Whats wrong with your scene? Nothing. (with update)

Late 80’s Seattle, WashingtonThe funny thing was many of the shows in [Charles] Peterson’s classic early Sub Pop photographs weren’t attended by more than a few dozen people. “Bruce [Pavitt] loved those Charles Peterson photos because it made it look like more of an event,” says Bob Whittaker. “Instead of sitting around a stinky club [...]

2007 Houston Style

Man don’t you hate those year end round ups? Me too but I’m also lazy so here you go. A year end round up of some good and bad things from 2007 from my little corner of H-town.Best Live Trend: Festivals/Showcases/Warehouse PartiesThe Free Press and Houston Press’ showcases are cool and all but they didn’t [...]

I’ve got the lawchairs and the beers!

Justin’s was on a roll yesterday on scenes and half-assed music so here’s my rambling response.
First off let’s jump onto the idea of scenes. Roberto rightfully made the point a while back that a scene is fluid and what is and is not a scene is pretty much in the eyes of the beholder. For [...]

Raise a glass for Thee Southmore House and another for the Prolee

My Band Outside the Prolee

PLF at Southmore House

In one week we’ve gotten the news of the Grim Reaper visiting Southmore House in the form of boorish cops at the behest of townhouse owners and then turning around and making a date with the Proletariat in the form of METRO. I’m guessing that to the majority [...]

Another week ends in Purple Rain.

Yeah, it’s been a pretty busy week. To your left you can see the the new Tubes I threw in my 50 watt Marshall. The Russian power tubes are pretty good if a bit heavy on the midrange. On the other hand the JAN “Made in USA” tubes (that’s the small ones) are frikkin sweet!!! [...]

From brilliant to Suck-o-tronic in one night

Well if you could graph the music last night at Rudz it would stay pretty high throughout the night and then take an almost straight drop at about 1am.
OK well first let’s talk about the good stuff. After hearing her on myspace, I finally got so see Hearts of Animals live. You’d think that since [...]