Today (Friday, 8.29.08) marks the beginning of Rock The Bayou, which features a ton of hair metal bands from the 80s (view line-up here). It also features a side stage with tons of Houston rock bands, so that’s cool. Also tonight, The Octopus Project plays at Warehouse Live with Houston blues-funk band Electric Attitude and […]

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Austin’s The Octopus Project plays at Warehouse Live (studio) this Friday, 8.29.08. This is yet another great chance to see the band in a small-ish room. I highly recommend checking them out.
You can read my preview of the show in this week’s Houston Press.
Find out more about the band here.

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Attention Houston area drummers, this one’s for you. From 3-6pm on Sunday, 9.7.08, Houston Percussion Center and Hard Rock Cafe present a registration party and jam session for the Texas BigBeat event.
Door prizes include snare drums by Worldmax and HPCustom Drums.
The Texas BigBeat drumming charity event takes place at George Ranch Historical Park 11.2.08, at […]

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The show is at Warehouse Live this Saturday (8.30.08). Visit the band online here.

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Local rock band DuneTX, who you may remember from their Goldenarm album from 2002, recently posted some demos of new songs on their website. This is the first new music I can recall from the band in a while, so it’s good to know that they’re still writing new music.
Check out the band’s new demos […]

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Tonight’s show features The Dolly Rockers, Bring Back The Guns, and The Trian Woodburns.
Should be a good one.

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Cardinals (formerly Ryan Adams & The Cardinals) play in Houston at Verizon Wireless Theater on Tuesday, October 14th. After I heard such great things about his last show here, I will definitely be checking it out.
Listen to Adams’ latest offerings at his website.
Now, I know nothing’s going to top the Whiskeytown shows at Satellite Lounge, […]

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More info on The Skyline Network or Free Press Houston.

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You can stream clips from Forth, the new album by The Verve, below. I recommend starting with “Sit & Wonder” and “Judas”. Dreamy…

Or, listen to the whole thing on their MySpace page this week.
My review to come sometime soon.

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Southern Backtones frontman/guitarist (and Houston Press Music Awards nominee for best songwriter) Hank Schyma plays a solo gig tonight at Boheme (307 Fairview at Taft). Showtime is 8:30pm.
Here’s a video of what you can expect:

Awesome.

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