Minus The Bear, which has an excellent recent release (Infinity Overhead), returns to Houston this Thursday (11.1.12) to play at Warehouse Live. San Antonio’s Girl In A Coma and Cursive are also on the bill.
Check out this recent interview with Minus The Bear by the girls of Kids Interview Bands, a site which Chip Midnight […]

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Tickets are still available for WHY?‘s show at Walter’s on Thursday, 11.1.12, with Naytronix and The Black Swans.

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New-ish indie folksters The Rebecca West plays a free show at Cactus Music tomorrow (Saturday, 10.20.12) at 1pm. For those who haven’t heard of the band before, it is made up of local musicians (and husband and wife) Matt Hammon (formerly of any number of bands, including The Gloria Record, Bob Mould, and Tody Castillo’s […]

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This Saturday (tomorrow, 10.20.12) is the second annual Skatestock, which features live music from local bands, along with art and skateboarding, at the Lee and Joe Jamail Skatepark on the edge of downtown Houston.
Local punk rockers Something Fierce–one of my long-time local favorites–is schedule to perform, along with Rivers, Hell City Kings, Tax The Wolf, […]

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Earlimart‘s Aaron Espinoza returns to Houston this week to help promote the band’s new album, System Preferences (reviews of which you can read here and here). He plays a free in-store set at Cactus Music tomorrow (Wednesday, 10.17.12) at 5:30pm.
After the Cactus set, you can catch Espinoza at Skydive Gallery, where he is part of […]

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Houston musicians again make the roster at this year’s CMJ Music Marathon in New York City. Among those slated to perform are Robert Ellis, The Tontons, Grandfather Child, Josiah Hall, and New York City Queens, as part of The Texas Takeover Party.
Castle Lights also plays a showcase during CMJ.

More information at www.cmj.com.

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Tomorrow night (Saturday, 10.8.12), it’s Vinyl Night at MKT BAR with local musician Robert Ellis spinning some of his favorite records as part of this unofficial Ziegenbock Music Festival after-party. He and his band will be playing Ziegenbock Music Festival earlier in the day at Sam Houston Race Park.
Be there at 8pm.
Sponsored by Heights Vinyl.

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Southern Backtones front man (and storm chaser extraordinaire) Hank Schyma is currently the featured guest on the radioACTIVE show on KPFT 90.1FM, which runs from 1-3pm. That’s right now (Friday, 10.5.12).
Stream it live at kpft.org.
Tonight at 9pm, catch Schyma with Johnny Falstaff at the Corner Pub in Conroe, and tomorrow night (Saturday, 10.6.12), Southern Backtones […]

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