Receive Weekly Email and Text Message Updates:
Sign up for latest info on concerts, dining, promotions and more!
Go!

Most Popular

  • Getting Off
    Attorney Tyler Flood says he wins 80 percent of his clients' DWI trials, even if they were 100 percent drunk as a skunk.
  • City of Coffee
    Is Houston about to become America's coffee capital?
  • Houston's Choice for Mayor
    Black Guy, Rich White Guy, Lesbian or Hispanic Republican
  • Looking for a Bull Market
    Killen's Steakhouse in suburban Pearland is probably best during boom times.
  • Burgers and Hash
    Lola, a modern diner in the Heights is dishing up some top-notch Texas short-order cooking.
Most Popular sponsored by

Reader's Picks

Top Recommendations

A short list of Houston's most popular hot spots.
user content provided by: LikeMe.net & Houston Press

National Features >

  • City Pages

    Michele Bachmann, Unmuzzled

    You don't need to read Sarah Palin's book to hear the ravings of a mad woman.

    By Matt Snyders

  • Miami New Times

    Pimp Daddy

    The rise and fall of a chubby sex-cult leader.

    By Natalie O'Neill

  • Riverfront Times

    Babe 'n' Arms

    Tom was a hot-tempered cross-dresser with a garage full of guns--and then he became Rachel.

    By Nicholas Phillips

Camaro

Share

  • rss

By Craig Hlavaty

Published on May 26, 2009 at 12:53pm

Dan Castillo is one of Houston's most prolific and rock and roll poster artists, illustrating shows for most every venue in town, but most often Warehouse Live, Meridian and Boondocks. Last fall, under the paper-thin DJ guise of "Mr. Castillo," he began a Thursday-night residency at Boondocks, spinning classic hard rock and newer bands that still live after midnight and rock till the dawn. It's the kind of music you heard coming out of the garage when Dad had old high-school buddies over, as the trash can started filling with Miller High Life bottles and the laughter got more boisterous. During a typical Camaro set, Mr. Castillo throws in a little Scorpions, a dash of Eagles of Death Metal and maybe even a sprinkle of some Ramones. It's jean-jacket, leather-gloved, fist-pumping music, perfect for drinking at what is increasingly becoming one of Montrose's stranger dives. A true hard-rock historian, this year Castillo has spun tributes to fallen heroes like the Cramps' Lux Interior and Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton.