Kelly Doyle (Houston, TX)
https://www.facebook.com/Kelly-Doyle-131184706910240

 

 

 

Deep Cuts (Houston, TX)
https://www.deepcuts.net/

Nominated for Best Pop Act by Houston Press, 2014, 2015
Nominated for Best Indie Rock by Free Press Houston, 2014

Satanic Overlords of Rock N Roll (Houston, TX)
https://www.facebook.com/The-Satanic-Overlords-Of-Rock-N-Roll-1615574542043453

God Damn Soul Fucking, Satan Loving, Rock N Roll Addicted, Hell Junkies!!!!

Bill Fool: Guitar,
Lencho Cevallos: Bass,
Donnie Stokes: Vocals
John Tolczyk: Guitar
Cheech: Drums

 

 

Hogleg (Houston, TX)
https://www.facebook.com/Hoggleg75

Members from poor dumb bastards, Dixie waste, born again virgins, burn the boats. Texas style rock and roll led by ex born again virgins vocalist James Red with his new cast of demon seed.

 

Baron Von Bomblast (Houston, TX)
https://www.facebook.com/baronvonbomblast/

Members:Destroy the living,Bowel, Middlefinger, Slag, Deadhorse, Manhole, Dolly rockers, Brian’s Johnson, 30 foot fall, Pasadena Napalm Division, nuff said

 

 

Die Fast (Los Angeles, CA)
https://diefast.net/diefast.net/Home.html

In late 2000, frontman Tod Jünker drove a black Dodge van from Houston to LA, leaving behind legendary Texas hardcore rockers Spunk (with whom he’d opened for the likes of White Zombie and L7) to found Die Fast.

With the first incarnation of Die Fast, Tod took his DIY attitude and aggressive approach into the studio and recorded Live Ammunition. As good as the album turned out, it lacked the grit and grime that Tod craved. Die Fast disbanded, and Tod recruited a fresh garrison of cannon fodder.
Now a bunch of Texas have come to fill the shoes of the fallen and show the world they have a good / bad thing coming .

Die Fast is a pack of snarling gentlemen fighting to keep raw, raucous, rapid-fire punk rock from choking on its own tongue and flat-lining; filth spewing, friendly, familiar faced bastards crashing through burner after burner.

 

 

The Grizzly Band (Houston, TX)
https://www.facebook.com/TheGrizzlyBand/

 

 

Blackgrass Gospel (Alvin, TX)
https://www.facebook.com/blackgrassgospel/

Black Grass Gospel is an all-original Outlaw Bluegrass band from Alvin,Texas . Prepare for an original darque lyrical adventure supported by haunting melodies , upbeat rhythms , interactive hooks ; and an all encompassing journey into true Americana awesomeness!

 

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.

 

 

Join us one Thursday every month as Joe Apa, formerly of T’afia and Plum Easy Kitchens, brings you food carefully paired with beer selections from some of the finest breweries around. Each month features a different brewery and a unique dining experience. Prices vary for each dinner but reserving before the Monday of the dinner will get you the early bird discount.

Join us on Thursday, August 25th for the

105th

Monthly Beer Dinner

It’s Rudz’s 38th Anniversary!

Whether you are an old Rudz regular, or you have just discovered this gem in the heart of Montrose, you should not miss the Anniversary party! The long weekend starts off with a bang as we unlock the beer cellar for a special Anniversary Beer Dinner. This dinner features two cask conditioned ales from our friends in Blanco, Texas: Real Ale Brewing Company. For the party, we will be tapping a special cask of Real Ale White with fresh grapefruit. It is unfiltered and unpasteurized, and fermentation takes place only in this cask shell without adding additional carbonation being added to it; so no additional added additives are added; just fresh grapefruit however, is added to this brew, which adds a nice, refreshing grapefruit, citrus-y flavor and aroma.* Perfect for a warm day….or a hot day….like a 115° day. The second cask is Real Ale 4 Squared dry-hopped with Amarillo hops, a popular American mid-range alpha acid variety with a unique and distinct aroma; described as flowery, spicy and citrus-like with a distinct orange bouquet. In addition to these casks, we are opening two bottle-aged Dogfish Head ales; Noble Rot: ale brewed with grape must, with additional grape must added and Rhizing Bines: a collabroation IPA with Sierra Nevada brewed with Bravo hops, then dry-hopped with an experimental hop labeled Hop 644. (Note: We are going to chill and taste this one to see if it has aged well, it may be substituted with something else if it has gone south.) And to round out the beer selection, Wittekreke Winter White Ale from Brouwerij De Brabandere. This selection, which at first seems odd, is an Imperial Witbier, bottle-aged for three years, which should be perfect for this hellaciously hot weather. So there you have the 38th Anniversary beer list; food selection will be decided after a trip to the Farmer’s Market and talking to a couple of local purveyors. Sign-up below and come celebrate our 38th Anniversary.

Special Anniversary Beer Dinner price?

Yep, you guessed it…$38 per person

 

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Adam Bricks (Houston, TX)
https://adambricks.tumblr.com/

Houston Songwriter by way of New York has been writing songs about city love and lust since his first release, “City Songs” in 2013. Since he has opened for the likes of Justin Townes Earle, David Dondero and Houston Local favorites Buxton. He is currently working on his new record with members of local indie rockers The Caldwell, set to be released in early 2016 entitled “Relations”

“Adam Bricks looks like another heir to Houston’s tradition of talented storytellers packing acoustic guitars. City Songs, the Bellaire High School grad’s brand-new full-length album, is a ramshackle yet tuneful suite of songs dedicated to Houston itself, and flashes bits of rootsy charm and pop smarts.” – Chris Gray (Houston Press)

Adam Bricks has a fascinating voice. Not a “pretty” voice, mind you. It’s casual and conversational but not lacking color. He sometimes sings a bit behind the beat, which gives his songs a sauntering feeling that is warm and inviting. He has a brilliant collection of new tunes called “City Songs” that puts that voice and his lyrics in a roomy setting that never once leans toward excess, even when he dials in the brass. He’s bright with a lyric, too, and more than occasionally funny as well as poignant as he is in one of my favorite lines: “I’ve been as lonely as a fish in a tank.” – Andrew Dansby (Houston Chronicle)

 

Jana Horn (of Reservations) (Austin, TX)
https://www.reservationsmusic.com/

Taking Time, the first studio album of Austin-based band Reservations, is the first representation of the band as a three-piece, and marks a move from their minimalist-folk roots to a more rock-influenced, spacious sound.

The album was written when Horn was 19, developing over her early years in college when she met bandmates Paul Price (Good Field) and Jason Baczynski (Tacks, The Boy Disaster). Horn’s lyrics on the record generally linger on the weight of coming to terms–a theme that led Horn to associate the album with, and title the album from, Daniel Johnston’s “Some Things Last a Long Time.”

Reservations began as the duo of Horn and Price, who recorded an EP in the summer of 2012 in Horn’s apartment living room in Austin, Texas. The two released a self-titled EP under the moniker Reservations, writing and performing all of the instrumentation with a minimalist approach. Their airy style invited comparisons to Mazzy Star and the Cranberries.

After the release of the EP in 2012, Horn and Price brought friend Jason Baczynski in on drums. In October 2013, the band came to Shine Studios in Austin to begin on their first LP: a 10-song album entitled Taking Time. The record released July 24th, followed by an East Coast U.S. and a Canada/European festival tour. Horn is currently beginning production on the second album and touring solo during summer 2016.

 

 

Vodi (Houston, TX)
https://www.facebook.com/Vodi-507361989445419/