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ATTN THIS WEEKEND:
Dec 26th
HOWDY! How was your Christmas/Haunakah? Sorry if you aren’t a celebrator of either of these fine holidays. Allow us to offer you a cup of joe from the fine new Skyline Network Office Coffee Maker as a consolation prize. Oh man, this thing rules. It works like a soda dispenser: No Carafe. The Future Is Now. But as the slow warm glow of opening and enjoying gifts wears off, there are other presents to unwrap, those of a musical nature. Lets pick em up and shake:
FRIDAY
Golden Axe, No Talk, Bald Eagle Burger and Burn The Boats @ Walter’s on Washington
As we previously mentioned, this is the first of two No Talk shows this week/end that will feature master of shredermonies Warren Hatfield (Golden Axe, Valiant Thor) on guest guitar. Bald Eagle Burger, if the tracks they have posted online is any indication, is a sort of weirdo political funk act. For some reason it makes us think of Sprawl. We can’t quite put our finger on the connection. That reminds us, did you know that a retrospective Sprawl live record came out this year? We kinda dropped the ball on that one. Nautically themed metal with a good wind in their sails Burn the Boats opens. Why is there no Sea Shantie Metal?
Finnegan, Jim and the Toms, The Plague, Sara Van Buskirk, City of Compton, Brandon Elam, Dave Rask @ Avant Garden
Like we said before, we can’t speak for anyone else on the bill, not being familiar with them yet, we’ve heard some great tracks from Finnegan, a sort of ‘when folks are in town’ project that features, among others, Noted DESTROY ALL SNARES drummer Matt Tantillo (Paris Falls, Defend the Ghetto). This sounds, NOTHING like anything Matt’s been kickin it for before, and has a pastoral almost folky (though not folksy) vibe to it. Looking forward to checking it out in person.
SATURDAY
Benefit for Airon Paul Dugas @ Walters on Washington
Airon Paul Dugas is a local musician who’s stock was most assuredly rising fast in our portfolio. On December 14th, he was struck by a motorist while riding his scooter, and sustained a rather nasty list of injuries (ATTN CAGERS: PLEASE BE MORE CAREFUL AND KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN FOR US). To help with the inevitable stack-up in bills (to say nothing of lost work time), some of his friends (also some of our favorites) are throwing a show to kick into the kitty as much as they can. $10 gets you in the door and gets you the warm fuzzies as you enjoy the non-catastrophic sounds of Paris Falls, Dannzig (a Danzig cover act featuring members of The Jonbenet, Monocles and others), Guitars, Teenage Kicks, Wild Moccasins, Friendship and others (we are told). They’ll be free Amy’s Ice Cream on hand, as well as a free Keg (hopefully not both at the same time though, gross), as well as a distro setting up shop with proceeds benefited to Airon. Oh, and raffles for cool stuff like free time with a tattoo artist, etc. Universally, Airon is said to be a good dude. Help a brother out.
ALSO
Saturday Secret Show @ The Shady Tavern
Born Liars, No Talk, The Wrong Ones @ Rudyard’s
Fat Tony, B L A C K I E, Female Demand, Caddywhompus, The Tontons @ Commerce Street Warehouse (2220 Commerce)
Toadies, House of Moist, Boom Boom Box @ Warehouse Live
Asylum Street Spankers @ McGonigel’s Mucky Duck
This Year’s Tiger, BetterLuck @ F.B.I. Rock Club
SUNDAY
Winter Wonderglam featuring Dead Roses, Backalley Sluts, ST-37, A Thousand Cranes, Future Blondes, Skullcaster, //TENSE//, Snow Cone, DJ Black Slacks @ River Oaks Theater
OK, now, aside from this being kind of a cluster of a bill (especially considering it doesn’t start until 11), it should be stated that shows at River Oaks have universally been hailed as a good time. A good bag of boundary pushers in the noise bin ensures that you’ll have an evening that is anything but predictable, and decidedly in the earplug category. $5.
Robert Earl Keen, Eric Church @ House of Blues
JP of the Big Star Bar has promised that one day, he will get Robert Earl Keen to go have a beer there. KGBeasley has stated that he would like to fight him. Sounds like this could be the evening when a honkey tonk throw down heaven could take place.
ALSO
The Old 97′s, The Drams, Jeff Boortz Band @ Warehouse Live
ATTN THIS WEEKEND: WE GOT NOTHIN. NOT EVEN A PICTURE
Oct 24th
HEY. Check out this intro paragraph. We got nothing. Hit it.
FRIDAY
HEALTH, BLACKIE, The McKenzies, The Wiggins, Female Demand, Rusted Shut, the Krinkies @ Notsuoh
The original Health show, from Wednesday, was cancelled due to the rain. But Health stuck around and is now headlining a lumber length bill combining that show with the Rusted Shut event that Notsuoh already had going on. The event kicks off at 8pm and we are assured by the promoter (Mr. Free Press Hisself) that HEALTH will go on before 11:20. So. There you go.
Pierced Arrows, Rustler, Motion Turns it On @ Rudyards
Pierced Arrows hail FROM THE GREAT NORTHWEST and carry for the sound and some of the members of underground favs Dead Moon (so says their MySpace, anyways). Strong as they may be as an incentive to go, lookie right below – RUSTLER is back after an extended break, warming things up with their SCIENCE of instrumental. MTIO!
Mechanical Boy (CD release), Thee Armada, The Last Place You Look, Velora, The Tastydactyls @ Fitzgerald’s
You know, we were all stoked to post the video for Thee Armada’s “Rock Shock and Load”, but it’s been removed from YouTube due to a Copyright Violation?! which just totally makes our morning a whirl of suck because there’s something about that thing that just makes us really happy.
ALSO:
Ben Folds @ Warehouse Live
SATURDAY
Cold War Kids @ Warehouse Live
Everytime we hear this band name we think of Red Dawn and WOLVERINES and then get lost in our thoughts trying to figure out what the name of that mini-series was where some part of the country was part of the Soviet Union but we were so young when we saw it we don’t even know if it might actually just be something we made up or it could have even been a book and this entire last sentence is IMPOSSIBLE to Google. Oh yeah, this band is great too.
Underworld’s Halloween Bash, featuring Asmodeus X, Phase Theory, Negative Impact (CD release), & The Dead Bang @ Numbers
Oh man, everyone should do one Goth-related thing a year, even if it’s as pedestrian as sitting around for an entire evening blaring the crap out of your Bauhaus records or breaking out that terrible Cleopatra Records boxed set you bought for that girl sophomore year of college but never got the nerve to give her because, let’s face it, she was so Goth and you were so square but in retrospect she really wasn’t, it was just that she had a crush on one of the guys in Stabbing Westward. Going to a Goth Halloween party at Numbers (where one of the bands has a record release, no less) is kind of like crushing all those things together and mainlining them with a Steampunk syringe.
ALSO
Herman’s Hermits and The Triumphs @ Stafford Centre
Ladyheat, Electric Attitude, Elaine Greer @ Notsuoh
Spain Colored Orange, Program, Paris Falls @ Rudyard’s
The Horrorpops, Beat Union, 7 Shot Screamers @ The Meridian
Locksley, Hymns @ The Jet Lounge
SUNDAY
Workshop Houston Benefit, featuring Japanther, Killer Dreamer, The American Sharks, The Mathletes, Grrrl Parts, & Fat Tony @ Caroline Collective
We can’t say enough about this bill, or this cause. These are the folks that do Third Ward Bikes, and as if a great touring outfit, a rawkus house party band, and the act with the best entry in the Scene Wikki wasn’t enough, remember that Fat Tony won best underground rapper and the Houston Press Music Awards this year. There’s also a craft fair. Gets started at 4pm. All the details are on the Caroline Collective website.
Rabid Rabbit, A Thousand Cranes @ Walter’s
Rabit Rabbit is described as “ex Electric Set” which is like saying “fellow travelers of Indian Jewelry” which is like saying “this could totally rule.” A Thousand Cranes will drone your mind.
ALSO
Polysics, Jaguar Love and Black Gold @ The Meridian
Crime in Stereo, Polar Bear Club, Broadway Calls, The Swellers @ The Mink
The Offsping @ Verizon Wireless
Rick Springfield @ House of Blues
