Aftermath: Jemina Pearl Spits, Squeals, Hobbles and Rocks at the Mink
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| Pedro Tijerina |
Garage-Rock Provacateur Jay Reatard Dies Suddenly at Age 29
| Photos by Craig Hlavaty |
"It is with great sadness that we report the passing of our good friend Jay Reatard. Jay died in his sleep last night. We will pass along information about funeral arrangements when they are made public."
Hell City Kings Filming New Video at Rudyard's Tonight
Get Lit: I Slept with Joey Ramone by Mickey Leigh with Legs McNeil
Aftermath: The Jonbenet Goes Out In a Fine Frenzy at Walter's
| Photos by James Allen |
God Help Ye Merry Gentlemen: 10th Grade Cutie's Christmas Album
Rave On: Houston Punks the Hates Do Buddy Holly at Cactus Music
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Our Five Favorite Punk Rock Christmas Songs
Listology: The American Heist Soundtracks Their Funerals
Aftermath: Jay Reatard Keeps It In His Pants at Walter's
| Brittanie Shey |
Inquiring Minds: Garage-Rock Fireman and Kiwi-Punk Buff Jay Reatard
Uptight, Something to Remember Houston's Teenage Kicks By
Five Clips In Memory of L.A. Punk Documentarian Brendan Mullen
Heckler's Delight: Eternal Adolescent Punks The Queers
Where Didn't Monotonix Play Last Night?
Monotonix at Super Happy Fun Land in Houston (Full Tilt Boogie, Ya'll)
Blink-182, the Gateway Drug of Punk Rock
Aftermath: "You Are Gonna Have To Speak Up, We Went To Motorhead Friday Night At Warehouse Live"
| Photos By Eric Sauseda |
Beatles: Rock Band Returns Next Thursday At The "Best Of Houston Birthday Bash" at Lucky's Pub
We will be setting up shop upstairs at Lucky's in our special Rocks Off loft, where dirty deeds will be done dirt cheap, or at least a reasonable market price. There will be plenty of alcohol throughout Lucky's to sate your thirst and to aid in better game play. We noticed that all of you guys got progressively better at the game as you guzzled down the Beatles-themed drinks that the coffeehouse was slinging, which you see evidence of in the video below.
Everything Louder Than Everything Else: Adventures With Motorhead in Pop Culture
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The band is synonymous with danger and disarray. Their logo the "Snaggletooth" and all its interpretations denote something frightening and alternately free at the same time. Lemmy's distinctive facial features and grizzled contentment are pure rock 'n roll, even if both are subject to ridicule from their detractors. The band isn't metal and they aren't punk, but they contributed to both genres' disparate lineages and became the one group that each sub-culture could share a beer over.
Tonight: Yet Another Branch of the Homopolice Bush, The Energy, Debuts at the Mink
Les Paul Is Shredding Axes With Jesus and GG Allin Now (Wait, That Can't Be Right...)
Thanks to Mr. Jesse Dayton for showing us this clip
Les Paul, the musician who literally created the definitive sound of rock 'n roll with his slew of equipment inventions, has passed away at the rockin' age of 94. Seriously if you make it that far after spending your life in smoky halls and recording studios you officially own. The technical baby daddy of rock 'n roll succumbed to complications from pneumonia.
The list of innovations credited and patented by Les Paul stand as a monument to the man that helped shape the sound of rock 'n roll. He pioneered the art of multi-tracking, various delays, phasing, and overdubs. All this on top of helping create with Ted McCarty one the world's most iconic guitars, the Gibson Les Paul.
Houston Remembers Green Day, Back In the Day
| Photos by Rachelle Mendez and Matthew Juarez |
Inquiring Minds: Crown of Thorns' and the Plasmatics' Jean Beauvoir
The Distillery: Rancid's Let the Dominoes Fall
Houston's Rememberances of Warped Tours Past
Local 7-Inches of the Week: A Ditchwater Double Dip
Art Rock: RunnAmucks At The White Swan
Playbill: Pontiak Tonight At The Mink
When you crank it all the way up, Maker hits like a mild concussion with the fuzzy, descending riff of "Laywayed." The buzzing stops just as quickly as it started, leaving you with ringing ears just 30 seconds in. Just when your head starts to clear, the band drops back in on top of you, adding a heady layer of vocals to the already saturated sound, along with drums so wet you can practically feel the spray with each echo-laden pound. From there, "Blood Pride" vaults in next, riding a driving bass-line into a charging blues scale riff built on shimmering guitar and alternating single- and double-note syncopation, dutifully delivering the slight swagger its title implies. Next up, "Wax Worship" reveals a different side of Pontiak, its swirling noise providing the perfect foil to the more anchored sound of the first two cuts. Never content to leave well enough alone, the Carney brothers' blues drone soon rises out of the clattering drums and squalling feedback, like an occult version of Jack White's reductive 12-bar pastiche.
Just in case the drop shift in the middle of "Wax Worship" left you jonesing for noise, the band cannily obliges with 74 seconds of all out pandemonium on "Headless Conference," with cymbals crashing alongside frantically paced drums and similarly rambunctious guitar and bass. This is not about technique, or about melody. This is the exhilarating dip in a frozen lake following a languid sauna - from slightly claustrophobic and vaguely eyelid drooping, to shockingly awake, not quite sure what's going on as you get your bearings. This heaving and jerking occurs repeatedly throughout the album, creating a feel that, while it doesn't exactly flow, never allows complacency. You can't just hear this album -- it makes you listen to it.
Playbill: Strange Boys Hit Mango's Sunday Night
That doesn't mean there's not room for a few bands who plunder the 13th Floor Elevators with the kindergarten abandon of early Clean records. Following 2007's little-heard Nothing EP, last year In The Red issued the Dallas transplants' tinny two-minute single "Woe Is You and Me," setting the table for this past March's woolly full-length, The Strange Boys...And Girls Club.





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