HOLLA. Tonight there are three pretty fine shows to choose from, including an early in-store, a short bill at a small club and a long bill at a big one. Take a look at the contenders.

Jack of Heart are from France and they play garage punk. That’s all we could figure out. They’re [...]

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UPDATE:  QUEERS AND JEWS ARE ON THURSDAY, NOT TONIGHT. ADR IS A STUPID. WE HATE HIM.
BREAKING NEWS LIKE TREE LIMBS: Three whips as buggies shows whose statuses were in doubt like Thomas are, in fact, going to bring sweet relief to countless ears no doubt over saturated with the latest KTRH 740 News [...]

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Update #2: This show has been relocated to the Petrol Station, and is now free! Cash only bar, starts at seven. Be there, baby!
Our friends over at DiverseWorks are putting on quite a show next Wednesday night, with none other than Wicked Poseur, Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez and presumptive star of a theoretical [...]

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CRAP. It’s already Friday. How does that happen? First it’s Sunday and we’re totally ill on the prospect of the return to the punch-card pay-clock, but atleast you’ve got some decent work and a stack of records to write, and then the next thing you know BAM. Friday. And like, [...]

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(YUSS - TWO FOR TUESDAY REVIEWS!) Sometimes we are concerned that people misinterpret our affinity for the cover song. It’s true, whenever we are able to point one out (or organize a ten band festival where people play nothing but them) we seem to take the opportunity to do so. It’s not [...]

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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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If our editor in chief would let us, we could easily do several Jana Hunter superfan stories a week. Here she is filling in on bass for the Castanets on their March swing through town; there she is nailing an R. Kelly penned Isley Brothers song; Oh look, over there we see her having [...]

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