Rock Talk, Vol. XXI

It's that time of the week - when we crack open our vault of local music news and share our treasure with the people. Come on in and check out what we found this week.

Tunes
Get a new mix from Hospital.

Robert Ellis & Will Van Horn apparently went over to Steven Burnett's place and this happened. We like it.

hasHBrown dropped us another track, Heaven. The backing track is killer, and that flow's pretty well executed, too.

Robbie Seay took an old hymn, added some new music and a chorus, and wants you to have it - but don't tell his label, apparently.

Chris Rehm dropped a new track - Worries, etc. - onto his blog.

She's recently moved to New York, but former Houstonian Maryanna Sokol posted some new tracks from her upcoming album, Landfill.

Wayside Drive's new album will be called The Other Side, and they'll be giving it away as an MP3 each Tuesday for the next twelve weeks. Get the first track, Last Dream I Remember.

This new hasHBrown track, Heaven, is pretty freaking sweet. Do yourself a favor and swipe it.

E. Wood the K.I.D. just dropped a new mixtape - and it's part one of two.

Videos
Hollywood Floss and hasHBrown take you behind the scenes of the upcoming Houston's Pass The Mic.

Female Demand shares their terrors of driving through a West Texas snowstorm.

Orange Is In shares a new track, Someone Came To Help Me.

Wails posted a video for their song October Radio, off their upcoming release. Hope you like monkeys...

News, etc.
Former Houstonians GTRS recorded a couple tracks for a split 12" with Spider Vomit, and that sucker is done baking. You can get your copy by sending $15 via paypal to bromanbroman[at]gmail[dot]com. There are only 100 copies, split evenly between the US and Australia.

Pegstar's SXSW Showcase got canceled - but they're rewarding anyone that RSVP'd [or anyone who sees this post] by offering some buy one get one free Summerfest passes.

Two locals - Lee Alexander and Vanaz - were named finalists in the 2009 John Lennon songwriting contest.

Buxton let everyone know that they'll be heading into the studio in April to record their next full length with Sugar Hill's John Griffin.

Football, etc.'s First Down EP got a little loving in the blogosphere.

If you were planning on seeing Edwin McCain, buy your ticket through Jud Johnson Band's website - their fans are being rewarded with 300 available $15 tickets for being the first local band to sell out House of Blues.

Tax the Wolf has seven tracks down for their new album, and four more to go. Also, they might give you some MP3s if you e-mail them.