Email me your favorite Ryan Adams or Whiskeytown song and why it’s your favorite and you’ll be entered to win a limited edition lithograph (similar to the one pictured above).
While you’re thinking about Ryan Adams, his latest album for Lost Highway Records — Easy Tiger — hit stores this week. You can pick it up […]

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Yet another good show that’s happening tonight (Friday, 6.29.07) is The Wildbirds opening for Jesse Malin at The Meridian’s Red Room. The Wildbirds’ music is straight-up rock’n’roll in the style of The Black Crowes, Tom Petty, Uncle Tupelo, etc.
Feel free to visit the band on MySpace.

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A great live performance and interview with Yo La Tengo, recorded during their tour through here in April, will be broadcast on today’s radioACTIVE show on KPFT 90.1FM. The band reportedly played a mostly acoustic set, including “Beanbag Chair,” “I Feel Like Going Home,” “Don’t Have To Be So Sad,” “Mr.Tough,” and a cover of […]

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Don’t forget about this show tonight (Friday, 6.29.07) at Walter’s:

Poster image courtesy of SoSo Design.

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It’s been more than five years since Phuz last dropped their mellow electronica on Houston listeners and much has happened in music since that time. Interestingly, the majority of bands that Phuz emulates (Portishead, for instance) also haven’t released anything of substance in many years. Whether the slow, melodic trip-hop genre is dead is for […]

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Welcome to the new home of Houston Calling. We’ll be launching here soon, so bookmark us — but for now, please visit us at the donewaiting.com site (www.donewaiting.com/houston).

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Local rock act MorningsideDrive play with Glass Intrepid, Memphis May Fire, Enter The Collector, Novista, and The Last Great Assault this Thursday (6.28.07) — that’s tomorrow — at Warehouse Live (tickets here). The band — vocalist Gabriel Cavasos, guitarist Kenyon Puntenney, bassist Jon Alksne, and drummer Micah Miller — has opened for Avril Lavigne, Fallout […]

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Tonight (Wednesday, 6.27.07), The Contingency and The Girlfriend Experience play at Rudyard’s.
On Thursday, Satin Hooks plays at Walter’s with Bullets on Broadway, American Sharks, and The Low Endz. Also, Morningside Drive plays at Warehouse Live with The Last Great Assault, Novista, Dorian Grey, Enter the Collector, Eye Against, and Memphis May Fire. CHeck abck soon […]

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The pink balloon of hope is undoubtedly withered by now but last night Tim DeLaughter held it up to a packed crowd at Houston’s Warehouse Live. The Polyphonic Spree frontman is all about hope. And love. And peace. And with the band’s new album, The Fragile Army, he’s also about politics. President Bush, the war […]

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Jana Hunter, Castanets, Pink Nasty, and Macon Terry play what is being termed “Quadrofolkia” at The Orange Show this Friday (6.29.07) at 7pm.
For more info: Jana Hunter | Castanets | Pink Nasty | Macon Terry
Visit www.orangeshow.org for tickets, which are $10.
In related news, Pitchfork reported that both Hunter’s and the Castanets’ gear was stolen […]

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