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  Internet Pop Sensation Kero Kero Bonito Thrill Fans on Chilly Night

  November 9 at 7:24 a.m.

  Nothing makes the world feel smaller and more connected like niche internet fandoms. Transcending borders, cultures, even language, the fanatic devotion of online followings is a fascinating and rather heartwarming side-effect of a perpetually logged-on world. At the same time, nothing makes one feel older than standing in a crowd...

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  Mike Watt and the Art of Sublime Punk Invention

  October 22 at 4:30 a.m.

  Mike Watt occupies his own niche in the space and time continuum of punk rock. He seems to belong everywhere and nowhere, simultaneously. Although he graduated high school in 1976 and fervently took the alternative path out of stadium rock clichés by honing jazz-spiel punk escapades in Minutemen, his work...

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  Sum 41: From Past to Present

  October 21 at 4 a.m.

  Even if you weren't into punk-rock back in the 2000s, there's a good chance you've heard some of the genre's most catchy hits. With the pop-punk scene on the rise early in the decade, ear-candy tunes were not only being played on the radio, but also being used in other...

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  Critical Condition Hits the Road and Starts in Houston Tonight

  October 18 at 6:49 a.m.

  At a recent gig at House of J, the upstart band Critical Condition had to begin its set without one of its members. The bedevilment of unexpected Houston traffic struck while this musician was en route to the house show. As he fretted in a sea of cars, his bandmates...

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  New Zealand's Miss June Coming to House of Blues

  October 17 at 4 a.m.

  "We will never be easy to categorize musically." Annabel Liddell, front-woman of the New Zealand punk outfit Miss June, is no stranger to challenging both labels and expectations. In 2013, the same year she began medical school, she recruited the other three members of her raucous and increasingly popular band...

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  The Distillers Brings a Vampire Circus to Houston

  October 16 at 6:48 a.m.

  I’m no Van Helsing, but I’m pretty sure Brody Dalle and The Distillers are vampires. My hunch comes from some of the titles of the band’s biggest hits, “Coral Fang,” “I Am a Revenant” or “Drain the Blood,” for example. While the veteran California punk band didn’t literally drain the...