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AC/DC, The Answer Toyota Center |
Sun., November 8, 6:30pm |
Downtown/ Midtown |
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AC/DC have been continuously melting faces around the world for four sweaty headbanging decades. The Australian boogie-rock band really has everything you would ever want from a rock 'n roll band and has stayed steadfastly devoted to making sure you either got laid or drunk, and hopefully both.... More >> |
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Shonen Knife, Dead Roses, Born Liars Numbers |
Sun., November 8, 8:00pm |
Montrose |
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A little math to put things in perspective: Shonen Knife played its first Osaka, Japan, gigs in 1981, the same year the Go-Gos released Beauty and the Beat. This means that by the time the trio reduced the usually taciturn Kurt Cobain to a self-described nine-year-old girl at a... More >> |
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HEALTH, Lovvers, Somosuno, Ghost Mountain Mango's |
Sun., November 8, 8:00pm |
Montrose |
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California noise quartet HEALTH pull into Mangos tonight following their appearance at Austin's Fun Fun Fun Fest. The band is currently touring behind September's Get Color disc. Too bad the band is coming a week before the Westheimer Block Party. They played the spring edition just this past... More >> |
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Lucero, Cedric Burnside & Lightnin' Malcolm, The City Champs, The Dirty Streets Meridian |
Mon., November 9, 6:30pm |
East End |
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Lucero isn't the first group to mix punk rock's aggression with country's penchant for twang, but the Memphis, Tennessee, act has spent the last decade becoming the band of choice for PBR-swilling, trucker-hat-wearing fans everywhere. Although the group's latest release, last months 1372... More >> |
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Melt Banana, The Homopolice, B L A C K I E Walter's on Washington |
Mon., November 9, 8:00pm |
Heights |
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It's been way too long since we have seen the Homopolice live, and finally after a few months off the band the band is opening for Japanese noise rockers Melt Banana. The band is quite simply a glorious trainwreck of smoking amps, leather, blood, and churning drums. If you have seen the Homos... More >> |
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Regina Spektor, Jupiter One Verizon Wireless Theater |
Tue., November 10, 8:00pm |
Downtown/ Midtown |
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Regina Spektor combines a whimsical, Björk-like sensibility with singing chops and genuine compassion, and shes usually able to effectively combine the silly and the sweet. While her previous album, Begin to Hope, featured some jaunty numbers and plenty of nonsensical musings, this... More >> |
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Little Joe Washington Boondocks |
Every week Tuesday, 9:00pm |
Montrose |
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On his second album for Austin's Dialtone Records (following 2003's Houston Guitar Blues), the blues flows so effortlessly out of Little Joe Washington's guitar it's hard to believe any of these 14 songs needed more than one take. Washington's feverish runs and penetrating leads - which fly by... More >> |
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Urban Cowboy The Mink |
Every week Tuesday, 9:00pm |
Montrose |
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This week, ROMN&TM presents the Houston-bred John Travolta starrer Urban Cowboy. Every Houstonian it seems has a story related to the making of the movie or the famous beerhall it centered on, the late and lamented Gilley's in Pasadena. The 1980 flick tells the story of Bud and Sissy, a... More >> |
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Rob Zombie, Nekromantix, Captain Clegg & The Night Creatures Verizon Wireless Theater |
Wed., November 11, 7:30pm |
Downtown/ Midtown |
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Rob Zombie has been spending a lot more time behind the camera than behind the microphone lately hes directed both Halloween and Halloween II since his last album, Educated Horses, came out in 2006. But the roots of Zombies psychosexual cinematic creepshows lie in his music,... More >> |
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Dethklok, Mastodon, Converge, High On Fire Verizon Wireless Theater |
Thu., November 12, 6:30pm |
Downtown/ Midtown |
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To the uninitiated, Massachusetts quartet Converge can be downright terrifying. And it's not because they appear clad in face paint or leather and chains - this underground punk-bred foursome would never waste time on costume-like trappings. They are so scary because they are so physically... More >> |
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Elvis Perkins In Dearland, A.A. Bondy Walter's on Washington |
Thu., November 12, 8:00pm |
Heights |
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Elvis Perkins may well be the most capable performing docent in the museum of American music, as shown on his recently released, gap-filling Doomsday E.P. Kicking off with the defiantly joyful version of "Doomsday" from Perkins' latest full-length, Elvis Perkins in Dearland, this brief effort... More >> |
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Kid Pan Alley/Peter Pan Miller Outdoor Theatre |
Fri., November 13, 7:00pm |
Outer Loop - SE |
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As if the screening of the 1924 silent gem Peter Pan weren't enough of a treat, audiences will also enjoy musical accompaniment written by children from HISD's MacGregor Elementary. The students composed the film score during a weeklong intensive workshop led by Kid Pan Alley Music Director... More >> |
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The Swell Season, Rachael Yamagata Warehouse Live |
Fri., November 13, 7:00pm |
East End |
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Although Strict Joy may be a bit of an odd title for the sophomore effort from The Swell Season, it points to the direction the band has taken this time around. Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová have fleshed out the spare, introspective sound of their eponymous debut and their... More >> |
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Marcy Playground, Margot, While You Were Gone Meridian |
Fri., November 13, 6:30pm |
East End |
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It would be easy to castoff Marcy Playground as another mid-'90s modern rock casualty with one quirky hit, but they had way more to say than 1997's hit single "Sex And Candy". After hearing that same song all over the radio for over a decade, it's refreshing to hear the other unsung tracks off... More >> |
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Jewel, Holly Williams Verizon Wireless Theater |
Fri., November 13, 8:00pm |
Downtown/ Midtown |
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Jewel has had a hell of a musical career for someone barely into her mid-30s. The folk singer-songwriter went from living in a van to MTV stardom in 1995, thanks to her hugely successful debut album, Pieces of You. She then penned a collection of poetry, A Night Without Armor, which became a... More >> |
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"Classic Numbers" With DJ Wes Wallace Numbers |
Every week Friday |
Montrose |
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There arent many places inside the Houston city limits where you can see a guy dressed up like a goth George Washington nursing a dirt cheap Long Island Iced Tea and shadow-dancing, but such is the reality at Classic Numbers every Friday at well, Numbers off Westheimer. The... More >> |
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Meese Cactus Music and Video |
Sat., November 14, 4:00pm |
Lower Shepherd-Kirby |
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The brothers Meese, Patrick and Nathan pull into Cactus Music this afternoon for a quick in-store set. Rounded out by two buddies the Denver-area band plays slick radio-pop with sweetly sticky melodies. This past July saw the release of their first full-length, after putting four EP's in their... More >> |
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Dengue Fever Warehouse Live |
Sat., November 14, 7:00pm |
East End |
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Dengue Fever was one of our most pleasant discoveries of 2008, when the Los Angeles outfit wowed us with a sold-out performance at the Orange Show. Whether live or on 2008 album Venus on Earth, the Fevers brand of Khmer-American pop-rock is instantly likeable and bears up under repeated... More >> |
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Chris Brown, New Boyz, Audio Push House of Blues |
Sat., November 14, 7:00pm |
Downtown/ Midtown |
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It takes a special fella to go out on a "fan appreciation" tour just nine months after beating your ex-girlfriend Rhianna up in car for her complaining about you texting another woman. Such is the current state of Chris Brown, the man who had enough dance talent to make Justin Timberlake and... More >> |
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Darrell Scott McGonigel's Mucky Duck |
Sun., November 15, 6:00pm |
Lower Shepherd-Kirby |
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Superlatives surround Darrell Scott: hit song writer, monster picker, amazing voice. I still find it amazing that an artist of so many talents is so relatively unknown. Scotts 2008 album American Hymns was full of tastfully done covers of everything from Guy Clark (Old Time... More >> |
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Mickey Avalon, Beardo Warehouse Live |
Sun., November 15, 8:00pm |
East End |
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Equal parts Iggy Pop, Eminem, and Peaches, rapper Mickey Avalon has been slithering through underground hip-hop since 2004. He comes from a powdery L.A. glitter club scene, and became a sort of poet laureate for all the damaged and drug-addled rich kids who littered it's bathrooms and... More >> |
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Say Anything, Eisley, Moneen Warehouse Live |
Mon., November 16, 6:00pm |
East End |
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Say Anything lead singer Max Bemis seems to be a tortured man. Since the band's first album Baseball: An Album By Sayanything, Bemis has been hectoring against a cavalcade of girls in his songs. His past drug addictions and mental breakdown have only helped fuel his bands sweet emo vitriol. The... More >> |
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Zappa Plays Zappa House of Blues |
Sat., November 21, 7:30pm |
Downtown/ Midtown |
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Dweezil Zappa, the oldest son of late avant-garde rock composer Frank Zappa, has been performing songs from his father's career for the past three years on the "Zappa Plays Zappa" tour. The multi-media shows include a wide range of the elder Zappa's material, played by Dweezil and various... More >> |
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"Twist & Shout" With The Paisley Pilgrim & The Psychedelic Sex Panther The Mink |
Sat., November 28 |
Montrose |
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This new outgrowth of the Reverberation garage DJ crew promises a bit o' in the works, in addition to the boys usual smattering of Kinks and the Stones. Since it's the weekend after Thanksgiving, expect plenty of post-turkey debauchery after being cooped up with family for the past week. More >> |
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The Jim Conlan Trio jazz brunch Masraff's |
Every week Sunday, 11:00am-3:00pm |
Galleria |
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