We’ve been working hard to put together a pretty awesome bill. The Dimes and Gay Marriage have both released stellar albums that you should have in your collection. Given our endless admiration for their work, we asked them to please play with us and they finally relented. Note that this…
If there is one thing that we know for sure it’s that Linus is not a weekday show kind of band. Add to that an early start time and you have the LP4 fighting an uphill battle. Nonetheless, given the fact that this was a benefit for Ame Strasser (a…
So I have a new blog with some old friends- NonAlignmentPact.com. The idea is simple – Music in Seven days from Seven Writers. Hopefully it will be lively, entertaining, and worthy of adding your RSS Feeds. Odds are, if you’ve been in Houston for a while, you may already be…
Lean Cuinines are pretty cheap lunches so I sometimes try a new one just for grins. Today it was some pork and cherry sauce thing which wasn’t great but it was passable. Now, you’d think that my not liking it were a matter of taste but, upon tossing the box,…
Hey nothing against Studemont Project – admittedly this ain’t my thing so I can’t even attempt to make any judgments about their music – but what is it with the KTRU Presents Studement Project at Valhalla? Given the excellent local bands around, I’d think KTRU would be presenting something a…
Crap You’d think all I post now is just police abuse. Despite the thuggish cop at Walter’s there were other shows of note going on over the weekend. Saturday was pretty tricky given all the good shows. Since, I was playing at Rudz I didn’t catch Fallcore at the Meridian…
The Chronicle article states ” [HPD’s Sgt. Nate] McDuell said Stephens [the guitarist], whose guitar was hanging from a neck strap, then used a sexual obscenity and shoved the officer with his shoulder.” You can clearly see from the video that the guitarist did not shove the police officer as…
More at http://www.myspace.com/hpd_has_problems Nothing more upsetting than waking up and seeing “What went down at Walters?” as a subject line on Hands Up. Replies were as follows: “the cop pulled out a tazer at some point and started wrestling people while the tazer was on. a fourteen year old kid…
Here is a new twist to the endless stream of benefits I see happening around town. A band has a benefit show for…Oh you take a stab at it. What would you think? Darfur? AIDS? Historic Preservation? No, you are not with the times; it’s a benefit for the band’s…
