Houston Calling

Entries from November 2010

Countdown to The Wall in Houston: 9 days and counting…

November 11th, 2010 · No Comments

Roger Waters brings The Wall 2010 tour to Houston on Saturday, 11.20.10. Check out this clip from Waters‘ 1990 live staging of the show in Berlin:

Tickets to the Houston show at Toyota Center are sold out. Maybe they will release some seats when it gets closer to the show.

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Countdown to The Wall in Houston: 10 days and counting…

November 10th, 2010 · No Comments

Musician Roger Waters brings his reinterpretation of Pink Floyd‘s classic album The Wall to Houston’s Toyota Center on Saturday, 11.20.10. The show is sold out, but those who got tickets early enough are undoubtedly in for a spectacle. I was too young to catch The Wall live in its original United States run in early […]

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The Linus Pauling Quartet on KTRU tonight

November 9th, 2010 · No Comments

Houston’s The Linus Pauling Quartet plays live tonight on KTRU‘s Local Show, from 8-9pm.

The band recently released Horns Of Ammon, which you can read about here.

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Bright Men Of Learning tonight at Fitz, with Jeff The Brotherhood and The Energy

November 8th, 2010 · No Comments

Tonight (Monday, 11.8.10), Bright Men Of Learning–which recently released the excellent Fired–plays at Fitzgerald’s with Jeff The Brotherhood and The Energy.

Doors open at 9pm. Cover is $7.

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Catch The Jonx, Tax The Wolf, and SCR editor Jeremy Hart live from SugarHill today

November 7th, 2010 · No Comments

Catch The Jonx‘s reportedly last-ever show on Live From SugarHill today (Sunday, 11.6.10). I am not yet sure of the time, but you’ll be able to stream the live audio online at Outbound Music (the video is usually available by the end of the month).
Houston’s Tax The Wolf will also play a set and […]

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Your weekend in Houston rock

November 6th, 2010 · No Comments

The Mathletes play a free in-store show today at Cactus Music  at 3pm, which should be a good one to catch. Also at Cactus, The Trishas play at 1pm. Tonight, the excellent Polvo–which recently released an album on Merge Records–plays at Fitz’s with Muhammad Ali and Rivers. Also at Fitz’s, Best Coast and Sonny and […]

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Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then opens tonight at DiverseWorks

November 5th, 2010 · No Comments

DiverseWorks hosts a new exhibition opening tonight (Friday, 11.5.10, at 7:30pm) that features the work of Brent Green. Although it is an exhibition, plus a film screening, there will also be live music performances (one of the members of Fugazi is reportedly in the performance).

Here are more details:
Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then (exhibition): Nov. 5-Dec. […]

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Join CeeplusBadKnives, Jacques Renault, and more tonight at Avant Garden

November 4th, 2010 · No Comments

Tonight (Thursday, 11.4.10) at 9pm, local DJ CeeplusBadKnives‘ Reprogram Music + Media & Disco Strange along with Avant Garden host a ton of DJs. Here are details:

Jacques Renaultfrom NYC DFA records / RUNAWAY / Wurst / Permanent Vacation Rvng Intl. / Italians Do It Better and lots more…
plus: Daetron Vargas – Construction Paper Records , […]

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Advance warning: Catch some free local music (and new brew) at Warehouse Live

November 1st, 2010 · No Comments

Come catch some local bands at Warehouse Live’s Studio on Sunday, 11.21.10, from 3-9pm during the launch of Real Ale Katz Coffee Porter.
The tentative live music line-up includes:
3pm Castle Lights 4pm Peekaboo Theory 5pm Mason Lankford and The Folk Family Revival 6pm Robert Ellis and The Boys (2 sets) 8pm Something Fierce
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