Isle of Man blues band Back Door Slam comes back to Houston on July 25th. Check them out at Warehouse Live Studio. Here’s a video of the band: More information on the band can be found at www.myspace.com/backdoorslam. They’re incredible live.

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This Thursday (7.16.09) Sacramento instrumental rock band Brown Shoe plays at Super Happy Fun Land. Catch these videos from the band’s latest release, Jackalope: “Aquarium” | “The War” Brooklyn Rocks says of the band: Brown Shoe‘s third release, Jackalope, is tough to pigeon-hole into one particular style or genre. The band’s music is moody and [...]

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Local musician Benjamin Wesley plays an in-store performance at Cactus Music this Saturday (7.11.09) at 3pm. I have been a fan of Wesley’s since seeing Basses Loaded play a while back, but it’s his recent solo release, Geschichte–and his one-man-band performances–that really have people talking (click here for a video). Read my recent review. Benjamin [...]

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Chase Hamblin (and band!) will be at Cactus Music this Friday (7.10.09) for an in-store performance promoting the release of his new, very impressive EP, A Fine Time. Showtime is 5:30pm. More information on Hamblin may be found at www.myspace.com/chasehamblinmusic.

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Tody Castillo returns to Houston this Friday night to play The Continental Club, opening for Houston’s LL Cooper at 10pm. More information at www.continentalclub.com. Castillo’s long-awaited new album should see the light of day sometime this summer. Of course, I’ve been saying similar things for years now…

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Houston musician Lee Alexander has reportedly more or less recovered from the injury which has sidelined his work on his follow-up to Out Of Place. According to Alexander, the album (now a year behind schedule) is near completion. He plans to release the new album and play a CD release show in August (details to [...]

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This Friday (7.10.09), Mechanical Boy–who is nominated for a Houston Press Music Award–plays at Warehouse Live with Electric Touch and The 71′s.

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MM55productions presents the fourth in its “up close and personal” concert series on Friday, 7.10.09, at Dan Electro’s Guitar Bar in The Heights. This time around, Houston punk legends The Hates plays with Texas husband-and-wife reality TV band 3 Kisses and Dark Every Day.

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