FAAHQ. We can’t seem to write anything today. FAAHQ. So, rather than try to lure you in with some sort of metanarrative that we connect to the events of this weekend in a way that makes you think we have too much time on our hands, we’re going to surrender to log-jam in the creative part of our minds and just be all typy type about it. BRONCO!

FRIDAY
Todd the Fox EP Release House Party
We first caught wind of Tod the Fox when they were participating in one of those Gorilla Productions battle of the bands a few months back (see – they get you media coverage after all). Since then, we’ve been playing their song “Asteroid B-16” for just about everyone that would listen, including the collective audiences for KTRU, the Sharks and Sailors CD release show, and everyone still sticking around at the end of the Old Farts Early Show. Oh yeah, them and every unfortunate visitor to The VIP Skyline Network Beergarden BBQ Ranch, where the only three other CDs available are by Roy Orbison, Girl Talk and POWERHOUSE!

And tonight is their EP release show. Way out in Katy. It’s a house party pot-luck, no less. Get the details on their MySpace. Starts at six, over at ten with three other bands that we haven’t had the luxury to check out yet, but we can tell you that it includes at least two of the following three: Amanda Tankersley, Gabe Montoya, The Radiant Mind. Note: Standard ANGRY DAD house party pre-lecture invoked – be respectful of people’s homes, don’t steal or mess with their shit and generally carry yourself like you’re not a fucking idiot.

Avant Disco@ Avant Garden
This monthly headbopper by Reprogram Music (and friends!) features music just slightly off most of our collective radar, but likely to pop up on it in the future. Featuring a blend upbeat sounds, from italo disco to leather jacketed rock n roll, and this month a second listening option on the upstairs stage (let’s take a minute to remind our readers that, if you haven’t been to Avant Garden since it was redone after Helios, you’re missing out – it’s quite spectacular now and out of the Avis camp). Upstairs sounds are curated by Esthetic Noise records, and includes performances by Studemont Project, San Antonio DJ crew Radscarsssss and lady rapper Uzoy. Downstairs the beats will be serviced by the Skull Gang Disco, which features Ceeplus Bad Knives, PRKL8R, Juan the Terrible and special guest Michael from Danseparc. PS – Free Patron Coffee shots from 10-12. Yuss.

Warehouse Party with Riff Tiffs, The Eastern Sea, Wild Moccasins @ 2220 Commerce
Get’s kicked off at 9pm and, as we pointed out yesterday, is the last chance you’ll have to catch the Riff Tiffs over the summer. Free show, BYOB. Into it.

ALSO
CEX, Stove Blow, Best Fwends @ The Mink
Nate Singleton & His Sideshow Tragedy, The Literary Greats @ Rudyard’s

SATURDAY
Left Alone @ Art Storm Gallery
If we get another fucking reminder from Facebook that we have been invited to this event, we are going to lose our freaking minds. Does anyone know how to turn this shit off? Free SKYLINE T-SHIRT to the first person who makes a Facebook app that auto-replies to ‘event invitations’ with thousands of requests that the sender join the JEEP BRAH SOCIETY BRAH. Actually, this event has some Rachel Hewlett works in it which we’re sure are good cause she’s wicked hot for real. DETAILS.

Arthur Yoria, Pale, Glasnost @ Rudyards
While Yoria continues to drop a new preview track from his forthcoming every week or so, the folks in Pale recently put out a new video for their song Glowing Black. We think we remember catching the premiere at Etro, but we can’t be certain of anything anymore given that we’ve remembered how hot Rachel Hewlett is. Can you tell we’re riding the horse down the writer’s block trail today? Good. Glasnost opens, their first show in a while.

ALSO
Saturday Secret Show @ The Shady Tavern (4 bands; 2-5pm; free)
Nine Inch Nails @ Toyota Center

SUNDAY
Ghost Town Trio, Tin Armor, O Pioneers!!!, Bright Men of Learning @ The Mink
Um. Rachel Hewlett is hot?

ALSO
Super Happy Fun Land Annual Leo Party, featuring Poopy Lungstuffing, The Annoysters, Acoustic ?, A Bubble in the Sun, Michael Fletcher, Concrete Violin, The Delta Block, Lluvia Dreams @ Numbers