For those under a rock, Houston Press Music Editor Chris Gray suffered a heart attack on Friday morning and has been in a medical-induced coma since. Reports have him slowly being brought out for further evaluation.
More information and well-wishes at Rocks Off.
Entries from October 2011
Chris Gray, we’re pulling for you…
October 30th, 2011 · No Comments
Tags: Miscellaneous · Music
NFL: Local musician Ken Sarmiento interviews Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante
October 27th, 2011 · 7 Comments
Local musician/producer Ken Sarmiento (Phuz/Channel K) is a metal fan from way back, and he recently had the opportunity to discuss music and the new album, Worship Music, with Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante. Anthrax will be in Houston this Sunday (10.30.11) for a show at Warehouse Live with Testament and Death Angel.
Ken Sarmiento: Charlie Benante, […]
Tags: Interviews · Miscellaneous · Music
Ume video on MTVu + Daytrotter Session
October 26th, 2011 · No Comments
Ume‘s new video for “Captive” recently got its premiere on mtvU TV and was the #1 most shared video on MTV.com.
Watch the video here.
Ume’s Daytrotter Live Session recorded in September was recently posted, which you can check out at Daytrotter.com.
Tags: Miscellaneous · Music
This Saturday is Oktoberfest at Fitzgerald’s
October 20th, 2011 · No Comments
Tags: Music · Show listings
Vote for your favorite local musicians in Houston Press Music Awards
October 19th, 2011 · No Comments
The online award ballot for this year’s Houston Press Music Awards is now live, so you can go and vote for your favorite local musicians. Click here to launch the site.
Voting continues through Saturday, 11.12.11, which is also when the Houston Press Music Awards showcase takes place, with around 50 nominees performing at Warehouse […]
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Enloom sponsors art initative, releases In The Lantern Cusp
October 18th, 2011 · No Comments
Instrumental rock band Enloom, whose album In The Lantern Cusp was just released, is sponsoring a “communal art initiative” to help support the arts in education and community. The band is soliciting all types of artwork to share with the community under a Attribution-NonCommercial Creative Commons license. Select pieces of work will […]
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Alex Dezen (The Damnwells) at Fitzgerald’s
October 13th, 2011 · No Comments
The Damnwells’ Alex Dezen returns to Houston tomorrow night (Friday, 10.14.11) to play an opening spot for Rhett Miller (Old 97s) at Fitzgerald’s.
No One Listens To The Band Anymore, the band’s latest release, is ranked among Amazon’s top 100 releases of 2011. I suggest checking it out.
Here’s a (horridly awesome) video of one of the […]
Tags: Music · Show listings
Introducing… The Ghost of Cliff Burton
October 13th, 2011 · No Comments
You may remember Jef “With One F” Rouner from his stint in the utterly unique The Black Math Experiment and its TMZ-worthy song “You Cannot Kill David Arquette”. After BME called it quits, Jef wrote a novel (see reviews here and here) and writes about music for 29-95.com and Houston Press (in particular, some interesting […]
Tags: Interviews · Miscellaneous · Music
Reminder: The Black Angels tomorrow at Fitz’s
October 12th, 2011 · No Comments
Read more about it in a previous post.
Tags: Music · Show listings
Email the Mayor and all the City Council members today to block sound ordinance revision
October 12th, 2011 · 1 Comment
This just in from Free Press Houston editor Omar Afra:
City Council votes tomorrow on proposed revisions to the existing Noise Ordinance. The proposed changes has the potential to shut down many of Houston’s music venues, deter national touring acts from coming to Houston, and leave local bands with no place to perform. […]
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