Rock Talk, Vol. XXII

Welcome to yet another installation of Rock Talk! It's been too long, but we have to blame our day job for that transgression. In the meantime, Houstonist has a boatload and then some of music news for you all. Someone find us a bigger boat.

Tunes
Prairie Cadets went into Dead City Sound and recorded some demos, that you can listen to on their Bandcamp.

Freddie Ghonerea & The Gunz album Hipster Blood is now available via Bandcamp. The band says their singer is in jail, and all sales of the album will go towards getting him freed.

Weird Party's first show, at The Mink, was a blast. Now here this: two songs, Sarah Palin and Pale Brunette on Bandcamp.

Wayside Drive posted the latest single from their album, The Other Side.

Sparklehorse's Mark Linkous committed suicide last week, and Spain Colored Orange's Gilbert Alfaro couldn't sleep, so he covered one of Linkous' songs: It's A Wonderful Life.

Marshall, aka Warbler PL, is once again a Houstonian, and has posted a demo of a new track: Worthy Of The Finest.

Wild Moccasins will be heading out on tour, come April 1st, and leaked a track from their new album to the Houston Press. Skin Collision Past.

DJ Sun whipped up some tracks for GigaCrate, pre-SXSW. Jams.

Cavernous' debut, Certain Angles, is up for streaming on Bandcamp, and will be released via a show at Mango's on March 27th.

Videos
Here's Andrew Karnavas recording his song Stranger at Sugar Hill Studios.

We realize they're part of a marketing effort, but these Backseat Jukebox videos from Houston's Ford Fiesta team of Mark Austin & Amber Rousell are nice ways to show off some of our local musicians. Watch Fat Tony's What I'm Bout and Buxton's Boy of 9.

Here's The Council performing Overtime at Dean's.

And here's an official video for hasHBrown's track, The Baptism.

News, etc.
Hey, check this out - Jeremy from Space City Rock has his own recap going again. That lets us breathe a sigh of relief. If we have missed something, he's most likely got the news.

Finnegan appears to have posted lyrics to some new songs. Here's hoping we get to hear them soon.

The lineup for KTRU's annual outdoor show surfaced. Ian Wells also informed us that they're working on Vol. 2 of the KTRU live compilation, and that this one will be a double disc album.

Arthur Yoria released a live EP that was recorded at Rudyard's.

Team Science has released The Swellers LP, My Everest on vinyl.

Alkari's music will be featured in the background of some local commercials that you might see if you're watching a Rockets or Aeros game.

Horders self-titled cassette is now available, and is limited to 100 copies.

Former Houstonians John Hunter & Ashlyn Davis were in town this weekend and played a two person Inoculist set. They informed us that they'll have an LP out really soon on Heart Break Beat Records and will be going out on tour with Jana Hunter's new band Lower Dens and will likely stop in town come June/July.

The Last Place You Look is now searching for a new drummer after Andy's announcement that he will leave the band after their April shows.

You can now snag yourself a t-shirt from The Watermarks.

That Wiggins 7" we've mentioned before? You can now get a hold of it through Needless Records.

Otenki has begun a blog about their upcoming album that they are currently writing.