Houston Press has an interview with local musician/producer Ken Sarmiento (of Phuz/Channel K).
Read it here.
More information on Channel K may be found on MySpace.

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Another great weekend of show in the Houston area. Today (Friday, 4.9.10) the 2010 Texas Crawfish & Music Festival kicks off in Old Town Spring. The line-up over the next two weekends is impressive, with today’s bands including Jason Boland & The Stragglers, Grupo Fantasma, Brian Jack & the Zydeco Gamblers, Grand Mullett, Scooter Brown, […]

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Local bands The Jonx–whose latest CD, Vocabularian Herds, is another stunner–and D.R.U.M. play at Cactus Music this Saturday (4.10.10).
D.R.U.M. takes the stage at 1pm and The Jonx plays at 3pm.
Be sure to get a copy of Vocabularian Herds–just wait ’til you hear “I’m Getting Really Good At Tetris”.
You can read a review of the album […]

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This just in:
Dear Friends,
It’s finally here! The book I co-wrote with Roger Wood: House of Hits has been published by The University of Texas Press and is currently available at Amazon.com, Borders, and locally at Cactus Records and Sig’s Lagoon…We’d like to extend a special THANK YOU to our friends at the Houston Chronicle, Houston […]

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For those that can’t wait to see Local H live at Scout Bar in Clear Lake on Sunday, 4.18.10, I suggest buying last year’s 68 Angry Minutes DVD, which features the band live in Chicago, and includes a lot of extra features.
Here’s the trailer:

Local band The Gold Sounds (which is a great band to see […]

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The Big Pink, whose A Brief History of Love was on my top 20 favorites of 2009 list, plays at Warehouse Live tonight (Wednesday, 4.7.10). The guys will also do a free DJ session (and sign merch) at Cactus Music before their show.
Here’s a video of the band’s “Dominos”:

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SoSo Design‘s Tom So will showcase his concert poster artwork at a show this Thursday night (4.8.10) at Warehouse Live’s Green Room.
So is a big supporter of local music, so please come out and show your support, buy some posters, and ask him to create posters for your upcoming shows.
You can get a sample of […]

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Magnolia band Adelaine had a live acoustic video currently featured on Coldplay’s website last week as part of the site’s The Exhibition Room, which allows fans to submit music/artwork/photography for possible publication.
Check out “Worth The Wait” here. Visit Adelaine online at www.myspace.com/adelaine.
Thanks to Sketch for the tip.

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Happy Good Friday. Tonight (4.2.10), there are a lot of good shows happening around town. First of all, The Manichean–whose set I caught at last year’s Free Press SummerFest–celebrates its EP release with a show at Mango’s that includes Peekaboo Theory, Tax The Wolf, and B L A C K I E. Impressive line-up, and […]

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Wild Moccasins plays with Something Fierce and Ghormeh Sabzi at Walter’s on Washington tonight (Thursday, 4.1.10) before heading out on the road for a spring tour.
Showtime is 8pm. Cover is $6.

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