British crooner Lee MacDougal returns to Houston on Wednesday, 8.24.11, to play at The Continental Club.

You can read my interview with MacDougal from this year’s SXSW preview here.
More information on the musician may be found at MySpace.

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San Antonio’s Girl In A Coma (not to be confused with the similarly-titled song by The Smiths) plays Houston’s House of Blues with The Go-Go’s next Saturday (8.27.11).
Tickets are available at livenation.com.

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Houston’s The Handshake debuts its new EP, American Arguments, tomorrow night (Friday, 8.19.11) at Warehouse Live’s Green Room. Doors open at 8pm and the show starts at 9pm. KhruangBin and Mason Lankford (solo set) are also on the bill.
The EP was engineered and produced by Sugarhill Studios’ Chris Longwood, and the band–bassist Aidan Kennedy, vocalist/drummer […]

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Free Press Houston has launched a weekly podcast series.
Check it on iTunes or download via the FPH website.

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Local rock band Maximus–which covers mostly classic rock hits–plays Warehouse Live’s Studio this Thursday night (8.18.11) and at Wolfie’s Sports Bar on Friday, 8.19.11.

Showtime for the Warehouse Live show is 6:30pm.
More information on the band may be found at www.maximushoustontx.com.

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Hayes Carll returns to Houston to play–surprise, surprise–the Mucky Duck. He will play two sets on Saturday, 9.10.11–the 9:30pm show is already sold out–so get your tickets now at the Mucky Duck’s website.

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Local musician Robert Ellis, whose superb new album Photographs was recently released on New West Records, get the review treatment in the latest issue of SPIN magazine (with St. Vincent on the cover).

Check it out online here.
Ellis plays in Houston at Fitzgerald’s on 8.24.11 with Dawes.

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Sixties pop devotee Chase Hamblin has released two songs from his upcoming release, VAUdeVILLE, via Reverbnation.

“Beautiful Things” and “Round and Round” are available for free download at www.reverbnation.com/chasehamblin.
The songs were recorded by Josh Applebee and performed with Hamblin’s band, musician Corey Power, Geoffrey Muller, Robert Ellis, and Jeremy Nuncio.
Hamblin plays Avant Garden on Monday, 8.22.11, […]

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The documentary Blank City–which covers New York’s underground DIY cinema movement from 1977–1987–is playing in Houston at the Museum of Fine Arts. There is one showing daily, through 8.20.11.
Among those interviewed in the film are Steve Buscemi, Jim Jarmusch, John Waters, Amos Poe, Debbie Harry, Thurston Moore, Richard Kern, Lydia Lunch, and many more.
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Buxton–whose album for New West Records comes out in early November (finally!)–plays at Rudyard’s next Sunday, 8.21.11.

This will be a great chance to check out the band in an intimate setting, and catch sets by San Diego band The Donkeys and musician Steve Reno.
Buxton also plays Emo’s in Austin with The Donkeys on 8.20.11.

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