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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Can we just all take a moment to give a round of applause to the Free Press. It’s the little independent publication that could, and once again it has shown that it not only gets the caboose up to the top of the mountain, but once there builds a bridge to the next peak [...]

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OOOOOOOOOH FIZZLE BIZZLE. You know, in the midst of a truly LOL Vice Presidential vetting disaster, it’s harder than Gary Hart to compete for your attention - and we recognize this. But fortunately, some news that will in no way raise to the DailyKos or Redstate radar has come across our desks and [...]

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If you’re like us, then you’ve no doubt been more than a little stoked about this shin-dig behind this poster:

I mean, not only does it feature one of our favorite mic shunning outfits, Octopus Project, but it isn’t just a coincidence that that young man’s vomit spells out Andrew WK. If we freaked out [...]

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You know, we’re not sure that the economy is actually in a recession, technically speaking (two consecutive quarters of negative Real Domestic Product growth). But don’t worry, we’ll get there eventually, and in the meantime we’ve got the fine folks at the Free Press to thank for another month of Recession Thursdays, their cheap [...]

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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 [...]

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You know, at some point you just gotta take a step back and revel in the fact that on some evenings Houston has more to do than it has days in a row that are partly cloudy, highs in the low 90s. That’s why, when we can’t agree among ourselves as to what’s the [...]

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