Metric returns to Houston tonight (Monday, 11.30.09) for a show at Warehouse Live. You can get tickets here and find out more about the band on MySpace. Band of Skulls opens the show. You can preview Metric’s new acoustic EP, Plug In, Plug Out, after the jump. 

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Houston’s own Two Star Symphony, a band I had the pleasure of seeing up close and personal a couple of months back during an episode of Live From Sugar Hill, is among the 200+ bands tapped for SXSW 2010 in a list announced earlier this week. Congrats! You can see the other bands on the [...]

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This Saturday night is a great night for local music at The Continental Club. Chase Hamblin and Ragged Hearts both take the stage to help ease you out of the Thanksgiving turkey coma. Showtime is 10pm.

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Come out this Friday night (11.27.09) to Avant Garden for Waste No Buffalo’s Turkey Hangover Bash, which features The Tontons, The Julys, Finnegan, Prairie Cadets, and Love Field. Doors at 8pm. $7 cover at the door.

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The Umbrella Man celebrates the release of its new CD tomorrow night (Tuesday, 11.24.09) at The Continental Club. Opening the show will be Pokey LaFarge at 8pm.

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This Tuesday (11.24.09), Notsuoh hosts DEAL (Trey Lavigne from AWAKE’s music project), A Thousand Cranes (Travis Kerschen from Nectarine, Dom from Rusted Shut, Tyler Morris from Balaclavas, Adam Ferguson from Thou Shall Not Kill…Except, Snuggie from Entertainment System), Eat Grapes (Tyler Morris from Balaclavas’ noise project), Future Blondes (Dom from Rusted Shut’s noise project), and [...]

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Tonight (Sunday, 11.22.09), singer Neko Case plays at Houston’s Warehouse Live. Deer Tick opens the show. Tickets are $25 and are available via Warehouse Live.

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Local blues-rock band Runaway Sun plays a free show at Cactus Music today (Saturday, 11.21.09) at 3pm. More information on the band may be found at www.runawaysun.com.

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“Where You Goin Man,” the new 7″ single from Houston punk band Something Fierce is now available from Action Town Records. The B-side is a cover of The Party Owls’ “Spray Coat”. The first 30 copies of the record come with a silk-screened cover. Get yours here. More information on Something Fierce, including a new [...]

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Happy rainy Friday. Tonight (Friday, 11.20.09), Mango’s hosts “Musique Non Stop,” which features The Factory Party, A Thousand Cranes, DJ Ceeplus and the Bad Knives, and Mr. Castillo. Should be a great time.

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