Don’t forget that local punk legends The Hates do an in-store performance at Cactus Music today at 6pm. Pick up their new singles collection on CD while you’re there. Also tonight, L.L. Cooper plays with Mike Conde and duneTX at Rudyard’s. I recently caught one of L.L.’s shows and enjoyed it, so check them out when you can.

Here are some of the other shows going on around Houston this weekend:

Tonight (6.27.08)
Skyrocket!/Molly and the Ringwalds @ The Continental Club
skyblue72 @ McGonigel’s Mucky Duck
Possessed/Pinhed/Sadistic Intent/Uncleansed/Cain Was Able/Lonestar Massacre/Predominate Mortification @ The Meridian
Nothing More/Dawn Over Zero/One Minute Halo/Five Dollar Friend/Built For Speed/Paris Green @ Fitzgerald’s

Saturday (6.28.08)
Band of Heathens @ Mucky Duck
Hollywood Black (CD release)/The Goods/Tambersauro @ Walter’s on Washington
Caroline Herring (in-store) @ Cactus Music (6pm)
Music Makes Change Benefit for Brazos Abiertos, feat. Young Mammals, The Mathletes, Earnie Banks, The Wild Moccasins, News on the March, The Holly Hall, Piano Vines, and The Eastern Sea @ Avant Garden
Johnny Goudie/Third Ear/Jet Black Backpack @ Fitzgerald’s
Get Busy!, featuring DJ Jester the Filipino Fist, Ernest Gonzales, & Bad Knives @ The Mink’s Backroom
Keys 2 Tha City Emcee/Producer Battle @ Warehouse Live
The Drunks @ Rudyard’s
Dreaming of June (CD release)/Glass Intrepid/The Last Great Assault/A Dream of Sleep/Another Run @ Fitzdown

Sunday, 6.29.08
Zaika (ex-Charalambides/Mike Gunn)/Future Blondes @ The Mink
The Defenestration Unit @ Discovery Green Park

Enjoy the weekend. Stay dry.