ZOMG Psychedelic summer camp! Texas Psychedelic Rock invites you to the 2010 Memorial Day Cosmic Campout, featuring George Kinney of Austin ’60s psych band Golden Dawn. Tickets start at $50 a person, but oddly enough, the event is in Arizona, not Texas. Still looks fun.
As The Smiths would say, we started something with our music writers’ meet-up story. Members of Hands Up Houston respond in two separate threads.
Bands and music-lovers alike are gearing up for SXSW. Here’s a very brief list of some musicians who will be Twittering from the festival.
29-95 reviews the official SXSW iPhone app for the terminally over-scheduled, including MCM.
Houston Calling has a pre-South-By Wild Moccasins profile. They also take a look at Two Star Symphony, who are making their SXSW debut.
Wayside Drive’s second album, recorded at Sugarhill Studios, is available starting today as a free digital download. A new song will be available each Tuesday until all 12 songs are released.
This weekend is The Orange Show’s season opener. It’s free with a donation of non-perishable food.
Speaking of psych-rock, The Mal Thursday Show has a new Texas Tyme Machine podcast up.
Austin Collins & The Rainbirds will celebrate the release of their new album Saturday at West Alabama Ice House with a breast cancer benefit concert. MCM likes the hand-claps in this song.
We’ve heard a lot about Weird Party, mostly due to their own posts on HUH, but have yet to hear them. Joe Mathlete previews the band in advance of their show this weekend, opening for Roky Moon & Bolt before the latter goes on tour.
Tomorrow night The Monocles play a reunion/CD release show at The Backroom.
Robert Ellis and Will Van Horn paired up for a little ditty featuring Will on the banjo.
Marc Brubaker of the Prairie Cadets is working on a project of songs based on WWII-era letters between his grandparents. He’s also been posting quick-and-dirty demos on his blog.
The Norwegians are coming! Friday, Nameless Sound, along with the Norwegian consulate in Houston, presents two acts form the Scandinavian country, Frode Haltli/Trygve Seim and Maja Ratkje. Haltli/Seim are an accordion/sax duo, and Ratkje is an electronic experimental musician. If you have any sense at all, the above video of Ratkje performing in Paris will freak you out.
If you don’t have a Free Press Summerfest ticket yet, you might be able to get a free Dead Weather ticket with your purchase, while supplies last.
Check out HI$TORY, a new Houston hip hop artist who plans to release a CD this year.
Jazz fans: Cezanne wants to know who you’d like to see play at the Montrose staple.
Classic Numbers heads to the ‘burbs. Longtime ’80s DJ Wes Wallace, who’s a Friday night regular at Numbers, has a new gig spinning records at Coaches Sports Bar and Grill in Katy. Coaches’ Katy location boasts a “600 square feet dance floor,” the better to do the Electric Boogaloo on.
Finally, Sasha. Fierce. Is. Dead. That didn’t take long. Beyoncé has decided to kill off her alter-ego, which she said she developed as a way to get over her stage shyness. Uh huh.
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This article appears in Feb 25 – Mar 3, 2010.
