SHANA TOVA! Though God’s Chosen and generally most attractive people are taking a day of rest to ring in 5679, their apparent stranglehold on the entertainment industry has slipped as evidenced by the slew of releases shelf-stocked or announced on this fine High Holiday. We kid because we love. SOUND THE SHOFAR!
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Sometimes, our cruel and dictitorial editor in cheif won’t permit us to go out for our traditional weekday 80s-style Three Martini Expense Account Lunch (we usually have the Savings and Loans Bailout Burger with Keating Fries - mmmmm) and we’re forced (unfairly) to order takeout and actually work.  Horsehockey!  So, today we’re starting a new [...]

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HUZZAH!  What’s our second favorite local BEST OF (aside from our own) every year?  You got it, the, uh, Houston Press’ Best of Houston issue, where bands who might have missed out of the Trophey earlier in the year vie for a wall plaque, and many of the fine folks, eateries, establishments and abstract concepts [...]

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Oh man. Look at that little baby. Oh man. She’s beautiful. It’s like Tony Balls and Sabra Laval had a lovechild made of FOUR STROKE POWER. Oh man. Let’s start off by giving BIG UPS to friends of humanity Dana and Shelia Wright of Sugarland, whose generosity is matchless like [...]

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Updated. Hands_Up_Houston poster (and local celebrity DJ if there ever was one) Shu Latif put up a call to write the Mayor’s office about having the curfew lifted.  So we did.  We decided we would CC all of you.
To: The Honorable Bill White, Mayor of Houston
Mr. Mayor, let me begin by commending you for the [...]

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OH DEAREST CENTERPOINT!  Are not we, the dutiful denziens of citizen music journalism, part of this city’s crucial infastructure?  Do we not comfort and heal like a hospital?  Do we not teach like a school?  Do we not discuss songs of praise that make some raise hands to the heaven (POWERHOUSE!)?  Do we not stop [...]

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We’re still out of the power, as are most of the places we go.  Francisco’s has power, we are told, so this is as good a time as any to start a band.  Practice early, thought - the curfew has been extended.  We saw tree and power trucks in the Montrose last night, however, so [...]

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OH DEMENTIA! Unfortunately, tonight’s show with The New Year has been canceled at Rudyards. Decidedly un-FEMA to say the least. Alas, though that opportunity of rock is off the docket, Mike Simms is still looking to put something together for the evening. It will likely be a free show and it [...]

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UPDATE:  QUEERS AND JEWS ARE ON THURSDAY, NOT TONIGHT. ADR IS A STUPID. WE HATE HIM.
BREAKING NEWS LIKE TREE LIMBS: Three whips as buggies shows whose statuses were in doubt like Thomas are, in fact, going to bring sweet relief to countless ears no doubt over saturated with the latest KTRH 740 News [...]

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