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Friday, December 10th. 2004
Doors @ 8:00 - Show @ 9:00
$8 day of show.
Friends.
Please understand, a U.S. Maple recording is a reference, a blueprint to a story told a bit differently night after night. What you hear is not always what you get. These albums don’t spoil. U.S. Maple (the living, breathing) always exude a fresh on date, changing as necessary without abandoning the prominent features.
Never before has a band popped, melted.. exploded so miserably.
U.S. Maple are the pioneers of the new school, controlling time and space without falling hack to today’s trendier form: improvising. Make no mistake, U.S. Maple are about songs and not the sum of parts. This is rocknroll re-aped, engaging on all levels, placing emphasis where the emphasis belongs: entertainment. A dramatic mess of pleasantries, U.S. Maple not only captivate, but keep interest - able to change, resolve or knot up their act from the live studio on Chicago’s Q101 Hit radio to the Cave theater in Bergen, Norway.
Friends.
Here is Viet Nam for your long long long hair.
WEBSITE: U.S. Maple
The roots of Bring Back The Guns begin in 1998 as a live interpretation of
a recording project called Gandhi in Vegas. Some music was submitted to
SxSW without much thought given to how it could be performed if accepted.
It was accepted, and all of this began. This lineup was Matthew Brownlie
on guitar and vocals, Erik Bogle on bass, Eric Tes on guitar, and Lisa
Harrington-Squires on drums.
After the SxSW performance, the band continued with Matt, Erik (now on guitar as God intended), Thomas Clemmons on drums, and Blake Powell on bass. The name of the band was changed to Groceries. This lineup produced two recordings: the 1999 "Knuckleheads & Icons" EP and the 2001 split EP with DrillboxIgnition (RIP).
Blake left in late 2002 to become a pilot, which he totally has. In 2003, we played a couple of dates on the Toadies reunion tour, did a small tour with Lozenge and Woozyhelmet, and toured the West Coast with the Octopus Project (of which Erik is also a member). In addition, recording began on our first full-length, but these sessions were eventually scrapped.
In early 2004, Ryan Hull joined on bass. Shortly thereafter, we rechristened ourselves Bring Back The Guns and recording began again.
WEBSITE: Bring back the guns
Houston's got a rap scene a mile deep, but you wouldn't know it from the Houston Press or the indie-rockin' bars inside the loop. And hey, I'm no more knowledgeable about it than most -- on the rare occasions when I do happen to hear a local hip-hop act, it's usually something pretty bizarre, something that might be be accepted by your average beathead.
Freedom Sold is that kind of band -- they're hip-hop in style, but they're fiercely political and big into the indie-rock world, and their sound probably isn't going to get them on the pages of hip-hop magazines anytime soon. I haven't caught 'em lately, but the basic setup the last time was that Kwamé would be out front making lots of feedback-y noise with his guitar and kicking the rhymes while his partner Art scratches and DJs behind him. It seems to be pretty improvisational, but it works really well -- the description I've heard a few times is "Sonic Youth meets Public Enemy," and that might not be far off...
THE JONX are: TREY LAVIGNE, DANNY MEE and STUART SMITH.
The Jonx give each member an equal amount of the spotlight when playing live. They set the stage so that everyone is seen and everyone sings the songs they write. And, as is usual with punk music, you often can't make out a word of what they are singing.
"It's a problem," Mee says. "Our music is sometimes sort of difficult to listen to, which is both positive and negative. It makes the music interesting, but challenging for the listener. I put a lot of effort into my lyrics, which may not be the best use of my time since no one can understand what I'm saying." - from the Houston Chronicle
WEBSITE: The Jonx