Our friends and neighbors at Free Press Houston just posted the lineup for the next Westheimer Block Party, November 14 and 15 on lower Westheimer. Rumors it’s soon to become the Washington Avenue Block Party in an attempt to coax some of those sweet, sweet yuppie ad dollars out of the Social, Pearl Bar, Block 7 Wine Co., Blue Label, Pandora, etc. are – for now – greatly exaggerated, so all you “Montrose Forever!” types can chill.
Headlining are Brooklyn-based hip-hop rabble-rousers Dead Prez and Jersey garage-soul provacateurs Japanther, along with pretty much every local band you ever heard of. Several of Rocks Off’s favorites are scheduled to play – give or take the inevitable addition/cancellation, of course – including:
TSU Jazz Ensembles (yay!)
The Gold Sounds
Chase Hamblin
Bright Men of Learning
Something Fierce
Female Demand
Alkari
Football, etc.
Elaine Greer
Room 101
I Am Mesmer
Mechanical Boy
Chocolate Crucifix
Ghost Mountain
Springfield Riots
Roky Moon & BOLT
Cavernous
The Manichean
Rusted Shut
Cavernous
The Watermarks
Dead Roses
Delicious Milk
Satin Hooks
Tyagaraja
The Eastern Sea
Shina Rae
American Sharks
Benjamin Wesley
listenlisten
Hell City Kings
Grandfather Child
Woozyhelmet
Free Radicals
Sweet Jesus… you get the idea. There are around 250 artists scheduled to perform – we didn’t count them all, but it took three pages to print out in very, very, very small type. See the complete lineup at www.freepresshouston.com, and kudos to FPH for the coolest Block Party poster we’ve seen yet.
This article appears in Oct 8-14, 2009.
