The Mirrors played yesterday at Rudyard’s. Despite the small crowd of friends and admirers, they played spectacularly. It’s a shame. Greg Ashley vocals were just as great as I recall them. This band was the only ones who could really pull off a 13th Floor Elevators style of Psche that…
My arrival was pretty brilliant. I’m walking from my car when I’m approached by some fellow who looks a bit worse for wear at the homeless shelter. “How’s it goin’?” “Uh pretty good. How you doin’ my friend?” “Oh pretty good. I just got some rock cocaine. Feelin’ it right…
SUNDAY A free bar is a dangerous thing but great for a party and the Houston Press Music Awards Showcase only proved that rule true. Our Set One thing nice about the awards is we only had to haul the Marshalls to the venue which saved our backs and loading…
Well, I missed Jana the previous night at Sound Exchange but had the Good Luck to catch her touring friend John (whose last name escapes me). The guy did a gorgeous version of “that old black magic” that was inexplicable in it’s emotion and simplicity. Sadly, I had to leave…
Yes, the Linus Pauling parliament was in session at Poison Girl this Tuesday and as you can see from the meeting notes (a portion of which you can see below courtesy of C-SPAN). Great progress was made on various topics. Here are the summary notes again courtesy of C-Span: Flonase…
Thanks to everyone who came out. We had a great time and hopefully you did too. Fatigue- the order of the day Work, childcare, and heavy equipment is a recipe for exhaustion and, for me, the idea of quietly siting in a corner with my Herman Melville novel and maybe…
This post is a little late, but last weekend I went to see Zakir Hussain, one of the world’s greatest tabla players, at the Wortham theatre downtown. The show was put on by the Indo-American Association of Houston, who do events like this periodically. I went in expecting some pretty…
As much as it’s easy to conclude that everything out there is either worthless packaged angst (see any Clear Channel modern rock station) or derivative (see any band resurrecting Gang of Four and Joy Division), there are some bands that really make you acknowledge that rock isn’t quite dead yet.…
In putting together the new flyer, Clinton and I got to talking about 80’s video games – specifically old Apple II games. Well damn, if in chatting I didn’t stumble upon a copy of Karateka for my Palm at beiks.com ! Pretty frikkin Brilliant! Should you happen to play this…
