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2007 Stories by Daniel Mee

• By the End of Tonight/Tera Melos

  published December 20, 2007

  Between Motion Turns It On's Rima, Bring Back the Guns' Dry Futures and By the End of Tonight's half of split LP A Complex... More >>

• Deer Tick

  published November 29, 2007

  Deer Tick's War Elephant, the maiden release from Houston's Feow!, the label founded by itinerant chanteuse Jana Hunter and Bring Back... More >>

• Charalambides, Likeness

  published November 22, 2007

  Houston expatriates Tom and Christina Carter of Charalambides are probably among the city's most prolific non-blues musicians: Their band has... More >>

• Balaclavas, Rusted Shut

  published November 22, 2007

  It's tempting to refer to the brooding punk of Balaclavas' two EPs as goth, but the band lacks proper goth's showiness, melodrama and fashion... More >>

• Insect Warfare

  published November 15, 2007

  Last year in Mobile, Alabama, my band the Jonx played a show organized by a teenage girl named Alex. Afterward, she was counting the door money... More >>

• Bottomless Pit, Hammer of the Gods

  published November 15, 2007

  When Silkworm drummer Michael Dahlquist died in a 2005 car wreck, he took one of indie rock's most consistent and underappreciated bands with... More >>

• Invincible Czars

  published November 8, 2007

  Mussorgsky or Mr. Bungle? The Nutcracker or The Number of the Beast? Austin's Invincible Czars can provide whatever your... More >>

• Lyle Lovett, It's Not Big It's Large

  published October 11, 2007

  Lyle Lovett's definitive work with his aptly named Large Band is 1999's Live in Texas, which beautifully showcases the Klein native's... More >>

• Black Lips

  published October 4, 2007

  Through some combination of lack of inhibition, well-disguised genius, complete incompetence and dumb luck, the Black Lips' first album managed... More >>

• Meat Puppets, Rise to Your Knees

  published October 4, 2007

  The most satisfying 21st-century reunions have been the ones with compelling back stories. For Dinosaur Jr., it was a cult of twin... More >>

• The Sea and Cake

  published September 20, 2007

  The Sea and Cake's "Jacking the Ball," the first song on their first record, may still be their best, followed closely by every song since.... More >>

• Liars

  published September 20, 2007

  Anyone who saw Liars cover Nirvana's "Territorial Pissings" during last year's summer tour might have suspected that, despite the seemingly... More >>

• Motion Turns It On

  published September 13, 2007

  Motion Turns It On may have the most apt name in Houston: Their instrumental rock is both suffused with joyous motion and profoundly turned on.... More >>

• Maserati

  published September 6, 2007

  The first part of Athens, Georgia instrumental quartet Maserati's career drew heavily on the echo-filled post-rock developed by Mogwai and... More >>

• John Vanderslice

  published September 6, 2007

  John Vanderslice opened for Burning Airlines here on September 7, 2001, four days before they tied with I Am the World Trade Center for the... More >>

• Riff Tiffs

  published August 16, 2007

  If anyone needs reminding why alternative rock was once one of the best things to ever happen to commercial radio, look no further than the... More >>

• Rotten Piece

  published June 28, 2007

  Rusted Shut may be the face of the Houston noise scene, but Rotten Piece is its brain. Patrons of art galleries, DIY spaces and dimly lit bars in... More >>

• Radio Birdman

  published June 21, 2007

  Like their U.S. counterparts in Rocket From the Tombs, Australian quintet Radio Birdman took the über-garage of 1970s Detroit in a vital new... More >>

• Jerry's Kids

  published June 21, 2007

  It seems like every American city in the 1980s had a band like Jerry's Kids from Boston — essentially a local punk rock band that got a... More >>

• Necrophagist

  published June 7, 2007

  Turkish-German guitarist Muhammed Suiçmez started death metal band Necrophagist back in 1992, when he was only 17. Seven years later, the... More >>

• Dan Deacon

  published June 7, 2007

  Dan Deacon, who, along with some like-minded Baltimore weirdos, runs the underground arts collective Wham City, makes a kind of supercharged... More >>

• Dinosaur Jr.

  published May 17, 2007

  Dinosaur Jr. made their name by reinventing hard-core punk as revved-up classic rock, an ingenious act of savvy contrarianism that was a key... More >>

• The Sea and Cake

  published May 10, 2007

  As Pitchfork Media once said of the group Silkworm, consistency without spectacle can make for a tough sell. This axiom also applies to Sea... More >>

• Blonde Redhead

  published April 19, 2007

  After nearly a decade of steady growth, Blonde Redhead established itself as one of the most distinctive voices in indie rock with 2000's... More >>

• Sebadoh

  published April 12, 2007

  Though hundreds of artists emerged from the American punk scene of the 1980s, few of them serve as better examples of its importance than Sebadoh.... More >>