HOOTENANNY! UPDATES: AWESOME! WEEZES! BLADES FIGHT FOO! SATIN HOOKS WIPE UP!

YUSS. We've got more exciting news about January's HOOTENANNY! First off, Blades have confirmed that they are playing as the Foo Fighters. Minds are blown. Minds are collected into little plastic bags and poured, via funnel, back into cranial cavity. Not to be outdone, beloved defenders of the realm, AWESOME!, will re-unite yet again to play a set as Weezer. Leave your brain on the floor this time, cause it's in too many pieces to try and pick back up and put together. While you're standing there looking at it, all pink and spaghetti looking, perhaps wrap it around the fact that Satin Hooks are going to be playing as The Wipers, who, more authoritative sources than us insist, are an actual band (and one that Nirvana covered, no less - so BAM - 90'S IN YOUR FACE, KID). These aficionados of Alternative Nation and all that was good about it are joining a lineup that includes:

Fatal Flying Guilloteens as Jesus Lizard
Indian Jewelry as Depeche Mode
The Dimes as The Pixies
The Mathletes as The Flaming Lips
Paper Moons as Pedro the Lion
John Sears as Sam Cooke

We're still waiting to tease out the news as to who specifically Something Fierce, Bring Back the Guns, Satin Hooks and The Jonx will be playing as - plus who knows what surprise announcements we may have hidden up our flannel and silk-lined sleeves. As we previously reported, the whole HOOTENANNY! will go down the night of January 5th at The Mink's Backroom. Yusss.

UPDATE: This is why it is good that other people are involved in the organization of this event, because they tend to remember things that we just simply forget cause we're getting long in the tooth and short in the mind. Yep, we compeltely spaced on the fact that The Jonx has, in fact, already confirmed that they will be playing as (drumroll.....) nomeansno! LUCKY YOU! THANKS JONX!

BE THERE: SHOWS TO CATCH TONIGHT

The live music inclined have four pretty decent outing to pick from tonight, and it’s a sure thing that you’ll be able to get to atleast two. Check it:

MAN MAN, The Extraordinaries, Spain Colored Orange @ The Proletariat – Happy Hour
Philly natives Man Man, whose music has been described as “Viking-vaudeville punk-wop rock-and-soul” bring their own particular kind of meyham (particular enough to have landed three of their songs in an episode of Weeds) to the prolo for an early show.

Carribou, Born Ruffians @ The Engine Room
Forget the Press’ dismissive tone, Andora is one of our favorite ’07 releases to date, in fact, we’re so enthralled with it that we’re honestly considering skipping this show so that we aren’t left with a bad taste in our mouths on behalf of the Room’s notoriously un-subtle sound (this is a total headphone album, and we love the little tiny nothings on it that are sure to get lost in the bassyness of the space).

Ryan Adams @ Verizon
You know if you want to see this show or not. Probably the best option if you’re in the contemplatively dreary mood and would rather a banjo than a pick-me-up. Real talk, if there’s a someone special missing from your life, this is the place to try and meet them tonight.

Golden Axe, Satin Hooks @ Boondocks
This is a free show. Allow us to explain the event in precisely one thousand words:


Rusted Shut, iAlarma! @ Rudyards
It will be loud, it will be drunk, it will be destructive, you will not get to sleep on time.

NEW SATIN HOOKS VIDEO - KEVLAR

STOP THE BLACK ON BROWN ON BLACK ON PLUSH MANNEQUIN VIOLENCE!


Also, way to go Mark Armes, music videographer of the scene!

HOOK, LINE & WIPER

Hey, have you stopped by Satin Hook's MySpace page lately? Oh, No? Well, you might take a minute to do so, because they've posted a rough mix of a track from their recent recording sessions, a cover of The Wipers' song 'Mystery'. Tuff. Singer Kerry tells us that they're not sure if the final version of this track will be on the forthcoming album (which he also revealed will be called FALSE FLAG - ACES!) or an EP following the release. We dunno when the hooks are playing next, but catch em when they do.

HOOKED UP: SATIN ON THE VERGE?

You wouldn’t know it from our report of their early Wednesday SXSW set, but there may have been no more appropriately named place for Satin Hooks to have played than the “On The Verge” stage (you can’t blame them, after all, for signing up for a showcase that wasn’t promoted). Why? Well, they’re about a year into recording a full length with producer/engineer Sinclair Ridley, at least half of which is brand new material. People that have heard it (off the soundboard, as there sadly isn’t a single track to leak yet) have been saying things. Very positive things. Things like “I don't think anything has sounded like this coming out of Houston in a VERY long time.”

Guitarist/Vocalist Kerry Melonson gave us the skinny during a recent email exchange “It's gonna be 12 pop songs, a few weird interludes, and will come as a double disk on it's first run with either a DVD of the band's videos (Directed by Mark Armes) OR a screwed ad chopped version (Michael 5000 Watts, DJ Princess Cut or DJ Overdose... maybe a collaboration of all three!).”

Screwed and Chopped Hooks? Dang we’re stoked. Guess that explains how a rock outfit won the Houston Press’ 2006 Experimental/Avant Garde award.

So – do you too want to be on the verge? Well, if you play the drums using the elusive make-people-rock-and-dance method, you may be in luck, as the current Hooks drummer is involved in far too many things to be in the band. It’s a high bar to meet, as Melonson has nothing but praise their current stick-er, but if yr N2IT, consider talking to one of the guys when you run into them.

Satin Hooks, who are playing their third festival in as many weeks, will be on the Numbers outside stage at 5:50 during the Westheimer Block Party. Get Yr Hook Up.

THE UNBEARABLE LIKENESS OF BEING FIRST

We have just received word from Skyline Network correspondent and beard-on-the-street Will Adams that the Satin Hooks just played their set at the Chron.com's On The Verge SXSW stage to an audience of exactly one: Skyline Network correspondent and beard-on-the-street Will Adams. Sadly, them's the breaks at day parties sometimes - they face such stiff competition from each other that the larger ones (and even the lines to get in them) can completely decimate attendence at smaller, further away and Un-Chunklet or Pitchforky ones - especially for the bands in the early slot.

FEAR NOT YOUNG HOOKS - THE WEEK IS YOUNG.

(PS - Did anyone else even know that there was a chron.com stage? We certainly can't find it anywhere online. For the curious, it is alleged to take place at 12 5th and Trinity).

UPDATE: From the comments, Sarah @ HandStamp has posted the lineup, along with the deets on the Chron's involvement in the stage (a last minute sponsor, not an organizer). Go thee there now and get thee infoknowledged.

Everyone you Know to play Noise and Smoke Fest

The weekend before you and your mates will be trying to figure out how to foist one another over the wall at Stubbs, Emos and other SXSW venues for which you will not have the proper credentials, the two day Noise and Smoke festival will be underway here in Houston. For an insultingly low $8/day, you’ll spend Friday (at Notsuoh) and Saturday (at Walter’s The Axiom) seeing just about every act in Houston not signed to French Kiss records. From the cryptically entertaining Cop Warmth to the Pitchfork Mix-tape appearing Indian Jewelry to an apparently drummer-only incarnation of God’s Temple of Family Deliverance, the weekend promises to be an all out race to the finish for livers and eardrums alike. Lineup time:

Friday, March 9th – Notsuoh
Ume, The Ka-Nives, Satin Hooks, Bring Back the Guns, Finally Punk, Jana Hunter, Eat Grapes and Cop Warmth

Saturday, March 10th – Walter’s on Washington The Axiom
Indian Jewelry, Something Fierce, Skullening, God’s Temple of Family Deliverance, The Wiggins, Blades and The Dimes The Sporatics.

Update: word now coming from festival co-organizer and recent brain-drain encourager Joey Promahoney that Noise and Smoke will not only be an annual event, larger in size and scope, but that they anticipate it will include other, smaller, events during the year as well.

CTRL+C; CTRL+V: "Future festivals will more likely not be in a bar setting. ex. Outdoors, a larger hall, or possibly in the middle of nowhere. In addition to the festival, Noise and Smoke will be hosting smaller events, for example, we will be announcing a show seperate from the festival very soon"


More Info: Noise and Smoke Festival