Let’s hear it for VD!
Unfortunately, I didn’t get to get out as much as I would have liked this past weekend and as much as I would like to tell you how much fun the show we played on Friday was I don’t want to fall into a pit of self-aggrandizing boorishness. Suffice it to say that Your Kisses Cause Crashes are a great little upstart band from Austin and they’ve been reaching out to Houston bands to build a larger network of musicians and create awareness for both respective scenes, The Western Civilization keep the 2k9 momentum going with yet another show-end stage rush orgy of singing, dancing and audience participation. Oh and The Pons? MAGIC. Go right now and hear for yourself. GREAT!
Anyhow, here I am again, giving you a heads up on this weeks activities and I’m gonna try out a new format for this…
Well, it seems like another local music causality of the past year has been the Wednesday night rock show. It seems that a void has been left by the end of those ever-present mid-week He Said She Said events, and someone needs to step up and fill them. I appreciate your weekend efforts, but we’re not working for the weekend around here. We’re livin’ it up full time…or at least we’d like to. So yeah, unless you’re a regular at the Mucky Duck heading out to see Patrice Pike or you’re a regular at the Continental stoked on the reoccurring Whiskey Boat gig or you’re a kid out in the North Side and you’re gonna wash the dishes everynight so you can check out Vanna, Belle Epoque, As Fire Burns Black, Zemira, and As Blood Dries at JavaJazz on a school night, your live entertainment option seems to be the Bootown Benefit at Rudz. Ok, so there are zero details out there on this and as much as I love a good benefit, I regret that all I can tell you is that Bootown is a theater group and they are having a benefit. Which I’ve just told you twice. (If anyone has details on this, by all means post them in the comments so people will know more!)
Oooooh and here’s a highly, highly, highly recommended late edition to the Wednesday night events: Cedar Boy Bailey, Framework, and the Ride Home tonight at Notsuoh.
Thursday packs a more considerable punch with a whole buttload of goings-on. We’ve got two benefits happening. The first is the Human Party Virus 09 Fundraiser at Rudz with Giant Princess (I will not rest until everyone in this town is singing their praises…or better yet their songs at their shows…), David Israel, and Jay from Woozyhelmet. Jay intends on having his solo CD available at the show and wants to give it to you for free, so that’s a kind gesture worth $6 and your time on a Thursday evening. And I believe the proceeds go to a showcase at SXSW.
Across the ‘Trose at the Caroline Collective we’ve got the Twestival benefitting Charity Water, an organization devoted to bringing clean drinking water to communities in need. Affilitated with Twitter and taking place in over 175 cities all over the world, the Twestival not only features performances by Red Eye Carl and the Pirates,
And here’s where things get really rough. Not only are there two benefit shows going on Thursday, but then there’s is an amazing road show over at Walter’s. The Annuals, Jessica Lea Mayfield and What Laura Says (did they drop the “Thinks and Feels”?). Ugh, that’s a real solid line-up. What do you do!?
I also feel compelled to mention that Le Freak is playing at House of Blues. C’est Chic.
Friday is a tough call too! First off we’ve got a crazy good show at The Mink with Balls Deep, Muhammed Ali (FUCKING INCREDIBLE), O Pioneers!!!, Gnaugahyde, sIngs (BLOWING YOUR MIND), Fight Pretty, Limb, DJ Psychedelic Sex Panther (HELLS OF HITS), and Mr. Jacob Calle. I’m sure there will be shenanigans, but I do not call shenanigans.
As AMAZING as that show is, I’v gotta say my pick for Friday is the Tax the Wolf, Ellypseas, Ghormeh Sabzi, Desmond Zavala show over at Notsuoh. I had the pleasure of being right up in a Ghormeh Sabzi performance a couple of weeks ago and I fell for it hard. Like I said, Daniel Johnston without the creepfactor. Tax the Wolf, Ellypseas Desmond Zavala also seem pretty great from their tunes up on Myspace and I’m really looking forward to catching them in action. This is gonna be a great way to spend a Friday night.
For the Rustmouth Chafings fans there’s the H-Town Blues Festival at Reliant Arena. And then ArtStorm is killing it with Voluptuous Tusk, A Thousand Cranes, and Organ Failure. Over at Rudyard’s you’ve got Amplified Heat with Forever Changes and Ripe. It’s literally a choose your own adventure kind of night.
Hopefully, your Valentine is into rocking out as much as you are because there’s a lot to choose from. By-and-large I urge you to go to Walter’s for The McKenzies CD release. These guys are fantastic and really know how to bring the audience into their performance and make sure everyone just has the best time. They’re joined by The Tontons, The Mathletes and Built By Snow and you will have a wonderful time. Promise.
There are a bunch of other good shows going on. Last Concert Cafe welcomes Heartless Bastards, a sweet little garage rock band enjoying a lot of attention from blogs all over the country.
On Sunday things simmer down a bit but you’ve still gotta choose between the crazy avant-garde-experimental-art-anti-rock showcase of Maggie Nicols, Fred Frith, and Susan Alcorn at DiverseWorks. This is some “like whoa” business going on and advise the serious folks not to miss this. It’s literally “too cool for school”. Maybe you’re not up to the challenge, that’s totally cool, that is some advanced level music going on there. You still have options. You can thake the physical challenge at Walter’s with Gigan, Necrotic Void, Diminished and Dismembered or you can (and I can’t believe I’m suggesting a show at this venue) head out to Scout Bar for American Fangs and The Last Place You Look, who both dropped new albums last week.
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Closing out the rock round-up week is Hank the Third at the Meridian and another one of those crazy Alvin Bowling Center shows featuring Then Something Happened, Linda Ln, Sunrise & Ammunition and Litost.
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