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3 PM:
BBC News Headlines
Brian Wilson / Love and Mercy / Brian Wilson (Warner Archives/Rhino 88)
Friendly Fires / On Board / Friendly Fires (XL/Beggars Group 08) [album released September 1]
Hot Butter / Popcorn / Super Hits of the '70s: Have a Nice Day, v.14 [Various Artists] (Rhino 72/90)
Yazoo / Ode to Boy [Das Shadow Re-Work] / Reconnected EP (Mute UK 08) [appearing at Lakewood Theater, Dallas next Tuesday, July 22]
Everything but the Girl / Flipside / Walking Wounded / Atlantic (96)
Bridge Music: Twilight Archive / Something Unquiet / Ritual Fiction (Electrophonogram 08)

3:30 PM:
Arthur Yoria / I Don't Wear Red / [digital single] (12 08) [appearing on SOUND AWAKE and at McGonigel's Mucky Duck Tuesday, July 29]
Fleetwood Mac / The Ledge / Tusk (Warner Bros. 79)
fredmusic / Sugar / Sound Awake (Overdone Music 05)
The New Pornographers / Chump Change / Electric Version (Matador/Beggars Group 03)
Dulcesky / Icon of Distress / Unfamiliar EP (Nueve Music/Eden's Watchtower 08)
The Church / Ripple / Priest=Aura (Arista 92)
Southern Backtones / Forever / Southern Backtones (self-release 04) [appearing at AvantGarden Friday]
Bridge Music: TWILIGHT ARCHIVE / Flow of Know / Ritual Fiction (Electrophonogram 08)

4 O'CLOCK 80s BLOCK: SPECIAL Todd Rundgren EDITION
[all selections performed and/or produced by Todd, who appears at Warehouse Live Monday, July 21]
TODD RUNDGREN / Something to Fall Back On / A Cappella (Rhino 85) [request]
" / Pulse / Healing (Rhino/Bearsville 81)
" / Don't Hurt Yourself / The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect (Rhino/Bearsville 82)
The Rubinoos / If I Had You Back / Party of Two [EP] (Wounded Bird 83)
The Pursuit of Happiness / She's So Young / Love Junk (Chrysalis 88)
4:20 DRUG WAR NEWS with DEAN BECKER
Jules Shear / Whispering Your Name / Watch Dog (EMI America 83)
XTC / Mermaid Smiled / Skylarking [original LP/current CD editions] (Caroline 86)
Bridge Music: TWILIGHT ARCHIVE / No Longer Nomads / Ritual Fiction (Electrophonogram 08)

4:30 PM:
Peter Gabriel / Down to Earth / Wall•E [Soundtrack] (Walt Disney 08)
Hooverphonic / Frosted Flake Wood / The Magnificent Tree (Epic 00)
The Legendary Pink Dots / Belladonna / The Maria Dimension (Play It Again Sam 91)
Neil Halstead / Paint a Face / Oh! Mighty Engine (Brushfire 08) [album released July 29]
Bob Lind / It's Just My Love / You Might Have Heard My Footsteps: The Best of Bob Lind (EMI 67/93)
Freedy Johnston / Cold Again / This Perfect World (Elektra 94)
Exit Music: TWILIGHT ARCHIVE / The Cooling Tower / Ritual Fiction (Electrophonogram 08)

Showcase

Featuring over 50 of Houston’s best local bands all in one evening for only $10! Beginning at 4pm at Bayou Place & Downtown Venues. Your $10 wristband is your admission to every venue, and is available NOW at Catwalk (1431 Westheimer 11am-7pm Mon-Sat & 11am-5pm Sunday) OR at all showcase venues the day of the event. SPECIAL CATWALK ADVANCE PURCHASE OFFER: 2 FOR $15! For more info, call 713.280.2448

To vote:
http://www.houstonpress.com/poll/music07/

Band Schedule:
http://www.houstonpress.com/php/retail/hou/musicfestival/pg2.html

Some of the bands scheduled to appear:
Deep Ella
Paris Green
Peekaboo Theory
Satin Hooks
Saliva
The Handsomes
Sean Reefer & the Resin Valley Boys
Arthur Yoria

Take your top 20 artists. For each of these artists, collect the top 5 similar artists. The resulting number of unique artists is your eclectic score. If the score is small (extreme = 5) your musical preferences are very limited, and if it is large (larger than 80, extreme = 100), then you have an eclectic musical preference. You can compute your own score at http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/eclectic.php

My eclectic score is currently




The 78 related artists for my profile are Air (2) Ammonite Apocalyptica Archive Arctic Monkeys Arthur Yoria Beck Björk Bloc Party Briareus Bright Eyes (4) Broken Social Scene Burden Brothers Bush Camille Cat Power (3) Charlotte Gainsbourg Cuarteto Almagro Damien Rice Dar Williams David Aubrun David Schombert Dean Chris Death Cab for Cutie (2) Fiona Apple (2) Foo Fighters Frou Frou (2) Goldfrapp Green Day Happy House Imogen Heap Indigo Girls Jack Off Jill Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins Jonathan Coulton Katerine Keep Cool Vibration Lacuna Coil Lisa DeBenedictis Local H Lonah Massive Attack Metric Olivia Ruiz Omar Mollo Orquesta El Arranque Osvaldo Pugliese Radiohead (3) Rammstein Red Hot Chili Peppers Regina Spektor (3) Rilo Kiley (3) Sexteto Mayor Siouxsie and the Banshees Sonata Arctica Sponge Stars Stone Temple Pilots Sufjan Stevens Switchblade Symphony Systylé The Arcade Fire The Cure The Decemberists The Dresden Dolls The Libertines The Postal Service The Shins (2) The Strokes The TenGooz The White Stripes (3) They Might Be Giants Thievery Corporation Tori Amos (3) Within Temptation Yeah Yeah Yeahs (2) Zero 7 (2) Zeropage

Punk Rock:
Millencolin

Indie:
Arthur Yoria

Electronic:
Cargo Cult

Rock n' Roll:
Fluid

Ska:
The Planet Smashers

Other:
Ammonite