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7 Cool & Cheap Things To Do This Weekend -- In Houston, Not At SXSW

T-Bone Walker heir Don Kesee, one of the area's Houston's most underheralded bluesmen - which unfortunately is saying something, but watch a little bit of the above clip at Navasota's Blues Alley festival - comes into the city for a gig at the Shakespeare Pub.

Super Happy Fun Land's SXSW Overflow Fest is still going, welcoming guests from New York (Ghost & Goblin; Teen Girl Scientist Monthly), Chile (Kali Mutsa), Berlin (Fenster), Portland (The Shivas), and lots more. At $8 a night, who doesn't love pot luck?

The Fistful of Soul DJs rock steady and get down all night at Shoeshine Charlie's Big Top Lounge. No cover.

Cactus Music must be running on fumes after a solid week of nearly nonstop instores, but they've got five of them this weekend, all free of course: Brooklyn's We Are Augustines (Friday, 5 p.m.); Sunny Austin singer-songwriter Wendy Colonna (Saturday, 3 p.m.); then Nigerian-born soul songstress Nneka (richt, Sunday, 1 p.m.), Dan Auerbach-endorsed roots-rocker Patrick Sweany (Sunday, 3 p.m.) and hooky brother-and-sister duo the Belle Brigade (Sunday, 5 p.m.).

There are other in-stores besides Cactus, though, you know. MGMT-ish Houston rockers The Boulevard Nights hit up Heights Vinyl at 6 p.m. Saturday.

If it's near St. Paddy's Day, it might be time for Blaggards again. Yep - Friday, Continental Club. Expect whiskey in the jar, and in enything else you can drink out of.

It's bordering on not exactly cheap - unless you're the kind of person who thinks $20 is cheap, in which case good for you - but come on, it's Andrew W.K.'s "I Get Wet" 10th anniversary tour. The man made the words "Party Til You Puke" really mean something, man. Fitzgerald's, 8 p.m.


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Chris Gray has been Music Editor for the Houston Press since 2008. He is the proud father of a Beatles-loving toddler named Oliver.
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