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He
Said She Said Presents
TEXAS GONE GARAGE
December 14-16
@ Rudyard's
2010 Waugh Drive (map)
-bands
for each night are listed in reverse order-
FRIDAY DEC 14
AMPLIFIED
HEAT Texas bad ass guitar jams haven’t sounded this good
in quite some time as power trio Amplified Heat prove on their self
titled debut EP. The band consists of three brothers no less, Jim
(guitar / vocals), Gian (bass) and Chris (drums) Otriz and they certainly
don't waste any time or make any bones about what they’re here for
as the sonic overdrive of the opening number “Heart Attack” immediately
erases any doubts as to whether or not these hombres can deliver the
goods. Tracks “Bi-Polar”, “Mornings Warning” and “Contrabandista”
hurtle along like a racehorse hopped up on bennies and you’ve got
no choice but to just hang on for the ride of your life. This is raw,
dirty, white line fever jams of the most righteous kind and proof
that mixing the MC5 with the blues is not only extremely appreciated,
it’s down right combustible.
THE
UGLY BEATS Don't tell these Austin, Texas kids it's
not 1965 anymore! The Ugly Beats play ’60s folk/garage and beat-rock
as if Paul Revere & the Raiders, the Easybeats and the Ventures never
went away.
ALRIGHT
TONIGHT New rock n roll band with a 60s rock feel
featuring members of the Jewws and Those Peabodys
THE
MATT MAYO GROUP Another new supergroup to hit the Houston scene
fronted by Matt Mayo of the Mullens THE MONOCLES If Rocket from the
tomb and mission of burma were to have a love child the monocles would
be it!
BORN
LIARS Houston’s Born Liars’ debut is a guitar lover’s dream, six-stringers
Jimmy Sanchez and Geoffrey Muller way up in the mix and mugging for
the camera, chopping, chording, and flailing their merry way through
11 sweaty tracks like the bastard love children of Wilko Johnson,
Johnny Thunders, and Link Wray. Speaking of Johnson, they turn in
an oily, righteous cover of Dr. Feelgood’s “She Does It Right.” “Finger
Poppin” and “Room to Move” amount to what some may view as battles
of one-upmanship, but the results are liberating to say the least,
chunky, determined, fully formed, and slashing, burning, and scorching
anything in their way. If the Born Liars don’t inspire you to smoke,
drink, and hunt for the truth, check that you’re not wearing slippers
and smoking a pipe.
THE
BAD RACKETS The Bad Rackets are a band from Austin, TX. Formed
in October of 2004, they've been gigging steadily around Texas at
clubs in Austin, Houston and San Antonio among others. Their sound
is cheap beer sizzling on hot vacuum tubes; melodies written at the
altar of The Ramones and The Buzzcocks, guitar echoes of Cheetah Chrome
and Johnny Thunders, and a rhythm section that could've belonged to
The Damned or The Saints.
WELFARE
MOTHERS New Houston supergroup featuring members of Sugarshack,
the Mirrors and the Expatriates
THE
MONOCLES If Rocket from the tomb and mission of burma were to
have a love child the monocles would be it! or you could take that
out of the Matt Mayo Group deal and just leave your description
SATURDAY DEC 15
THE
PUMPERS No bullshit
rock n roll feat memebers of the Potential Johns and the Wax Museums
THE
HEX DISPENSERS Someone needs a hug. In Provo there used to be
this band called Thee Martinis—50s garage, a genre I used to with
antiseptics. But they were angry angry angry. The lead singer never
talked to anyone and his girlfriend wore Asian super-minis and was
always scowling. The Hex Dispensers echo them in sound and 'tude.
The hooks are simple 70s punk, but the fuzzed-out guitar and defiant,
ass-kicking vocals are straight-up dark mid-20th-century garage. They
are over-the-top good; the soundtrack to the worst sort of teen angst.
Lyrics cover vicious revenge on ex-lovers, disturbance, insomnia,
disillusionment, arsenic milkshakes, suicide and E.S.P. A lot of the
songs repeat the same chord progressions, but that didn't keep the
Sex Pistols from leaving a legacy.
DIG
DUG was a trio formed
in Houston in 199? By Matthew Juarez(Sore Loser/Beast) brother Lucas
Juarez(the Business Machines) and John Michael Chistoffel(Act Your
Age Records/the Business Machines) Dig Dug who was influenced a lot
by J Church and Scared of Chaka wrote a lot of simple, melodic songs
about girls, friends and growing up. Catchy songs that anyone could
relate to. Dig Dug could be seen around town playing with the likes
of 30 Foot Fall, Dig Dug also released a few 7”s, were on some great
Houston compilations and put out a full length before finally calling
it quits in 2000. After the band parted ways a new band featuring
Lucas on vocals with John on Guitar and Alex Azripe(Sore Loser/Badger)
was born(now defunct). Now they are back in Houston for this special
show so don’t miss it!
SOMETHING
FIERCE This is the sound of a band that truly believes it can
set the place on fire! Whatever that elusive quality is that separates
truly awesome punk rock from generic thrashing, this band possesses
it in abundance...I hear definite similarities to a lot of the bands
mentioned above (Marked Men, Beat Beat Beat, The Ends), as well as
to other modern-day staples of hooky old school punk (Stitches, Clorox
Girls). Yet this trio has its own sound that's carried off with distinctiveness
and panache.
THE
APE SHITS The Apeshits:
Sonofabitch. Just when I think I’ve had my fill of straight-ahead,
dirty rock’n’roll, I’m reminded that I’m just tired of bands doing
it wrong. Texas is the answer, once again. The Ape Shits berserk-out
like simians getting their fur singed by lightning and are fueled
by Sandman-like wrestling chops, Beerland swagger, and AC/DC Motardation.
THE
TEENERS The MOTARDS
sure left quite a legacy of dick-in-a-blender bands. These wackos,
probably also from Texas or some southernly place, not only carry
the torch, they set the homeless on fire with it. The only word I
could make out on all four songs is "Waaaaaahhhhh!" Also, my 45 thingee
was loose and I didn't even notice till the second song on the side.
It's that good. Speaking of 45's, "Ms. 45" is the standout-you can
almost make out the dry heaving coming through the guitar pickup.
I can't fucking wait to see these people live.
MAASTER
GAIDEN Maaster Gaiden
generally plays fiercer and faster than the aforementioned bands,
and reminds me just as much of hellfire punk n' rollers like the New
Bomb Turks and Humpers. Songs like "Without You" and "Sleep Is the
Enemy" verge on what Raul Reaction calls "fast punk", and "DOA on
the 48" is simply the hottest new punk tune I've heard all year.
THE
TAKES New Houston
outfit who plays ripping 80s hardcore with a 90s pop punk vibe
SUNDAY DEC 16
THE
MIRRORS Houston psych
legends featuring Greg Ashley of the Gris Gris return to the Houston
Music scene for the first time in almost two years to cap off Texas
Gone Garage
LINUS
PAULING QUARTET Linus is a psych band that mixes the heavy, plodding
riffing of Black Sabbath -- whom they emphatically insist they are
not -- with the kitchen-sink silliness of the Butthole Surfers, while
stopping damn near everywhere along the way. No one in Houston is
as intelligent or as stupid as these guys, and were they to take themselves
even the least bit seriously they could destroy the world with their
brand of infernal devil music. There is always an undercurrent of
self-conscious ironic detachment to LPQ songs, but hearing the whole
shooting match all in one package, it becomes obvious that even when
they goof off (and perhaps especially when they goof off) they tend
to approach brilliance while managing to thumb their noses in the
general direction of brilliance itself.
THE
MIKE GUNN Mike Gunn
was a Houston quartet steeped deep in psychedelia. Born on the ashes
of the legendary Houston Schlong Weasel, it included John Cramer (vocals,
guitar), Tom Carter (vocals, guitar), Scott Grimm (bass), Curt Mackey
(drums). Mike Gunn is the name of the Schlong Weasel musician who
named the band but never played in it.
HEARTS
OF ANIMALS Fans of
lush, ethereal shoegaze or lo-fi DIY indie-pop would be well advised
to check out local one-woman band Hearts of Animals. The lone member,
who enigmatically refers to herself as "SWF," distills the lush, blissed-out
waves of the endlessly layered instrumentation and hypnotic drones
of My Bloody Valentin's opus Loveless into arrangements consisting
of little more than vocals, a single guitar and simple Casio-driven
rhythms. She then coats the nectar-sweet melodies with a thick layer
of Jesus and Mary Chain fuzz as her haunting, reverberated voice cuts
through the mix like an eagle breaking through a cloud bank.
THEE
FREED New band featuring Will Freed showing off his pedels and
Mlee from Hearts of Animals
SEW
WHAT For fans of
Mazzy Star, Jana Hunter and Joanna Newsome
