Arts & Entertainment

Local acts replace Super Bowl music

Blues, Christian rock, hip-hop groups provide ‘weekend-after' entertainment

By Bridget Brown
The Daily Cougar

Sammy Hagar's gone. So are Beyoncé and boob-baring Janet. No one is really sure what happened to Big Boi. The flock of A-list artists that descended upon Houston to entertain Super Bowl fans may be a hard act to follow for local performers this weekend.

Friday

Newcomer Yonger Band will play Friday with Dreambreakers at Last Concert Cafe, 1403 Nance St. The Emerging Culture, Ignite the Morning, Coexist and Trademark will play at Fat Cat's, 4216 Washington Ave.

If you're into Christian rock, check out MTV's The Experience Tour at Sagemont Church, 11600 Hughes Road. Ill Harmonics, Rod Laver, Boink and Likeminds will perform.

Guy Forsyth and the Scattered Pages will entertain at the Rhythm Room, 1815 Washington Ave.

Check out Hip-Hop Project at Underground Lounge, 804 Fannin St. VHX and Friends of the Enemy are scheduled to perform.

Multi-instrumentalist Ian Moore will rock at Side Car Pub, 11202 Huffmeister Road. Long Goodbye, Arthur Yoria and Goneblind will also play.

For blues fans, Savoy Brown will perform at McGonigel's Mucky Duck, 2425 Norfolk St., and The Texas Destroyers will be at Shakespeare's Pub, 14129 Memorial Drive. Zydeco Dots will supply the zydeco (obviously) at Cosmos Cafe, 69 Heights Blvd.

Saturday

If you like hardcore, head down to Walter's on Washington, 4215 Washington Ave. for a Hatetank Productions benefit show. The show will also happen at Silky's (next door to Walter's) and Fat Cat's (across the street). Houston fave Will to Live will play with Pride Kills, Your Mistake, Down & Dirties, Die Young, Incisor, Clean Break, Monroe, Southern Riot, Sanguine, Ten Crowns and Machine Gun Romantics. That's a lot of bands for an $8 cover charge. The show is all ages and starts at 7 p.m.

If you don't feel like thrashing, check out Carolyn Wonderland at the Rhythm Room, 1815 Washington Ave.

Cezanne's at 4100 Montrose Blvd. offers some great jazz with Dennis Dotson and a pianist from the UK John Patrick.

The Living Dolls, ATM, South 59 and Collapsing Horse will take over Fitzgerald's downstairs, 2706 White Oak Drive, and The Guilla-Teens, Focusyn, Sheffield Drive and Salinger will play upstairs. Opeth, Moonspell and DevilDriver will perform at the Engine Room, 1515 Pease St.

Sunday

Bruce James will play from 9 to 11 p.m. and The Goodtrain Session will take over from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. at the Rhythm Room. Get your day off to a good start with Horace Grigsby and Bob Henschen from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Rolling Stones trombonist Mike Davis and Bill Reichenback will perform at the Spring Woods High Auditorium, 2045 Gessner Road, and Lawrence Overshawn and Tiffany Roshal will perform more jazz at Ruggles, 903 Westheimer Road.


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