Crossing Togo, a new-ish Houston band, celebrates the release of its debut album, Love, Scorn & Insecurity, with a show next Thursday (11.19.09) at the Mucky Duck.

The show starts at 7:30pm and tickets are $15, which includes a copy of the CD.
The band will also appear on Channel 11’s Great Day Houston show this Friday […]

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Jerry Fuchs, the amazing powerhouse drummer for Maserati, one of my favorite instrumental rock bands, died over the weekend after an accident during a party in Brooklyn.
Here’s one of the last interviews the band did with Fuchs.

More info at www.ihaveadagger.net.

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Two great instrumental rock bands–Russian Circles and Red Sparowes–play in Houston at Rudyard’s tomorrow night (Friday, 11.6.09) with the metal-tinged Young Widows and Coliseum.
Both Russian Circles and Red Sparowes are bands I have listened to for a few years now. I highly suggest checking them out, and can only assume they will be amazing live.
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This weekend, Bright Men of Learning–who recently released its Champion Sounds EP–plays a couple of shows around town. First, the band plays at Rudyard’s on Saturday night (11.7.09, 10:30pm) with 500 Megatons of Boogie and Ghost Town Electric, and then again at a party on Sunday at Big Star Bar on W. 19th, where the […]

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Today (Sunday, 11.1.09) is Arrowfest 2009 at The Woodland Pavilion, which features classic rock staples The Doobie Brothers, Foreigner, Eddie Money, WAR, Starship, Blue Oyster Cult, and Foghat.

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