It’s another sad week in the realm of Rock and Roll deaths with the passing of the great irreplaceable George Martin earlier this week and now we come to find that one of our favorite prog kooks, Keith Emerson, has passed as well. Emerson, like the equally batty Rick Wakeman,…
We said we had some big news and today it’s official, Italian Psych label Vincebus Eruptum has been kind enough to take us aboard their fine flagship. This all came about not long after we did that interview for their zine. You see, in that interview, we mentioned how vinyl here in…
I’m not sure if it made it into the final print version of interview of Vincebus Eruptum but in there we threw some props out to The Suffers. Somehow, I suspect that many of you folks in the EU who read the interview may not already be familiar with these…
As we wait for Philae to land on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, I just wanted to give a shout-out to one of our fellow Houston bands, The Wild Moccasins. They just had their video for “Eye Makeup” premiered on NPR last week with a nice write-up by Ann Powers (which is a big…
For years, you’ve asked us to tour outside of Texas and while we’ve played a few festivals over the years we’ve never really done a big, Big, BIG tour before. Well that day has arrived as over the next few weeks we will roll our way onto an adventure like…
PRESS RELEASE #3 IN WHICH THE LINUS PAULING QUARTET ELUCIDATES UPON THE MADNESS OF CLINTON HEIDER AND THE TRUE STORY OF THE A-SIDE “C IS FOR CTHULHU” We found him in a horrendous state. Plagued as he was by fetid, corrosive dreams that consumed his fevered mind, Clinton Heider…
I guess I should do this? OK. Yeah so Houston Press Music Awards for this year. Um… apparently the voting ends today blah blah blah and we got nominated for some junk but a lot of other good bands got nominated for stuff too. If you are gonna vote…
It’s shaking up to be a busy year for us this year so we figured we’d let you in on a couple of projects that should be completed the next few months. First Up… We just got word from C.J. Boyd that our version of Kate Bush’s “Watching You Without…
We’ve been plagued by an annoying meme regarding the title of our EP for some time now. We’ve always maintained that it’s from Kinky Friedman because well, first and foremost, he told it to me. Not only that, but we even asked him for permission to quote him and he obliged. Despite…
