Via Colori, a street painting festival/art benefit for The Center for Hearing and Speech, hosts a slew of local music this weekend (November 21-22, 2009) in downtown Houston.
Scheduled to perform: Buxton | Flying Fish Sailors | Beetle | Two Star Symphony | Wild Moccasins | The Texas Toast | Spain Colored Orange | Elaine Greer […]

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Caroline Collective hosts the Houston Poster Art: 2000-2009 exhibition, which opens this Friday, November 20, at 7pm, and runs until January 1, 2010. Curators Philip Beck, Ian Wells, and Matthew Wettergreen celebrate the art of Dann Miller, Rene Cruz, Tom So, Steve Sims, Shelby Hohl, Jeremy Osborn, Wesley Mitchell, Jason McElweenie, David Wang, Dan Castillo, […]

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On Saturday, November 21st, local band The 71’s are hosting and headlining a benefit concert to help the hungry during Thanksgiving and are asking fans to bring canned goods to the band’s “Bands, Fans & Cans” show at Fitzgerald’s. Proceeds will go to the Houston Food Bank.
The band says this about the benefit show:
It’s about […]

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It’s that time again: Free Press Houston hosts its Block Party on Westheimer near Numbers this weekend (November 14-15, 2009). Like SummerFest wasn’t enough, the FPH Block Party features more than 200 bands–most of which are local.
You can find the schedule of bands at the FPH website, and read more about some of the groups […]

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Austin’s The Eastern Sea–a band that blew nearly everyone away at this year’s SummerFest–plays a free in-store show this afternoon (Friday, 11.13.09) at Cactus Music. Showtime is 5:30pm.
The band, which recently released its new EP, also plays on Saturday night at Numbers, as part of Free Press Houston‘s Block Party. Doors for this part of […]

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Today from 1-3pm is radioACTIVE‘s last show of KPFT’s Fall Fund Drive. If you haven’t yet given a donation, today is your last chance, so please be sure to donate at www.kpft.org.
For more information on radioACTIVE, visit MySpace.

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One my favorite local bands is Flowers To Hide. Rocks Off, the Houston Press‘ music blog, is featuring lists from bands performing at this weekend’s Free Press Houston Block Party. Check out this list of sad songs from Flowers To Hide’s Stephen Anderson and Johnathan Espeche.
F2H plays this Saturday, November 14th, at Helio’s parking lot […]

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One reason you should go:

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Alkari, DuneTX, and Antonio Huerta play this Friday night (11.13.09) at Rudyard’s. The show starts at 10pm and cover is a mere $5.

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The Literary Greats celebrates the release of its new album, Ocean, Meet The Valley, with a show at The Continental Club this Saturday night (11.14.09).

Sara Van Buskirk and Elkhart are also on the bill. Cover is $5.
You can get a copy of Ocean, Meet The Valley at the show or on iTunes or CDBaby.

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