Houstonist is excited about the variety of local and national acts playing this week. Tonight, you have two choices: Rock fans should check out The Monocles – the Houston band is celebrating the release of their new CD tonight at The Mink; and, over at The Duck, folk legend (20 years makes you a legend, right?) Michelle Shocked makes a long-overdue appearance.
This weekend, in addition to the music line-up at iFest, we recommend checking out Steve Earle Friday night at Verizon and Marc Broussard Saturday night at Warehouse Live. Both of them will also do free sets at Cactus Records (Steve on Thursday, Marc on Saturday). If all of the above mentioned aren’t mainstream rock enough for you, then you’ll probably be in heaven at the annual Buzzfest at The Woodlands on Saturday.
Did we miss something? Let us know. Here’s all of our recommended shows for rest of the week. Local bands are noted by an asterisk (*):
Wednesday
• *The Monocles – punk/rock | 9 p.m.at The Backroom (The Mink)
• Michelle Shocked – folk | 7:30 p.m. at Mucky Duck
Thursday
• The Temptations/The Four Tops – R&B | 7:30 p.m. at Verizon Wireless Theater
• *This Year's Tiger/*Fight Pretty/No Fuego/The Lion of Wall Street – rock/punk/metal | 9 p.m.at Walter's on Washington
• *Black Black Gold – rock | 9:30 p.m.at Continental Club
Friday
• Steve Earle/Allison Moorer – alt.country/rock | 8 p.m. at Verizon Wireless Theater
• *The Defenestration Unit – experimental/jazz | 9 p.m. at Brasil
• *Orents Stirner and the Spirit Noise Academy/*Tody Castillo/*Arthur Yoria – pop/rock | 9 p.m. at Rudyard's
• Tristan Prettyman/Whitley – acoustic/pop | 8 p.m. at the Meridian
• Stone Coyotes – country/rock | 7:30 p.m. at Mucky Duck
Saturday
• International Festival (feat: The Neville Brothers/Somabit/The Lowrider Band /*The Hollisters, and more – various | Noon Downtown
• Buzzfest XXI (feat: 3 Doors Down/My Chemical Romance/Seether/Puddle of Mudd/Finger Eleven, and more) – rock | 1 p.m.at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
• Marc Broussard – pop/rock/blues | 8 p.m.at Warehouse Live
• Elf Power/*Lazy Horse/*The Missing Files – rock | 9 p.m.at The Backroom (The Mink)
• *Alkari/*The Mechanical Boy/*Zykos – indie/pop/rock | 9 p.m. at Rudyard's
• Band of Heathens – country/rock | 7 & 9:30 p.m. at Mucky Duck
Sunday
• International Festival (feat: Taj Mahal/Grupo Batacha/*Spain Colored Orange,, and more – various | 1 p.m. Downtown
• Peter Brotzmann/Han Bennink – avant-garde jazz | 8 p.m. at DiverseWorks
• *Papermoons/The Wild Moccasins – pop/folk | 8 p.m. at Dean's Credit Clothing
Pictured L to R: Michelle Shocked; The Monocles; Marc Broussard
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