Daily-ist: Tuesday

::Your Beat is Nice Tuesday::

Houston's got it's own Music Tuesday tonight with four chances to see our diverse music scene in action:a surviving grunge rocker, a Texas Marine, a mock-yeah-ing-yeah-bird-yeah Hollywood star, and a string quartet. Pick your poison.

Foo Fighter at Toyota Center

Dave Grohl and his fighets of Foo visit the Toyota Center tonight in support of their 2007 release Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace. Having commemorated their tenth anniversary with a year-plus run commencing with a double studio album hailed by the New York Times as "an unexpected magnum opus," a sold out arena tour built on that first disc's rock foundation followed by a toned down and intimate theater trek that highlighted the softer side showcased on that record's second half and capped off by a headlining gig at London's Hyde Park for a crowd of 85,000, the question looms larger than any in the Foo Fighters' career to date: What do they do for an encore? Come as you are.

Tickets: $45 | Buy Tickets
doors open 7pm | show at 8pm
Toyota Center | 1510 Polk Street Houston, TX 77002

Mark Miller @ Goode's Armadillo Palace

Growing up in Texas definitely influenced Mark's decision to become a country music singer. At the age of four, he was captured by country music after attending a Conway Twitty concert at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. After graduating high school, Mark enlisted in the Marines. It was during this time that he started working with music more actively and he started writing lyrics for the first time. When Mark was discharged from the Marines he moved back to Texas to polish his craft while working as a firefighter for Houston. Seriously? A Texan, a marine, a firefighter? This guy's got heart strings written all over him. Check him out tonight at one of our fave C&W venues.

No Cover | 8pm
Goode's Armadillo Palace | 5015 Kirby

Jeff Daniels @ McGonigel's Mucky Duck

"I’ve been writing songs for over thirty years. I don’t write hits. I don’t send out demos to famous singers. I just write songs. They’re my diaries. I had everything I’ve ever written in this big, black notebook. Some of them were typed, some were in long hand, but all of them had a time and a place that marked some moment in my life. If you really wanted to get to know me, you’d find me in there." We prefer, "We got no food, no jobs... our PET'S HEADS ARE FALLING OFF!"

Tickets: $25
7pm & 9:30pm
McGonigel's Mucky Duck | 2425 Norfolk Houston, TX 77098

Turtle Island Quartet and Ying Quartet @ Shepherd School of Music

Ying Quartet’s (pictured) reputation for “instinctive unanimity” Philadelphia Inquirer and “astonishing, refreshing exaltation and exhilaration” Los Angeles Times is matched by its unparalleled success in making creative connections between chamber music and other art forms. Its collaboration with the Turtle Island String Quartet blends the classical string tradition with jazz, improvisation and contemporary composition. The Ying/Turtle Island CD “4 + Four” received a 2006 Grammy Award in the Best Classical Crossover Category.

Alice Pratt Brown Hall - Student Concert Hall | 6100 S. Main
Tickets:$19 - $60
8pm