On February 2, Houston music lovers have a difficult decision: whether to go check out M83 open for The Killers at Verizon Wireless Theater or check out Broken Social Scene at Numbers. I am leaning toward trying to do both (scalpers, here I come). I think it’s possible, seeing how most openers at the […]

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Tomorrow night (Saturday, 1.31.09), UME play a show to promote its new EP, Sunshower.
Houston’s own Bring Back the Guns and Woozyhelmet are also on the bill.
You can view the new videos for UME’s “The Conductor” here and here.

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Tomorrow (Friday, 1.30.09) at 5:30pm, local indie popsters Wild Moccasins continues to celebrate the release of its new Microscopic Metronomes EP with a free in-store performance at Cactus Music.
You can read about the band’s EP release show on Rocks Off, the Houston Press music blog, and on The Skyline Network. Space City Rock‘s blog also […]

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Welsh indie band Los Campesinos! and Titus Andronicus play at Walter’s tonight (Thursday, 1.29.09).
Los Campesinos! will also play an in-store at Cactus Music at 5:30pm today.

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Houston’s own Linus Pauling Quartet plays at Rudyard’s this Saturday (1.31.09) with MV&EE and Wols.

Cover is only $7. LP4 plays last.

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It’s been a while since space-jazz Drop Trio has played a show in Houston, but the band returns to AvantGarden this Friday, 1.30.09. Here’s a video of the band live at SXSW:

The Julian Jaynes opens the show.

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This Monday night (1.26.08), Flowers to Hide play at Boondocks with local rockers Dizzy Pilot. Should be a good show.
Here’s a video of Flowers To Hide playing their song, “503”:

Visit Flowers To Hide online here. Visit Dizzy Pilot online here.

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Better late than never… There are many of reasons I haven’t posted this sooner, among them a move and a month without internet access. Despite my tardiness, you should still check out the albums by Houston musicians that I enjoyed the most during 2008.
2008 goes down in history as one of the best years in […]

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Hayes Carll, whose Trouble In Mind was No. 6 on my 2008 favorites list, plays two shows in Houston at the Mucky Duck this Friday night (1.23.09).
If the shows are not already sold out, they soon will be.

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