Month: May 2013

Morgue City (Houston, TX)
https://morguecity.net

Morgue City is a band that has gone through many many changes in sound and personnel. Like any successful project in the entertainment world it must be made up of resilient and determined people. This is the case with Morgue City. The band that has a rock attack intensity as well as a more sinister edge as it delves into the darker realms of noiz and it’s concurrent drones. Some of the Morgue City sound is very pop rock oriented but there is always a deviant grind of sound laced in the song work. The band consists of two musicians with a very long history in the music business. Founder, SPIKE the Percussionist, is known from a long list of projects that include Astrogenic Hallucinauting, Childman, Doggebi, Delicate Terror and as the music director for the world renowned flesh suspension group Constructs of Ritual Evolution – CoRE. The lead guitar and vocals are handled by Raul who is a multi instrumentalist and has a long history of studio work and touring. Raul hails from such bands as M-87 and was the former bass player for Bozo Porno Circus. The result is a musical conglomeration both hauntingly familiar and refreshingly new as well as powerful and beautifully dark. Combine the likes of everything from classical to jazz and gloom to power noiz with catchy lyrics, sophisticated beats, and musically diverse melodies and the result is Morgue City.

Hollywood Roadkill (Houston, TX)
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hollywood_Roadkill/145587772180501

hollywood_roadkill is an ongoing musical house that mixes theatrical and performance art with pop electro punk and rock music to bring together something beautiful. HOLLYWOOD_ROADKILL’s founder Kris_c Strange has dedicated more than 11 years of its life to learning how to use it’s voice for more than talking. ” if your not making music because you love it, your making music for the wrong reasons, the fame is fine and dandy the money,shore its awesome but i dont even care about any of that; i just want to be wonderful to be me to be free doing what i love and sharing it with the world, my goal is to touch awaken and inspire art and people men and women who are looking for something more looking for that childhood feeling of imagination of a world not so cold and dark, a world they can grow and live and love life in, reality is what you perceive it to be, my reality is a john lennon imagine type of world, HRK surrounds itself with nothing but artists fashion designer’s , dancers and musicians who strive to create; to birth; and to change the world for the better that is our dream a shared dream..” always looking for new instrumentalists from computer generated musical tracks to pianists and keyboardists and so on. we are still in early stages of creation and are more than welcoming to those who wish to join or even just see what its about. and remember - you dont have to be beautiful to be heard or famous to be seen or rich to make a change or skinny to be a queen IN MY EYES WE ARE ALL BORN SUPER STARS-\
MUCH LOVE -
KRIS_C STRANGE & THE HOLLYWOOD_ROADKILL

The Bad Drugs (Houston, TX)
https://www.facebook.com/TheBadDrugs

Any good time, especially a Rock Revel, would start by taking a pop of The Bad Drugs. Their punk stylings are the perfect outlet for your angst. Come rock with these rebels in the battle against the City of Houston’s unscientific noise ordinance.

Five Eyes Wide (Houston, TX)
https://www.facebook.com/fiveeyeswide

FIVE EYES WIDE is metal at its finest! A true Texas band, its down to earth members hail from a variety of different backgrounds, not to mention a dizzying array of various influences from classical and flamenco, to R&B, rock and of course; heavy metal. In it for a good time; they simply write the music they want to hear. This sound is defined by a thunderous assault of driving rhythms and clarity, heavy guitars with soaring melodies, heart pounding bass, bone crunching drum beats, and smooth vocals that can turn downright monstrous at the drop of a hat. This is THE band to watch

Brothers Grymn (Houston/Austin, TX)
https://www.brothersgrymn.com/

Exuding swagger and confidence by combining classic guitar riffs, boastful lyrics, a thundering beat with a modern electronic edge Brothers Grymn is quickly emerging as a new favorite. An army of sound, Brothers Grymn plays with a ferocity all its own.

Silk Knives (League City, TX)
https://www.reverbnation.com/silkknives

Vocals: Colby Powers
Guitar: John Herrera
Bass: Pinto Pantaleano
Drums: JoJo Kline

Bazile (Houston, TX)
https://www.bazilemusic.com/

Bazile’s Mississippi roots and affinity for film music contribute to his visceral and cinematic songwriting. Accompanied by drums and synthesizer or simply relying on his voice and guitar, he performs stripped-down live versions of his songs. In the studio, Bazile overdubs stringed and keyed parts creating a sound he calls “space folk” and which buffaBLOG has described as “part Beck, part Ben Folds, part Sufjan Stevens.”

Bazile’s debut album, The Sojourn of Professor Narducci, was engineered and co-produced by Alabma Shakes keyboard player Ben Tanner. Their experimental zeal and musical telepathy, which they first established as members of Daryl Strawberry’s New Drug, create an ambiance that transcends the album’s social and introspective themes.

After spending the second half of 2011 in Brazil, absorbing samba and Forest Gumping his way into a chance encounter with Arto Lindsay, Bazile relocated to Houston where he is playing shows and working on his second album.

Ruiners (Houston, TX)
https://www.reverbnation.com/txruiners

Matt Cloud
Shan Pasha

Two dudes
making music in Houston, Texas.

We Scare Coyotes (Houston, TX)
https://wescarecoyotes.bandcamp.com/

indie shoegaze cinematic progressive
there’s a violin with effect pedals involved…

Jennifer O’Brien - Vocals

Jared Newton - Drums

John Zamudio - Bass, Guitar

Jamal (aka) Aaron Glynn - Violin, Bass

Jake - Guitar

Andy McWilliams
https://www.reverbnation.com/andymcwilliams

andy mcwilliams, best known for his work as a Drummer/multi-instrumentalist producer/engineer with the houston indie pop outfit, “The Scattered PAGES”, and his electric guitar work with Joe West & the Sinners.

I have released my first solo record, the Shoegazer EP. through Three Ring Records, San Francisco, CA.

Tody Castillo (Houston, TX)
https://www.todycastillo.com/

Steve Earle first heard Tody Castillo’s music when shopping for producers for Townes, his recent tribute to Townes Van Zandt. One listen to Castillo’s songs gave Earle enough confidence to hire Houston producer Steve Christensen, who helped produce and engineer the recording of Windhorse. Born out of personal tragedy, yet teeming with hope, the songs on Windhorse show Castillo’s depth of songwriting. They range from the dreamy lullaby to all-out rock-and-roll anthems. Castillo played most of the instruments on the recording, as well as being the only writer and singer. His beautiful voice has range and depth rarely found in today’s rock scene. This work maintains the cross-genre appeal that helped his 2005 self-titled release find a broad audience, earning the musician Houston Press‘ Best Unsigned Act award in 2005 (along with nominations for Song of the Year, Songwriter of the Year, and Best Rock/Pop). The album was also the top-selling release at Cactus Music and Video in 2005, outselling even the likes of Coldplay.

“This record unique for me because I’m such a different person,” Castillo says. “I released the first record in February 2005, a few months after I got married. A few months after that, I lost my brother due to an accident. That kind of thing is devastating. My wife then lost someone close in her family as well at the end of 2005. We joked about that year as being ‘the year of the death.’ The following year while playing and promoting the first record, my first son was born. So I lost a brother, and became a husband and a father all around the same time. This record is about that.”

Recorded during coffee-fueled sessions at The Treehouse, the Houston Heights garage apartment studio of Steve Christensen, Windhorse is a series of intimate snapshots into Castillo’s life. The heartbreak over the death of his brother and the joy of becoming a father echo throughout this work. Musicians Eddy Hobizal, Chris Masterson (currently with Son Volt), Steve Brown, and Ryan Biddle helped the duo by adding their skills to the piano, guitar, bass, and percussion on several songs.

Album highlights include “The Shape Of My Heart,” “Spoken Up Sooner,” “The Other Side of Love,” “Hearts On A String,” and “Mustang Island”.

Steve + Mel (Texas, USA)
https://www.steveplusmel.com

Steve Tagliere (Gingersol) and Melody Baldwin Tagliere (the Bellyachers) met while their former bands were playing a show together in Tucson, AZ(2004). Since then they got married, moved to Texas, had some babies, wrote 300 songs and are now resurfacing as Steve and Mel. Sometimes a duo sometimes a choir. “we make up songs and then we sing ’em”

Retox (San Diego, CA)
https://retox.bandpage.com/

2012 has come and gone and we’re still not dead yet. You can log into the 24/7 smiling face, pictures of your friends drunk and/or naked, click “like”. The gray-faced man in a suit who hates you is still alive too, but now he isn’t always wearing a suit, and he’s smiling, 24/7. He likes what you like, sees what you see, hears what you hear. So where does punk go when the underground’s all tidily arranged on a shared screen? Does it roll over and play dead? Shrug? Smile? There’s another man, this one with a microphone jammed halfway down his throat, cord coiled carotid-tight around his neck, dangling his body off the edge of the stage, screaming words that ache. Another is methodically destroying his guitar with his hands while his feet twist tail-ends of the signal into electro-rubber-echo nightmares. Two others are so precisely abusing a bass guitar and a drum kit at such a frenetic pace it’s hard to believe these sorry objects will last more than a few more seconds, but then you realize it’s over. A minute or so, tops. They stare out at you, maybe say thanks. Spit. Breathe. And then they begin again. This will happen for maybe fifteen minutes, altogether. You are not alone. The gray-faced man is not here. There’s the screen, but then there’s this. 2013, and punk is not dead. No more dead than the rest of us.
—Zack Wentz

Retox formed in Southern California in 2010 and released their debut album, Ugly Animals by Retox, via Ipecac in 2011. Their new album is titled YPLL by Retox and will be released by the Epitaph recording company, May 2013.

Donkey Punch (Houston, TX)
https://www.myspace.com/donkeypunchtx

GHETTO – Vocals..

ART – Guitar..

CHOW – Guitar..

LENCHO – Bass..

CHEECHUMS – Drums.

Texxxas (Houston, TX)
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Texxxas/209811355744549

Heavy Shit with members from Bowel, Incisor, Unhinged, Kruller, Superbuick and many many more…

Ghost Police (San Antonio, TX)
https://ghostpolice.bandcamp.com/

Guitar and vocals- James”Cameron” Taylor
Vocals- Steven Remigio
Bass and Vocals- Matt Bright
Drums- Ethan Campa