The Weekly Music Round Up, May 24th-30th The Free Press Pick of the Week!  THE ARTY FARTY KICK OFF PARTY! Come celebrate the preemptive kick off for FPSF! Live music, booze, beautiful works of art, and a really excellent location, plus tons of wonderful people! Everyone will be there! https://www.facebook.com/events/198936243587722/ Facebook link! This Week In Music:  Friday, May 24th Soundgarden- Live at Bayou Music Center The Black Angels, Pure X, Wall of Death- Live at Fitzgerald’s Saturday, May 25th Clutch, The Sword, Awful Dixie Witch- Live at House of Blues The Tyburn Jig, The Escatones, Darwin’s Finches, Super Robot Party- Live ... Read More »

To Boldly Go… The anticipation surrounding this movie had built up so much, and I’ve been so disappointed this year by a majority of the hype machines that have been dragging their collective weight across 2013. The Great Gatsby was apparently the Not So Great Gatsby, the Evil Dead was pretty much Less Evil and More Dead, so naturally I was skeptical about this new Star Trek. I bought tickets, and headed to see it, but not in 3D. I figure, if the movie is good enough in 2D, then it’s worth seeing again in 3D. The movie blasts off ... Read More »

  The Weekly Music Round Up: May 17th-23rd The Free Press Pick of the Week: Do something right by going to see the Wrong Ones, here is our album review for their new record which they will be releasing tonight! http://www.freepresshouston.com/music/nothing-wrong-about-em-review-of-the-wrong-ones-infinite-hallucinations/  This Week in Music- Friday, May 17: The Wrong Ones, Poor Dumb Bastards, Hell City Kings, Talk Sick Brats, The Swamps- Fitzgerald’s B.E. Godfrey, IDYL, Austin Smith, Eli- Fitzgerald’s Saturday, May 18: Born Liars (Record Release Party)- Fitzgerald’s Yngwie Malmsteen- The Concert Pub North Sunday, May 19: Gladys Knight- Arena Theater Barry Manilow- Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilio Monday, May ... Read More »

National Ride Your Bike to Work Day: The League of American Bicyclists got together and decided to designate May as the National Bike Month, way back in 1956. Now, 57 years later, we are here to remind you that tomorrow, the third Friday in May, is Bike to Work Day! That means you, the responsible, Earth loving consumers that you are, get the chance to utilize all that empty bike rack space at your office, and forget about fighting your coworkers for a parking spot in your garage! Aside from all the added health benefits of riding a bicycle, some ... Read More »

The Wrong Ones’ reverence for all the good proto-metal, punk, garage, classic, and psychedelic rock has insured that the band would go on to create an album that did as great a job paying tribute to their heroes as it did of taking their work to the next level. The organ riff pulsating through the Hammond B2 that kicks off this record assures the listener they are in for a trip. The driving beat and muted guitar chug that brings the rest of the band in assures me that this is a punk album, but the following guitar solo is ... Read More »

  This Week In Music, May 10th-15th:   Free Press Pick of the Week! Little Ozzy (Ozzy Osbourne tribute) – Live at The Concert Pub Galleria, Friday, May 11th Everyone needs a little Ozzy in their lives, but now you can literally have a little Ozzy in your life. If you ever thought to yourself, “Gee, I wish Ozzy were shorter, so I could experience his music on an entirely different level” then you should get yourself over to the Concert Pub. Either way, the band is solid, and Little Ozzy will certainly be winning the crowd with his charm. ... Read More »

James Templeton is the driving force behind Houston’s LIMB, a band that escapes any kind of conventional labeling or shortcuts to thinking. His music utilizes both modern and traditional means, and this highly thoughtful, complex, and often times disorienting concoction makes use of sampled sounds through Ableton, live drumming, and probably more than you could imagine in terms of creativity. LIMB is about to release a new record, called But Rage At What, and to get things started, James starred in a video for the title track, which was produced by Jeromy.tv and Ella Egg Films. The video is a ... Read More »

  The Weekly Music Round Up, May 3rd-May 9th:     The Free Press Pick of the Week! The Queers and The Dwarves free in-store performance at Heights Vinyl should prove to bring the raucous. I can imagine a lot of energy for that show if the place gets packed. If you like punk rock, you won’t want to miss this!    Friday, May 3: Shabazz Palaces, THEESatisfaction, Malitia Malimob- Live at Fitzgerald’s Neon Moon: Dirty 33 1/3, DJ Craig Hlavaty and DJ LJ Walker- Live at Big Top Saturday, May 4: MFAH Mixed Media, featuring Young Girls, GoREALah Soul, Xander ... Read More »

  The Weekly Music Round Up, April 26th-May 2nd: For those of you not going to Austin Psych Fest this weekend, fear not, for there is a wealth of fabulous shows this weekend. Most of the bands that will be playing Psych Fest will be stopping by Houston, anyway.    FREE PRESS PICK OF THE WEEK! Peter Murphy/ My Jerusalem- Live at Numbers, on Friday, April April 26th Seeing Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy, and at Numbers? This is too obvious! Don’t forget to wear all black! Friday, April 26th: Black Mountain, Co-Pilot- Live at Rudyard’s Peter Murphy, My Jerusalem- Live ... Read More »

This year, I’ll be attending Psych Fest for the first time ever, and I couldn’t be more ecstatic. The lineup is huge, and a lot of bands that I wouldn’t normally get the opportunity to see otherwise will be performing. Bands like The Moving Sidewalks, OM, and many more will be playing their first shows in Texas in a long while, which is incentive enough for me to make the trek out to this psychedelic festival. The Austin Psych Fest was founded in 2008. Since its inception, the festival has grown through social media, word of mouth, and from the ... Read More »