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Posts tagged Cory Derden
LUNCH N’ LISTEN: TONIGHT AT BOONDOCKS
Sep 29th
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 series that we were supposed to get off the whiteboard and into the HTML months ago called LUNCH N’ LISTEN – It’s an opportunity for you to plug in the earphones for a few minutes and have a bit of a preview of a show coming up this evening. It’s sort of like those online seminars your boss is always trying to convince you to take during your lunch period, except that there isn’t an interactive Q&A at the end. Oh, and we’re not trying to sell you anythying. Except this extra takeout
Corey Derden – I Have
Derden is a regular on the Saturday Secret Show and Notsuoh circuit, usually performing solo. The one man one instrument minimalism spirit carries through on the three guitar arrangement of “I Have,” with a sad hobo sunset on a dustbowl trail plodding away towards stars that will never be bright enough.
Listen Listen – Safe Home in Port
We were taken aback by their debut EP last year, with an invigorating folk Americana that droned forward almost like shoegaze. This track, from their forthcoming, shows them growing in arrangement, production, but most importantly – in songcraft. We find it almost impossible to talk about this track without sliding into a bowl of hot and sour platitude.
Listen Listen and Cory Derden are playing tonight at Boondocks. Free.
ATTN THIS WEEKEND: THE HEIGHTS ARE THE NEW MONTROSE
Aug 1st
UPDATED: ok. turns out there is a show in Montrose afterall. This is a weird weekend kinda, and not just cause we’re recommending shows at Fitzgeralds, Dan Electro’s Guitar Bar and Double Dave’s Pizza (to some of you it will also be weird that we’re all frosted tips about a weekend at the Shady Tavern too, but we recommend the weekly show there on an ongoing basis). What’s truly odd about this is that its the first time we can ever really not recommending a single gig in the ‘Trose. Damn. It won’t be long before we’re all holding court and flooding the bathroom at The Shiloh. Nevermind.
FRIDAY
SHARKS AND SAILORS CD RELEASE SHOW W/UME and THE JONX @ WALTER’S
YUSSS. PLUS DJ UNDER WARRANTY. YUSS!
LEAVE YOUR GENRE AT THE DOOR @ FITZGERALDS
Featuring: The Tontons, Perseph 1 & Andacc, Hueman, Kam, Evak 1, The Television Skies, Satin Hooks, Lower Life Form, Babel Fish, Two Star Symphony, Peekaboo Theory, B.B. Aeroplane and Dirty De.
Hey Fitz. We remember when we used to go to you all the time. It was kind of the highlight of our young lives, recently minted drivers license in our wallet and super big gulp Dr. Pepper in the cup holder of our parents’ Olds 88. We heard a rumor that this whole Leave Your Genre at the Door thing might turn into a regular event. If it does, and you keep having APPROVED mash-up line-ups like this, we might need to get a bigger cup-holder.
ALSO
Spain Colored Orange, You(genious), Arthur Yoria, Program @ The Mink
SATURDAY
SATURDAY SECRET SHOW FESTIVAL @ THE SHADY TAVERN
Check out our post earlier in the week for the skinny on this fatty of an event. Five bucks for two days, tons of bands, cheap beer and setups in the sunshine. Helluva lineup, even if who is playing when and on what day is SECRETS. Party
ALSO
TEXAS SKA FEST @ DAN ELECTRO’S GUITAR BAR
You know, ever since a few weeks ago when some friends of the Skyline went to check out the Les Than Jake show and reported back about the epic time they had, we’ve had a bit of the twin tone on the brain. So then, add to that little pique of interest our desire to go give a fresh listen to Los Skarnales, who we thought were no longer a band (we swear to blog we went to a final show of some sort a few years ago at Fitz) and yet somehow bested Fatal Flying Guilloteens, Hell City Kings, Poor Dumb Bastards and Something Fierce in the Houston Press Music Awards punk category (granted, we called it at the time, but didn’t actually think it would happen). So, while checking them out, we stumbled across a poster for this event, which features eight ska bands, including Houstonians Los Skarnales, The Failed Attempt, The Pocket and Molotov Cocktail. Yeah. A band headlining a ska festival beat out all you punks. BANKSHOT. Doors at four. Ten Bucks.
Data vs. Data, Flowers to Hide, Wicked Poseur @ Rudyards
BLACKIE and Giant Princess @ Notsuoh (followed by)
BLACKIE, Cop Warmth, Delta Block, Cheney Young, PWI @ Franciscos (in the basement)
SUNDAY
SATURDAY SECRET SHOW FESTIVAL @ THE SHADY TAVERN
TWO DAY SATURDAY!
LANCE HIGDON’S 25th BIRTHDAY SHOW @ DOUBLE DAVE’S PIZZA
The Tambersauro drummer is taking the opportunity of his turning a quarter century to offer up the live debut of THREE of his musical projects. QUOTE: “B L A C K I E vs. Limb vs. Gray Tapes (weirdo avant-rap jams), Holy Fiction (Acoustic guitars and beats and strong vocals) and Golden Cities” Woah. Starts at 7pm at the DD on Ella near 34th. Free.
WE PLAY CATCH-UP: WHAT YOU HOPEFULLY ALREADY KNOW ABOUT THE EPIC FESTIVAL THIS WEEKEND.
Jul 30th
HOLLA! So, between the already part three-demanded HOOTENANNY! and the Houston Press Music Awards Showcase, you may have not turned your eyes up from the pavement to what is coming up this weekend. Oooh man. You see, not only will you get to see our own DJ UNDER WARRANTY play an all star set of HOUSTON ONLY jams, from classic Jump Blues to not even released yet Golden Axe, at the Sharks and Sailors CD release party. But, if you’re able to break yourself out of jail subsequent, you’ve got the MOST EXTREME PARTY CALL ME THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY two-day picnic of pleasure that is the Saturday Secret Show Festival.
For those who skipped homeroom, the Saturday Secret Show takes place every week on its namesake at the Shady Tavern in the Heights and has a lineup that is, again, taken directly from its name (SECRETS). Though sometimes the folks actually playing is no more secret that Seacrest, it’s always an epic good time, and could be considered one of the most dreadfully under-utilized weekly activities in the city. This weekend, however, there aren’t just the normal two or three bands, and it is anything but a surprise as to who’s going to be playing. We’d type them all out here, but it would give us a hand cramp and we’re running out of interns to do our work for us. Plus, we dig the flyer – check it out instead:
Party. For the cost cooncious, this is most assuredly the cheapest per-band outing of the three EPIC events held in town as of late, easily sqashing the HOOTENANNY!’s pricey $0.50 per band, and, at $0.14 per ROCKER, squeezing under the Houston Press Showcase’s $0.16. Math rules. So will this show. Go and count the ways.
ATTN THIS WEEKEND: YOU ARE LIKE A PRELUDE TO GUANAJUATO
Jun 20th
YUSS. Man. Last night was like Friday. Jenny Westbury, Black Snakes + Kangaroos, Arthur Yoria, Woozyhelmet… plus the bands at those shows we didn’t even see!How could this weekend possible get any better? Oh, we know, maybe it’s the countdown to going to Mexico for a week to hang out, walk the streets, and drink Buzz Aldrins with our Minka. Yes, that would be about the only way to top it. Sorry ’bout the boast post, let’s get to what comes first!
FRIDAY
The Wiggins @ Discovery Green
Ever since we saw the plans for Discovery Green, the whips as coaches new park in Downtown, we’ve been thinking “hmm. What band would be on the top of our list to see play the outdoor stage there?” Well, it turns out, we didn’t have to decide, because the kind and loading dock-having folks down at the Fresh Arts Coalition are having a little schebang in the park this evening, and they’ve called on Diverse Works to pick some entertainment of their own – the always out of place and therefore always right where he belongs one man rock-it-to-ya band known as The Wiggins. DOOGIE! Totally Free. Totally Starts at Seven. Totally hope we understand the combination of community groups that put this together. Party. PS – It’s cheel if you miss this show cause The Wiggins are playing at their own 7″ release party Monday at the Mink.
Arthur Yoria and Tody Castillo @ Avante Garden
So. Arthur Yoria started his set last night (just him, a drum machine and Stanley Kibrik’s delay pedal) with “Lipstick Smiles” which morphed right into “I Wanna Be Sedated” and finally into a feedback drone noise exercise then suddenly BAM. Done. Crazy. He told us that he and Tody (whose new recordings, we are told by a source of authority are kinda crazy good – and have you been checking our Yoria’s weekly MP3 releases too? Daaaamn 28s – where were we, oh yeah, what are they gonna do) are gonna keep it ‘loose’ and just have a good time about it. Noice.
Also
Lisa’s Sons, BLACKIE + DJ sets from Jacob Calle, Bucky, Damon Allen @ Boondocks
They will be giving away iheartcomix cds, and it’s a free show. Tuff.
Ladyheat, The Tontons, Piano Vines, Earnie Banks @ The Mink
The Red Dons, The Estranged, Something Fierce, Teenage Kicks @ Rudyards
SATURDAY
Saturday Secret Show @ The Shady Tavern
You know, last weekend we were at the SSS, as we often are, with a relatively small and stable group of people (if you ever want to see Lennie Briscoe, Sew What or Elaine Greer in person, this is your best bet to do so). One of our compatriots, whose fuzzy hat and white shoes shall remain nameless, commented that the one thing people really don’t seem to understand about the SSS is the brilliant opportunity to “get totally wasted in the daytime.” This is true. Were the bands and the grill not enough, The Shady Tavern does setups, and so if the day drink is your thing, take a bottle and a few bucks and its kind of a cheap and awesome mini-festival afternoon. We don’t have any hints on this week’s lineup yet, but hopefully Mr Secret will lay down one or two in the comments.
Glass Candy, Farah, TFT(?) @ MFAH
RETURN of the Starbucks Mixed Media Series at the Museum of Fine Arts, this time featuring the artist who we own more vinyl of than we would probably otherwise admit, Glass Candy. Seriously, where did all these 7″ and 12″s come from?! The really odd thing is, that they are so much better on stage than on record too (actually, their last release was a big step in the right direction). We think it’s the crowd – that whole energy cornball thing. Whatevz. We’re just stoked that no local bands with a bad word in their name are on the bill. (PS – Bad Knives, PRKL8TR and Juan the Terrible on the decks wuut).
ALSO
Hardhats and Hotties Party @ Spacetaker
Not really a music thing (although DJ Sun and the Soular Grooves team will be on hand), but it is a semi-fund raiser for Spacetaker’s Artist Resource Center, which is a cool thing.
Keiji Haino (acoustic set) @ The Menil Collection
Free. 7:30pm
Faun Fables, The Invincible Czars, The Judas Bear @ The Mink
True Colors Tour featuring Cyndi Lauper, The B-52s, Joan Jett and The Blackhearts, Wanda Sykes and Carson Kressley @ Cynthia Woods Mitchell
SUNDAY
Tom Waits @ Jones Hall
WHO? Tickets for this will be available for $10 from people outside who were not admitted due to dressing up like a mule.
also
Real Live Tigers, Redbear, Sabra Laval, Cory Derden @ Notsuoh
Boston, Styx, Night Ranger, Alan Parsons and Rick Derringer @ The Woodlands
