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About Me

Welcome to the official MySpace presence of the venerable, crotchety H-town music-and-other-things e-zine, Space City Rock , run (mostly) by a guy named Jeremy.
For those who don't know anything about us, we've been posting opinionated crap online (and occasionally off, in our long-forgotten print incarnation) about music, movies, comics, art, books, and anything else we feel like writing about, all the while trying to keep focused on the sweaty, smoggy town we call home. We've been doing this for a while now (since, oh, about 1996 ), and although the landscape's changed a bit in recent years, this whole "music" thing is still pretty entertaining, and we're still writing about it.
This page is meant to be a link from our Website to all the good music-loving/music-making people out there in the MySpace world. The bulk of our content is on the actual site , but we'll be posting updates & such over here to keep folks informed. (You can also join our mailing list to keep up on what's going on.) Keep the rock power alive, kids...
SCR Site: http://www.spacecityrock.com/
SCR Blog: http://www.spacecityrock.com/news.shtml
SCR Mailing List (er, Yahoo! Group): http://groups.yahoo.com/spacecityrock
SCR Gear: http://www.cafepress.com/spacecityrock
SCR Real-World Address:
Space City Rock
P.O. Box 541010
Houston, TX. 77254

My Interests

Music, movies, art, books, politics, and anything else that's quirky, intelligent, and entertaining.

Music:

In no particular order and subject to change: , Gogol Bordello , The Western Civilization , Jimmy Eat World , Damone , Something Fierce , P.O.S. , Sage Francis , The Broken West , Superchunk , Palomar , Program , Black Star, Celindine, Parts & Labor , The Church of Philadelphia , Jana Hunter , Asian Dub Foundation , Bloc Party , Avenged Sevenfold , Co-Pilot , The Mountain Goats , Art Brut , 1997 , Andrew W.K. , Clouseaux , Killswitch Engage , Okkervil River , Sharks and Sailors , Roots Manuva , The Jonx , Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings , The Adjusters , The Hold Steady , Arthur Yoria , The Talk , Bright Men of Learning , The Black Keys , Atmosphere , Guided By Voices , The Pogues , The Handsomes , Silversun Pickups , Blackalicious , Crooked Fingers , Sugar Shack, A Wilhelm Scream , Fatal Flying Guilloteens , Peter and the Wolf , Indian Jewelry , Bring Back The Guns , Ghostface Killah , Samiam , The JonBenet , Mastodon , Margot , The Rapture , Gnarls Barkley , Babel Fishh , Winterpills , Antarctica Starts Here , The Roots , While You Were Gone , In Flames , Mansion , The Subways , The Kimonos , Say Anything! , Casino , Paolo Nutini , The Elected , Lucero , .belville , The Dismemberment Plan , Anti-Flag , Blades , The Stills , The Decemberists , Sparklehorse , Hell City Kings , The Suspects , The Smoking Popes , Death Cab for Cutie , Thee Armada , Chavez , Sinews , The Promise Ring , Strike Anywhere , Paris Falls , The Long Winters , Archers of Loaf , Pale , The Tossers , Panic in Detroit , The Arcade Fire , Blaggards , Silkworm , The Explosion , Sad Like Crazy , Blackpool Lights , Devin the Dude , Mogwai , georgia's Horse , Jonah Matranga , Dashboard Confessional , Tody Castillo , Grammar Debate! , Junior Varsity, The Weakerthans , Federation X , Ultramagg , Jawbreaker , Athlete , Satin Hooks , Modest Mouse , Middlefinger , The Scofflaws , The Polyphonic Spree , Spain Colored Orange , Deftones , Mae , Hard-Fi , Dub Trio , Land of Talk , Buxton , The Distillers, Listen Listen , The Comas , Rosie Thomas , PaperMoons , Fishbone , Studemont Project , Sun Kil Moon , Shadows Fall , The Mendoza Line , 30footFALL , The New Pornographers , The White Papers , The Paper Chase , Imogen Heap , Hem , Armor for Sleep , Ragged Hearts , The Redwalls , Jean Grae , Jon Chinn , The Blood Brothers , Storms Threaten to Destroy , Wolf Colonel, Comet Gain , Luxurious Panthers , Jawbox , Blueline Medic , The Dimes , Gorillaz , Rachid Taha , The Finalist , Jets to Brazil, Another Run , Iron & Wine ...there's more , but I'm too damn tired of typing.

Books:

Recently: I Am Legend , by Richard Matheson
Night Watch , by Sergei Lukyanenko
Iron Council , by China Mieville
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man , by John Perkins

Heroes:

Joe Strummer, Jonah Matranga, Chuck D, Billy Bragg, Mac McCaughan, Mike Ladd, Mark Linkous, Jon Samson, Roots Manuva, Asian Dub Foundation, Henry Rollins, and plenty of other people I can't think of right now.

My Blog

Not Dead, Just Relocated

Sorry for the quiet on the Space City Rock front, folks -- your humble Editor-in-Chief (that is, me) has been working on selling the house and buying a different one for a while now, for a variety of ...
Posted by Space City Rock (New Reviews!) on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:50:00 PST

The Press on the Muxtape Train

Meant to post this earlier, but eh, shit happens, and so... Seeing as how that whole Muxtape thing is so damn neat, it only makes sense that the Houston Press's John Lomax would be into it, too. I mis...
Posted by Space City Rock (New Reviews!) on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:47:00 PST

No Cat Power For Us, Sorry...

Damn, this makes me really, really sad (and big "thanks" to David over at the ever-stellar Houston Calling for breaking the news...). In spite of my being smack-dab in the middle of The Week From Hel...
Posted by Space City Rock (New Reviews!) on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:47:00 PST

Blogger, Now You’re Really Pissing Me Off.

Turns out I can't even post an apology for being slow properly. Fuck. I put up the post last night around 11PM, figuring any nite-owl readers would see it & drive themselves down to Sig's for the ta...
Posted by Space City Rock (New Reviews!) on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 08:24:00 PST

And Sig’s, Too! (And an Early Warning: Tiki Hotrod Art, May 12th!)

I suck, suck, suck. In my frantic rush to post about Record Store Day, I woefully neglected to give even the briefest shoutout to the wondrous, magical Midtown haven that is Sig's Lagoon (3710 Main, ...
Posted by Space City Rock (New Reviews!) on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 08:29:00 PST

Record Store Day @ Cactus + Not-So-Secret Judas Bear Show Today!

Okay, so I was a bit confused about this one -- I'd thought today's Record Store Day thing I'd been hearing about from the Cactus Music crew was just something at their happy little store, but noooo.....
Posted by Space City Rock (New Reviews!) on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:26:00 PST

Media Archaeology This Week (Tonight: Negativland!)

Just a quick note on this one, I'm afraid, since I'm still swamped as hell at work & barely have time to type things that aren't instructions for IT security-type people...argh. Nevertheless, I f...
Posted by Space City Rock (New Reviews!) on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:05:00 PST

Update: The Ruby Suns (Tonight!) + Sun Kil Moon + Raconteurs + Goldfrapp + Epochs + More

How do I always end up like this? Argh...the day just slip-slides away from me, I swear... Anyway, I wanted to post 'cause in the past 7 days or so we've now put up two separate batches of reviews &a...
Posted by Space City Rock (New Reviews!) on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:30:00 PST

Holy Crap, This Weekend Rules: Westheimer Block Party, KTRU Outdoor Show, & Indie Books

Three words (well, technically two words, but y'know) come to mind when I look at the ginormous pile of cool stuff that's going on this weekend: why, God, why? See, 'cause while all you fortunate to...
Posted by Space City Rock (New Reviews!) on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:26:00 PST

Dr. Pepper, You Are SO Screwed...

I can’t believe this finally happened. I also can’t believe anybody still cares, especially enough that they’d do something dumb like this. Of course, "handed over" is not exactly "r...
Posted by Space City Rock (New Reviews!) on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:56:00 PST