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ATTN THIS WEEKEND: BOO!
Oct 30th
POLL: Which is the cheaper costume – Sara Palin or that lady that carved the backwards B in her face? I dunno, but thank god for those two, because now we all have some cheap ways to dress up in a hurry. Oh crap, what about dudes. Hipster once again.
FRIDAY
Rusted Shut (12″ Relase Party) and The Homopolice @ Sound Exchange
This gets kicked off about 7pm, and is free (as always) and could involve a free keg (as usually). Regardless, this is a spooktacular way to get your weekend started, cause both of these band are going to freak you out more than if Nader bought a Pinto.
Dannzig, The Monocles, News on the March, Wild Moccasins, Young Mammals (playing as The Pixies) @ Walter’s
We had a full RIGHT ON WRITE UP for this event earlier in the week.
Listen Listen, Benjamin Wesley, Phillip Foshee, Robert Ellis, Bootown and Scatter @ Caroline Collective
We wrote about this event this week too.
Fischerspooner @ Rich’s
Yuss.
Also
- Horror Business, featuring Fredster, Damon, & Bobby DJ @ Boondocks
- Cop Warmth vs. BLACKIE, The Caprolites, Preachers Kids, and 10th Grade Cutie @ someplace out west (get the details from this HUH post)
- Creepshow II Halloween Party, featuring Hollywood Black, The Goods, & Slivered @ Rudyard’s
- Willie Nelson @ House of Blues
SATURDAY
Danseparc @ Numbers
John Water’s Themed Spooky Halloween Party. Costume contest as always
Dirty Honey, featuring Brett Koshkin & Special Guest @ Boondocks
Are there any good Halloween soul records? Who cares. DANCE!
Also
- Saturday Secret Show @ Shady Tavern
- Willie Nelson @ House of Blues
- Halffnelson, Wolves at the Door, Female Demand, Desmond Zavala @ Warehouse – 15255 Gulf Freeway Suite 148b
- Pale Young Gentleman, Chase Hamblin @ Avant Garden
- The Beach Boys @ Moody Gardens
- The Hates, The Delta Block, Anarchitex, Room 101 @ Rudyard’s
DUMB QUESTIONS/SMART ANSWERS: DANN MILLER
Oct 30th
Every few weeks we break out the olde Rolodex and fish out the card of one of Houston’s finest. That unlucky chap is then served up a big loosing end of some of the dumber interview questions they will face over their entire recording career. This time around we’re talking to Dann Miller, usually of The Jonbenet, but on Friday frontman for Dannzig. Givitalisten:
We were just in Pittsburgh, where they top their sandwiches with French Fries and Cole Slaw – right on the sandwich! What is your dream sandwich?
Brains for dinner, brains for lunch, brains for breakfast, brains for brunch.
Do you like to cook, and if so, what is your favorite dish to make?
I love to cook, and my favorite dish to make is anything with YAAAAAAAms!
Which is most like a house of horrors: Fiesta, Food Town or Foodarama?
I shop exclusively at hot mom Kroger, so I don’t know about that.
Have you even been to one of those HAUNTED HOUSE thingeys? If so,which one and your review:
Quite a few at Fright Fest years and years ago. Don’t really remember. Fun fact: Jeoaf from the Monocles/Dannzig was an employee of Fright Fest, known as ‘the Blood guy’.
Do you read horror books or have a particularly favorite horror movie?
I love the Exorcist, both movie and book, but I stay away from all that…..horror business.
Which was the poorest execution of the best idea: Freedie vs Jason or Aliens vs Predator?
Never had the undoubtedly extreme pleasure of seeing either. I watch this daily though:
What are the records you’ve been jamming lately?
Besides the obvious that I must listen to for Halloween preparation, a lot of Birthday Party and Shangri-las.
Are there any local bands or happenings our beautiful readership should be taking more note of?
There are few things I know of that your fine interweb publication doesn’t already adequately cover. Gotta say everyone needs to check out Airon Paul Dugas though, my dear roommate and hetero-life-partner.<3
What do you have going on right now?
Welp, I usually play in the Jonbenét and we’re slowly recording our next full length which is sounding exquisite if I do say so myself, but I don’t give a shit about that right now cause I get to pretend to be Danzig on Friday. Oh, but Jonbenét will be playing in Austin November 8th at Red 7 and December 12th at Walter’s with Brian’s Johnson I believe.
HALLOWEEN PARTY PREVIEW: WALTER’S
Oct 28th
WHY does Halloween rule, even as a growns up? PARTIES. And this year is great because that hallowed eve falls on a Friday, leading many in our great town to pull out more stops than a presidential tour bus. We’re so rather IN BLISS about all the options, that we’ve decided to board the Skyline Network Executive Jet and fly to Tulsa tomorrow morning rather than be faced with DECISIONS DECISIONS when the evening finally rolls around. HOWEVER, we shall not depart without giving you some good olde fashion yee haw about each of the Friday events you have to choose from.
So, we’ll start with the pretty UNFUKWITABLE event taking place at Walter’s.
Not only does this show have a great lineup, it’s got plenty of free stuff too. For starters, since this is Halloween, it offers the opportunity for bands to dress up and new acts to get together in the spirit of the season. Dannzig is one of those acts, and you can no doubt guess what they will be playing. The group is made up of members of The Monocles, The Jonbenet and other bands whose names we prolly should have written down. They’ll be headlining. On the opening end is the Young Mammals, all costumed up to revisit their January performance as The Pixies from the Hootenanny. It was aces then. It will be aces now.
Sandwiched in the middle are News on the March, Wild Moccasins and The Monocles playing as themselves. You can’t argue with that creamy filling. Hello. But you know, one of the really fantastic things about this show, what makes it more an event than a good evening, is the 7″ record you get at the door. It’s a split between News on the March and The Monocles, and this is going to be the only time you can pick it up. And each record is HAND STAMPED right there in front of you. Bam. The stamp is tied to the event artwork, but we won’t reveal the surprise. Just know that you’ll walk away with a kick-ass 45 to rock on your MyFirstSony and people who stay home to watch the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown are going to get that little cloud squiggle mess over their heads when they see it.
Doors are at 8pm, and the cost is $8 with a costume, $10 without. There’s a free keg of beer while it lasts, and then stupid cheap drink specials the rest of the night, we are told. If we weren’t in Tulsa, this would prolly be where you could find us disguised as a succubus. You know that there would be a visual school bus pun with that costume, don’t you?
PS – Seems worth mentioning that Danzig is actually in town playing at House of Blues tonight.
HEY- WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR HALLOWEEN?
Oct 7th
Us? Well, little olde us are scheduled to be in transit between Tulsa, Oklahoma and Denver, Colorado on that particular eve of hallows. It’s totally top secret and totally the result of some of the worst scheduling ever. But here’s what we would suggest you do (and we’re suggesting it based not merely on the merits of the poster):
SCORE-PION! GHOULISH MOST EXTREME PARTY TRICK OR TREAT ME! And here’s the one thing missing from the flyer, not only will there be a free keg-o-saurus rex, but free copies of the forthcoming News on the March/The Monocles 7″ split. Cursed travel planner. You are so fired. NOW HIRING!
ROCK HASHANAH: FIRED FOR WALKING, RUSTED SHUT, THE MATHLETES, AND BORN LIARS WISH YOU HAPPY NEW YEAR
Sep 30th
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 Walking – C.D.E.P.
A robust crowd turned up Rudyards in anticipation of their release show Friday (including some that could not help but flap their gams during the final quarter of the Presidential Debate, which Rudyards was showing upstairs before the doors for the show officially opened. HEY ASSHOLES, SOME OF US FIND THE FORTHCOMING ELECTION MORE INTERESTING THAN YOUR CONVERSATION, SO TRY TO KEEP IT DOWN. ALSO, LOTS OF FOLKS DIDN’T HAVE POWER OR CABLE THEN, SO IT’S NOT LIKE WE HAD MANY OPTIONS WHERE TO SEE IT. NEXT TIME WE’LL BE NAMING NAMES). Back on subject. This six song slinger was recorded by Joe Omecheck at RBI records and is now available at Sound Exchange, with samples on their MySpace.
Rusted Shut – Hot Sex 12″
Dull Knife records breaks the 7″ barrier with a series of recordings first put to tape (or hard-drive, who knows) back in ’98, the same lineup that produced the acclaimed Rehab full length. Expect this to sound like the soundtrack to every picture you’ve seen of Crystal Beach for the last two weeks, except at night with more mosquitoes and crows than you though an post-apocalyptic ecosystem could sustain. Though this is already in Sound Exchange, there are mail order benefits, including a free T-Shirt for the first ten, and a DVD-R of the band playing at the Pink Pussycat Strip Club in 1999. Buy online here. MP3: Rusted Shut – Godstrike
The Mathletes – Secret Scientist
You know, it’s always a surprise when we see Joe Mathlete out on the town. This is not because he is some sort of a hermit or doesn’t know how to operate an automobile or a doorknob or anything, but rather because he is impossibly prolific. Was it even a few months ago that he had not one but two records hit the street within a week of each other? Plus he put out the Jenny “Future Bride” Westburry CD. Oh, and it’s not like he just drops this stuff off at Capital Records and says “Here ya go Mr. Mercer, another widget from the hit factory ready for all that manufacturing and packaging baloney.” NO – HE DOES IT HIMSELF. Which, understandably, is why there will only be 20 copies of this EP, the first of a SERIES OF THREE (GET A HOBBY) that will be out during the rest of the year. Should hit the shelves of your friendly neighborhood Sound Exchange soon.
Born Liars – 7″
From Ditchwater, the chutzpa destroying creative arm of local photographer/future historian Miss Rosa. 300 copies of this 48gm vinyl release will be available to the public in the immediate future, who will be treated to the songs “Don’t Tell Me I Know” and “I Don’t Know Why”. We’re not exactly sure if these are the actual tracks, but if so, helluva song pairing. We expect that we’ll dig it just like we did their previous venture into black plastic earlier in the year.
Oh what, that aint enough for you? Well, while you plead forgiveness for the next ten days, we’ll also let you know that there’s a Tambersauro record out there now too, as well as a very special release coming this October. We’ve been keeping the lid on it, but we’re no longer inclined to hide the fact that the TRICK OR TREAT for the show at Walter’s this Halloween is a split between News on the March and The Monocles. NEWS ON THE MARCH AND THE MONOCLES! HOW ‘BOUT THEM APPLES AND HONEY?!
