Month: April 2017

Monday 01 May 2017 – Rudyard’s Open Mic Comedy Night (Free!! doors 7:30pm)

Houston Press Best of 2013 Winner
Best Open-Mike Comedy Night Houston 2013
“With a decent amount of local talent, Houston deserves more stages to feature homegrown comics. Thankfully, Rudz has stepped forward to devote one night a week to nurturing newcomers and showcasing seasoned vets…you can check out a rotating cast of characters, for free — you’d be pretty hard-pressed to find a more fun way to spend a Monday night. Especially if your next Monday night involves going to a funeral. Trust us, this’ll be waaaay funnier.” - Houston Press
Our Free Comedy Open Mic Show Opens At 7:30. Show starts at 8:00
Calendar / Comedy Events

Saturday 29 April 2017 - Public Poetry presents: The PM Show featuring poets: Norma Koontz, Maria Palacios, Bucky Rea and music by Hard Luck Revival (Doors 7:30pm)

A dynamic combo of poets and musicians in an all original show upstairs at Rudyard’s. Featuring Hard Luck Revival Band with poets Maria Palacios, Bucky Rea and Norma Koontz Doors open 7:30 PM; show starts 8:30 PM. Open Mic at 10:30 PM. (Poet tryouts for the June PM Show will be held on Sunday, April 30 from 2-4 PM at Rudz.) Tickets available at https://www.publicpoetry.net/2016/10/pm-show/

 

Calendar / Spoken Word

Friday 28 April 2017 - The Guillotines * Scary Cherry & the Bang Bangs * The Unconvicted

The Guillotines (Houston, TX)
https://www.reverbnation.com/guillotines

“Rudyard’s will have the Turbojugend Deathpunk Slursdays show, this time featuring the metal hardcore sounds of Supergrave. For those who don’t know, Turbojugend or “Turbo Youth” is the fan club arm of matching jacket wearing Turbonegro fans. Houston has like four or five chapters, though this is the Bayou City one’s show……. The garage rock punk of the Robert Conn lead The Guillotines will also be on the bill. Conn may be best known for his work with The Pagans, but this band has just as much power with a better crafted sound……” — Free Press Houston

“I think The Guillotines has a chemistry that bands strive for. We are going to put this record out soon. It is going to be a record that you will want to play LOUD. We are going to bring some bad ass guitar rock to you all!!” — Janet Hammer, Punk Globe

“…. lead man, Conn was one of the original members of The Pagans from Cleveland, OH. Robert was also on The Plague “Just Say No” classic thrash punk album.” — Steven Blythe, AUSTIN POST

Scary Cherry & the Bang Bangs
https://www.scarycherry.com

How does one describe the three-headed monster that is Scary Cherry and the Bang Bangs? With sonic and artistic nods to 70’s glitter rock coupled with a snotty punk rawness, Scary Cherry’s debut LP GIRL is an assured, addled, four-on-the-floor joyride. Scary Cherry combines riot grrrl ethos with the pop smarts of The Runaways for a sound that salutes the past while paving its own hard rock path. From the spoken word album opener of Scary in the recording studio, GIRL is a raw, sometimes disturbing, but ultimately empowering journey through the eyes and life of a girl. The album is a glitter roller coaster, twisting and turning, coursing through a gamut of emotions with no exit until the last disturbing notes of a creepy piano and strings fade away.

While it may sound like the band hails from the gutters of NYC, Scary Cherry and the Bang Bangs actually come from the most unlikely of homes: Dallas, TX. Born out of roller derby in the Lone Star State, team captain and coach for the (then undefeated) Slaughterers, Scary Cherry was asked to write a theme song for the league. Scary recruited like-minded friends and an unstoppable machine was created. 6 years, a few hundred shows and one EP later (the bratty titled Limited Edition 5 Song EP), Scary Cherry and the Bang Bangs have garnered a loyal and ever growing fan base who refer to themselves and the band as Glitter Punks (a moniker the band wears with pride).

Whether they are opening up for Misfits, Megadeth, Slash or Lords of Acid, the band has no demographic boundaries. Having already had 4 original singles played in major market radio, and music featured in film, Scary Cherry and the Bang Bangs and their debutante GIRL are ready to come out in a big way. So who exactly is this GIRL the album speaks of? “She is all of us!” explains Scary Cherry. “From the self-absorbed bitch in “Glitter” to the severely deranged in “Tracked Down” (a love letter from a female serial killer). She is the GIRL that you have averted your gaze from (“Crazy Jane”) as well as the GIRL you cannot take your eyes off of (“Anita 69″).”

GIRL is a simultaneously hyperkinetic, dangerous, sexy beast, and ultimately, the essence of Scary Cherry and the Bang Bangs.

GIRL is Beautiful. GIRL is Ugly. GIRL is Powerful. GIRL is NOW.

 

The Unconvicted (Houston, TX)
https://www.facebook.com/TheUnconvicted/

The Unconvicted is a punk/rock/metal band out of Houston Texas, founded by Mike Penick and Daniel McCrary. They combine elements of Mifits, Minor Threat, Black Flag, with a dash of Alice in Chains to their music. There is not really any specific subgenre that they play. They tend to branch out with many different styles of punk and metal. Their lyrics vary on subjects from the macabre to whiskey drinking and ass kicking. This band is a party.

Calendar / Music Events

Thursday 27 April 2017 - 113th Rudz Beer Tasting Dinner with Joe Apa featuring selections from (512) Brewing Co.

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.
For Details and reservations:
https://www.rudyardspub.com/wordpress/rudyards-beer-tasting-dinners-with-joe-apa/

 

Beer Tasting Events / Calendar

Tuesday 25 April 2017 - Industry Night Karaoke @10pm

Industry Night Karaoke
Free Every Tuesday 10pm - close*

(* Bootown Grown Up Story Time nights 11pm to close)

Industry Specials
$3.00
Fireball/Strawberry Lemonade
$2.50
Montauk
T.W. Samuels Whiskey
$4.00
Death Door Gin

The great Daisuke Inoue, without whom there would be no karaoke.

Calendar / Karaoke

Monday 24 April 2017 – Rudyard’s Open Mic Comedy Night (Free!! doors 7:30pm)

Houston Press Best of 2013 Winner
Best Open-Mike Comedy Night Houston 2013
“With a decent amount of local talent, Houston deserves more stages to feature homegrown comics. Thankfully, Rudz has stepped forward to devote one night a week to nurturing newcomers and showcasing seasoned vets…you can check out a rotating cast of characters, for free — you’d be pretty hard-pressed to find a more fun way to spend a Monday night. Especially if your next Monday night involves going to a funeral. Trust us, this’ll be waaaay funnier.” - Houston Press
Our Free Comedy Open Mic Show Opens At 7:30. Show starts at 8:00
Calendar / Comedy Events

Saturday 22 April 2017 - Prof. Fuzz 63 * Zeroheros * Carreerrs

Prof. Fuzz 63 (Dallas, TX)
https://www.facebook.com/prof.fuzz63/

The Prof.Fuzz 63 is a Dallas-based lo-fi fuzzed-out garage-rock trio that’s been described by one listener as the “love child of Tom Waits and the Supersuckers.” Someone else said we sound like the Velvet Underground, “but not as cool as Lou Reed, because, who is?” Yet another critic said we sounded like “1991 Mudhoney with fuzzed out guitars and British Invasion organ.” We’re ok with those descriptions. We sing songs about food, sex, kittens, crustaceans, pandas, seduction & disappointment, minnie pearl, and nick cave. You know, the intersections where idyllic fantasies get broadsided by the under-insured 18-wheelers of real life running the red light.

 

Zeroheros (Houston, TX)
https://www.facebook.com/zeroheros

RJ Fath & a host of others making noise on the gulf coast of Texas for well over a decade.

 

Carreerrs (Beaumont, TX)
https://carreerrs.bandcamp.com/

CARREERRS is a noise rock band that was formed in Beaumont Texas in the summer of 2015. The band performs as a bass and guitar duo, with sequenced drums, and projected video. The songs focus both on petty scene dynamics and larger social issues with snarky cynicism and satire. Musically, they blend chunky riffs, heavy drums, and melody, with dissonance and washes of noise, bringing to mind bands like Big Black, Scratch Acid, Sonic Youth, and Nirvana.

 

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