Weeeell, the results are in from the 2008 Houston Press Music Awards, and while there were some winners in the scene we all breathe and love, we have to say that our enthusiasm for the results is tempered.  Be it voter apathy or competitive categories splitting the Hands_Up vote, it looks like that the sector [...]

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HOLLA! So, between the already part three-demanded HOOTENANNY! and the Houston Press Music Awards Showcase, you may have not turned your eyes up from the pavement to what is coming up this weekend. Oooh man. You see, not only will you get to see our own DJ UNDER WARRANTY play an all [...]

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Easily our favorite Co-Pilot song since way back when we featured it on our one and only podcast, “Low Earth Orbit” has been given the video treatment. Put together by their Norwegian (and therefore DEATH METAL EDUCATED) friend Morty using footage from an Austin show and other scenes from his recent trip to America, [...]

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OH FOREVER PARADISE TO WHERE SUCH BROKEN BANDS GO.  OH GREAT MISFORTUNE OF NEVER HAVING ENJOYED THE FRUIT OF THE VINE.  OH DON PIANO.   Yes.  It’s true, according to a short and unceremonious MySpace bulletin (not even a blog!), the Factory Party has been shut down like a Jacob Calle warehouse event.  Read the word’s [...]

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OUR RUMORS OF THEIR DEMISE WERE SOMEWHAT EXASPERATED! Turns out that, back when we reviewed their debut full length a few weeks ago, we incorrectly asserted that the night of the release was also the night of their final appearance. So hasty. Turns out that they have one more ace in their deck. [...]

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Mike of American Sharks playing the TWOTENANNY as The Cars. Photo by Elissa Brown
Well my oh my what a fine weekend it was.  Granted, we have heard word that more than a few of you are still shakey pale like a cotton candy twirler from two days of excessive EPIC, but really - [...]

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The TWOTENANNY organizers just got off the phone with The Mink, and we regret to inform you that, due to the club’s concern about capacity and liability issues, there will be a cap on the number of people under 21 that will be allowed into the show.  Please Please Please if you are underage and [...]

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Can we take a step back and just bask in the freaking glory of this weekend? We got CD releases and old bands saying farewell, we got ten of the city’s finest cuttin’ rugs at the TWOTENANNY!, we got the Houston Press Music Awards showcase with 60 bands on ten stages. Man. [...]

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If you were tuned into KTRU for the local show Tuesday night or perhaps are among the lucky recipients of Sugarhill Studios’ monthly newsletter, then this is old hat to you. BUT for everyone else prepare for RAPTURE in the form of this TWOTENANNY-previewing cover of Heart of Glass by The Kimonos. FEAST [...]

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Thanks to the intrepid work of the Houston Chronicle, we all recently learned that it is possible to find the usually one-dimensional species of homo-hipster-sapien at such un-white belted events as an Astros Game. It got us to thinking, is the reverse true? Is it possible to find a fan of sports and [...]

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