Today Rocks Off is starting a recurring series of local music urban legends; not so much 'urban legends' in the sense of oft-repeated stories that turn out to be false - though those are fine too - but actual legends: events and incidents that get talked about so much they become a part of local lore. Know something that we should look into? Email chris.gray@houstonpress.com.In November 1993, Smashing Pumpkins were about to break big. The band had just released its second LP, Siamese Dream, a
Florida-based indie kids Surfer Blood pull into Mango's tonight, touring ahead of their upcoming Astro Coast LP. The band was recently anointed by Rolling Stone's online feature "Hype Monitor" as "bright and booming and hooky as FM radio in the late '70s."
Rocks Off can hear traces of early "Blue Album" Weezer, fellow Floridians Against Me!, and even a few glimpses of My Morning Jacket in the Surfers' vintage sound. "Swim (to Reach the End)," with its anthemic chorus and echoey vocals, is get
