This Week’s Featured Show
Saturday, February 4
Buxton (record release)
with
Marmalakes
Featherface
@ Fitzgerald’s
This is a big week for local releases.  You’ve got Houston bands Co-Pilot, Bang Bangz and Machina TX also doing releases this week but this is …

The Kinkster (preparing for a show at the Dosey Doe this month) talks with the Free Press about his heroes, his run for governor, Rick Perry, the Nashville and Hollywood establishment, the unchecked power of money in politics, and why dogs are much better than politicians.

By Jack Daniel Betz
Tonight I plan to schlep over to Stereo Live to watch Calvin Harris tonight knowing full well the crop of amazing fuckheads that I’ll run into. The drinks will be expensive: there …

By Jack Daniel Betz
Come out Saturday to Super Happy to for a motley assortment of spaced out Houston noise, blues, and punk hosted by noise musician and performance artist David Larry Carol.
The lineup includes psychobilly-punk-blues-noise …

This Week’s Featured Show
Saturday, January 28
2nd Annual Main Street Block Party
@ The Continental Club
The Big Top
The Mink
The Backroom
(1PM-2AM)
featuring What Made Milwaukee Famous, Power Trip, Caddywhompus, Empress Hotel, B L A C K I E, Brains …

 This is more exclusive than Michael Jackson’s interview on 60 Minutes. I called Jason, but he did not pick up. It was difficult trying to get a hold of the multi-instrumentalist from Houston’s favorite Americana …

This Week’s Featured Show

Nameless Sound
featuring
Alvin Fielder
Kidd Jordan
William Parker
@ Eldorado Ballroom (2310 Elgin; 8PM)
Just about any time Nameless Sound puts on a show, it’s a big deal.  The institution brings down some …

A year ago few people outside of a small circle of friends had heard of The Civil Wars. The group composed of singer songwriters Joy Williams and John Paul White performed in January at the …

By Jack Daniel Betz
Opener Frank Fairfield’s set was a simple but soulful romp through American folk music played on banjo, guitar, and fiddle into a back-line consisting solely of an old-timey condenser mic. It was …

By Jack Daniel Betz
I met David Larry Lorrack for the first time almost a year ago now. I was covering the tail end of the Super Happy Fun Land SXSW Overflow Fest and during …