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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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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The Dead Revolt, which had one of my favorite local releases last year (Vanixer), is set to release a new EP called A Night of Nastalgia. The band plans to release one song per week via its website, leading up to the release show (which is still being scheduled).
More information may be found at www.thedeadrevolt.com.

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The first person to email me (dacobb[at]gmaildotcom) wins a pair of tickets to see the classic indie band Mission Of Burma, playing at Fitzgerald’s tomorrow night (Thursday, 9.13.12) with The Garys and Black Congress.
The band is touring in support of its latest album, Unsound.
Doors at 8pm.
More information at www.missionofburma.com.

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Twin Shadow, whose album Confess (4AD) is garnering a lot of buzz these days, continues his Texas trek this month with shows in Dallas, Austin, Houston, and McAllen. I’ve got a pair of tickets to the September 16th show at Fitzgerald’s to the first person to email me at dacobb[at]gmaildotcom.
Listen to the exclusive Twin Shadow […]

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The upcoming Maserati album, VII, is now available for pre-order via the Temporary Residence website. The CD version is $10 and the double vinyl version is $15. The first 200 vinyl orders will receive a limited-edition colored vinyl: clear with gray haze and clear with maroon haze. The album will be released on 10.16.12.
Here’s a […]

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The first person to email me (dacobb[at]gmaildotcom) with their favorite Blondie song, along with why it’s their favorite, wins two tickets to see Blondie and Devo on Wednesday, September 19th, at Houston’s Arena Theater for their “Whip It To Shreds!” tour.
Tickets are available here.

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Many of you have probably heard by now that Houston musician Tom Carter was hospitalized with pneumonia while on tour in Europe this summer with Charalambides. Complications arose and he was in a coma for weeks. In early July, Carter was transferred to a medical rehabilitation facility in Germany, where he received medical care, monitoring, […]

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Last Friday, Vice magazine’s Noisey hosted the new video for The Linus Pauling Quartet‘s song “Crom”. The band has made an HD version available on Vimeo, which you can stream below:

More information about LP4 and the band’s latest album, Bag of Hammers, may be found at the LP4 website and on Facebook.

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I have probably never laughed harder than I have at the jokes spawned by the master, Houstonian Bill Hicks (RIP).
Hicks fans in Houston are rallying to get a statue built in the comedian’s honor, and Free Press Houston is getting things started by donating a cool $10K to the project. You can get in on […]

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