Local siren Julin plays a show tonight (Friday, 11.30.07) at The Mink’s Backroom. Pieter Hu will be on the turntables.

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Local rock band Pale, whose 2007 EP, Mandatory Ambulance, has been in steady rotation around my iPod this year, plays this Saturday in Spring at Full Throttle Coffee & Gallery. Also on the bill are People Noise and a young (and I mean high school young) local singer-songwriter named Gelli that I have heard good […]

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This just in:
The holiday launch party for Christmas with a Conscience is this Thursday (11.29.07) in Central Park at Market Street in The Woodlands.
Hydrate Hope is a global clean water initiative striving to alleviate the daily loss of nearly 30,000 lives by creating sustainable access to clean water in the places that need it most. […]

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Live at the World Famous Orange Show tonight (Tuesday, 11.27.07) is Charalambides and Alasdair Roberts. Doors open 7pm.

Tickets are $8 for members and $10 for everyone else, and are available at the door or at YourTexasMusic.com.

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To Be A High-Powered Executive
We Don’t Want It Safe, We Want It Secret
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The beauty of instrumental music is in its variety. From jazz to progressive rock to what’s often termed “post rock,” bands that form over a love of the art–not some half-assed message–are those that are often the most memorable. Ohio’s To Be […]

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Austin psych-rock band The Black Angels return to Houston this Thursday (11.29.07) when they play a gig at Warehouse Live’s Studio. Their 2006 album, Passover, has really grown on me this year and I am looking forward to seeing them live again.

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Email me for a chance to win two tickets to this Sunday’s (11.25.07) Tori Amos show at Jones Hall in Houston. Contest ends noon Saturday.

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So, like a sore tooth that you just can’t stop tonguing*, everyone has bands/songs/albums that are their guilty pleasures. Whether it’s 80s-era hair metal, Meat Loaf, Ricky Martin (Denise, I’m looking at you…), or something from the seventies AM radio days that you hum while coming out of the dentist office, everyone’s got something they’re […]

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On Saturday (11.24.07), Nino Batista will be at Super Happy Fun Land doing a performance from his VYA project, which is “an exploration of sound and melody and harmony, as well as an experiment in sonic textures and complex musical patterns.” He’ll be using a PowerBook, a custom-tuned electric guitar, a varied assortment of effects […]

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This Friday (11.23.07), local band Peekaboo Theory opens for the lovely Peter, Bjorn & John at Warehouse Live. This will be a great show. Email me if you want a free pair of tickets to the show (winner will be chosen this Thursday).
Also, Envy magazine is hosting an after-party in the smaller room. Unfortunately, I’ll […]

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