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Entries from October 2009

Tody Castillo plays acoustic show at The Listening Room

October 15th, 2009 · No Comments

This Saturday, Tody Castillo continues the promotion of his new album, Windhorse [see my review here], with an all-acoustic show at The Listening Room in the Heights this Saturday, 10.17.09.
John Egan also plays a set, so this is a good chance to catch two talented musicians in a small setting.
Showtime is 9pm / doors at […]

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Chase Hamblin, Robert Ellis, The Small Sounds and more this Friday

October 12th, 2009 · No Comments

This Friday night (10.16.09), Walter’s hosts Chase Hamblin, Robert Ellis, The Small Sounds, and The Nightmare River Band.
Cover is $8 and the show starts around 9:30pm.

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John Evans free show at Cactus Music

October 11th, 2009 · No Comments

This Saturday (10.17.09), local musician John Evans plays a free in-store show at Cactus Music. Evans is promoting his new album, Lollygaggin’‘, which will be on sale during the show.
More information on John Evans may be found on MySpace.

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Tody Castillo free show at Cactus this Saturday

October 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Musician Tody Castillo continues to celebrate the release of his long-awaited new album, Windhorse, with a show this Saturday afternoon at Cactus Music. Castillo hits the Cactus stage at 3pm and the usual refreshments and music specials will be available.
Windhorse is available at Cactus Music.

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Runaway Sun CD release this weekend

October 9th, 2009 · No Comments

Runaway Sun celebrates the release of its new album with a listening party tonight (Friday, 10.9.09) at Little Big’s and a CD release show tomorrow night (Saturday, 10.10.09) at The Continental Club.

The $10 cover charge includes a copy of the album.

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Robert Ellis at Block 7

October 8th, 2009 · No Comments

Local musician Robert Ellis, whose album The Great Rearranger is one of this year’s finest local releases, plays this Sunday night (10.11.09) at Block 7 Wine Company (located on Shepherd near Washington).
Showtime is 7:30pm.
More info may be found at www.robertellismusic.com.

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The Gold Sounds, Beetle at The Continental Club tonight

October 8th, 2009 · No Comments

29-95.com present local band The Gold Sounds tonight (Thursday, 10.8.09) at The Continental Club. Beetle plays its regular happy hour gig today as well.
I caught the band’s set at a Free Press Houston Block Party a while back and was blown away. Go check them out.
The Gold Sounds hit the stage around 10pm.

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The weekend in Houston rock

October 8th, 2009 · No Comments

Tonight (Thursday, 10.8.09), Arthur Yoria and Come See My Dead Person play opening spots at The Meridian with Dear and the Headlights, Kinch, and Rajiv Patel. Should be a good show.
On Friday (10.9.09), The Soft Pack and The Live Lights play at Walter’s on Washington. Also, Los Skarnales, Come See My Dead Person, The Zydepunks, […]

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Morgan Thorson’s Heaven features Low live at DiverseWorks

October 7th, 2009 · No Comments

This month, DiverseWorks debuts the world premiere of Heaven, a collaboration between Minneapolis-based choreographer Morgan Thorson, the band Low, lighting designer Lenore Doxsee and visual and costume designer Emmet Ramstad.
Low wrote the original score and will perform during the show, which runs October 16-17.
Tickets are understandably going quickly, so get yours in advance. More information […]

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Call for Houston Rock Poster Art, 2000-2010

October 7th, 2009 · 1 Comment

This just in:
Caroline Collective is seeking rock poster art from the Houston music community over the past 10 years. This show will showcase the trends and diversity of rock poster art in Houston over the first decade of the new century. All mediums of rock poster art (wheat paste, digital offset prints, silkscreens, photocopies, handmade) […]

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