Houston rock band Pale–whose 2011 release, In The Time Of Dangerous Men, was one of my favorite releases last year and is still haunting my iPod–plays at Free Press Summer Fest 2012, which runs June 2-3 in Eleanor Tinsley Park. Here are the band’s latest videos: “An Exploding Whisper”: “That Sinking Feeling (live)”: Pale plays [...]

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California band Infantree plays in Houston at Free Press Summer Fest 2012, along with a free in-store performance at Cactus Music. Check out the band’s 2011 performance on Conan: Infantree plays an in-store at Cactus Music at 1pm on Saturday, 6.2.12, and on the 29-95.com stage at Free Press Summer Fest at 6pm on Sunday, [...]

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Chicago rock band Local H play at Scout Bar in Clear Lake tonight (Monday, 5.21.12). This is a free show, so be sure to check it out. The duo always puts on a killer show. Here are some videos: “The One With Kid”: “Fritz’s Corner”: “Machine Shed Wrestling”: 68 Angry Minutes trailer: More information at [...]

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Instrumental Canadian collective Godspeed You! Black Emperor will return to Texas this falls with shows in Austin and Dallas. The band plays The Mohawk in Austin on 10.9.12 and in Dallas at the Grenada Theatre on 10.11.12. No word yet on a Houston date, but the band also will play in New Orleans on 10.7.12, [...]

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Chicago’s Maps & Atlases comes to Houston as part of Free Press Summer Fest, which runs June 2-3, 2012, in Eleanor Tinsley Park. The band recently released Beware and Be Grateful, an album SPIN calls “a seamless, sleepless avant-indie night of math terror, slinky syncopation and pop epiphanies.” Here’s a video: Maps & Atlases plays [...]

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As reported by Rocks Off, the Free Press Summer Fest schedule has been released. Check the official Summer Fest website for more details on the line-up and how to get passes to the festival, which runs June 2-3, 2012, in Houston’s Eleanor Tinsley Park. Saturday, 6.2.12 Stage 1 (starts @ 11:30 am): G Wizz, Sideshow [...]

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In less than three weeks, Houston’s Eleanor Tinsley Park will again be filled with sweaty music fans gathered to catch the likes of Snoop Dogg, Willie Nelson, David Garza, Maps & Atlases, Espantapajaros, Flaming Lips, Diplo, Best Coast, Fatal Flying Guilloteens, Wild Moccasins, Primus, Ume, Pale, Sideshow Tramps, Papermoons, The Avett Brothers, and many more [...]

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Austin instrumental rock band Explosions in the Sky plays Houston’s Warehouse Live on June 17th. Get your tickets now.

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Southern Backtones La Vie En Noir ZenHill Records In 2004, Houston’s Southern Backtones released a self-titled EP that marked a radical shift in the band’s sound. Originally a rockabilly project–with a fairly rabid fanbase–the Backtones instead channeled glam-era Bowie and late-80s college rock, alienating some fans but gaining many more in the process. In the [...]

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ALKARI celebrates the release of its debut album, Blackout Falls, this Saturday (5.12.12) at Fitzgerald’s. The band has invited 11 bands to play this free show, which starts at 8pm. Come out and see ALKARI, The Manichean, Electric Attitude, The Wheel Workers, 3Wheeler, Super Robot Party, Featherface, Mike Booher (of Zykos), New York City Queens, [...]

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