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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THUNDERBOLT! HOW ARE YOU? WE MISS YOU! Yes, we’re three days into a ten day jaunt to Las Vegas to attempt to re-create the time Shawn Adolph got kicked out of the House of Blues during an impassioned Rock Star Karaoke performance of Paula Abdul’s “Straight Up.” So far, the safe [...]

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HOLY CRAP SO GOOD. Earlier this year, we were pretty keen on the Born Liars’ Go Back One Day 7”, and why not, it was a tightening up (if not branching out) of the sound they rocked out hella on their Exit Smiling debut. With this new 7”, they’ve kept their better halves in [...]

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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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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!
Fired For [...]

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Weeeell, the results are in from the 2008 Houston Press Music Awards, and while there were some winners in the scene we all breathe and love, we have to say that our enthusiasm for the results is tempered.  Be it voter apathy or competitive categories splitting the Hands_Up vote, it looks like that the sector [...]

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UPDATE: 2:26 PM: Breakdown of the Ballot by Artist and number of nominations. Fatal Flying Guilloteens and Indian Jewelry come out on top in our cloud with four each:

Fatal Flying Guilloteens (4) – Musician of the Year, Best Guitarist, Best Punk, Best Male Vocalist
Indian Jewelry (4) – Best Album, Best Song, Musician [...]

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OH MAN! It’s the week of June 8-14th, and you know what that means… GARAGE WEEK OF REVIEWS OF ROCK! Yep! Wanna know why this week? Numerology. Figure it out. Today and all week long we’ll be doing our best to catch you up on some of H-Towns most shade-tree recordings [...]

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(UPDATED: Frightened Rabbit cancels, Hearts of Animals now on bill. See Below.) Why? Because we’re going to have a non-gender confusing interaction with a hairstylist? NO, BECAUSE WE AINT CRYING NO MORE BECAUSE THE SCATTED PAGES ARE BACK! CAN SOMEONE PLEASE FIND US A VIDEO OF SHAQ DOING SOME SORT OF RIDICULOUS [...]

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