David Yammer is turning 50 on February 1, 2015. To mark this special date we will be throwing a big shindig at Rudyard’s British Pub. Dave’s latest conglomeration, Barkin At Nothin, will be hitting the stage, along with lots of others bands he played with, or shared stages with, back in the day. If you want to be a part of the on-stage festivities, please message me. Thanks!!! - Lisa Sullivan

Barkin at Nothin (Houston, TX)

https://www.facebook.com/BarkinAtNothinTexas

Still Barkin’

Frank Garymartin, David Yammer and Mark Kelso are all Barkin’@Nothin’. It could be said that these three Texas- based musicians do not possess a very high combined I.Q., but they have a combined musical history of at least 120 years (which probably explains the low I.Q. thing). These three have been playing in various types of rock bands since they were teenagers, such bands and projects as:

Truth Decay, Class Warfare, Toxic Karma, The Spoilers, Daddy Longhead, , The Pain Teens, The Untalented, Imagine World Peace, The Perrmzz, The One Hundred, TX Spoilers, The Walking Time Bombs, Kommando Poet, The Bayou Pigs, Shotgun Wedding, Hostile Poets, Responsible Monsters, Happy As Hell, Papa Gritt, Sinister, Academy Black, Liquor Legends, Project With Pinkus and Helios Creed, Project with Lord Byron (of PDB), Project with That Dude from Ed Hall, Project with El Duderino Trey, Project with BeBe da’King, The Beautiful Dudes.

In addition to recording with most of these varied acts they have also, together and apart, played in so many venues that it would be approaching impossible to remember them all, but here is a partial list:

The Axiom, Howlin’ Wolf, The D.M.Z., Numbers, Trees, KPFT, The Tap, Vinyl Edge Records, Goat’s Head Soup, The Cowhop, AfterDark, Eros Lucas, The Metro, Instant Karma, Bahgies, The Ale House, Backroom, The Vatican, Club Darkzone, Apocalypse Monster Club, The Golden Nugget, Emo’s, Club Tutti Frutti, Tipitina’s, The Limelight, Fitzgerald’s, Pinocchio’s, The PiknPak, Cavity Club, Rudz, Zapatos, Meridian, Music Lab, The Unicorn, The Rusty Nail, The Edge Bar, Club Madrid, The Off Ramp, Club M.O.D., D&I Colonial, Waterloo Records, The Blue Iguana, The Tower Theater, Shadow Canyon, Rockpile Records, KTRU, VFW in NOLA, Escondido, Rocky’s Subs, Joe’s Garage, Cabaret Voltaire (I &II), the Bunker, The Maggot Colony, Washington Ave. Showbar, A&M Tea House, Infinite Records, The Parlor, Millican Falls, Zelda’s, Muddy Waters, The Mausoleum, The Black Cat, Club Rock’n’Roll, Trophies, Dan Electro’s Guitar Bar, Club Apocalypse, Francisco Studios, Texas Music Emporium, 3rd Squirrel Records, Catal Huyuk, KTUL, Club 2010, Guitar Alley, Big Frank’s, Double D’s Slipped Disc, Cougar Den (UofH), Backstage, Harley Daze @ The Hilton, Axiom Reunions, Piknpak Reunion, When We Ruled H-Town Shows, SXSW, Westheimer Arts Fest, NorthbyNorthgate, Mardis Gras, The Whiskey, Storyville Jazz Hall, C.B.G.B.’s, many other clubs and bars and all kinds of parties, balls, suarees , fiestas, keggers, hootenannies, jamboree’s at frat houses, wet t-shirt contests, skateboard competitions, cockfights, deer-camps, studios, garages, warehouses, basements, roofs and parking lots across the U.S. and into Canada and Mexico.

Bad Samaritans (Houston, TX)
https://www.facebook.com/Bad.Samaritans

Mike Stinson (Houston, TX)
https://www.mikestinson.net/

Three years ago, Mike Stinson took a big chance. After clawing his way to the top of the country music club scene in Los Angeles where he was described by Billboard Magazine as the king of the neo-honky-tonkers, Stinson, who wrote Dwight Yoakam’s stellar “Late Great Golden State,” packed a U-Haul, chucked his place in the West Coast pecking order, and moved to Texas to start fresh.

And Texas certainly had an effect on the cerebral Virginian who called L.A. home for 18 years. He fell in love with the space, the torrential rains, and the laid back feel of his new home, Houston. With two stellar, critically praised albums of hardcore honky-tonk and “barnyard rock and roll” in his LA past, immediately upon arrival in Texas he dropped The Jukebox In Your Heart, recorded with Jesse Dayton and his band at Willie Nelson’s Pedernales Studios. “No One To Drink With” from the album was voted best song of the year by the Houston Press in 2010.

But while these tunes certainly received a Texas treatment under Dayton’s guidance, these were songs written prior to the Texas move. Stinson’s already-completed next album, Hell and Half of Georgia, is a mixture of muscular Joe Ely-ish roadhouse bruisers and sawdust-floor tonkers mostly written since relocating. And with noted roots producer R.S. “The Ionizer” Field commanding the ship, Stinson completed the best sounding, most hook-filled album of his career.

A rare voice in this cluttered world of country pop and banjos-for-the-sake-of-banjos alternative country, Stinson has set the bar as high it goes with the monumental “This Year.” One listen to this gripping song establishes that Stinson’s pen is as sharp as any. Stinson is the king of broken hearts, and with “This Year,“ he captures the torment of love like few can. He also shows his cleverness by turning his problems with punctuality into a scorching Bob Dylan-ish burner called “Late For My Funeral.”

Anyone who knows Stinson knows he’s a stubborn cuss, and he lets his attitude roam with loose rein on radio-friendly head-bobber “May Have To Do It” with its slightly dangerous warning: “May have to do it, don’t have to like it.” Suffice to say the witty troubadour has had some day jobs in his past he’d just as soon forget. He also works in the Dylan-ish verse, “Aunt Jemima said that Uncle Sam wants to send me to Afghanistan / He‘ll bring me home with a family plan and I hope you don‘t mind the sand.”

Fact of the matter is, Hell and Half of Georgia elevates Stinson’s game to new heights. And with his crack road band, he remains one of the only bands on the circuit who can do a four-hour two-step honky-tonk gig one night and do an hour-and-a-half rock showcase the next without a change of expression.

It’s no wonder longtime Los Angeles writers like Robert Hilburn and Chris Morris flipped for Stinson’s legitimacy, his realness, his utter sincerity, and his ruthless pursuit of his art. Texas writers like the Houston Press’s music editor Chris Gray did too: “Mike Stinson moved here as the pen inside Dwight Yoakam’s “The Late Great Golden State” and soon gave Houston its best honky-tonk album of the young decade, The Jukebox In Your Heart. A wounded warrior-poet like Bruce Springsteen (“Atlantic City” is a set highlight), Stinson has recorded an as-yet-unreleased follow-up that steps on the gas and lets the heartaches fly.”

The leader of one of the hardest working bands around, Stinson is winning fans one stellar song and one barn-burning show at a time.

Hard Luck Revival (Houston, TX)
https://www.facebook.com/hardluckrevival

Hard Luck Revival is an alternative country band from Houston, Texas.
Mike Porterfield - lead vox, guitar;
Johnson Sutherland - lead guitar, vox;
Marty Starns - fiddle, mandolin, harp;
Steve Scholtes - bass guitar;
Charlie San Miguel - drums

Blackwitch Pudding (Portland, OR)

https://www.blackwitchpudding.com/

“Taste The Pudding is fucking immense. There might be a lot of great humour within the song titles and lyrics but these guys take things very seriously in what they do.”- The Sludgelord

“Thank god for Blackwitch Pudding.” - The Sleeping Shaman

“If you like ingesting fuzzed out bass lines, rich organic percussion and guitar tones that will hit you harder than your first period, check out these wandering wizards.” - Exiled In Eugene

“Laughable, yes, but damn if the trio doesn’t make it seem absolutely crucial to hang onto every Hawkwind-inspired guitar solo, or get wrapped up in vocals that move from winking to growling in a matter of seconds.” - The Portland Mercury

Paying Homage to the rotten filth from which they were born, Blackwitch Pudding is actually a band of three wizards. Legend has it, they were raised from a stagnant used puddle of ergot, left by the mysterious Blackwitch, hundreds of years ago. Trained in the dark arts of doom and witchery, these wizards wander the cosmos in search of nothing, for their path is a simple one: The riffs must be heavy and the smoke must be heavier.

Taste the Pudding is Blackwitch Pudding’s self-produced debut release. Heavy yet catchy, the riffs cast by this power trio of wizards will leave you spellbound. Recorded at Toadhouse Studios, an established sonic proving ground that has churned out gems by the likes of Red Fang, White Orange, and Norska. Mixing, mastering, and final touches were handled by the legendary Billy Anderson, well known for his work with The Melvins, OM, Agalloch, Blood Ceremony, Neurosis, Sleep, Weedeater, and many, many more.

This album, band, and experience are completely self-produced and self-sustaining operations. Great lengths have been taken to ensure that no part of the spectacle that is Blackwitch Pudding has been overlooked. The sights, the sounds, the smells, the lights and the crushing feeling you get in the pit of your stomach travel to every stage, forest, and cabin they play. Hand-crafted by a loyal cadre of dark-art comrades, everything that goes into the BWP experience is tailored to send the listener, and even more so the concert goer, into an unforgettable celestial black hole of stoned-out doom.

Funeral Horse (Houston, TX)
https://funeralhorse.bandcamp.com/

Locate (Houston, TX)
https://www.locatetheband.com/

High energy rock quartet, Locate, fuses psychedelic indie rock, intergalactic space funk, with improvisational free jazz and deep house rhythms into a soulful parade of non-stop grooves.

Zach B. – guitar, vocals
Frank D. – drums
Franklin J. – keys
Marc P. – bass

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