Here we are again, it’s that annual Houston Press Music Awards Showcase. Now to be honest nobody gives a shit who wins. In fact, for quite a few years I would just simply write-in Rusted Shut for every category even if my band was nominated. Why? Just because, well, why the fuck not? I mean, in the end, it’s really all about celebrating the local bands, drinking like a horse, and waiting for some shit to blow up around Domokos at some point. If that isn’t sweet, I don’t know what is.
Pictures and drunken roundup next week! While I’ll still poke my head into clubs at random, here are the main things I’m gonna try to catch:
4:00 pm ……………..Dizzy Pilot (Bar Bollywood). Solid pop indie stuff with a crazy fro- powered guitarist.
4:00 pm ……………..Poor Dumb Bastards (Grasshopper). Old school guys. We used to play out with them all the time. I’d seen them so many times back in the day that I got kind of burned out on them but I’d been meaning to catch them again – this may be a good excuse.
5:00 pm ……………..The Jonx (Hard Rock Café). Unbeatable trio of proggy post-punk ass whoopers. Plus their album is one of the best things to come out of Houston this year!
5:00 pm ………………Whorehound (Livé). Whorehound is a trio with bass powerhouse Trevi Biles (he of the infamous Brown Paper Dog back in the day). He alone is reason enough to dig Whorehound but he’s also got a solid team along for the ride.
8:00 pm ………………O Pioneers (Grasshopper) Chris Ryan is in this band again I need say no More!
8:00 pm ………………Ragged Hearts (Life Lounge) I’d heard good things about these guys so I may pop my head in.
8:00 pm ………………Satin Hooks (Livé) No they aren’t experimental but they do rock! I hope they get nominated for best experimental every year as it’s pretty funny. A great live band whose upcoming LP is something I am looking forward to hear!
8:00 pm ………………Drop Trio (Red Cat Jazz Café). Motherfuckin’ Smooth Ass Shit! No one else can touch them! I remember one of our biggest thrills was having Ian sit in and play keyboards with us. Ya gotta love people willin’ to slum with the apes.
8:00 pm ………………Drop Trio (Red Cat Jazz Café). Motherfuckin’ Smooth Ass Shit! No one else can touch them! I remember one of our biggest thrills was having Ian sit in and play keyboards with us. Ya gotta love people willin’ to slum with the apes.
9:00 pm ………………Bring Back the Guns (Grasshopper) Energetic poppie indie stuff and with a new album coming out this fall! Always a fun show!
9:00 pm ………………Sideshow Tramps (Hard Rock Café) Formerly the Medicine Show. The new name doesn’t do it for me but there’s no denying the band their dues! Maybe this year I can get inside the club to see them.
9:00 pm ………………Sharks & Sailors (St. Pete’s Dancing Marlin) Oh Jesus, are you sick of me praising this band yet? They are just incredible live and, yes, they too have a new album coming out this fall too!
9:00 pm ……………….The Dimes (Verizon Wireless Theater) Everyone’s favorite sonic youths! Poppy songs, sharp musicianship, and they are playing a theatre which should be pretty amusing.
9:00 pm ………………Sideshow Tramps (Hard Rock Café) Formerly the Medicine Show. The new name doesn’t do it for me but there’s no denying the band their dues! Maybe this year I can get inside the club to see them.
9:00 pm ………………Sharks & Sailors (St. Pete’s Dancing Marlin) Oh Jesus, are you sick of me praising this band yet? They are just incredible live and, yes, they too have a new album coming out this fall too!
9:00 pm ……………….The Dimes (Verizon Wireless Theater) Everyone’s favorite sonic youths! Poppy songs, sharp musicianship, and they are playing a theatre which should be pretty amusing.
10:15 pm……………..Saliva (Verizon Wireless Theater) Just kidding it’s just the lame national act that the Press feels obligated to book. Why? That’s the perpetual question. Nobody cares to see these acts so nobody has ever been able to figure why the Press books these “soon to be playing the Scout Bar” national acts but I suspect it’s either to attract sponsors or simply some sick joke. Whatever the reason for this, just come on out and have fun.
You know, booking Saliva to play the awards show is like getting McDonalds to cater a foodie seminar. The fucking Houston Press and their idiotic slavish mentality strikes again. Ouch. When will those tards learn? Can I get a “never.” Assholes.
take some good photos plz.
well apparently love cuts both ways. and i say that with the kind of irony reminiscent of when irony meant something. btw john you made me snarf…
cut and paste from this week’s Houston Press which re-visits past winners 10 years later:
Who They Were Then: Project Grimm, a “Zeppelified garage rock” outfit with a “drearily arresting debut CD” whose sounds constituted an “uplifting bummer.”
Where They Are Now: Singer-guitarist John Cramer would release a couple more slabs of heartening tragedy before going solo and semiretiring a couple years back. His scathing criticisms of just about any band you care to mention can also be infrequently found in these pages.
Who They Were Then: Linus Pauling Quartet, a mélange of “jazz, rap, hard-core punk, bad college radio and classics from the ’60s and ’70s.”
Where They Are Now: One of the only bands from these awards that both still exists and is still in town, they are also one of the only bands that made drastic progress from that description. Since then, the band has managed to fuse all those influences into one cohesive whole that can remind of you of everything from Black Sabbath to Mission of Burma. The band is a hidden Houston treasure.
source: http://www.houstonpress.com/2007-07-26/music/ten-years-after-the-1997-houston-press-music-awards/2
“that can remind of you of everything”
Damn second rate journalism.
“jazz, rap, hard-core punk, bad college radio and classics from the ’60s and ’70s.”
I think we fed the Press that line of bullshit as a joke. Funny how that comes back to bite us in the ass.
The Chicago Reader just sold to a Tampa based media conglomerate.
Very sad. One of the last independent alternative newspapers and a good one.
I used to think the Public News folks really screwed up a chance to build a good rag for Houston. The reality is these rags are dying everywhere.
This has nothing to do with the Houston Press does it?
Long live the blog.
Indeed.
haven’t you seen? someone ‘resurrected’ the old PN: publicnewsonline.com
Ramona – I did see that. But that someone is a Real Estate schmooze. So…
What are you gonna do?
Skotak!
And you owe me rent.
Skotak, Mr. Moriarty is holding my rent. Sorry about that. If not there check the tiki lounge.