If you thought TWOTENANNY was fun, you’re right. Indeed, the only reason there won’t be a third is because Bring Back the Guns has patently refused to perform in it as ELECTRIC SIX, which is the second greatest band of all time after SPACEHOG. So THANK THE MAKER that there are some folks [...]

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So. Austin has ACL, we have the International Festival. They have SXSW, we have lots of burger joints. And, in the last couple of years a new joint, Fun Fun Fun Fest has started killing it, and we have… increasingly less free parking. Suffice to say, our neighbors in the [...]

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Try to go back to 2003 and remember what it was like to be standing in the middle of the Numbers dance floor dumb-struck at the sound and the sights on the video monitors then, suddenly, at 3:18 in, you absolutely loose your freaking mind and the world explodes into eye-bleeding man-dance insanity.

If that didn’t [...]

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You know, there are more websites and blogs popping up it seems like every week to cover the goings-on in town, and one of them has really hit the ground running, already setting up a monthly event over at the Caroline Collective. That website is indiehouston.org, and their event is called Final Fridays. [...]

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WHY does Halloween rule, even as a growns up? PARTIES. And this year is great because that hallowed eve falls on a Friday, leading many in our great town to pull out more stops than a presidential tour bus. We’re so rather IN BLISS about all the options, that we’ve decided to [...]

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Actually, just kidding. Kinda. Venue is a terrible, er, venue. Actually, we would totally be at this if The Walkmen, Little Ones and Young Mammals weren’t playing. Maybe we will go afterwards.

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Us? Well, little olde us are scheduled to be in transit between Tulsa, Oklahoma and Denver, Colorado on that particular eve of hallows. It’s totally top secret and totally the result of some of the worst scheduling ever. But here’s what we would suggest you do (and we’re suggesting it based not merely [...]

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Cannot deny it, the folks at the Free Press have put together another WHIPS OF ACES lineup for their twice-annual block party. All this week, we’ll be helping battle your OH NO, WHICH SHOW TO GO? malady with a shot in the arm of our thoughts on some recent releases by Block Party acts. And [...]

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LOOFA DONCHAKNOW! Way back in June you may recall we were pretty breathless in our review A World of Her Own, the exhaustive career retrospective of early 80s syrup city New Wavers the Mydolls. In the aftermath, we were positively starstruck when bassist Dianna Ray wrote us to say thanks for the write [...]

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OH WHAT THE MOOSEMEAT?! There we were, enjoying a cognac and smoked salmon as equally as the post VP debate spin, when suddenly we were plunged into darkness. DARKNESS. And not the I BELIEVE IN A THING CALLED LOVE JUST LISTEN TO THE RHYTHM OF MY HEART type darkness. NO NO. [...]

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