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Well, folks, welcome to our final edition of Rock Talk here on Houstonist. We suppose it's fitting that we're going out on a nice round number. This is actually Houstonist's final day of posting, at least for a long while [more on that later], but we'll be continuing our music scene coverage over at our new website: www.HTownRock.com. Book mark that, and if you send us music news, update the ol' address book so that your mail points to htownrock [at] gmail.com. Without further ado, let's get down to what the web brought us of late. more ›

Houstonist has just learned that the Giant Battle Monster, Lions of Tsavo, Omotai, Inter Arma, Baring Teeth, Bastard Sapling show that was supposed to be at The Hot Dog Shop tonight has now been moved to Notsuoh, downtown. Don't miss it! more ›

Houston's no stranger to shred-heavy metal bands - we come across so many that sometimes it feels like a new one is spawned each week. Not all of them are impressive riff masters, though Golden Axe, Cavernous, Ghost Town Electric and Scale The Summit all fall into that category. Newcomers Omotai can now be added to that list, debuting their capable chops on their inaugural EP, Peace Through Fear. more ›

Last week we came to you with part one of our interview with Lance Higdon: music maker extraordinaire and soon-to-be resident of Atlanta, Georgia. Our talk with him was so extensive that we had to split it into two pieces, and thus without further ado, we move to the rest of it. more ›

Well would you look at that! Houstonist has found some more local music for you, so dip your toes in that proverbial pond and wade into the water. This lake gets bigger each time we look at it, and each time the swim feels a bit better. We can't really explain it, but there's something addictive about local music. more ›

Welcome to round two of Poster Notes. Houstonist certainly loves a well-made poster, whether it took hours of agonizing design or ten minutes of cut n' paste. They can't all be winners, of course, but neither can we, right? It's ok, you're all winners in Papa Houstonist's book. Let's have a look at what's happening this week. more ›

We sat down this week for a very special interview with the venerable Lance Higdon - who has been a creative fixture in the local music scene for some time. Higdon is about to leave Houston and everything that makes it fantastic for the questionably friendly confines of Atlanta, Georgia. Lance has been involved in at least 8 music projects over the past five years, so we wanted to have a special installment of our series - perhaps we should call it "Get To Know A Houston Man" this time. more ›

It's that time again, where we scrub the internet clean of all the Houston music news we can find. Let's see what's going on in that wide world of 600 square miles, shall we? more ›

We're back from trolling the internet for local music news. Read on to find out what Houstonist stumbled across during our breaks from LOLCats and press releases. Hey, the internet is really only good for so much, right? more ›

Hey look! We're just in time to distract from that hour of work until the lunch break. Houstonist has dipped our hypothetical ladle into the stew of local music and once again come up with some savory bits on which to chew. After all, it's only Tuesday - there's still the rest of the week available to be productive. Order up! Volume VIII more ›

Houston, this Saturday evening is your chance to see Lightnin' Hopkins at Discovery Green. "How can this be?" you ask, incredulously. "Lightnin' Hopkins has long since left us!" more ›

For the week of June 14th - 16th, 2010 Another week, another set of shows. It seems that there's always something available to see in this town. Houstonist has a few ideas about where we'll be found, but allow us to kindly make a few recommendations. more ›

Well, while we may have run ourselves ragged covering Summer Fest, Houstonist still had our trusty spies working the ol' series of tubes. Ok, so really we just have a series of RSS feeds and sites that we troll, but it's more fun ot think of them as spies. Here's what we found this week. more ›

Here at Houstonist, we knew that the Free Press Summer Fest would encompass far more than we were capable of covering. Thus, we enlisted the help of one of our dear friends [and talented musician in his own right], Benjamin Wesley. Here's what he had to say about the festival. Let me begin with a few small complaints just so that when I am done with my rant it will end on a more positive note than a negative one. That said, the negatives are rather obvious and trivial, and I only bring them up because I had talked about and/or heard these things talked about so much that it seemed like a good place to start: money and weather. more ›

You really think you're prepared for the biggest festival of the summer, eh? Well, that may be the case, but Houstonist has put together a list of tips & tricks for Summer Fest, just to cover some of those things that you may have forgotten or just not known. more ›

So, in theory, you've survived Saturday at Free Press Summer Fest and now you're ready to do it all over again. Maybe this time you'll remember some sunscreen, or a big hat, or you'll actually put some shorts on like a sensible person [note: jorts are perfectly acceptable as well]. Congratulations! Now let's have a look at that schedule, once again in linear format, and remember: Sunday's festivities start earlier than Saturday's. more ›

Let's face it: we're not ready for Summer Fest this year. No one is. It's certain to be the largest musical endeavor this city has seen in a while, set to topple last year's largely successful inaugural edition. At most, what we can do is take a look at the schedule and tell you what we don't want to miss, but with six total stages, it's inevitable that we'll have to skip over something. Here's a look at Saturday's lineup, in linear fashion. more ›

It seems like Houston has a litany of musicians that are involved in multiple projects - the propensity for collaboration among its members happens to be one of our favorite things about the local scene. Heck, everyone in Grandfather Child has another band, half of Buxton plays in sIngs, half of sIngs performs in Giant Princess or Ghormeh Sabzi, Taylor & Darrin Lee have at least three groups, and Chris Ryan is fairly legendary for his abundance of involvement. In our punk circle, however, one name seems to crop up most: Josh Wolf. more ›

Houston, Summer Fest is upon us. Before everything gets lost in the music orgy at Tinsley Park this weekend, we beseech you to check out the news we've dug up in the past week. Then have a blast this weekend. more ›

Andrew Karnavas, frontman of Runaway Sun and arguably one of Houston's most driven musicians, has long played the part of local troubadour, plying his way through open mics well before assembling his band. Thus, it is fitting that the young songwriter would release a solo album, as he did in late April with his debut, Film Noir. more ›

Houston's Black Congress has been hailed by many in our scene as one of the top bands in town, both musically and performance-wise. They are certainly no slackers onstage - we caught them on Saturday night at the Girls Rock Camp benefit - and even with the limited space that Dean's offers, frontman Bryan Jackson was still energetic and captivating. more ›

This'll be a better-late-than-never post, but we'd rather spread the delayed word than remain silent about one of the coolest things happening in town tonight: the Girls Rock Camp benefit at Dean's Credit Clothing. more ›

In case you've been living under a rock, it is our duty to inform you that Skin Collision Past, the new album from Houston's beloved Wild Moccasins, comes out today. After establishing itself as a bonafide presence in the Houston music scene, garnering a rabid fan base supported by an incredible work ethic and its initial EP, Microscopic Metronomes, the band is ready to unveil its first full length album. more ›

For the weekend of May 20th - 23rd, 2010 Good grief, Charlie Brown - there's a heckuva lot of music happening in this town over the next few days. Where's that cloner when we need it? It's hard to pick between all the great lineups. Fortunately for you, that means you've got several options, so get off your duff and see some music this weekend. more ›

Shoot, you didn't think we would leave you in the lurch again, did you? Houstonist has been trolling those interwebs, finding the snippets of Houston music news. We realized that last week we hadn't quite caught up on all of our rap/hip-hop feeds, so there's so fresh but not too fresh material in here as well. Enjoy! more ›

Grandfather Child is undoubtedly a Houston supergroup, brimming with talent and featuring four of this city's most proficient and prolific musicians: Lucas Gorham, Ryan Chavez, Robert Ellis & Geoffrey Muller. That's not an indirect dig toward anyone else in town, but just an honest acknowledgment of each member's prowess and pedigree. Houstonist is not sure who originally posed the question that had them come together to make music, but we certainly are thankful. more ›

Tonight at Avant Garden, Sara Van Buskirk will unleash her debut album upon the populace. We're about to wax unabashedly fanboy, because we've been awaiting this record for too long - Sara started playing gigs in Houston five years ago, and we've been following her music since late 2006. There have been demos and some things scraped from live performances, but nothing that has truly done her songs justice. The Place Where You Are solves this dilemma once and for all - more ›

Once upon a time in Houston there was a epic instrumental rock band known as By The End Of Tonight, and in this kickass little band was slim, Flying-V sporting Brett Taylor. We're having trouble pinpointing when exactly we first saw Brett performing as sIngs - it was either Super Happy Fun Land or possibly on the floor at Numbers during a Westheimer Block Party about two years ago - but we were certainly perplexed. Why was the riff-conquering guitarist from one of the more successful Houston rock bands in recent years suddenly performing one-man-band avant-garde indie songs? What had happened that would make him pursue this new, confusing endeavor? Boy are we sure glad we stuck around and gave sIngs another shot. more ›

Sorry, it took us a while to catch back up to everything we'd missed. We'd severely underestimated the amount of news that had happened in our absence. Fortunately, we've got it wrapped up in a nice package for you right here. more ›