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AC/DC, The Answer Toyota Center	Sun., November 8, 6:30pm	Downtown/ Midtown	Music
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 >>

Shonen Knife, Dead Roses, Born Liars Numbers	Sun., November 8, 8:00pm	Montrose	Music
A little math to put things in perspective: Shonen Knife played its first Osaka, Japan, gigs in 1981, the same year the Go-Go’s 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 >>

HEALTH, Lovvers, Somosuno, Ghost Mountain Mango's	Sun., November 8, 8:00pm	Montrose	Music
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 >>

Lucero, Cedric Burnside & Lightnin' Malcolm, The City Champs, The Dirty Streets Meridian	Mon., November 9, 6:30pm	East End	Music
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 month’s 1372... More >>

Melt Banana, The Homopolice, B L A C K I E Walter's on Washington	Mon., November 9, 8:00pm	Heights	Music
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 >>

Regina Spektor, Jupiter One Verizon Wireless Theater	Tue., November 10, 8:00pm	Downtown/ Midtown	Music
Regina Spektor combines a whimsical, Björk-like sensibility with singing chops and genuine compassion, and she’s 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 >>

Little Joe Washington Boondocks	Every week Tuesday, 9:00pm	Montrose	Music
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 >>

Urban Cowboy The Mink	Every week Tuesday, 9:00pm	Montrose	Film - Repertory & Special Screenings Multimedia Music
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 >>

Rob Zombie, Nekromantix, Captain Clegg & The Night Creatures Verizon Wireless Theater	Wed., November 11, 7:30pm	Downtown/ Midtown	Music
Rob Zombie has been spending a lot more time behind the camera than behind the microphone lately – he’s directed both Halloween and Halloween II since his last album, Educated Horses, came out in 2006. But the roots of Zombie’s psychosexual cinematic creepshows lie in his music,... More >>

Dethklok, Mastodon, Converge, High On Fire Verizon Wireless Theater	Thu., November 12, 6:30pm	Downtown/ Midtown	Music
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 >>

Elvis Perkins In Dearland, A.A. Bondy Walter's on Washington	Thu., November 12, 8:00pm	Heights	Music
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 >>

Kid Pan Alley/Peter Pan Miller Outdoor Theatre	Fri., November 13, 7:00pm	Outer Loop - SE	Film - Repertory & Special Screenings Music
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 >>

The Swell Season, Rachael Yamagata Warehouse Live	Fri., November 13, 7:00pm	East End	Music
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 >>

Marcy Playground, Margot, While You Were Gone Meridian	Fri., November 13, 6:30pm	East End	Music
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 >>

Jewel, Holly Williams Verizon Wireless Theater	Fri., November 13, 8:00pm	Downtown/ Midtown	Music
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 >>

"Classic Numbers" With DJ Wes Wallace Numbers	Every week Friday	Montrose	Music
There aren’t 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 >>

Meese Cactus Music and Video	Sat., November 14, 4:00pm	Lower Shepherd-Kirby	Music
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 >>

Dengue Fever Warehouse Live	Sat., November 14, 7:00pm	East End	Music
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 Fever’s brand of Khmer-American pop-rock is instantly likeable and bears up under repeated... More >>

Chris Brown, New Boyz, Audio Push House of Blues	Sat., November 14, 7:00pm	Downtown/ Midtown	Music
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 >>

Darrell Scott McGonigel's Mucky Duck	Sun., November 15, 6:00pm	Lower Shepherd-Kirby	Music
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. Scott’s 2008 album American Hymns was full of tastfully done covers of everything from Guy Clark (“Old Time... More >>

Mickey Avalon, Beardo Warehouse Live	Sun., November 15, 8:00pm	East End	Music
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 >>

Say Anything, Eisley, Moneen Warehouse Live	Mon., November 16, 6:00pm	East End	Music
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 >>

Zappa Plays Zappa House of Blues	Sat., November 21, 7:30pm	Downtown/ Midtown	Music
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 >>

"Twist & Shout" With The Paisley Pilgrim & The Psychedelic Sex Panther The Mink	Sat., November 28	Montrose	Music
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	Music