Arty Texas post-hardcore band ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead has a new album, The Century of Self *, due out in February. The group'll also be hitting the asphalt for a national tour, which finds its way into Slim's on Monday, March 16; tickets cost $18 and go on sale this Sunday, Jan. 18.Hopefully the boys won't cause too much damage to the local drinkeries -- unlike this past New Year's Eve, for example, when guitarist Kevin Allen was arrested for going full-on Pete Townshend '6
Well, that headline is technically true, but lemme explain. Local genre-hoppers Mushroom will settle into some old school Who material this Saturday, Feb. 20 at the Make-Out Room. The band, which features members of Citay and Brightblack Morning Light, will be performing Pete Townshend's sci fi rock opera Lifehouse--material that was later used for the Who's Who's Next. Mushroom promises to bring on live renditions of classics like "Baba O'Riley" along with "crazy intense drumming and plen