailors.
Here’s the line-up:
RED SPAROWES | MY EDUCATION | SHARKS AND SAILORS
This shows is all ages and $10 cover. Purchase tickets online @ http://hatetank.indietickets.com, place your order over the phone at (888) 690-9875, or get them at […]

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Today is another of KPFT’s monthly SugarHill Sessions, which features Erika Wennerstrom from Heartless Bastards
in a rare ACOUSTIC performance and interview.
You can stream the show at www.kpft.org – 2 PM CST
Check it out.

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Rice radio station KTRU 90.1FM hosts a battle of the bands tomorrow night (Friday, 2.23.07) at 7pm at Lovett College, on the campus of Rice University (6100 Main St. in Houston). The battle features The Good Fellows, Suitaloon, Annyong, Wiess244, and Moxie.
Admission to the event is free.
Please note: check here for parking information.

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Tickets to tonight’s Midlake show at Walter’s on Washington are going fast. Get yours at the SuperUnison.com website.

Midlake, w/ Tacks the Boy Disaster, St. Vincent
Doors @ 8:00 / Show @ 9:00
Remaining tickets are $12 each. This show will sell out.
If you haven’t yet heard Midlake’s The Trials of Van Occupanther, get it now.

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Last year, I was introduced to Houston photographer Steve Harris at a show at The Continental Club. A mutual friend told me that he was having a book published in early 2007, one that was made up of photos Harris had taken of numerous Texas musicians over the past several years, along with handwritten quotes […]

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