Happy New Year’s Eve. Tonight (12.31.08), Tody Castillo helps you celebrate NYE with a show at Rudyard’s. Be sure to come out and show your support.
Local musicians Matt and Cameron Dezen open the show around 9pm. Haven’t heard from them in awhile.
Have a nice and safe evening.

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From impressive debuts, reissues, and reunions to the long-awaited release of Chinese Democracy and the redemption of Metallica, 2008 was an excellent year for music. I am always baffled by those who say there’s no good new music anymore—narrowing my favorite releases of the year down to only 20 was difficult.
Enjoy.
Houston Calling‘s 20 favorite albums […]

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The Skyline Network‘s Sammies awards have been announced.
Get all the info here.
Happy holidays!

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Local musician Chris Sacco plays a solo acoustic set this Friday (12.26.08) at Rudyards. You’ll undoubtedly need some drinks after a long family Christmas, so add this gig to your holidays plans. Here’s what Chris has to say about the set:
I have been doing quite a few acoustic shows over the past few months, and […]

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Enjoy.

Check back later in the week for my 2008 favorites.

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Space City Rock editor Jeremy Hart recently posted a great interview with Something Fierce frontman Steven Garcia, in advance of the band’s new album, There Are No Answers, and CD release show. Check out the interview here.
Something Fierce plays its CD release show tonight (Friday, 12.19.08) at Walters on Washington. If you pre-order their CD […]

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Just in time for the holidays: the infamous Linus Pauling Quartet play a free show at Rudyard’s with Ume and Austin’s Red Leaves tomorrow night (Friday, 12.19.08).

For more info on LP4, click here. You owe it to yourself to see one of the band’s shows, which are pretty rare occurrences these days.

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I recently posted about The Tontons’ guitarist Adam Martinez being robbed of his guitar and some pedals.  Caroline Collective’s Matthew Wettergreen recently posted about it and started a Chipin account to help out with the band’s expenses. In the spirit of the holidays, why not help out the band?

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Local music critic and all around nice guy Adam P. Newton posted his favorite albums of 2008 at this Dryvetyme Onlyne blog.
Check it here.
My top favorites of 2008 list is still under construction. Hopefully I will find the time before Christmas.

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This Saturday (12.13.08) at 2:30pm, Secret Machines play a special acoustic set at Cactus Music.
Don’t miss it.

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