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Cantus Perform at The Clarion at Brazosport College March 2 Cantus is an eight-member male vocal a cappella ensemble based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Cantus is a full-time, professional vocal chamber ensemble, made up of eight men singing in a TTBB (tenor, tenor, baritone, bass), changed male voice arrangement. The artists are self-led, with programming and musical direction coming from within the group itself. The ensemble is known for innovative concert programming, often tying together works of numerous genres to explore a selected narrative, including classical music, orchestral-vocal repertoire, folk music, art song, popular songs, spirituals, and newly commissioned works.

The vocal group maintains a schedule of around 70 live concert performances and 30-40 education/outreach activities in a given season, both in the United States of America and abroad. Cantus is an active proponent of music education, encouraging people of all ages - especially men - to sing.

The ensemble has worked with tens of thousands of singers throughout the country in educational activities ranging from master classes to festivals and collaborations. New members are acquired through annual national auditions.

The ensemble began as a student-run organization at St. Olaf College in 1995.

After a successful northeast tour in the summer of 1998, Cantus transitioned into a professional ensemble and non-profit organization by 1999, based out of Minneapolis, MN. Cantus is the only artist-led full-time vocal ensemble in the United States, and is one of two professional classical male vocal ensembles in the United States that pays its artists full-time salaries, while maintain-

ing a year-round schedule of performances, the other being San Francisco’s Chanticleer.

The ensemble received the 2009 Chorus America Margaret Hillis Award, the first collaborative ensemble to do so. The ensemble’s regular work with students nationwide also garnered Chorus America’s Education Outreach Award in 2011.

Cantus was selected by Minnesota Public Radio to be Artists in Residence for the 2010–11 season. The residency included supported touring, radio co-hosting, and international broadcasts via Performance Today.

In recent seasons, Cantus has been featured with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Boston Pops, and on A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor.

2014 marked the final year of the group’s critically acclaimed collaboration with Theater Latte Da, All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914, which tells the true story of the Christmas Truce of 1914, when World War I soldiers set down their arms to celebrate the holidays with the enemy.

Cantus has released numerous critically acclaimed recordings in 24-bit, HighResolution Compact Disc format, most of which were recorded by noted engineer and Stereophile Magazine Editor, John Atkinson. The group’s 2010, 2011, and 2012 releases That Eternal Day, Christmas with Cantus, and On the Shoulders of Giants brought in the Grammy Award-winning production team of Steve Barnett and Preston Smith for recording, engineering, and mastering.

The current members of Cantus are Jacob Christopher, Zachary Colby, Alberto de la Paz, Paul Scholtz, David Geist, Sam Kreidenweis, Chris Foss, and Samuel Green.

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Night Ranger Performs at Warehouse Live Rock Legends Night Ranger will be performing this month at Warehouse live on Saturday, February 23rd with opening acts Love N War and Johnny Solinger. Doors for this show are at 7:00pm, and the show goes on at 8:00 pm.

This is an all ages show. We’ll see you there.

With more than 17 Million albums sold worldwide, over 3500 live performances, and a radio audience that exceeds 1 Billion. Night Ranger has both epitomized and transcended the arena rock sound and style well beyond that era. With multiple songs that have significantly impacted popular culture, Night Ranger continue to expand their evergrowing fan-base. The band is proof that powerful songs, plus accomplished musicians is the perfect formula for continued success.

Night Ranger have earned widespread acclaim, that includes multi-platinum and gold album status while leaving their indelible mark on the music charts with a string of best-selling albums (Dawn Patrol, Midnight Madness, 7 Wishes, Big Life and Man In Motion). Their popularity is fueled by an impressive string of instantly recognizable hit singles and signature album tracks, including legendary titles such as “Sister Christian”, “Don’t Tell Me You Love Me”, “When You Close Your Eyes”, the anthemic “(You Can Still) Rock In America”, along with “Sentimental Street”, “Goodbye”, “Sing Me Away”, and “Four in the Morning”.

Over the years, the band’s music has made notable contributions to and been featured in many different areas of media and popular culture. The band was one of the first big “video” bands on MTV, with over ten number one hit videos. Night Ranger songs can be heard in TV Shows like, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, American Dad, Glee, Grey’s Anatomy, Parks & Recreation. The band have also had music featured in video games such as, Rock Band, Guitar Hero and Grand Theft Auto, plus hit Broadway musical Rock of Ages, the Oscar-Nominated film Boogie Page 4 - Music News Febuary 2019

Nights, and other feature films such as Friday the 13th, Teachers, Sixteen Candles, and The Secret of My Success.

Night Ranger can also be heard throughout JBL’s “Hear The Truth” brand campaign.

Night Ranger is Jack Blades (bass, vocals), Kelly Keagy (drums, vocals), Brad Gillis (lead & rhythm guitars), Eric Levy (keyboards) and Keri Kelli (lead & rhythm guitars).

Night Ranger is best known for “Sister Christian,” a 1984 single that reached the Top 10 in the U.S. and Canada that later turned into a power ballad perennial. Prior to “Sister Christian,” Night Ranger had a pair of major hits on American Album Rock radio. These included “Don’t Tell Me You Love Me” and “(You Can Still) Rock in America”, but the success of “Sister Christian” helped push them in a pop-friendly direction which they rode through the end of the ’80s, racking up a few hits along the way (“Sentimental Street,” “Goodbye”). The band split in 1989 but in 1996 the original lineup reunited and, over the next two decades, the group would survive various changes in membership, touring regularly and recording occasionally.

Diary of a Madman founding members Brad Gillis (guitar) and Jack Blades (bass) first met while playing in Rubicon, a group led by Jerry Martini of Sly & the Family Stone that spent its time alternating between funk and soft pop in the vein of Chicago. Rubicon had a hit in 1978 with “I’m Gonna Take Care of Everything” but split after a second album in 1979. Gillis and Blades recruited Rubicon touring drummer Kelly Keagy for their new rock-oriented project. Soon, the trio expanded, with ex-Montrose keyboardist Alan Fitzgerald and guitarist Jeff Watson and began playing the Bay Area under the name Stereo, which swiftly became Ranger. By 1982, the group signed to Boardwalk Records but by the time of their debut, Dawn Patrol, at the end of the year, they renamed themselves Night Ranger in order to distance themselves from a country band

that shared a similar name. During the brief time between signing with Boardwalk and the release of Dawn Patrol, Brad Gillis filled in for the late Randy Rhoads on Ozzy Osbourne’s Diary of a Madman tour; he can be heard on the Speak of the Devil live album.

Dawn Patrol generated a rock radio hit in “Don’t Tell Me You Love Me,” but Boardwalk folded after the album’s release, so Night Ranger headed to MCA’s subsidiary Camel. In the fall of 1983, the band released Midnight Madness. Its lead single “(You Can Still) Rock in America” was another AOR hit but “Sister Christian,” a power ballad written by Keagy, turned into Night Ranger’s breakthrough, climbing all the way to five on Billboard’s Hot 100 in 1984.

“When You Close Your Eyes,” its successor, reached 14 at the end of 1984. Night Ranger followed Midnight Madness in the summer of 1985 with 7 Wishes, an album preceded by the power ballad “Sentimental Street.” The single reached eight on the Billboard Hot 100, with “Four in the Morning (I Can’t Take Anymore)” peaking at 19 and “Goodbye” topping out at 17.

Night Ranger recorded the theme song for Michael J. Fox’s 1987 comedy The Secret of My Success, which also served as the first single from their 1987 album Big Life.

This was their first record not produced by Paul Glasser and it represented a shift to a softer sound. Man in Motion arrived in 1988 and “I Did It for Love,” the record’s first single, made it to 16 on Billboard’s Rock Singles chart.

Neverland followed in 1997 and in 1998 they released Seven.

In 2007 Night Ranger returned with their next album, Hole In the Sun. Somewhere in California, their tenth studio album, appeared on Frontiers in 2011, followed by High Road in 2014 and Don’t Let Up in 2017. The band continues to be a very popular act and tours regularly.

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Reverend Horton Heat Performs at the House of Blues

The Reverend, aka the Reverend Horton Heat will be performing this month in Houston at The House of Blues on February 22. He is touring in support of his new Victory Records release, Whole New Life.

“I’m afraid I’m on the Willie Nelson retirement program, which means I’ll never retire,” promises Jim Heath, sounding every inch a Texan.

By day, Jim Heath is a mild-mannered musical historian well-versed in the birthing days of rock and roll. But when the sun goes down, he straps on his signature Gretsch 6120, steps up to the mike and is transformed into Reverend Horton Heat, a hellfire-spewing, rock and roll dare-demon.

Jim’s tome is iconic: From recording with Lemmy Kilmister, being revered by country music legends like Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, touring with Soundgarden, ZZ Top, The Cramps, Social Distortion, White Zombie and the Sex Pistols (a young Lydon was connected to Jim’s original 1985 demo), to providing touring opps to upstarts Kyuss, Hank III, Marilyn Manson and countless others across decades on the road.

Heath and longtime confidant and slapbass general Jimbo Wallace have polished up their 12th release, Whole New Life, which Heath calls “the most positive material I have ever written. It focuses heavily on rock and roll but there is a human interest parallel - songs about growing up poor, vices, marriage, having children and walking the rapturous streets of America.”

Call it a new twist on an old sound, Whole New Life was recorded between Fun Guy Studios and Modern Electric in the band’s hometown of Dallas. The eleven track rumination features new sticksman Arjuna ‘RJ’ Contreras. The Texas based jazz pupil came to the bands attention from a friend’s reference in the summer of 2017, and brought a whole new backbeat to the legendary rockabilly administration. After clicking with Contreras, Heath hired a new pianist in 2018, Matt Jordan, to flesh out the sound with the pomp and power of Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard. “I love playing with these guys, it truly is a whole new band, so the title fits perfectly.”

Recording the album, Heath recalled that “Back in the 1950’s, reverb chambers were really hip and I always loved their warmth. I’m all about Sam Phillips and the things he did with tape machines and tape echo. I love that kind of production value, even if it is older than me! It really sent me to this whole other headspace where I worked with a lot of vintage gear on this album - some of which I built myself for a truly unique sound - ribbon, old tube microphones, pre-amps and stuff. Additionally, a year before I started piecing this together I worked especially hard on my singing voice. Whole New Life brought out something in me where I am screaming more and making more throaty sounds. It’s got some Louisiana feel to it, a bit of gruff and some Roy Orbison style in it. We tested out new tracks on our most recent tour and they are working better with the audience than any new songs we premiered since the early days of the band.”

“This tour started around 1986,” Heath chuckles dryly Reverend Horton Heat still performs nearly 200 shows annually, including their trademark Horton’s Hayride Festival in Southern California, which has expanded to an endof-the-year jamboree under the name Horton’s Holiday Hayride. The band has also wowed soldout crowds with their multi-city residencies across America, including performances at Coachella, Reading, Austin City Limits, Riot Fest and countless other festivals. The Texas troubadours also took a unique approach to the term ‘Special Guests’ on recent tours. Recalling the time the band opened for Jerry Lee Lewis, Heath had a vision, “The idea of playing in Jerry’s backing band would have been pretty neat. So every once in a while we’ll have a load of fun putting that aspect in our live set. In the middle of our set, we’ll have a special guest come on stage for a mini-set where Reverend Horton Heat is the backing band. The first time we did it was with Lemmy Kilmister. We stopped our set midway, the road crew dragged a Marshall amp on stage, wiped the Rickenbacker clean and out came Lem. He was adamant on playing deep cuts, but I fought tooth and nail with him to do ‘Ace Of

Spades.’ I told him, ‘Lemmy, we must do this song, we have to give the people want they want.’

He took a drag of his smoke, looked me square in the eye, and said ‘Never give them what they want, give them what they need!’”

With over 1 million albums sold and nearly 35 years in the game, Heath and company have been delivering blood-pressure inducing scriptures to millions of fans worldwide. Call it rock and roll, psychobilly or what have you, Reverend Horton Heat is often considered an early architect of the latter genre (at least on this side of the Atlantic) and occupies a peculiar place in American musical terrain.

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MUSIC NEWS Trampled by Turtles will be performing at White Oak Music Hall on March 2.

Over the last 15 years, Trampled by Turtles have become a phenomenon, gaining a cult-like following with their signature blend of rock, folk, punk, country, and their own unique take on progressive bluegrass. Undoubtedly, the band’s charm sparks from how dynamic they are.

While their songs are musically upbeat, frontman Dave Simonett’s lyrics are poignant, deeply expressive, and sometimes gut-wrenching; two factors that combined, make for a live show that is affecting, emotional, and powerful enough to transfer the energy from the stage to the crowd.

The band made their triumphant return with their first new music in four years, Life Is Good On the Open Road. The Minnesota sextet began working on the new album in a cabin late last year, the same weekend of the horrific Las Vegas shooting and Tom Petty’s untimely passing. Bonding over the tragedy and loss of a major musical influence, the guys were inspired to create the 12 compelling new songs. Life Is Good On The Open Road spans from tender ballads to driving boot-stompers, sometimes even on the same track, and includes some of the group’s finest work thus far.

Trampled by Turtles hit the road this year and were greeted by their devoted fan base in what has become their most successful year yet —including a record-breaking show with over 10,000 people in attendance at Bayfront Festival Park in their hometown of Duluth, Minnesota, a sold-out performance with nearly 15,000 at the Minnesota State Fair, and selling out multiple nights in venues in major cities like Seattle, D.C., Nashville, and Chicago. Each show is an experience where the band is able to showcase their individual talent as well as their collective, mesmerizing ability to layer harmonies with varied instrumentation. For an idea of how their unparalleled talent translates in person, check out this recent video from their live performance on KEXP. Life Is Good On the Open Road has received praise from Billboard, Paste, Relix, No Depression, The Bluegrass Situation, and Rolling Stone Country, who said, “It balances both delicate ballads and loose, upbeat romps, with

Trampled By Turtles Perform At White Oak Music Hall frontman Dave Simonett’s strident voice connecting the dots.”

In the immortal words of Tom Petty, “You belong somewhere you feel free.” For the Duluth, Minnesota sextet Trampled by Turtles, finding that freedom meant taking a risky approach; rather than continuing full speed ahead with a band that had been successfully touring, writing, and recording music together for the past 15 years, they pumped the breaks and brought the tour bus screeching to a halt.

By the time Trampled by Turtles announced their hiatus in the fall of 2016, the success they’d experienced as a band could only be described as a phenomenon. They’d had multiple albums climb the Billboard charts, with two reaching the No. 1 spot on the Bluegrass charts and one topping the Folk chart; they’d appeared

on The Late Show with David Letterman twice; and they’d performed at nearly every major festival in the U.S. and Canada, from Coachella to Bonnarroo, Lollapalooza, and the Newport Folk Festival, pulling in huge and adoring crowds with their breakneck string performances and heartfelt, sometimes gut-wrenching lyrics.

After all that time traveling together in close quarters and commanding festival and club stages around the country, the six musicians who make up Trampled by Turtles — Dave Simonett, Tim Saxhaug, Dave Carroll, Erik Berry, Ryan Young, and Eamonn McLain — went nearly a year without all being in the same room.

Simonett, the band’s lead singer and songwriter, released a critically acclaimed and highly personal album, Furnace, with his band Dead Man Winter. Other members kept busy with their own side projects in the Twin Cities and their hometown of Duluth, Minnesota, allowing new musical ideas to grow.

By the time the six musicians arranged to get together at banjo player Dave Carroll’s cabin for a meeting in October 2017, there was a pressing question on everyone’s minds: Would the magic that first united them around rapid-fire string music in the early 2000s still remain?

Would they still feel like a band?

“Trampled’s going to get together on a little retreat to see if we all still like each other,” jokes mandolin player Erik Berry, reflecting on that pivotal cabin weekend. “But I don’t want to build up the suspense and fear too much, because quite frankly it was really comfortable and enjoyable. We hung out and made meals together, had some beers together, played some cards, watched the Twins lose to the Yankees, and played some music.”

Their meeting at the cabin came at an unusually emotional time. It was the day that the country learned about the tragic mass shooting at a Las Vegas festival that injured hundreds of music fans, and the day that one of the group’s shared musical heroes, Tom Petty, passed away.

“We started cracking beers and hanging out, and all of a sudden it was like, holy shit,” Simonett recalls. “So we went down by the lake and brought a speaker and a bottle of whiskey, and just sat and listened to like six Tom Petty records straight. It felt good as a band to be sharing in that. Somebody we had all admired so much musically, that we could kind of bond over.”

Within an hour of converging at the cabin, instrument cases were opened and ideas were passed around. By the second day of their retreat, Trampled went live on Facebook with a performance of Tom Petty’s “Wildflowers,” with the lyrics speaking poignantly to the time they’d spent apart. And by the end of the week, they were already workshopping a handful of new songs that Simonett had written, and firming up dates at Pachyderm Studio in Cannon Falls, Minnesota, to record their next record.

“I think a little break was really good,” says Simonett. “I started to miss the guys, and playing music with them. I think everybody kind of felt that way after we got some space, so it was really healthy. We were like, hey, we should make a record — and the feeling was really casual and there was no pressure at all. We were able to do it in a way that kind of felt like 15 years ago.”

Tracking for their new album, Life is Good on the Open Road, was completed in just six days at Pachyderm and mixed the following week. The band produced the album themselves with the help of Pachyderm’s house engineer, Nick Tveitbakk, recording everything live to tape.

Life is Good on the Open Road is the sound of freedom washing over the group like a sunrise, a new day rising. When discussing the album, both Simonett and Berry toyed with the phrase “return to form,” suggesting that it captures something pure and essential about the Trampled by Turtles sound.

“Tim said something kind of interesting – he said, ‘This is the most Trampled by Turtles record we’ve ever made,’” says Berry. “He’s right.”

The band weaves their instruments together like a seamless tapestry, laying down a bed that seems to float underneath Simonett’s expressive voice. Each song seems to tell its own story, from tales of nights gone wrong to love that’s been lost and dreams that need chasing, and the group shifts in unison from tender ballads to barn burning hair-raisers, sometimes in the same song. Simonett’s lyrics, which have grown ever sharper over the years, occasionally rise up to shoot an arrow directly through the heart. “I’ve been moving logs just to keep the fire burning / My voice is gone but the band wants to play,” he sighs on “Right Back Where We Started,” while the title track offers pure poetry: “Run so fast through the fields in May / I forgot what I had to say / I’ve never been through a harder day / Than the one that left your ghost here.”

Although no songs directly address the band’s time apart, there are metaphors that speak to the experience of putting Trampled by Turtles to bed and waking it back up again. As the band prepares to swing back into action, perhaps there’s no better line to summarize their return than on that title track, “Life is Good on the Open Road”: “The light inside you comes and goes / But it never really goes out.”

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John 5 Performs at The Scout Bar March 3

John 5 and The Creatures - comprised of world-renowned guitarist JOHN 5, bassist Ian Ross and drummer Logan Miles Nix - will release a brand new full-length studio album in 2019! John 5 recently teased the album, entitled Invasion, on New Year’s Day 2019 by way of a brand new music video for the new track “Zoinks!” JOHN 5 also posted a teaser of the video featuring behind-the-scenes footage via his YouTube channel.

In the tradition of Scooby Doo and Groovie Goolies, the “Zoinks!” video features an innovative blend of classic 2D hand drawn animation, 3D computer generated imagery and live action. The video is written and directed by Disney animator Brett Broggs (Frozen, WreckIt Ralph), with live footage shot by Matt Zane.

The video also features the voice acting talents of Nikki Sixx, Susan Olsen (known for her role as Cindy Brady on The Brady Bunch), and Fred Coury. Coury also is credited for scoring the video alongside John 5.

The official release date for Invasion will be announced in 2019.Invasion was produced and mixed by Barry Pointer, and will be released via a series of music videos, just as John 5 released his 2017 studio release, Season of the Witch.

In celebration of the upcoming album, John 5 and The Creatures will kick off the second leg of their North American Invasion Tour on February 22, 2019 in Anaheim, CA with a stop at The Scout Bar in Webster on March 3rd.

The tour will feature support from blues-rock guitarist Jared James Nichols. Tickets and VIP packages are available now via www.john5.com/store.

John 5 has worked with a varied range of artists, performing as guitarist for some of the biggest headlining rock bands in the world such as Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson, as well as playing session with Paul Stanley, Rod Stewart, Lynyrd Skynyrd and more. Slash has called John 5, “one of the most mind-blowing guitarists around” and Rob Zombie has dubbed him “a fucking shredder”. John 5 has released seven solo albums to date, as well as a remix album, and has written music for the likes of Avril Lavigne, Garbage, Ricky Martin and others. Season Of The Witch follows his previous solo work, Careful With That Axe, which debuted on the Billboard Heatseekers chart upon release in 2014.

Born in Grosse Pointe, Michigan and picking up a guitar at the tender age of seven, John Lowery was given the nickname John 5 the day he joined Marilyn Manson’s band. A versatile session guitarist known for his speed as well as his keen goth fashion sense (imagine Brandon Lee in The Crow), after moving to L.A. at 18 he scored high-profile gigs touring with Lita Ford and k.d. lang based on his work scoring soundtracks and commercials with producer Bob Marlette. Studio work continued, as he contributed to ex-Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford’s industrial metal group Two and ex-Van Halen singer/showboat David Lee Roth’s The DLR Band album.

Initially rejected in his first audition to play guitar with Manson, John was asked to join Manson on the Rock Is Dead tour, following guitarist Zim Zum’s departure. Two albums were completed with Manson, Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death) and The Golden Age of Grotesque, before John 5 left to pursue a solo career. His debut record, Vertigo, was released in 2004, and that year he founded Loser, a more radio-friendly band, with vocalist Joe Grah of Jibe. His second album, Songs for Sanity, followed in 2005, just as he paired up with White Zombie’s Rob Zombie for Ozzfest. John contributed to the majority of songs on Zombie’s 2006 release, Educated Horses, and decided to disband Loser to tour with Zombie for the next year. His third outing, Devil Knows My Name, gained recognition from a guitarworld.com reader’s poll, awarding him with Best Shred Album of the Year.

With albums by Rob Zombie, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Filter in the works, June of 2008 marked his fourth release, Requiem, which was promoted with a West Coast tour of the Guitar Center retail music chain. After recording Hellbilly Deluxe 2 with Zombie, Lowery returned to writing instrumentals, and The Art of Malice

followed in May of 2010. He followed up in 2012 with God Told Me So, which featured both acoustic and electric songs, as well as a cover of the Michael Jackson hit “Beat It.” In 2014, John 5 released Careful With That Axe. John 5 described the album as having “a real live band sound” that covers a broad spectrum of different music genre. The track “This Is My Rifle” is a tribute to Al Di Meola, while “El Cucuy” is a tribute to Spanish flamenco guitar music. “Jerry’s Breakdown” and “Jiffy Jam” are both cover songs of Jerry Reed, a musician John 5 was familiar with due to his father listening to his albums as a child.

Next came Season of The Witch in 2017, followed by It’s Alive in 2018.

His new album, Invasion is scheduled to be released sometime this year.

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ROCK CENTER BAND REHEARSAL STUDIO FORGET THE REST - PLAY AT THE BEST Greg Brown Performs at Loaded Barrels Loaded Barrels, on FM 1960, brought in singer/ songwriter this night for some great entertainment.

In addition to his own material, Greg also performs a great range of cover songs as well. For our tastes tonight, we really liked the way he performed “Big City Stripper” by Cory Morrow. Loaded Barrels has some great entertainmnet coming in there this month, so we urge you to check ut their calendar in this issue. We’re sure you’re going to find someone there you’d like to see.

Travis Scott Wed. Feb. 13th. Rockers Muse are Live Nation Live Nation is your one-stop shop for all there Fri. Feb. 22nd. the best concerts in town!

Reliant Arena kicks off Rodeo season with Luke Bryan Thurs. Feb. 28th.

At House of Blues you can see guitar virtuoso Eric Johnson Electric Band doing Ah Via Musicom Live Fri. Feb. 1st. Then 90’s rockers Big Head Todd & The Monsters Thurs. Feb. 7th. Rockabillies Reverend Horton Heat are Fri. Feb. 22nd.

Revention Music Center has Dillon Francis X Alison Wonderland: Lost My Mind Tour Fri. Feb. 8th. Then check out Rainbow Kitten Surprise Sat. Feb. 16th.

At Smart Financial Centre, it’s the Dancing With the Stars tour Fri. Feb. 8th, and Latin singer Julio Iglesias Fri. Feb. 15th. Classical entertainer Sarah Brightman takes the stage Mon. Feb. 25th.

At Toyota Center, it’s Latin heartthrob Marc Anthony Sun. Feb. 10th. Then Rapper

Arena Theater Finally, at The Arena Theater: An R&B Valentine’s show with Monica and Major on Thurs, Feb. 14th. Then a country show with Dwight Yoakam & Scooter Brown Fri. Feb. 15th.

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Follow Patrick Gamble and Kevin Hamlin on Facebook to find out when to tune in. Also, catch Patrick Gamble’s acoustic show at Fatty’s in Seabrook on Fri. Feb. 15th. Stay tuned for another event in the works- a 2-day festival coming up called Tune Out Cancer at Clear Lake’s Scout Bar and Pub Level. For more information on this and to see the heartwarming performance at the hospital, please follow them on their Facebook pages. Thanks for supporting live local music!!

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by In the Aftermath, Coozablack and Sin City, Darkness of Tomorrow and Eden Effect Sat. Feb. 9th. Then Frostbite with Habitance Fri. Feb. 15th. Then Connect Productions and BFE Rock Club present Spencer’s 50th b-day with special guests Black Top Syndicate, Michael Kennedy & The Vendettas, Black Standard, and the Blood on the Moon Debut Show Sat. Feb. 23rd. BFE Rock Club has live music, pool, darts, patio, and motorcycles and bikers always welcome!

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Von Hindenburg Performs at The Concert Pub North It was an evening of hardcore Led Zeppelin music this night at The Concert Pub North as Zeppelin tribute band, Von Hindenburg took over the stage.

When it comes to Zeppelin, these guy live, breathe,and eat Zeppelin, staying as true to the sound as they can. And who knows how many Zeppelin songs they can perform. They can do a full night’s worth of entertainment. At any rate, this was one of the best Zeppelin tributes I’ve ever seen. The band is comprised of Andrew Cain (guitar), Steve Candelari (drums), Gene Nunn (vocals), and Dave Blassingame (bass). The guys really put on a good show and if you’re a Zeppelin fan, you’re going to want to see these guys sometime. Thanks goes out to The Concert Pub North for always bringing in the best in Rock and Roll!

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Paws In The Park Come out to Paws in the Park this February!

This fun dog-racing event Nathan Quick Performs at takes place at Walter Hall Loaded Barrels Saloon Park in League City, and this month is on Sat. Feb. Here’s another club that’s bringing in a steady stream of good 16th and Sun. Feb. 17th entertainment. While we were there Nathan and the band were from 8am-noon. Host and performing a great mixture of Rock and Blues. I’ll tell you, Nathan is event organizer Cindy one helluva guitarist. I don’t think there’s anything he can’t play. He Wildman is helping to really did shine on all these songs. From Hendrix’s “Red House” to bring the new sport of Crosby, Still, Nash, & Young’s “Ohio.” They even performed a fantastic version of Johnny Cash’s “Fosolm Prison Blues.” Check out the ad for American Lure Course Loaded Barrels Saloon in this issue to see what great acts they have in Racing to the area! The store for you this month. There’s bound to be someone you’d like to see. event involves a 100-yard dash in a straight line on a straight track where tribute Motorbreath, Slayer tribute War Enthe dog chases a lure, tied on a looping line. No semble, Megadeth tribute Youthanasia, and Anexperience is needed, and all breeds are wel- thrax tribute Among the Living Fri. Feb. 8th. comed. Just bring your pup(s) and see if they Then Insane Clown Posse’s Shaggy 2 Dope with like to race! Learn more about the sport and this special guests Ouija Macc and more Thurs. Feb. local event by going to 14th. Saxon is there Sat. Feb. 16th! Some great www.americanlurecourseracing.com, and if you shows to check out! Scout Bar is found at 28307 decide you’d like to register, call 832-671-3793. Egret Bay Blvd. For all the latest info on the place, go to www.scoutbar.com.

Scout Bar Scout Bar is Clear Lake’s most popular rock lounge, featuring the best in local, regional, and national touring acts! Some bands that are coming up there this month include Boys Don’t Cry, a Cure tribute band with Speedway, a tribute to Morrissey & The Smiths Sat. Feb. 2nd.

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MUSIC NEWS Jonn Del Toro Richardson Performs at Katie’s Bar in Bailiff

Testify (Rage Against The Machine tribute) Performs at The Scout Bar

Tonight we’re at The Scout Bar in Webster to check out the Rage Against The Machine tribute band, Testify. Boy, let me tell you. These guys sound just like the real thing. They were very impressive.

Without a doubt, this is the best Rage Against The Machine tribute band I’ve ever seen. Based out of Houston, TX, Testify is the only tribute to the revolutionary and iconic, Rage Against the Machine, approved by Tom Morello. From neighborhood bars to world class theaters, Testify delivers RATM’s politically driven passion, and energy-filled performances to packed venues. The members are long time musicians and pay tribute to Rage Against the Machine; being one of their biggest influences to pursue music. Now in their 2nd year on stage, the quartet continues to hold audiences in awe as they venture throughout Texas, and southern U.S. region. We’ve got two videos from this show for you to check out at HMNTV Houston Music News Television, so if your a RATM fan, you’re definitely going to want to check

Tonight we’re at Katie’s Bar in Bailiff to see our old friend, Jonn Del Toro Richardson. Jonn has been a fixture on the Blues scene for quite a while now and has performed with a who’s who of local and national Blues artists.

We first met him when he performed with Diunna Greenleaf and the Blue Mercy Blues Band. Jonn while performing with Diunna at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis TN in 2005 was honored with the Albert King Award, the most promising blue guitarist of the competition. In 2007 Jonn played on the Grammy winning album “The Last of the Mississippi Delta Blues Men”. He continues Perkins’ legacy by working with the Pinetop Perkins Foundation. You can hear his influences on his various recordings and live. Jonn has also had the pleasure to work with players such as Otis Taylor, Bob Margolin, Hubert Sumlin, James Cotton, Bob Stroger, Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, Anson Funderburgh, Ronnie Earl, Rich Del Grosso, and many, many more. Jonn has released two CDs with other artists. In 2011 Jonn released “Time day is Blake Jackson and friends acoustic night.

Slips on By” with Rich DelGrosso to great reviews. It garnered a Blues Blast Nomination for best Bring your friends to Pub Level!

Traditional Album and was named one of the top 100 blues CDs by Billboard Magazine of 2011. In 2013 Jonn teamed up with Sean Carney to release “Drivin’ Me Wild”. This album also got great reviews as served as the basis for several European tours. In November 2015 Jonn released his first solo Album, “Tengo Blues”. Produced by Answon Funderburgh this effort charted in the top Treasures Estate Sales & More Treasures Estate Sales & More says, “We 10 blues charts for months and garnered rave reviews throughout the country. It also and earned work for you”! Covering from Houston to him a Blues Blast Award nomination for best new artist in 2016. In May 2017 Jonn won the Blues Galveston and the surrounding areas. They Music Award from The Blues Foundation for Best New Artist Debut Award for “Tengo Blues!” handle all types of Estate Sales from a simple Jonn’s show at Katie’s Bar was nothing less than spectacular, and we’ve got the proof for you right downsizing project to a major liquidation sale. here on HMNTV - Houston Music News Television as we recorded two of his songs from this show.

Check out Jonn for yourself right now and you’ll agree with us, he’s one of the best guitarists we’ve No job is too small. They offer a free no obligaever heard. tion meeting and are here to help take care of the worries of liquidating your family’s treasures and clean up. Hours are from 8am to 8pm, 7 days a Saturdays have live music such as 80’s night do the best for YOU. Estate sales will be adver- week. Call 832-671-3793 to make your appoint- Sat. Feb. 9th, with Brad’s birthday, and then Circus of the Dark presents RockStar Jon with tised on the Web, Facebook, Estatesale.com, ment, or go to www.treasureestatesales&more. friends Sat. Feb. 16th. Circus of the Dark also Estatesales.net, Estatesales.org, and more. You presents Powersoul with Ghetto Dog and Black get Nothing up front; you’re only charged 30%, Vollie Ray’s Circus and get 70%. You’re paid 5-7 days after the sale.

Vollie Ray’s Circus at 937 FM 1959 in Fire Syndicate on Sat. Feb. 23rd. The club is You also get a free visit to your residence for Houston has a lot going on! They provide an open also offering limo excursions for events like prep work. They will set up your estate sale, pro- jam and karaoke Sundays, Mondays, and Tues- Mardi Gras. Call for info at 281-900-3281! mote it, provide supplies that are needed, and days, and Karaoke on Wednesdays and Fridays! Vollie Ray’s is always looking to book new and interesting bands, so give them a call at 832230-1841. We’ll help you get your band out Everyday - $3.50 Wells @ 11 - 5pm there!

Pub Level The pub upstairs and adjacent from Scout Bar is Pub Level Grill & Lounge. They have 53 draft beers, great food, a huge video wall, and is also your headquarters for all things sports on their dozens of TV’s around the bar, for all your favorite sports. Speaking of sports, come to the Big Game Super Bowl party Sun. Feb. 3rd! An acoustic country night with Phillip & Shane is there Fri. Feb. 22nd. Blake Jackson plays Thurs.

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Jailhouse Saloon Jailhouse Saloon is the bar that actually used to an old jail in Spring, but now serves up beer and lives music instead of jail time! There is an open jam there every Sunday with ‘Lectric Ed and Friends, and “Tomcat” Lipka with Crazy Karaoke Tuesdays. Catch bands FM Radio on Fri. Feb. 8th, Random Mojo Sat. Feb. 9th, and Time Warp Fri. Feb. 15th. Other events include North Houston Bike Night with Troublemaker Sat. Feb. 16th, and then on February 23rd check out the “Meanest chili in town” cookoff featuring Satisfied Drive. Jailhouse is at 310 Preston St. in Spring. The commissary is open Monday through Sunday if you get a food craving. Come out and rock the Jailhouse! continued on page 23

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Dwight Yoakam Performs at the Arena Theatre Feb. 15 The grass isn’t always greener on the other side, or bluer in this case, which may be why Dwight Yoakam hadn’t thought of doing a bluegrass album over the years. It was always already implicit in his music, from “Miner’s Prayer” on his first album 30 years ago to his one-off collaborations with Ralph Stanley and Earl Scruggs. If you listened hard, you could even hear that strain of mountain music in the melodies and harmonic sense of his most rockedout country hits. He wasn’t consciously thinking through the years that he could bust out the mandolins to confirm his Kentucky bona fides – “Melodically, it’s just part of my nature,” Yoakam says, “part of the birthright, I guess, in my DNA.” Yet here he is, releasing Swimmin’ Pools, Movie Stars… in the same year that he is celebrating the 30th anniversary of Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.. Swimmin’ Pools, Movie Stars… harks back to that landmark debut in its obviously cheeky title, while otherwise looking even farther back by recasting some of Yoakam’s most classic songs in a style that not only predates cowpunk but antecedes his beloved Bakersfield sound. Yoakam even remakes “Guitars, Cadillacs” in the style of “Man of Constant Sorrow.” No one is ever going to mistake a star so renowned for favoring snug jeans with a Soggy Bottom Boy, but here, he clinches his status as at least an honorary Clinch Mountain lad. “And then Chris Lord-Alge, who has mixed my last 2 studio albums, entered the picture in LA and agreed to add a further edge of Beggars Banquet-esque rock and roll mystique, completing the journey with a masterfully unique sonic framing of the entire project. I believe it was the first bluegrass album that Chris has ever mixed.

“It was part of Alison Krauss’ Union Station band colliding with the remnants of the Soggy Bottom band,” says Yoakam, talking about the four days of band tracking he did in Nashville and April with a group of acoustic all-stars he’d never worked with before. The ensemble included guitarist Bryan Sutton, fiddler Stuart Duncan, bassist Barry Bales, mandolin player Adam Steffey, and banjo player Scott Vestal, under the production oversight of Gary Paczosa (another Krauss veteran) and Jon Randall

(the co-writer of country hits like “Whiskey Lullaby”). “And then I threw, I guess, a hillbilly version of the Beach Boys at it with my harmony vocals. That core bunch of players there in Nashville for those four days was a really fortuitous vortex, with those guys responding to what I wanted to do and me saying, ‘Look, let’s leave it loose and ragged at times.’ Rock and roll got some of its swagger from bluegrass. Let’s go back there and show some of that swagger if we can.”

Swimmin’ Pools, Movie Stars… started as, if not an assignment, at least a suggestion, and one he readily took to once he found the right recording window. “Kevin Welk had asked my managers a couple years ago if I would do a bluegrass album for his then-label Vanguard/Sugar Hill,” Yoakam says. “Subsequently they merged with Concord Music Group, which owned Rounder, and it became that entire music company, and they came back to us again this year. At the first ask, I had been in the middle of doing Second Hand Heart,” his 2015 return to the Warner Bros. Records stable from which he sprang three decades ago. “Cameron Strang, who runs Warners, graciously allowed me to take this year off in terms of delivering my next studio album for them (Warner) to do this project, because he knew it was a passion project for me.”

The original idea was to make it a covers album, before it ended up being an album of Dwight Yoakam covers, with one notable exception – a cover of Prince’s “Purple Rain.” “But when Gary and JR (Randall) came to do a meeting with me, they said, ‘You know, we started listening to your catalog, and we found songs where we thought, “Wow, that was never a single. Nobody ever heard that. Should we do that with him?”’ I let them come to me with titles that they liked. I didn’t really pick; they did. And we ended up with 11 tracks that had been on my earlier albums, but only two of them, ‘Guitars, Cadillacs’ and ‘Please, Please Baby,’ were ever hits. Only one other song had even been a single, ‘These Arms,’ and it didn’t crack the top 30.

So I don’t know if ‘obscure’ is the word for these songs —people that had my albums have come across them — but they’re the tracks that were songs

less traveled.”

The bluegrass influence “has always kind of been, as Glenn Frey would say, whispering in my other ear,” Yoakam says. Some of the signposts: In 1997, Yoakam recorded a cover of the Clash’s “Train in Vain” with Dr. Ralph Stanley on banjo and harmonies. On the Earl Scruggs and Friendsalbum in 2001, Yoakam co-wrote and sang “Borrowed Love” with another one of the genre’s great banjo players.

In the mid-2000s, Yoakam started introducing a bluegrass-style acoustic rave-up mini-set in the middle of his otherwise electrified shows. And it’s been a mutual love affair. The influence he had on bluegrass himself was palpable, most obviously with the release of a Pickin’ on Dwight Yoakam bluegrass tribute album. Just this July, the group Flatt Lonesome was nominated for an International Bluegrass Music Award for Best Song for their cover of Yoakam’s “You’re the One.” But the seed for Yoakam going a little bit more bluegrass himself, outside the realms of duets and tributes? “In deference to his recent passing, I need to mention that the first person who ever mentioned it to me was Ralph Stanley,” Yoakam says.

“In the early ‘90s, I went in and recorded with Ralph

around two Neumann microphones with the live bluegrass band that was the Clinch Mountain Boys at that time. He invited me to be his guest on his double album Saturday Night, Sunday Morning.

And he looked at me after we finished doing ‘Miner’s Prayer’ and said, ‘Me and the band think you ought to think about being a bluegrass singer.’

I said, ‘Well, I guess my birth certificate gives me some credentials to own the holler that I was living in the first couple years of my life, and musically express that.’ Being born into rural southeast Kentucky there in Pike County, which is just across the Virginia state line from the area of the Clinch Mountains where the Stanley Brothers and the Carter Family came out of, maybe it was inevitable. But, having said that, let’s wait a minute and — wee doggies! – see what we did to it.”

Wee doggies, indeed. The principal tracks for Swimmin’ Pools, Movie Stars… were recorded at Zac Brown’s studio in Nashville, Southern Ground (formerly Fred Foster’s Monument Records home, memorialized in Dave Grohl’s recent documentary visit to the nation’s great recording stu

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Your Guide To Great Food and Entertainment Inside The 610 Loop Music News Not only can you pick up a copy of Music News at your favorite hangout you can also have it directly delivered to your home or business absolutely free. That’s right, we said FREE! All you have to do is e-mail musicnew@airmail.net and in the subject line put “Sign me up now”! Then you can have the latest issue of Music News magazine sent directly to your inbox. Be the first to know about late breaking news, and receive periodic Eblasts about special events, concert updates, as well as info on other cool things going on in the great city of Houston!

Rock N Ray’s Nightclub Rock N Ray’s is the new club over at 6919 Lyons Ave. with beer, wine, and set-ups. If you get there early, then check out drink specials from 8pm-9pm! Calling all local talent! Check out the new open jam Thursday at 7pm-10pm, and Sunday 3pm-8pm! The February line-up of live music includes tribute bands Pantera tribute Mouth For War, Killswitch Engage tribute Element of One, and Deftones tribute Deftunes on Sat. Feb. 9th. Also Midnight Moses and Shy Fox Sat. Feb. 15th and Maximum Force play Sat. Feb. 22nd. Rock out with Ray at Rock N Ray’s!

Punk Rock Stacy Benefit at Rudyard’s British Pub The Punk Rock Stacy Benefit at Rudyard’s British Pub was a huge success. A lot of band showed up to show their support and perform.

Among them were Project Grimm, Slow Future, Cactus Flower, Only Beast, Whorehound, The Velostacks, Poor Dumb Bastards, Killer Hearts, The Satanic Overlords of Rock and Roll, and more. We dropped by there for two evenings of entertainment for the three night benefit and saw Killer Hearts (top left) and the Poor Dumb Bastards (top right). In addition to the live entertainment they also featured a silent auction that brought in a fair amount of money. While the Punk Rock Stacy Benefit was a success, it pains us to tell you that unfortunately Punk Rock Stacy (Stacy Hartoon) lost her battle for survival and passed on the following weekend. I really don’t know what to say, except that Stacy will definitely be missed by her parents, friends, the folks at Rudyard’s and the many bands she worked with at the club. We will miss her greatly ourselves.

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Ballroom Sun. Feb 17th. Night Ranger w/ Love N War with Johnny Solinger Feb. 23rd in the Ballroom. Get tickets on www.ticketfly.com for these shows and more! For more info about Warehouse Live and other upcoming events, go to www.warehouselive.com.

Warehouse Live is the large music venue at 813 St. Emanuel St. in Houston that has three rooms: the Studio, Ballroom, and Green Room. All kinds of entertainment happen in those rooms. Battle of the Bands is there Tues.

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Your Guide To Great Food and Entertainment Inside The 610 Loop White Oak Music Hall White Oak Music Hall is a newer venue in the Montrose area that has been booking a lot of major label and indie bands.

It has a nice clean atmosphere. What also makes it great is that it has the space of a concert hall (two floors), yet the intimacy of a club. They have a great sound system to boot. Shows this month include Neko Case Thurs. Feb. 7th (downstairs), G. Love & Special Sauce Fri. Feb. 15th (upstairs).

Then, metal fans will like Metal Meltdown: No Remorse, a tribute to Metallica, and Godless, and a tribute to Danzig on Fri. Feb. 22nd (downstairs). White Oak Music Hall is at 2915 N Main St. Keep up with all the latest show info at www.whiteoakmusichall.com.

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Big Easy Sat. Feb. 16th! Rick Lee is there Fri. Feb. 23rd. The monthly National Zydeco Jam is Sun. Feb. 24th. The monthly Houston Blues Society Jam is Thurs. Feb. 28th. The Big Easy is at 5731 Kirby Dr. in Houston. Yeah, you right!

The Continental Club The Continental Club is the after the

HOUSTON UNDERGROUND 850 McKee Street • Houston, TX 77002 Friday, February 1 Baked Up Saturday, February 2 Juan Gotti Tuesday, February 12 Open Mic Thursday, February 14 EMO NIGHT!! with Curt Travis & Jordan Blake Friday, February 15 WITCHFEST! Saturday, February 16 Street Military Saturday, February 23 SLAMDOWN AT THE UNDERGROUND! ROCK SHOW!!

Thursday, February 28 BASS CATHEDRAL featuring Bainbridge Thursday, March 14 OSIRUS!

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The Big Easy is celebrating 25 years of livin’ the Blues! The schedule of entertainment has Zydeco on Sunday, John Egan on Mondays, James Wilhite on Tuesdays, The Big & Easy Blues Jam on Wednesdays, then The Healers on Thursdays. Some of the guests performing this month are Paul Ramirez Fri. Feb. 8th, and Mark May performing at the 25th anniversary party of The

The Deftunes and Vicinity Of War Perform at Rock ‘N’ Rays It was a marathon night of Tribute Bands at Rock ‘N’ Rays this night and the crowd there were loving it. Ray and Sylvia had three of Houston’s hottest tribute bands on stage for their club tonight. On stage performing were Hard Wired To Kill ‘Em All (Metallica Tribute), The Deftunes (Deftones Tribute - pictured at top left), and Vicinity Of War (System of a Down Tribute - pictured at top right). All the bands put on great shows. Believe me, if you were into Metallica, The Deftones, or System of a Down, you got a great night of music. Rock ‘N’ Rays is quickly becoming one of the hottest Rock clubs inside the 610 Loop. Every month they’re bringing in great entertainment. Some of the acts performing this month performing at Rock ‘N’ Rays are the John Barraza Project, Shy Fox, Maximum force, Mouth For War, Dave Miley, and more. Drop by and check ‘em out.

original location which opened up in Austin in 1955 as a “swanky, private supper club”. Located at 3700 Main St. in Houston, they have honored the tradition of bringing the best in local roots, Rockabilly, swing, country and blues in the area to their club since opening up in 2000.

Beetle, a Beatles tribute plays a happy hour show on Thursdays at 7pm.

Los Skarnales play Fri. Feb. 8th, and then Jonathan Richman Sat. Feb. 16th. The Flesh Eaters and Sean Wheeler are on Thurs. Feb. 21st.

Shoeshine Charley’s Big Top Lounge is also right on the property. Here are some of their shows: Peter and James are there Wednesdays at 10pm.

Then get ready for a 60’s dance party Fri. Feb. 8th.

Then it’s a Valentine’s Day Dance w/ Motion Potion Thurs. Feb. 14th.

Then it’s Industry Nite w/ The Ghost Party vs.

Soft Wear Tues. Feb. 26th. For more info, go t o www.continentalclub.com.

Mark May Performs at The Big Easy We dropped in at The Big Easy to wish our old buddy Mark May the best as he performed at the HBS-IBC Sendoff Party. As expected, Mark and the band were in fine form. As of this writing, we still don’t know the results, but were sure that Mark put on a damn good show!

Leonard ‘Lowdown’ Brown Performs at The Big Easy While at The Big Easy for the HBS-IBC Sendoff Party we also saw Leonard ‘Lowdown’ Brown perform. Leonard was simply fantastic.

We also filmed a video of him performing there, so when you get a chance, tune into HMNTV - Houston Music News Television at http:// www.houstonmusicnews.net and check it out.

The Heights Theater The Heights Theater is a restored early-1900’s movie house-turned performance venue in where else, but the Heights!

It is now being used for private events, and band gigs. Some great music is in store this month, with Marc Broussard and David Grace Thurs. Feb. 14th, then Sat. Feb. 23rd John Oates with The Good Road Band, then The Zombies Wed. Feb. 27th. The Heights Theater is at 339 W. 19th St. in Houston.

Check them out www.theheightstheater.com. continued on next page

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Your Guide To Great Food and Entertainment Inside The 610 Loop Last Concert Cafe Last Concert Cafe is in the historic building that has been around since the 1940’s! They serve homemade Mexican meals, alcoholic beverages, and has the unique added feature of an outdoor stage, with live music in a sandfilled courtyard. Weekly happenings include, Sundays have the Sunday Brunch and Acoustic Jam from 11am-3pm, then Shared Space Monday nights from 7pm2am, featuring local live music, dancing, and art.

Tuesday nights have Howard & The Nosebleeds Family Jam, with an open jam following their set. Wednesday nights have Pot Roast and The Midnight Drum Circle. Other events this month are Henry & The Invisibles Thurs. Feb. 7th, a FREE show with If You Have to Ask Sat. Feb. 16th, and Funk Friday with Ben Vibin featuring Leigh Sinclair on Fri. Feb. 22nd. Last Concert Cafe is at 1403 Nance Street in Houston.

Come on down for some fun!

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25 Years of Livin’ the Blues 5731 KIRBY • HOUSTON, TEXAS • 713-523-9999 Cycles Performs at Dan Electro’s Guitar Bar We out in the newly remodeled back yard and patio at The Last Concert Cafe to see the band Cycles from Denver, Colorado. Cycles epitomize the power-trio format with ripping guitar, fat bass grooves played out through furious slapping, and dynamic drum beats flowing over intricate tempo changes. Each member wields a unique take on their instrument that when played together, forms a truly fresh and cohesive sound.

Patrick Harvey commands the guitar with speed and precision reminiscent of Jimmy Herring while using his loop pedal virtually as its own instrument, a skill unique only to him. Michael Wood has subtly forged a drum style that showcases his rare ability to mashup funky hip-hop beats with frenzied rock riffs and only displays flashy technique when necessary while implementing the creative use of various soundmodulating drum triggers. At the heart of the band lies Tucker McClung’s dominant slap-bass chops that captivates audiences and pumps the musical blood through the band. Their show at The Last Concert this night was really entertaining and really topped our evening off with some great entertainment. They have some great songs. In fact, we really enjoyed everything they performed this evening. We hope to see them again when they swing down this way, hopefully back at the Last Concert Cafe again. In the meantime, we’re going to have to be satisfied with just rematching the two videos we have posted here on HMNTV Houston Music News Television for you to watch. Check ‘em out now at http://www.houstonmusicnews.net

Rudyard’s British Pub Rudyard’s is located in the Montrose area at 2010 Waugh.

They never have a cover for the downstairs bar Amen Dunes and Arthur Perform at Rockefellers with darts, pool, big- Amen Dunes aka Damon McMahon (top photo) performs at Rockefellers screen TV, plus a full bar! this night. Amen Dunes played selections from their album release, The flame grill is open 7 Freedom. Amen Dunes took three years to record their latest effort Freedom. After initially recording the album, the band scrapped those days a week at 11:30am. recording and re-recorded Freedom, which turned into an album that Here’s their weekly en- they are really proud of. The band’s show this night was really good tertainment schedule: and the band packed the house. Opening up for Amen Dunes was the Hot Jazz Sundays with Philadelphia based band, Arthur, (bottom photo) who put on a fine show as well.

NO cover at 6pm downstairs, A Couple of Stand Up Guys comedy open mic on Mondays, Tuesdays Industry and Karaoke night, Wednesdays Houston Reddit board game meet up, and Thursday Night Dart Tournament. Fridays and Saturdays have live music, like The Dirty Seeds and Arsis Thesis Fri. Feb. 15th. Mary Cutrufello, Ethereal, Merkava, Dust in the Void and The Crunge play Fri. Feb. 22nd. Check out more about Rudyard’s at www.rudyardspub.com. continued on next page February 2019

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Then it’s the Brazilian Carnaval “Carnaval Brasileiro de Houston 2019” Sat. March 2nd. Rockefeller’s is at 3620 Washington Ave. Call 713-862-4070. Rockefeller’s rocks Houston!

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Hold On Hollwood

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By Amber Fox Remarkably talented, incredibly humble and some of the most genuine guys you’ll ever meet. Houston’s own musician bad-asses have made a huge entrance here in the music scene and only plan on growing more successful. The band consists of four guys: Ian Dartez - lead vocals and guitarist, Nick Dees- Lead Guitarist and back up vocals, Devin Holden- Drums and Corey Morgan- Bass. The charisma and chemistry this particular group of guys all have together is nothing short of marvelous. They might as well be reading each others minds because that is exactly how in tune they are with one another. Working together comes so natural to them and it shows in their presence on and off stage.

Hold on Hollywood came to be in 2014, meeting through mutual friends and affiliations with the same venues, more specifically BFE Rock Club on an open mic night. Knowing each other since a young age, even though Corey met the others later on in his life, all four boys hit it off and have amazing chemistry together. Almost immediately the group started the plan to bring Hold On Hollywood into existence. Practicing routinely all while becoming best friends, the band debut in their first live appearance at BFE Rock Club On April 24th, 2015 almost selling out the show! A packed house welcomed the newly arranged band and things only took off for them from there.

After about a year long hiatus, on March 23rd of 2018, Hold On Hollywood finally got their big break! They entered a contest with the Rod Ryan Show of 94.5 the buzz. The rules were to submit a music video of an original song and this is when Hold On Hollywood sent in their now huge hit, “The Chase.” To their surprise, they made it into the top 10 and from there it came down to fans, friends and family to vote in order for them to have a chance at winning. When the news came in Hold On Hollywood was shocked!

They had won the contest and were now going to open up for the global icon Bon Jovi himself!

The city of Houston had shown their support and love for the band and pushed them into the winning spot giving Hold On Hollywood their first largely publicized show and putting them on the map. On the 23rd of March in 2018, the show was held at the Toyota Center, which holds over 18,000 people. Not only was this the largest show the band had ever played, but it also rewarded them with their song “The Chase” being put into rotation on the radio with 94.5 The Buzz and Establishing a relationship with Rod Ryan and Elliot Wood of 94.5 The Buzz.

Since the boys were now a huge success here in Houston by establishing a relationship with The Buzz and having their original song played on the radio daily, it was only natural that they were invited by The Buzz to play at the Bud Light Roast. This is a huge local rock show that The Buzz puts on yearly. This particular year happened to have national bands such as Theory of a Dead man, AWOLNATION, Robert Delong, and Blue October playing at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion. On July 21st of 2018, Hold on Hollywood joined these huge headlining acts at the Bud Light Roast playing at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion for their first time ever and securing their future here in Houston by officially playing 2 of the largest venues this city has to offer musicians within just a 4 month span of time!

Just 3 short months later on October 27th of 2018, Hold on Hollywood played at one of the most iconic rock festivals Houston has to offer, Buzzfest! Our Houston boys played right along side of national headlining acts such as The Struts, Puddle of Mudd, Mike Shinoda, Dirty Heads, Chevelle and A Perfect Circle. All four guys agree that this particular show meant an enormous deal to them personally and also sealed their future in the industry as being new and upcoming music icons on their way towards national fame. For Corey, this was a show he had been looking forward to playing his whole life.

Buzzfest was not only one of Devin’s favorite

shows; it was also his first time ever attending Buzzfest all together! Imagine the first time playing at your largest local rock festival and it also being the first time you have ever even attended in general! Humble is a word the band kept using to describe the experience. Not only did they rock the stage at Buzzfest with some iconic national bands right along side them, Hold on Hollywood made sure to take the time to meet their fans, get to know them personally, and enjoyed everything Buzzfest had to offer while hanging out with the people of Houston.

The guys from Hold on Hollywood are incredibly down to earth, genuinely caring and the sweetest people you’ll meet. The most important part of being in a band according to Hold on Hollywood is their interactions with the fans.

The guys are truly humbled by the reaction, support and loyalty from their fans. So much in fact that Nick Dees clarified “I don’t like using the term ‘fans,’ I prefer to use ‘family.’ That’s what I feel like we are building here.” Corey following with “fans become family and friends and those are the people you see at every show.” The members in the band Hold on Hollywood are not just musicians; they are stand up guys here in the Houston community and never forget to make a difference in the lives of others and those who may need a welcoming hand. The band knows what it means to their growing Houston “family” when they take the extra time to show some care and respect for the people who follow Hold on Hollywood. The guys know what it feels like when their idols do the same for them therefor Hold on Hollywood would never miss out on a chance to meet people who love their music.

When it comes down to it, the members of Hold on Hollywood are just like us and enjoy things like food/cooking, console/PC gaming, and just relaxing or laughing with friends when given the chance.

Since 2018 was so jam-packed and full of huge concerts for Hold on Hollywood to perform in, it doesn’t seem like they got to rest very much.

In fact, 2019 is looking busy in this bands future also! Hold on Hollywood has already shown off some of their matured, new music sound in their song “second favorite word” and received tons of positive feedback about it. 2019 has a lot in store for everyone because Hold on Hollywood plans on releasing even more new content such as EP/s, music videos, and new national tour dates hopefully! The band is working hard in the studio on new songs at the moment; they have been having a creative “binge writing” type of life lately. Hold on Hollywood has never been so focused and pumping out the new songs flawlessly. Be prepared for a more well-seasoned and matured Hold on Hollywood.

While everyone is waiting anxiously for the release of new music from Hold on Hollywood, it is possible to catch a show and see them live! Their first Houston show of 2019 will be at District 249 on February 16th. Hold on Hollywood will be the headlining that show and are very excited about their first Houston show coming up! Special guests Erase the Virus, Key Flight Captains and Collective Mindz will accompany Hold on Hollywood. Tickets are on sale right now for the District 249 show and are $10.00 a piece.

You will regret missing this show, so it is worth it to mark you calendar and venture out to District 249 to see Hold on Hollywood’s first hometown show of the year.

The band has a few other cool shows lined up as of now such as Bond’s Rock Bar in San Antonio on March 8th, always a good time. Wildcatters in Katy TX on March 9th will be coming right after their show at Bond’s Rock Bar. On April 26th Hold on Hollywood will be playing with Hinder at the Bikes on the Bayou event.

Tickets go on sale February 1st for the Bikes on the Bayou show. All of these shows and more are listed on the bands web page www.Holdonhollywood.com and you can also find more information on the band and shows if you visit their Facebook page at

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MUSIC NEWS Friday, February 1 Texas Johnny Boy (The Big Easy Social & Pleasure Club) The Fab 4- “The Ultimate Tribute” (Beatles tribute) (Revention Music Center) Eric Johnson Electric Band (music hall); “Be Someone” featuring Bayou City Outlaw Band (8pm) (foundation room); “Encore” featuring DJ Dayta (10pm) (foundation room) (House of Blues) Sevendust w/Tremonti, Cane Hill, Lullwater, & Kirra (Scout Bar) “Conn3ct3d” tour featuring Wifisfuneral w/ Robb Bank$, Lil 3rd, Mikey McFly & Tank Head of Members Only (ballroom); Keshi (greenroom) (Warehouse Live) Twiddle w/The Hip Abduction (Last Concert Café) Glory Kickboxing 63: Petch vs Adamchuk (Arena Theatre) Magician John Star (Frank’s Pizza) Picture Book Happy Hour; Blushing w/Rose Ette, & Flower Graves (Continental Club) Allison Fisher Band (Shoeshine Charley’s Big Top @ Continental Club) Rivals (The Secret Group) Rachel Yamagata w/Radnor & Lee (upstairs) (White Oak Music Hall) “80’s Party Fridays” w/80 Proof (The Concert Pub/North) Joan Osborne (performing music by Bob Dylan) w/Sherita Perez (The Heights Theatre) A Sinclair w/El Lago, & Young Mammals (Rudyard’s) Baked Up (Houston Underground) Karaoke (Vollie Ray’s Circus) Dave Miley- classic rock showcase (Rock N Ray’s) Bobaflex w/Hindsight, Chamber of Ascension, Michael Kennedy and the Vendetta, & Phantom Eye (BFE Rock Club) Keith Hickle (Loaded Barrels) Paul Ramirez (Katie’s) The Brush Poppers (19th Hole Grill & Sports Bar) Acoustic Jam hosted by Starr Jernigan (Cruiser’s) DJ (Shenanigans) Texas TNT (The Abbey Pub)

(Pub Level) A Couple of Stand-up Guys- Open Mic (Rudyard’s) Open Mic/Karaoke (Vollie Ray’s Circus)

Saturday, February 2 Mighty Orq (The Big Easy Social & Pleasure Club) Rebelution (Revention Music Center) SiriusXM presents: “Octanes’s Accelerator” tour featuring Like a Storm w/Royal Tusk, & Afterlife (6pm) (bronze peacock room); The Cadillac Three w/Kyle Daniel (7pm) (bronze peacock room); “Encore” featuring DJ Red Soda & DJ Sky Walka (foundation room) (House of Blues) Boys don’t Cry (The Cure tribute) w/Speedway (Morrissey & The Smiths tribute) (Scout Bar) Hightailers 30th anniversary throwdown (Last Concert Café) A Oscuras Me Da Risa (Arena Theatre) Calliope Musicals w/Whit, & Pearl Crush (Continental Club) Robert Kraft Trio (Shoeshine Charley’s Big Top @ Continental Club) Black Tiger Sex Machine w/Lektrique, & He$h (Stereo Live) Peter Murphy- “40 Years of Bauhaus” w/David J (downstairs); Open Source (upstairs) (White Oak Music Hall) Mo’s 51st Bday Bash (The Concert Pub/North) Live and Loud Productions presents: Skatenigs w/Sex Pump, Los De Verdad, & Broke Off (Rudyard’s) Juan Gotti (Houston Underground) Circus of the Dark presents: Glass to Slay (Vollie Ray’s Circus) John Barraza Project (Rock N Ray’s) Hogleg w/Bayou Vimana, & Konkerute hosted

by Bayou Vimana (BFE Rock Club) No Refund Band (Loaded Barrels) Mark May (Katie’s) Black Fire Syndicate w/CoupDe’Tat, Milkcrate, & 2 Cold (19th Hole Grill & Sports Bar)

Benefit for Susan Skie Methwin w/Blaggards (Ashford Pub) Donnie Simmons & the Gulf Coast Cruisers (Cruiser’s) Hydrophonics (Jailhouse Saloon) Free Juke Box (Shenanigans) Sunday, February 3 Ruben Moreno (The Big Easy Social & Pleasure Club) “Big Game Blowout” (4pm) (restaurant event); “Big Game Bash” (5pm) (foundation room) (House of Blues) Keshi (greenroom) (Warehouse Live) Sunday Brunch & Acoustic Jam (Last Concert Café) “Super Bowl Party”; Beer Pong hosted by J. Cripps w/DJ Bri Bri (Pub Level) William Fitzsimmons (Continental Club) Artbat (Stereo Live) Super Bowl Sunday- crawfish party (The Concert Pub/North) Gust Workshop (1pm-3pm); Free Hot Jazz Sundays (downstairs) (Rudyard’s) Open Mic/Karaoke (Vollie Ray’s Circus) Open Jam (3pm-8pm) (Rock N Ray’s) Glenn Bryant (Rehab Bar) Katie’s Jam hosted by Ricky Jackson (Katie’s) Blues Jam hosted by Ben Herrington (Cruiser’s) Open Jam hosted by Lectric Ed and Friends (Jailhouse Saloon) Monday, February 4 John Egan (The Big Easy Social & Pleasure Club) Yung Gravy w/tiiiiiiiiiip, & bbno$ (bronze peacock room) (House of Blues) “Got Talent?” Singers, Musicians, Comedians, Poets, Magicians & Artists talent competition

Tuesday, February 5 James Wilhite (The Big Easy Social & Pleasure Club) Open Mic Night (foundation room) (House of Blues) Fleetwood Mac (Toyota Center) Blackhorse Limo & Warehouse Live presents: “Battle of the Bands” w/Turnaways, Engineered Society Project, Via Linda, & Cripple the Empire (studio) (Warehouse Live) Industry/Karaoke Night (Rudyard’s) Open Mic/Karaoke (Vollie Ray’s Circus) Karaoke by Overtime Productions hosted by Mary (19th Hole Grill & Sports Bar) Crazy Karaoke hosted by “Tomcat” Lipka (Jailhouse Saloon) Wednesday, February 6 Big & Easy Blues Jam (The Big Easy Social & Pleasure Club) Open Mic (Loaded Barrels) “Blood drive”; Omar Chaparro- “Retomar” stand up comedy tour (music hall) (House of Blues) Resinated w/Roots of Rebellion (studio) (Warehouse Live) The John Doe Folk Trio (early show) (Continental Club) Peter and James (Shoeshine Charley’s Big Top @ Continental Club) Current Joys w/Gap Girls, & Meet me at Midnight (upstairs) (White Oak Music Hall) Houston Reddit Board Game meet-up (Rudyard’s) WGWW (White Girl Wasted Wednesday) (Houston Underground) Karaoke (Vollie Ray’s Circus) Open Mic (Loaded Barrels) Live Mojo (Katie’s) Thursday, February 7 The Healers (The Big Easy Social & Pleasure Club) Karaoke (Loaded Barrels) Big Head Todd & The Monsters w/Main Squeeze (music hall) (House of Blues)

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MUSIC NEWS “Comedy” night featuring Juan Villarreal w/ Jessie Saldana, & Jeff Joe (Scout Bar) Kongos- “1929” tour w/Fitness (studio) (Warehouse Live) Henry and The Invisables (Last Concert Café) Acoustic Night w/Blake Jackson (Pub Level) Beetle Happy Hour (Continental Club) Charlie Harrison and The Regrets (Shoeshine Charley’s Big Top @ Continental Club) Skellism (Stereo Live) Neko Case w/Jennifer Castle (downstairs) (White Oak Music Hall) Crawfish/Karaoke @ The Boat (The Concert Pub/North) Radar Talk Intimate- Podcast (Rudyard’s) 7th RM; Open Jam (7pm-10pm) (Rock N Ray’s) Donnie Simmons (Katie’s) La Rochelle & Pride (19th Hole Grill & Sports Bar) Open Mic (Ashford Pub) Free Juke Box (Shenanigans) Friday, February 8 Paul Ramirez (The Big Easy Social & Pleasure Club) Dillon Francis & Alison Wonderland- “Lost my Mind” tour 2019 (Revention Music Center) Cavetown (bronze peacock room); Reik“Desamor” tour 2019 (music hall); “BE Someone” featuring DJ Gloss (foundation room) (House of Blues) “A tribute to The Big 4” featuring Motorbreath (Metallica tribute) w/War Ensemble (Slayer tribute), Youthanasia (Megadeth tribute), & Among the Living (Anthrax tribute) (Scout Bar) Julio Iglesias- “50th Anniversary” tour 2019 (Smart Financial Centre) Anuhea w/Paula Fuga (Last Concert Café) Magician John Star (Frank’s Pizza) Band on the Run Happy Hour; Los Skarnales w/ Hudson Falcons (NJ), & The Thunderchiefs (Continental Club) “Shakin’ All Over”- 60’s dance party (Shoeshine Charley’s Big Top @ Continental Club) Pauly D (Stereo Live) Lucy Dacus w/Illuminati Hotties, & Meet me at Midnight (upstairs); Jacob Banks w/Jamie N Commons (downstairs) (White Oak Music Hall)

“80’s Party Fridays” w/Spicolis (The Concert Pub/North) Samantha Fish w/John Egan (The Heights Theatre) Write about Poetry presents: “Slam Mania”Michael Ting vs Black Chakra (Rudyard’s) Karaoke (Vollie Ray’s Circus) Heather Rayleen (Loaded Barrels) Dylan Bishop (Katie’s) TBA (19th Hole Grill & Sports Bar) Acoustic Jam hosted by Starr Jernigan (Cruiser’s) FM Radio (Jailhouse Saloon) DJ (Shenanigans) Saturday, February 9 Jim Suhler (The Big Easy Social & Pleasure Club) Bring me the Horizon w/Thrice, & Fever 333 (Revention Music Center) Sinbad (music hall); DaniLeigh (bronze peacock room) (House of Blues) Texas Flood (Stevie Ray Vaughn tribute) w/ Unusual Suspects (Scout Bar) Deep Sequence (Last Concert Café) Sur Fest 7 w/La Frenetika, Espantapajaros, Elyze, Kronika, Bombachica, Mas Pulpo, El Chaman Candombe, No Te Mueras en Mi Casa, The Glass, Lucien, Gonzalo Andre, Arthur Yoria, Houston Latino Film Festival, Todo Fresh, Nio, Juancheau, Marryanna Sokol, Miriam Maldonado, Efren Rubio, Zoonido, DEM, Robert Kuhn, The Young and Dead Jaquars, Segunda nave Videotheque, and more (Continental Club & Shoeshine Charley’s Big Top) Lost Kings- “The so what” tour 2019 (Stereo Live) Book of Days- “Waiting on the Sky” (album release) (Jefferson Theatre/Beaumont) Agent Orange (The Secret Group) Soccer Mommy w/Howdy (upstairs) (White Oak Music Hall) Lady Pirates of Steele Nation- anniversary party w/DJ (The Concert Pub/North) Bob Schneider w/Christian Sparks and The Beatnik Bandits (The Heights Theatre) Mildred’s Umbrella Theatre Benefit (Rudyard’s) Brad’s Birthday- 80’s night (Vollie Ray’s Circus) Mouth for War (Pantera tribute) w/Element of One (Killswitch Engage tribute), & Deftunes

(Def Tones tribute) (Rock N Ray’s) Asleep in the Wake w/In the Aftermath, Coozablack and Sin City, Darkness of Tomorrow, Eden Effect, & Times (BFE Rock Club) Yelba’s Variety Show (Loaded Barrels) Jordan Matthew Young (Katie’s) Haywire w/Royal Sons (19th Hole Grill & Sports Bar) The Feel (Cruiser’s) Random Mojo (Jailhouse Saloon) Free Juke Box (Shenanigans) Sunday, February 10 Zydeco Dots (The Big Easy Social & Pleasure Club) Vince Staples- “Smile, you’re on Camera” tour (music hall); The Knocks w/Blu De Tiger, & Young and Sick (bronze peacock room) (House of Blues) Marc Anthony- “Legacy” tour (Toyota Center) Sunday Brunch & Acoustic Jam (Last Concert Café) Broke Off w/Some Kind of Nightmare, & Bed Devils (Shoeshine Charley’s Big Top @ Continental Club) Cristoph (Stereo Live) Cursive w/Summer Cannibals, & Campdogzz (downstairs) (White Oak Music Hall) Buddy’s (3pm); Free Hot Jazz Sundays (downstairs) (Rudyard’s) Open Mic/Karaoke (Vollie Ray’s Circus) Open Jam (3pm-8pm) (Rock N Ray’s) Katie’s Jam hosted by Paul Rameriz (Katie’s) Blues Jam hosted by Ben Herrington (Cruiser’s) Open Jam hosted by Lectric Ed and Friends (Jailhouse Saloon) Monday, February 11 John Egan (The Big Easy Social & Pleasure Club) Aaron Carter w/Lenerd, & Justin Stone (bronze peacock room) (House of Blues) “Got Talent?” Singers, Musicians, Comedians, Poets, Magicians & Artists talent competition (Pub Level) Dawn & Dupree w/Western Bling, & Big Cedar Fever (Continental Club) Rose Ette w/Fran & Velveteen Echo (Shoeshine Charley’s Big Top @ Continental Club) A Couple of Stand-up Guys- Open Mic

(Rudyard’s) Open Mic/Karaoke (Vollie Ray’s Circus) Tuesday, February 12 James Wilhite (The Big Easy Social & Pleasure Club) In Flames w/All That Remains (music hall) (House of Blues) Industry/Karaoke Night (Rudyard’s) Open Mic (Houston Underground) Open Mic/Karaoke (Vollie Ray’s Circus) Karaoke by Overtime Productions hosted by Mary (19th Hole Grill & Sports Bar) Crazy Karaoke hosted by “Tomcat” Lipka (Jailhouse Saloon) Wednesday, February 13 Big & Easy Blues Jam (The Big Easy Social & Pleasure Club) Patrick Gamble performing on FB Live from Texas Children’s Hospital w/special guests Ian Dartez and Nick Dees of Hold on Hollywood hosted by Kevin Hamlin (Texas Children’s Hospital) Open Mic (Loaded Barrels) Bethel Music- “Victory” tour 2019 (Revention Music Center) “Murder at The Masquerade” featuring Anova Skyway, Asleep in the Wake, Shadow Council, & Jordan James (Scout Bar) Travis Scott- “Astroworld” tour 2019 w/Sheck Wes (Toyota Center) Peter & James (Shoeshine Charley’s Big Top @ Continental Club) J Roddy Walston & The Business w/Murder by Death (downstairs) (White Oak Music Hall) Live and Proud Productions presents: Daggerhead w/Crimespree, El Desmadre, & Dandruff; Houston Reddit Board Game meet-up (Rudyard’s) WGWW (White Girl Wasted Wednesday) (Houston Underground) Karaoke (Vollie Ray’s Circus) Chad Ware (Katie’s) Thursday, February 14 The Healers (The Big Easy Social & Pleasure Club) Karaoke (Loaded Barrels) Jacquees- “The 4275” tour (music hall) (House of Blues)

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MUSIC NEWS Thursday, February 14 Insane Clown Posse’s Shaggy 2 Dope w/Ouija Maac, The White Noize, & Lost Ninjas (Scout Bar) “7th Annual Valentine’s Day Battle of the Sexes” w/Andy Huggins, Kristen Lindher, Dusti Rhodes, Marcus Bowers, Netra Babin, & Rich Williams (7pm & 9:30pm) (ballroom) (Warehouse Live) Monica & Major- Valentine’s Concert (Arena Theatre) Acoustic Night w/Blake Jackson (Pub Level) Beetle Happy Hour; Eric McFadden (Continental Club) “Valentine’s Day Dance” w/Motion Potion (Shoeshine Charley’s Big Top @ Continental Club) Alan Walker (Stereo Live) 1st annual “Valentine’s Day Love in Soul” event hosted by Courtney Black (Ayva Center/ Houston) Liverpool Legends (Jefferson Theatre) Face to Face (acoustic) w/Ray Rocket (upstairs) (White Oak Music Hall) “Surf & Turf” – Valentine’s Dinner; Crawfish/ Karaoke @ The Boat (The Concert Pub/North) Marc Broussard w/David Grace (The Heights Theatre) Sweet Sweet Real Ale Valentine’s Dinner (Rudyard’s) “EMO Night” w/Curt Travis & Jordan Blake (Houston Underground) Open Jam (7pm-10pm) (Rock N Ray’s) Valentines Party w/entertainment by Ricky Jackson (Katie’s) Funkin’ Jorts (19th Hole Grill & Sports Bar) Open Mic (Ashford Pub) Free Juke Box (Shenanigans) Friday, February 15 Annika Chambers- Mr V’s 80th birthday (The Big Easy Social & Pleasure Club) Patrick Gamble (Fatty’s/Seabrook) Coheed and Cambria w/Foxing (music hall); Scotty Sire (bronze peacock room); “Be Someone” featuring Nick Garcia Trio (8pm) (foundation room); “Encore” featuring DJ Simiyu (10pm) (foundation room) (House of Blues) The Spazmatics (Scout Bar) Blackhorse Limo presents: Last in Line (Dio

tribute) w/Tame Fury, & Johnny Solinger (ballroom) (Warehouse Live) Julio Iglesias- “50th Anniversary” tour 2019 (Smart Financial Centre) Dwight Yokum w/Scooter Brown Band (Arena Theatre) Magician John Star (Frank’s Pizza) Hayes Carll w/Ben Dickey (Continental Club) Thunderado (Shoeshine Charley’s Big Top @ Continental Club) 3LAU (Stereo Live) G Love & Special Sauce w/Ron Artis II, & The Truth (upstairs); Saves the Day w/Remo Drive, & Mighty (downstairs) (White Oak Music Hall) “80’s Party Fridays” w/The Chromatics (The Concert Pub/North) Asleep at the Wheel w/Western Bling (The Heights Theatre) The Dirty Seeds w/Arsis Thesis (Rudyard’s) Skyrocket (Rockefellers) Witchfest (Houston Underground) Karaoke (Vollie Ray’s Circus) Midnight Moses w/Shy Fox (Rock N Ray’s) Show hosted by Frostbite (BFE Rock Club) Blake Marlow (Loaded Barrels) John Del Toro Richardson (Katie’s) TBA (19th Hole Grill & Sports Bar) Acoustic Jam hosted by Starr Jernigan (Cruiser’s) Time Warp (Jailhouse Saloon) DJ (Shenanigans) Texas TNT (Wild Hawgs Saloon) Saturday, February 16 Mark May- celebrating the 25th anniversary of Big Easy (The Big Easy Social & Pleasure Club) American Lure Course Racing (Walter Hall Park) Rainbow Kitten Surprise (Revention Music Center) Justin Nozuka (bronze peacock room); Whiskey Myers- “Die Rockin’” tour 2019 w/Bones Owens (music hall); “Encore” featuring DJ Dayta (foundation room) (House of Blues) Saxon w/Santa Oscuridad, Masqued, & Scrollkeeper (Scout Bar) Valentine’s w/Charlie Wilson & Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds (Smart Financial Centre) If you have to Ask (free show) (Last Concert Café)

Jonathan Richman featuring Tommy Larkins (on drums) (Continental Club) Poizon w/Narcons, & Fun Haunts (Shoeshine Charley’s Big Top @ Continental Club) Paul Van Dyk (Stereo Live) Beaumont Pardi Gras (Beaumont Civic Center) Hayes Carll w/ Ben Dickey (upstairs); The Kooks w/Barns Courtney, & Future Feats (downstairs) (White Oak Music Hall) Kiss Alike- (Kiss tribute) w/Electric Flood (Stevie Ray Vaughn & Jimi Hendrix (The Concert Pub/North) BJ Barham w/Joshua Ray Walker (The Heights Theatre) Easy Credit presents: Cactus Flower w/ Treehouse Project, & The High Mile (Rudyard’s) Street Military (Houston Underground) Circus of the Dark presents: RockStar Jon with friends (Vollie Ray’s Circus) Kneither Know w/U Rock Us (Rock N Ray’s) Torrid Complex- “St Valentines Massacre” (CD release party) w/Madsons, Dead Set Red, & Treynwrek hosted by Khris Harding, Skrappy, Little Skrappy X, & BFE Rock Club (BFE Rock Club) Mandy Powell (Loaded Barrels) Live Mojo (Katie’s) TBA (19th Hole Grill & Sports Bar) Paul Rameriz (Cruiser’s) North Houston Bike Nite w/Troublemaker (Jailhouse Saloon) Free Juke Box (Shenanigans) Texas TNT w/Red Tiger, & Low Man’s Joe (Dirty Dog Bar/Austin) Sunday, February 17 Raa Raa (The Big Easy Social & Pleasure Club) American Lure Course Racing (Walter Hall Park) “World Famous Gospel Brunch” (1:30pm) (restaurant event); David Bisbal- USA tour 2019 (music hall) (House of Blues) Blackhorse Limo presents: Y&T w/Gilby Clarke (ballroom); Thouxanbanfauni w/Lucki, & Ghoulavelli (studio) (Warehouse Live) 2Cellos- “Let there be Cellos” w/Jon McLaughlin (Smart Financial Centre) Sunday Brunch & Acoustic Jam (Last Concert Café) Albert Castiglia (Continental Club)

Dombresky (Stereo Live) “Houston Loves Rock N Roll” w/Chrundle the Great, Silenced Within, David Guevara and The Company, Creepwater Revelation, Deteriorated, Partly Sunny, Pardon our Mess, LaRochelle and Pride, & Moonlight Hotel (upstairs); Cody Ko & Noel Miller- “Tiny Meat Gang” live (downstairs) (White Oak Music Hall) Jams for Jayla w/Not the Rachels w/Christopher Winkleman, Kendall Mason, & Stacey Steele (The Concert Pub/North) Free Hot Jazz Sundays (downstairs) (Rudyard’s) Open Mic/Karaoke (Vollie Ray’s Circus) Open Jam (3pm-8pm) (Rock N Ray’s) Katie’s Jam hosted by Mark May (Katie’s) Blues Jam hosted by Ben Herrington (Cruiser’s) Open Jam hosted by Lectric Ed and Friends (Jailhouse Saloon) Monday, February 18 John Egan (The Big Easy Social & Pleasure Club) Ts Madisons “The QUEENS Supreme Court” (music hall) (House of Blues) “Got Talent?” Singers, Musicians, Comedians, Poets, Magicians & Artists talent competition (Pub Level) Courtney Barnett w/Sunflower Bean (downstairs) (White Oak Music Hall) A Couple of Stand-up Guys- Open Mic (Rudyard’s) Open Mic/Karaoke (Vollie Ray’s Circus) Tuesday, February 19 James Wilhite (The Big Easy Social & Pleasure Club) Trippie Redd- “Life’s a Trip” tour 2019 w/Lil Keed, & Lil Duke (music hall); Open Mic Night (foundation room) (House of Blues) Blackhorse Limo & Warehouse Live presents: “Battle of the Bands” w/Black Heart Saints, Black Market Tragedy, The Dirty Reckless, & Shy Foxx (studio) (Warehouse Live) Juice (Continental Club) An evening with George Winston (Jefferson Theatre) Grown-up Storytime (8pm); Industry/Karaoke Night (Rudyard’s) Open Mic/Karaoke (Vollie Ray’s Circus) Karaoke by Overtime Productions hosted by Mary (19th Hole Grill & Sports Bar)

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MUSIC NEWS Crazy Karaoke hosted by “Tomcat” Lipka (Jailhouse Saloon) Wednesday, February 20 Big & Easy Blues Jam (The Big Easy Social & Pleasure Club) Open Mic (Loaded Barrels) The Brevet (bronze peacock room) (House of Blues) Tony Macalpine- “The Electric Illusionist” tour w/Monte Pittman, & Lonero (Scout Bar) Peter & James (Shoeshine Charley’s Big Top @ Continental Club) Pissed Jeans w/Xetas, & Searing Arrow (upstairs); Blood Orange (downstairs) (White Oak Music Hall) Donavon Frankenreiter w/John Craigie (The Heights Theatre) Houston Reddit Board Game meet-up (Rudyard’s) WGWW (White Girl Wasted Wednesday) (Houston Underground) Karaoke (Vollie Ray’s Circus) Freddie Pate (Katie’s) Thursday, February 21 The Healers (The Big Easy Social & Pleasure Club) Karaoke (Loaded Barrels) “Monsters of Rock 1984” 35th anniversary featuring Back in Black (AC/DC tribute) w/ VHT (Van Halen tribute), & OZZ (Ozzy Osbourne tribute) (music hall); “Sessions & Cigars” featuring Stephen Richard & The Righteous Vibe (foundation room) (House of Blues) “Bringing the Music”- Houston mini fest featuring EverGlaze, Vee & Kee, Michael Hensen, DonteTheTruthDavis, & more (Scout Bar) Pegstar presents: John Maus w/The Radio Broadcast (studio) (Warehouse Live) Funk You (Last Concert Café) Acoustic Night w/Blake Jackson (Pub Level) Beetle Happy Hour; The Flesh Eaters w/Sean Wheeler (Continental Club) Luba Dvorak’s Brooklyn Twang (Shoeshine Charley’s Big Top @ Continental Club) “Up in Smoke” tour featuring Subtronics w/ Blunts & Blondes (Stereo Live) Mozes and The Firstborn w/Valen, & K Campbell (upstairs) (White Oak Music Hall) Crawfish/Karaoke @ The Boat (The Concert Pub/North) Experimental Action- Performance Art (line-up coming soon) (Rockefellers) Open Jam (7pm-10pm) (Rock N Ray’s) Ricky Jackson (Katie’s) Partly Sunny (19th Hole Grill & Sports Bar) Open Mic (Ashford Pub) Free Juke Box (Shenanigans) Friday, February 22 Rick Lee (The Big Easy Social & Pleasure Club) Reverend Horton Heat w/Voodoo Glow Skulls, & the Delta Bombers (music hall); VHS Collection (bronze peacock room); “Be Someone” featuring Wendy Elizabeth Jones (8pm) (foundation room); “Encore” featuring DJ I.V. League (10pm) (foundation room) (House of Blues) Metal Shop (Scout Bar) Muse – “Simulation Theory” tour 2019 w/Walk the Moon (Toyota Center) Bas- “Milky Way” tour w/Rexx Life, Raj, Innanet James, & Correy C (studio) (Warehouse Live) Banda MS (Smart Financial Centre) “Funk Friday” w/Ben Vibin featuring Leigh Sinclair (Last Concert Café) Angela Aguilar (Arena Theatre) Magician John Star (Frank’s Pizza) Roxy Roca (Continental Club) Philip & Shane- acoustic country night (Pub Level) Cumbia Night w/DJ Soloces (Shoeshine Charley’s Big Top @ Continental Club) Tritonal- “U & Me” tour 2019 (Stereo Live) Moon Hooch w/Aramboa (upstairs); Metal Meltdown 2/To Tame a Land (Iron Maiden tribute) w/Godless (Danzig tribute), Mouth for War (Pantera tribute), & No Remorse (Metallica tribute) (White Oak Music Hall) 80’s Party Fridays” w/ The Ruxpins (The Concert Pub/North) Steve Earle w/Shannon McNally (The Heights Theatre) Mary Cutrufello (5pm); Ethreal w/Merkava, Dust in the Void, & The Crunge (8pm) (Rudyard’s) Karaoke (Vollie Ray’s Circus) Maximus Force (Rock N Ray’s) “The Showcase” tour- line-up TBA (BFE Rock Club)

Jordan Applebe (Loaded Barrels) Alan Haynes (Katie’s) Asleep in the Wake (19th Hole Grill & Sports Bar) Acoustic Jam hosted by Starr Jernigan (Cruiser’s) Texas Jam (Jailhouse Saloon) DJ (Shenanigans) Saturday, February 23 Alan Haynes (The Big Easy Social & Pleasure Club) Meek Mill- “The Motivation” tour (Revention Music Center) Monster Energy- “Outbreak” tour presents: A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie w/Don Q, & Trap Manny (music hall); 90’s R&B Experience (8pm) (foundation room); “Encore” featuring DJ Gloss (10pm) (foundation room) (House of Blues) Deft-Ones (Deftones tribute) w/Revolver- (Rage Against the Machine tribute) (Scout Bar) 54 Reasons w/The Adequate, Zegovia, & Help!

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MUSIC NEWS Sunday, February 24 Open Jam (3pm-8pm) (Rock N Ray’s) Katie’s Jam hosted by Live Mojo (Katie’s) Blues Jam hosted by Ben Herrington (Cruiser’s) Open Jam hosted by Lectric Ed and Friends (Jailhouse Saloon) Monday, February 25 John Egan (The Big Easy Social & Pleasure Club) Sarah Brightman- “Hymn” tour 2019 (Smart Financial Centre) “Got Talent?” Singers, Musicians, Comedians, Poets, Magicians & Artists talent competition (Pub Level) A Couple of Stand-up Guys- Open Mic (Rudyard’s) Open Mic/Karaoke (Vollie Ray’s Circus) Tuesday, February 26 James Wilhite (The Big Easy Social & Pleasure Club) Ones to Watch presents: Dorothy- “The Freedom” tour (bronze peacock room) (House of Blues) “Industry Night” w/The Ghost Party vs Soft Wear (Shoeshine Charley’s Big Top @ Continental Club) Industry/Karaoke Night (Rudyard’s) Open Mic/Karaoke (Vollie Ray’s Circus) Karaoke by Overtime Productions hosted by Mary (19th Hole Grill & Sports Bar) Crazy Karaoke hosted by “Tomcat” Lipka (Jailhouse Saloon) Wednesday, February 27 Big & Easy Blues Jam (The Big Easy Social & Pleasure Club) Open Mic (Loaded Barrels) “Emo Forever!” Emo night w/Riot (covering Paramore), & Phasers Set to Fun (covering Taking Back Sunday) (Scout Bar) YNW Melly- “We all Shine” tour 2019 (studio) (Warehouse Live) Peter & James (Shoeshine Charley’s Big Top @ Continental Club) Car Seat Headrest w/Naked Giants (downstairs) (White Oak Music Hall) The Zombies w/Liz Brasher (The Heights Theatre) Houston Reddit Board Game meet-up

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(Rudyard’s) WGWW (White Girl Wasted Wednesday) (Houston Underground) Karaoke (Vollie Ray’s Circus) Live Mojo (Katie’s) Thursday, February 28 Houston Blues Society Jam- hosted by John Del Toro Richardson (The Big Easy Social & Pleasure Club) Karaoke (Loaded Barrels) Metric & Zoe – 2019 tour w/July Talk (Revention Music Center) Stephen Marley- acoustic (music hall); The Lil Smokies (bronze peacock room) (House of Blues) “The Madd Batch” part 1 featuring Vizionvry, w/Solid, Atlis, Closer Lung, & Danger (Scout Bar) Nightly (greenroom); Bones- “Creep” tour w/ Fifty Grand, Drew the Architect, Cat Soup, & Curtis Heron (ballroom) (Warehouse Live) Voodoo Visionary (Last Concert Café) Acoustic Night w/Blake Jackson (Pub Level) Beetle Happy Hour; The Lagoons w/Summer Heat, Brothertiger, & BUHU (Continental Club) Tune Tag w/Paul Beebe and Charlie Harrison (Shoeshine Charley’s Big Top @ Continental Club) Jackal (DJ set) (Stereo Live) Adia Victoria w/Joshua Asante (upstairs); Noname- “Room 25” w/Elton (downstairs) (White Oak Music Hall) Crawfish/Karaoke @ The Boat (The Concert Pub/North) Gungor w/The Brilliance, & Propaganda (The Heights Theatre) Supersuckers 30th anniversary tour (Rudyard’s) Bass Cathedral featuring Bainbridge (Houston Underground) Open Jam (7pm-10pm) (Rock N Ray’s) Sparky Parker (Katie’s) Blue Tick (19th Hole Grill & Sports Bar) Luke Bryan (Houston Rodeo @ Reliant Stadium) Open Mic (Ashford Pub) Free Juke Box (Shenanigans) Friday, March 1 James Wilhite & Barry Seelen- 2nd Line Preservation Society (The Big Easy Social &

Pleasure Club) Amy Schumer (Revention Music Center) Proof of Life w/Th3rd Coast Roots, Roots from the Clay, & Steal Carmona (Scout Bar) Robby Krieger (of The Doors) (ballroom) (Warehouse Live) Mariah Carey- “Caution” World tour (Smart Financial Centre) Heartbyrne w/The Grass is Dead (Talking Heads tribute) (Last Concert Café) Magician John Star (Frank’s Pizza) Picture Book Happy Hour (Continental Club) Two Friends- “With my Homies” tour 2019 (Stereo Live) Kim Waters (Sugar’s Cajun/Missouri City) Nashville Pussy w/Hell’s Engine, & Speeddealer (upstairs); LP- “Heart to Mouth” tour 2019 w/ Jim and Sam (downstairs) (White Oak Music Hall) The Rikkis (The Concert Pub/North) Dave Mason & Steve Cropper- “Rock and Roll Revue” w/Gretchen Rhodes (The Heights Theatre) The Bellrays w/The Atom Age, & Modfag (Rudyard’s) Karaoke (Vollie Ray’s Circus) Kissing Judas- live CD/DVD show w/Tame Fury, & Break my Fall hosted by Kissing Judas (BFE Rock Club) Holland K Smith (Katie’s) Acoustic Jam hosted by Starr Jernigan (Cruiser’s) DJ (Shenanigans) Texas TNT (Bubba’s Sports Bar & Grill) Saturday, March 2 Mark Dini- Mardi Gras Party (The Big Easy Social & Pleasure Club) Welcome to Night Vale (bronze peacock room) (House of Blues) Ozz (Ozzy Osbourne tribute) w/Seventh Son (Iron Maiden tribute), Sacred Star (Dio & Yngwie Malmsteen tribute) (Scout Bar) The Interrupters (ballroom); Kid Trunks & Craig Xen- “Members Only VS World: tour w/Coolie Cut, Bass Santana, Flyboy Tarantino, Kin$oul, Kringe, & Wild West Cartel (studio) (Warehouse Live) Panic Stricken (Widespread Panic tribute) (Last Concert Café) Emily Bell w/Love & Chaos (Continental Club) Josh Butler (Stereo Live)

Michael Jackson tribute featuring Danny Dash Andrews (Jefferson Theatre) Never not Funny- live podcast w/Jimmy Pardo Stand-up (upstairs); Trampled by Turtles w/ Ghost of Paul Revere (downstairs) (White Oak Music Hall) Judas X (Judas Priest tribute) (The Concert Pub/North) Brazilian Carnaval- “Carnaval Brasileiro De Houston” 2019 (Rockefellers) Cantus (The Clarion @ Brazosport College) Big Boys b-day bash w/Black 13 (free show) w/ Dead Set Red, Calling Chase, Sleep Juliet, Th Unled, & Epic (BFE Rock Club) Ulrich Ellison & Tribe (Katie’s) Mark May (Cruiser’s) Free Juke Box (Shenanigans) Texas TNT (Backwoods Saloon) Sunday, March 3 John 5 & The Creatures- “Invasion” 2019 w/ Jared James Nichols (Scout Bar) “The Final Mike Stud” tour w/Ernest K (studio) (Warehouse Live) Sunday Brunch & Acoustic Jam (Last Concert Café) La Doble Moral- Danzon El Musical (Arena Theatre) Red Elvises- Siberian Rock n Roll (Continental Club) Christoph Eschenbach w/Leila Josefowicz (Jones Hall) Free Hot Jazz Sundays (downstairs) (Rudyard’s) Open Mic/Karaoke (Vollie Ray’s Circus) Open Jam (3pm-8pm) (Rock N Ray’s) Katie’s Jam hosted by Ricky Jackson (Katie’s) Blues Jam hosted by Ben Herrington (Cruiser’s) Open Jam hosted by Lectric Ed and Friends (Jailhouse Saloon)

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Rock Center Band Rehearsal Studio Rock Center Band Rehearsal Studio is a Houston-area studio that has a sound engineer with over 3 decades in the business. They have secure rooms, monthly rates, and hourly rooms with P.A./ backline sound system.

For more info, go to www.rockcenterhouston.com, or call 713-981-6555 and ask for David. Forget the rest, play with the best!

Tenebrian Machine Perform at Vollie Ray’s Circus We’re always into something different, and this night we found it out at Vollie Ray’s Circus. They’re called The Tenebrian Machine. Here’s a Heavy Metal outfit you’re going to want to check out, completely decked out in full regalia with makeup. Influences for the band include: Pantera, Sepultura, Testament, Overkill, Cavalera Conspiracy, Soulfly, Deadhorse, King Crimson, Tool, and Akira Yamaoka, which definitely comes across in their music. The band is all original and has some interesting songs. Without trying to describe this band, I’ll leave it up to you, the readers, to decide for yourself. Check out the two videos we have posted on HMNTV - Houston Music News Television at http:// www.houstonmusicnews.net. Check ‘em out now and drop us a line and let us know what you think.

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Not only do they have a super fast turnaround, but also they have over 40 years experience in design, building, fixing, and making modifications to guitars. They are at 3526 East T.C. Jester Blvd. in Houston. Call 713-9570470 or go to the website a t Texas Badlands Band Performs at www.texasguitarhospital.com.

Diamond Jim’s Country Salooon Check out their awesome facility today!

This night we’re at Diamond Jim’s Country Saloon in Texas City. The guys really mixed it up tonight with a blend of Rock, Country, Blues, and more. They even delved into a little earlier rock with songs like Puff N Stuff “Riders In The Sky” and “Ride Sally Ride. Highlights of the evening Happy Valentine’s included songs from Stevie Ray Vaughan (“Pride and Joy”) and The Day from your friends at Georgia Satellites (“Keep You Hands To Yourself”). They really put on Puff N Stuff! They’ve got a fine show this night. Everyone there was grooving to the sounds and jewelry, darts, pipes and filling the dance floor. smoking accessories, kama sutra and erotic toys and much, much more!

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19th Hole Grill & Sports Bar 19th Hole Grill & Sports Bar is the place in the Woodlands where the headbangers hang out!

They have stuff like Tuesday Karaoke w/ Mary @ Bag Of Tricks Perform at 9pm-12am and Wednesday free bingo at 9pmThe Concert Pub North 12am. Thursdays, Fri- On stage right here at The Concert Pub North are Houston rockers, days, and Saturdays have Bag of Tricks. The band was there performing songs from their original live music. Bands La album release, “Set Me Free” in addition to some select cover songs.

Rochelle and Pride are Bag of Tricks used to be comprised of the five Lopez brothers, but no Thurs. Feb. 7th then see the band is comprised of brothers Luis Lopez (vocals), Rick Lopez Haywired and Royal Sons (guitar), Rick Lopez (guitar), and good friend Berto Salas (bass).

Sat. Feb. 9th. Asleep in the Wake play Fri. Feb. 22nd. 19th Hole is celebrating their 26th year anniversary of being a live music venue. Bang your head with them this February!

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MUSIC NEWS Ben Herrington Hosts the Sunday Afternoon Jam at Cruiser’s Ice House Katie’s Bar Katie’s Bar has some of the best live music you can find in the Bay Area! They never run out of bands either. They have it Wednesday thru Sundays. The bar is closed Mondays.

Katie’s Blues Jam is on Sundays from 4pm-8pm.

All musicians welcome! The rest of the month looks like Live Mojo Wed. Feb. 6th, Sat. Feb. 16th, and Wed. Feb. 27th. Then a Valentine’s party Katie’s Thurs. Feb. 14th with music by Ricky Jackson. Alan Haynes plays on Fri. Feb. 22nd. Katie’s is at 315 Grand Ave. in the old Bacliff post office. Enjoy some great live music night!

Stereo Live Stereo Live is the place in Houston to go for dance, electronica, and hip-hop music.

There’s a main room for the entertainment, and they also have a big outdoor terrace and signature loft upstairs, for more intimate gatherings.

This month, some of the entertainment on the calendar is Pauly D. Fri. Feb. 8th, Paul Van Dyk Sat. Feb. 16th, and then Jackal Thurs. Feb. 28th.

For these acts and more go to www.stereolivehouston.com. If you want to book your next event here, call 832-251-9600.

Stereo Live is at 6400 Richmond Ave. in Houston.

Texas TNT Texas TNT is the high-energy rock-n-roll party band that is found at many bars all over Houston! First off, see them w/ The Skinz, at Loaded Barrels in Houston Sat. Feb. 2nd from 8pm-midnight. Then at Wild Hawgs Saloon in Channelview Fri. Feb. 15th from 9pm-1am, fol-

Every Sunday, the stage comes alive at Cruiser’s Ice House in Santa Fe with a plethora of great musicians. Host Ben Herrington (pictured at theleft in the top left picture) is your host and moderator for these events. Ben is one of the finest guitarists we see and he has assembled a crack band of seasoned professionals to help him kick off the afternoon’s festivities. On drums is Cruiser’s Ice House owner, Mike Armstrong. On bass is bassist extraordinaire David McName. Together they really get the ball rolling for the acts that follow. This night they were also celebrating Ben’s birthday with this fantastic Stratocaster Cake (pictured at bottom left) prepared by the resident baker, Mike Armstrong. It was quite an event. If you’re looking for a new, cool place to Jam, then you might ought to check out Cruiser’s Ice House in Santa Fe. That’s what these folk did that we have pictured in the two right pictures here. It’s always a lot of fun at Cruiser’s Ice House. And remeber, Cruiser’s also features great live entertainment on Fridays and Saturdays. Fridays feature an acoustic jam hosted by Starr Jernigan and Saturday nights feature various artists. Check out their ad in this issue to see who’s going to be there this month. lowed by a show in Austin at Dirty Dog Bar w/ around for over 20 years and aren’t stopping any- Westheimer that has cold drinks, good grub, and Red Tiger & Low Man’s Joe, from 7:30pm-mid- time soon! They have offerings like free pool fun entertainment. In addition, Big Azz Beer & night. Bourbon Street Bar in Katy is where they’ll Monday, the Friday acoustic jam hosted by Starr Trivia Night is Tuesdays, Steak & Poker Night be next, Fri. Feb. 22nd from 9:30pm-1:30am, and Jernigan & Steve Shannon from 8pm-midnight, is Wednesdays, Open Mic Night is Thursdays, then at Uncle Albert’s Pub in Cypress Sat. Feb. and the Sunday Blues jam hosted by Ben then Wild West Texas Beer Fest Fridays, and Herrington from 4pm-8pm! Bring your guitar and Poker Night Sundays. Happy hour is everyday 23rd from 9:30pm-1:30am.

Two more gigs Bubba’s Sports Bar & Grill jam. There’s also NO cover for the bands who from 11am-7pm! This month, on Sat. Feb. 2nd in Houston Fri. March 1st from 8:30pm- play on Saturdays, like The Feel Sat. Feb. 9th, there’s a benefit for Susan Skie Methwin with 12:30am, and then Backwoods Saloon in Conroe Paul Ramirez Sat. Feb. 16th. Mister Kicks is on BBQ plates, a silent auction, raffles, and music Sat. March 2nd from 8pm-midnight. Thanks Sat. Feb. 23rd. To find out more about Cruiser’s, by The Blaggards (no cover.) Go to go to www.cruiserstx.com. www.ashfordpub.com to find out more about from Texas TNT! Ashford Pub!

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The Concert Pub- North The Concert PubNorth rocks the Northside! They have food, live music, games, and sports! Come in for half-price lunches on Wednesdays, then CrawThe Scourge Perform at the 19th Hole fish & karaoke on ThursTonight we dropped by The 19th Hole to see The Scourge. The band put on a days. Fridays this month are 80’s Party Fridays! A pretty impressive show and for a 3-piece band, they really filled the room with a different band plays each lot of sound. The band has a lot of really good original material with some great melodies, leads and some thought-provoking lyrics. It makes sense, week. Fri. Feb. 8th has considering their influes include some of the hottest metal bands out there like the Spicolis, and Fri. Feb. Rage, Flotsam and Jetsam, Slayer, Meadeth, Annililator, Judas Priest, Coroner, 15th has The Chromatics. and Kreator, to name a few. If you get a chance, be sure to check these guys out Saturdays have more live sometime. music, such as KISS tribute Kiss Alike with Stevie Ray Vaughan, and by!

Jimi Hendrix tribute Electric Flood Sat. Feb. 16th. Check www.theconcertpub.com for more Vinyl Records Wanted bands TBA. The party is on at The Concert PubAttention music collectors: Cash paid for North! vinyl records! Large and small collections wanted in the genres of hard rock, progressive, rock, r&b, funk, heavy metal, psychedelic, Shenanigan’s grunge, new wave, indie, country, and more. Call Shenanigan’s is the Texas City bar that 281-650-1953. has been around for over 3 decades now. They’re open everyday until 2am, and have stuff like pool, darts, shuffleboard and big screen TV’s.

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KING BABY FAMILIA Hailing from Houston, TX and regularly touring across the South, KBF is a talented group of musicians who are sure to please any crowd.

With an original and memorable sound and a flare for unique performances, King Baby Familia has quickly made a name for themselves playing stages such as the House of Blues, the Roots of Reggae Festival, and the New Orleans’s Mardi Gras celebration just to name a few.

KING BABY is a 5 piece Reggae fusion project that consists of members from different walks of life with versatile styles and influences.

Each member brings their own flavor to the band which in turn produces the band’s signature style Hailing from as far away as Egypt and Germany, KBF’s members are an eclectic group of truly talented artists with diverse influences.

Those unfamiliar with them will immediately recognize the influence of roots reggae and clas-

sic rock in their expertly blended bass, guitar, and keys while their experienced drummer keeps an always steady beat. An enigmatic singer with a smooth and original vocal style makes King Baby Familia a live performance that audiences are sure to remember.

Members Include: Mr. King Baby - Vocals; Mo - Lead Guitar; Robert Lauder- Keys; Robert Andrews - Bass Guitar; Frank Alfar Drums; Noel Sanchez- DJ For booking and information about King Baby Familia contact: 713-344-5033, KingBabyFam@Gmail.com, http:// www.KingBabyBand.com

NEVER SLEEP COLLECTIVE The Never Sleep Collective Is a union of talented musicians, DJs, producers, show hosts, independent business owners/entrepreneurs, and professionals that are dedicated to not only bringing you an experience of amazing music each and every time they are out performing or supporting. They are also dedicated to bringing you the best in our culture as well. This includes all genres and everything in between, within the Electronic realm! With their diverse backgrounds, passion, love of the process, and the drive to be the best they can be, they’ll NEVER let you SLEEP on Damn good times, with great music! Their current active members include: Christopher Huskey (TX): (Normul) https:// www.facebook.com/ntsonormul/; Jermaine Dorsey (TX): (NILZ) https:// www.facebook.com/jdorsey01; Jake Hunter/

Anthony Jones (TX): (Machine Rex) https:// www.facebook.com/MachineRex/; Zach Booth (TX): (Dj Booth) https://www.facebook.com/ deejay.booth.7; Kimberly Anne-Marie CasanovaCloud (TX): (MaDamn Casanova) https:// www.facebook.com/madamncasanova/; Jack Smith (TX): (Reaper) https:// w w w . f a c e b o o k . c o m / profile.php?id=100021945406443; Miko Marie (TX): (Dj Miko Marie) https:// www.facebook.com/miko.marie; Ethan Swindull (TX): (Altruist) https://www.facebook.com/ djaltruist/ ; Hannah Crotts (TX): (Phaerie) https:// www.facebook.com/Phaerie-287838241933439/ ; George DeLorean (TX): (SIXIXIX) https:// www.facebook.com/iamsixixix/?ref=br_rs; Everette J. Gary (TX): (TOAST) https:// www.facebook.com/HotToastMusic/

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began training in 2011 at Taylor’s Pro Wrestling Factory and was trained by Tugboat Taylor. He also trained at DZW (Domination Zone Wrestling) 2016 & TASW (Texas All-Star Wrestling) 2017. He is the manager of Mob Scene, The Outcast, The Beautiful Ones, The Dark Alliance, Apocalypse, and Dark Angels.

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Kissing Judas To Record New Live Album at the BFE Rock Club On March 1st, Houston metal/rock band Kissing Judas invite you to BFE Rock Club where they will be recording their live CD/DVD. Over the last year, they have been performing live while opening for acts such as Stephen Pearcy of Ratt, Ace Frehley, Puddle Of Mudd and many more as well as playing many of their own shows with local bands who have all become like family. In July, they changed their name from Kyle Cousins Band to Kissing Judas, revamped their sound, image and wrote over a dozen new songs. They embarked on a trip to Colorado with their friends Twelve Years Driven to test out the water and it was an incredible experience. Instead of going in the studio and recording a cd, guitarist and manager Dave Sullivan decided to record a live CD as well as DVD. Dave Sullivan tells us that “We always put on a fun and entertaining show. I wanted to share that experience with those who may not get a chance to see us live. When talking to the crews who will be working on this, I was told we will multi-track it and be able to do overdubs just like the studio. I said no way to overdubs. I want it raw and live. What you see and hear is what you get when you come to one of our shows. Zits and all. If there is a mistake, I’m keeping it in. If I wanted to do a live album with massive overdubs, I’d name it Kiss Alive 5 haha, no offense to Kiss. The multi tracking is for mixing tracks and tweaking the levels and eq. Our friends Tame Fury and Dallas’ Break My Fall will be playing this show with us.”

Dwight Yoakam

continued from page 12 dios). Later, Yoakam cut vocals at Hollywood’s Capitol Studios, where he’s done most of his albums, as well as the former A&M Records lot (now Henson Studios) and East West (formerly United Western, where Pet Sounds was cut). These are all “very historic” places, but “it wasn’t just for shits and grins. It was for the purpose of gathering the magic out of those rooms.”

In one sense, Yoakam wanted to be as faithful to the original traditions as possible, and in another, to mess with those just a little. “I was very strident about exacting a colloquial expression from the guys when they sang along with me,” he says — and the music reaches its “hardcore” peak when Jonathan Clarke sings a bass background vocal on “Home for Sale.” But a song like “Listen” “lent itself to a moment of departure,” where Yoakam was able to “reinterpret west coast sounds” in the vocal stacking.

“It’s really a composite of disparate elements that coalesce in this,” he says. “Country-rock was born when Chris Hillman, who was a bluegrass mandolin player, took Clarence White, who came out of hardcore bluegrass, into the Byrds’ circle on the album before Sweethearts of the Rodeo. So there’s this west coast bluegrass contingent that still echoes in my head — that whole sort of Byrds/ Beach Boys thing colliding with mountain culture.”

That’s where the title comes in. “It’s tongue in cheek,” he says, “because the album started in Nashville, and ended up in… well, you know, California is the place you oughta be!” He might sound Beverly Hillbillies flippant in saying that, but underneath the jibing, there’s a real sense of history in how Yoakam sees California’s role even in bluegrass. “I thought, well, I’m gonna give a wink back to everybody, to Flatt and Scruggs and Jimmy Martin and everybody who came out here. And this album really is that hybrid expression of a journey — and it’s the American journey. It’s the Dust Bowl ‘30s era blowing colloquial music out to California with all the Okie/Arkie/Texan migrants. Folks from Kansas and Nebraska and the plains all ended up out here and brought with ‘em their cultural elements. Without that, you don’t have Buck Owens out here, and you don’t have Merle Haggard, perhaps, in the way that we knew him.” And without them, you certainly don’t have the man many of us consider the reigning king of California country, Dwight Yoakam.

Whether it’s in purple or blue mode, the new album is “something that I’m really glad I took the time I didn’t have to do,” Yoakam laughs. Simultaneously to working on the album and keeping his usual demanding touring schedule, Yoakam was being attentive to his other career, acting, I’m shooting a TV series called Goliath with Billy Bob Thornton, William Hurt and Maria Bello, from producer David E. Kelley. He’s in seven of the show’s eight episodes, which begin airing on Amazon Oct. 13.

He says Swimmin’ Pools, Movie Stars… has been gratifying partly “because the songs feel new for me,” and partly because of the proper salute he was finally able to give bluegrass. “I hope we did justice to the legacy of that genre and kept the spirit of reckless abandon,” Yoakam says. “When you look back on the ‘30s and ‘40s, the bluegrassers were considered the wild men in music —Bluegrass was rock and roll, before there was such an animal.

Hopefully we have that spirit in this.”

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