Here are the award winners from last night’s Houston Press Music Awards ceremony.
Mechanical Boy‘s “She Does”, “Best Local Song of the Year”
Mechanical Boy, “Best Rock”
B L A C K I E, “Best Songwriter”
Roky Moon & BOLT, “Best New Act”
Little Joe Washington, “Best Local Musician of the Year”
Little Joe Washington,”Best Blues”
Spain Colored Orange, “Best Indie Rock”
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Tyagaraja, formerly with Million Year Dance, performs at 8pm tonight (Friday, 7.31.09) at Block 7 Wine Co., a new wine bistro in the Washington/Shepherd area.
Catch one of his new songs in this video from photographer Mark C. Austin on the Houston Press‘ Rocks Off blog.

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Spain Colored Orange, who won “Best Indie” in last night’s Houston Press Music Awards, plays at the Contemporary Arts Museum tonight (Friday, 7.31.09) at 8pm.
Congratulations to the band for the win. More coverage on last night’s winners can be found on the Press‘ Rocks Off blog.
More information on Spain Colored Orange may be found on […]

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Legendary songwriter/musician (and father to The Webb Brothers) Jimmy Webb plays Friday night (7.31.09) at Dosey Doe Coffee House in The Woodlands.
Tickets are $62 and $74, which apparently includes a salad, dessert, entree, and beverage, in addition to the show. Thankfully, I am not yet old enough for that to sound like a good way […]

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The Tontons‘ celebration of its new album continues with a free show at Cactus Music this Saturday (8.1.09) at 3:30pm.
See you there.

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Sunday’s Houston Press Music Awards showcases were the highlight of the summer so far for local music. As always, it was good to see so many familiar faces and old friends out and about in downtown Houston, watching some of the city’s finest musicians.
A friend and I started at the usual spot and then headed […]

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Local punk legends The Hates play a show at Gallery M Squared this Saturday, August 1st.

The gallery is located at 339 West 19th Street in Houston.
More information on The Hates may be found here. Get your copy of 30 Years of Hate: 1978-2008 on iTunes.

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In celebration of today’s Houston Press Music Awards showcases, local music journalist (and member of legendary psych band Linus Pauling Quartet) Ramon Medina wrote a best-of Houston 2009 primer (or, “H-POP Mixtape”) for 29-95.com. I can’t disagree with any of his picks, but the best thing about the post for me was finding out about […]

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Local musician Andrew Karnavas opens for Back Door Slam tonight (Saturday, 7.26.09) at Warehouse Live.

Karnavas and his band, Runaway Sun, are nominated for Best Blues Band in this year’s Houston Press Music Awards. Catch the band tomorrow at Flying Saucer at 6pm.

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