On Friday, November 9th, please make plans to come out to DiverseWorks for a great pair of art openings: Claude Wampler: PERFORMANCE (career ender) & Devendra Banhart: Some Drawings. Houston Calling is a sponsor of this event, so please come out and show some support. Thank you.
If you are familiar with musician Devendra Banhart’s folky/psychedelic […]

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Email me to be entered in the drawing for two passes to Thursday night’s Spoon/New Pornographers show at Warehouse Live.

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If you’re not going to Spoon this Thursday, instead go check out Great Northern and Robbers On High Street at The Mink’s Backroom. Great Northern’s debut, Trading Twilight for Daylight, has gotten the band a lot of attention this year and their live show is undoubtedly good. Check them out online here.
Robbers On High Street, […]

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Drop Trio is playing a show this Saturday night (10/27) at Dan Electro’s Guitar Bar (1031 E. 24th St. in he Heights). The band will be opening for On The One, a San Diego funk band. Drop Trio starts around 9pm.  Wear a costume.
Also, the band is doing a secret show this weekend. Email them […]

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Tonight (Tuesday, 10.23.07), Motion City Soundtrack plays with Anberlin, Mae, and Metro Station at the Verizon. More importantly, The Cult play Warehouse Live.On Wednesday, matt pond PA and Jesca Hoop play The Meridian. Should be a good one. Also, Say Hi To Your Mom, The Velvet Teen, and A Sides play The Proletariat.
On […]

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Don’t miss this show — they’re a great live act. For more info on the band, visit their website. The band’s 2007 release, Fear of a Blank Planet, has been getting a lot of play in my iPod and will undoubtedly make my year-end favorites list.

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Tonight (Saturday, 10.20.07), Minus the Bear play at Numbers with The Helio Sequence and Tiny Vipers. I have the latest Tiny Vipers CD (out now on Sub Pop) but haven’t given it enough attention to form a really good opinion. However, the latest Minus the Bear album, Planet of Ice, is in constant rotation (on […]

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Hanging out in my inbox:
Chron.com Hometown Showdown III will take place at Warehouse Live on Saturday, October 20, 2007. The quarterly live music event highlights the best local talent and at least one regional act performing on stage in The Ballroom and The Studio area of the venue. The third installment of this […]

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By now, you’ve heard the hype–and may or may not have contributed to the band’s experiment. I recently wrote a review of Radiohead’s new album, which should appear (in some form or another) in the November issue of Envy magazine.

Radiohead
In Rainbows
Self-released
With the dramatic shift Radiohead made with Kid A, long-time fans–and listeners drawn […]

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Houston’s best funk-rockers Fondue Monks barely escaped with their lives this past weekend after their van hit a herd of stray cows on the way back from a show in Austin early Sunday morning. The guys weren’t hurt, thankfully, but their van–and a few cows–definitely took some damage.
You can get more information on the accident, […]

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