H-Town Rock

For the Weekend of April 30th - May 3rd, 2009

There is a serious amount of music around town this week for you people to go experience. First of all, George Clinton will be playing at the House Of Blues on Thursday night, making this the first time that we'd actually be willing to pay HOB's parking and drink prices since Jay-Z helped open up the venue in Fall 2008. Friday is a packed night all on its own: Austin's Car Stereo (Wars) will be spinning at Boondocks, there's a J Dilla tribute show over at The Mink, Over The Rhine is at Warehouse Live, Fitzgerald's hosts two stages of solid local rock acts, Soulja Boy will take the stage at Verizon Wireless, and Spinal Tap will be unwigged at Jones Hall. Saturday promises more of the same as Joan Jett and The Blackhearts performs up at SHRP, Fleetwood Mac fills up the Toyota Center, and Houston faves The Sideshow Tramps entices people to partake of the food, drinks, and music at Mango's. Finally, if you missed Jandek's Sunday afternoon matinee on the first Sunday of April over at Rudyard's, the elusive Houston musician will playing over at DiverseWorks on Sunday evening, supported by MV & EE.

Our recommendations aside, unless you're going to be trekking up to the suburbs to take in the music of Dave Matthews or Kenny Chesney, we're fully in support of just about any show you plan to see this weekend. If anyone makes it out to Arena Theater for The O'Jays on Friday evening, we'd really like to hear your review of that show.

Thursday, April 30th
Dan Dyer at McGonigel's Mucky Duck
Deke Dickerson, Sean Reefer, DJ Big E, and Los Cochinos Car Club at Fitzgerald's (Lounge Stage)
Dredg and Torche at The Meridian
Fish Out of Water, The Cave Reverend, Estudiantes Social Club, The Drafted, and Jody Seabody and The Whirls at Super Happy Fun Land
George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic at House of Blues
Robert Ellis at Mango's
Thunderado and Beetle at The Continental Club
The Trian Woodburns and One Eyed Doll at Rudyard's

Friday, May 1st
Car Stereo (Wars) at Boondocks
Dave Matthews Band and The Avett Brothers at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Days Drive, The Ivory Cast, and Death Chapel at Fitzgerald's (Lounge Stage)
Dead Roses (Reunion Show) at Notsuoh
Drop Trio at Avant Garden
Great Unwashed Luminaries, Atarimatt, The Dee Use, Tran Tran, and Female Demand at Super Happy Fun Land
Hearts of Animals and Wols (Cassette Release Show) at Sound Exchange
Li'l Ed and The Blues Imperials at The Meridian
Mission Control (J Dilla Tribute) at The Mink
The O'Jays and Terisa Griffin at Arena Theatre
Over The Rhine and Lucy Wainwright Roche at Warehouse Live
Patrice Pike Band at McGonigel's Mucky Duck
Project H, Early Pearl, Legacy Fails, Fired For Walking, and Giants In The Earth at Fitzgerald's (Main Stage)
Savoy Special, Allen Brothers, and The Small Sounds at Rudyard's
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, The Invincible Czars, and I Am Mesmer at Walter's on Washington
Soulja Boy, Them GS Boyz, B-Hamp, and T-Willz at Verizon Wireless Theater
Spinal Tap at Jones Hall
Tito and Tarantula, Clouseaux, and Molly and the Ringwalds at The Continental Club
Urbane Guerilla, Big Takeover, and Meshak at T.M.M.C. Warehouse
Ximena Sarinana at House of Blues

Saturday, May 2nd
Bob Schneider, Jason Shannon, and Charlie Mars at House of Blues
Chadd Thomas and the Crazy Kings, Almon Loos and The Hoop and Hollers, and Danny B. Harvey at The Continental Club
Come See My Dead Person and Darwin's Finches at Rudyard's
Dirty Honey: featuring DJ Brett Koshkin and DJ Second Line Social at Boondocks
Fleetwood Mac at Toyota Center
Fonseca at Warehouse Live
Hotel Hotel and Statesman at Notsuoh
Joan Jett and The Blackhearts, The Smithereens, and Girl In A Coma at The Showgrounds at Sam Houston Race Park
Kristine Mills (CD Release Show) at McGonigel's Mucky Duck
P.L.F., Black Congress, Dissent, 50-50, Cop Warmth, and Muhammid Ali at T.M.M.C. Warehouse
Project Dopamine, Zennith Fuzzbomb, and Room 101 (7" Release Show) at Fitzgerald's (Main Stage)
Protest The Hero, Misery Signals, The Number Twelve Looks Like You, Scale The Summit, and Before...There Was Rosalyn at Javajazz
Sideshow Tramps at Mango's

Sunday, May 3rd
Battle of the Bands: featuring Apeish Manner, Clifford & the Big Red Band, Clubhouse for Ivy, Dark Ambience, The Distracted, The Endangered Sea Lions, Never So Fatal, No Inbetween, Panacea, Skytox, and The Thursday Initiative at Fitzgerald's (Lounge Stage)
Kenny Chesney, Miranda Lambert, and Lady Antebellum at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Erika Luckett at McGonigel's Mucky Duck
MV + EE and Jandek at DiverseWorks