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 [...]

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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.

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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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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 be used on [...]

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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 [...]

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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. Email the [...]

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Bang Bangz has released the first single from its forthcoming self-titled debut EP (due in December). “Since Last Night”–reportedly one of the EP’s slower songs–will be followed later this month by another new song (“Sound Off”) and a show on 10.22.11 at Fitzgerald’s. Check out Bang Banz online: Bandcamp | Soundcloud | Facebook

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Make with the clicky, as they say…

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This just in: Get your passes now.

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Local faves The Tontons released its Golden EP yesterday (Tuesday, 9.27.11) and celebrates with a free show this Saturday (10.1.11) at Cactus Music at 5pm. You can get a wristband for the event by purchasing the EP at Cactus this week or win a wristband by emailing me (dacobb[at]gmail[dot]com). I will pick two winners at [...]

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