KTRU’s free concert series continues (does it always rain on these days?) at Rice’s Valhalla (of course) with the always impressive Blades, A Pink Cloud, and California band Gowns. Showtime is 3pm.
Also, the legendary Meat Puppets play tonight at The Proletariat, which again proves this city’s need for a low-key, mid-sized venue. Anyway, Dizzy Pilot […]

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Peekaboo Theory plays at the Rock for Houston’s Youth Concert today (Saturday, 10.4.07). The event runs from 7pm-2am at Warehouse Live and features tons of local rock acts, including The Black Math Experiment, The Hunger, Paris Green, The Crisis, Cerebro, Deafening, Rowe, Saturate, Bayou City Beach Party, Fulton Read, and Terra Technic (former A>S>H>S).
Doors open […]

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Singer/songwriter David Rice returns to Houston on October 16th to play a special show at the Mucky Duck to commemorate the release of his new album, Eighty Miles to Stand Up.
Rice honed his live skills at now-defunct Houston clubs during the the early 90’s. After releasing two albums on Justice Records (remember those Hellhole and […]

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On Monday, October 8th, locals Flowers To Hide — one of my favorite local bands and whose new EP should be available this month — and Antarctica Starts Here open at The Proletariat for Adam Franklin.

Check out Flowers to Hide here. Check out Antarctica Starts Here.

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Bring Back The Guns
Dry Futures
Feow! Records
With Groceries, frontman Matt Brownlie was an effective and courageous performer. After all, not many would have the balls to cover Prince and The Revolution’s “Purple Rain” at a downtown festival. But he pulled it off and made fans for life in the process. When Groceries transitioned into Bring […]

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The Meridian hosts a memorial show this Saturday (10.6.07) to honor Hunter Ward, a local musician that recently died. The line-up includes a ton of local bands. Doors open at 5pm.
Here’s the schedule:
5:30pm The American Sharks
6:15pm Econo
7pm Something Fierce
7:45pm Ese
8:30pm Novox
9:15pm Bark Hard
10pm Vatos Locos
10:45pm The Drunks
11:30pm Whorehound
12:15am Dollyrockers
1am Poor Dumb Bastards
Tickets for the show […]

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The Scattered Pages play their last show of 2007 at Brasil this Thursday (10.4.07).
More info on the band can be found here.

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Omaha band Go Motion play this Thursday (10.4.07) at Walters on Washington. 8pm. If you’re not at Numbers, I assume you’ll be here. I’m digging the 80s pop style of “Different In Time” and “Kill The Love” — they definitely have a similar vibe to Bloc Party, The Killers, VHS or Beta, and Interpol.

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This Thursday night, I urge you to head to Numbers to see Austin’s The Octopus Project with locals Satin Hooks and Bring Back The Guns. BBTG — who are featured in the October issue of Envy magazine and whose tasty new CD, Dry Futures, reportedly will be available at the gig — open the show. […]

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Local musician Lanky performs two sets tonight (one at 8:30pm and one at 10pm) at The Corkscrew, which is a wine bar located at 1919 Washington Ave. near downtown. No cover.
I caught Lanky’s monthly “Listen Up, Ya’ll” show this past Friday night at Rudyards. This is Lanky’s songwriter-in-the-round thing, and his guests on Friday were […]

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