Well, it looks like the weather gods are laughing at Houston again, and have decided to ring in iFest with a good round of drenching rain. So if you'd prefer to remain indoors, don't forget Saturday is Record Store Day - there's even a Web site. Be a good consumer and help out your neighborhood music merchant, won't you? Here's what they've got going on:
Cactus Music (2110 Portsmouth): The mood at Cactus is positively post-coital these days after it got the stamp of approval from none other
I think Apple's "Get a Mac" ad campaign is backfiring. At least for me.The series of television commercials, which stars a laid back hipster (Justin Long) as the Mac Guy and a pudgy, nerdy schlub (John Hodgman) as the PC Guy, is actually making me hate Macs. Why? Well, frankly I find the Mac Guy reminiscent of all those too-cool-for-school hip dudes at bars who talk about how they're way into Jenny Lewis and they want to go to Thailand and have you read David Foster Wallace's p
[Update: at 5:15 p.m. Houston time, the Los Angeles Times confirmed Jackson's death, citing "city and law enforcement sources." The King of Pop was all of 50 years old.]
As if there wasn't enough going on today - Farrah, Roky, Jenny Lewis - the Internet is now exploding with reports of Michael Jackson's cardiac episode. At exactly 4:36 p.m. Houston time, the latest word from TMZ.com was that Jackson's mother and brothers were en route to UCLA Medical Center, while his father, Joe Jackson Sr., t
Craig HlavatyAlthough Rocks Off agrees with a commenter from our review that people really need to STFU when they go to concerts, especially if the music is intimate and acoustic - if you want to talk at Warehouse Live, folks, Lucky's Pub is right next door - Jenny Lewis' rhythm guitarist Johnathan Rice really stirred up a hornet's nest Wednesday night when he pointed out that Lewis' Austin and Dallas audiences did not feel the a similar need to converse during her set.
It's not like Houston has
Photos by Craig Hlavaty
Before a crowd of five or six hundred, Jenny Lewis took Warehouse Live by storm Wednesday night with an hour and half set that included a surprise acoustic encore in the midst of the crowd.Lewis powered through virtually her entire solo catalog as well as a crowd-pleasing Rilo Kiley tidbit before surprising the crowd with her "Acid Tongue," which hushed the entire hall. If safety laws didn't prohibit it, I'm sure hundreds of Bic lighters would have flicked for this kum-ba
29-95's Joe Mathlete introduces the world to "crunkcore" artist Broken-NCYDE.
Prima Donna meltdown or not, Jenny Lewis still has talent. If only she had manners. We Wore Masks screens her "See Fernando" video.
Southern rap is still alive. Thankfully, Cocaine Blunts knows this, giving us H.A.W.K. and Z-Ro's "Diggin' the South."
Houstonist remembers Dave Rask.
Ask any musician: there is something basically and viscerally masculine about the industry itself, and that masculinity can seep into the most feminine of rocker chicks and indie music queens. That swagger, that attitude, that confidence coupled with soft hair, a pair of soft lips and a softly lilting voice can make any girl fall in love with their favorite female musician. It's called a girl crush, and it's all good.Similar to its kissing cousin, the man-crush, a girl crush isn't so much an
