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I'm still recovering from Terrastock.", "THIS WEEK'S SPOTLIGHT", "Saturday, June 28", "Music Makes Change", "Benefit for Brazos Abiertos, featuring", "Young Mammals, The Mathletes, Earnie Banks, The Wild Moccasins, News on the March, The Holly Hall, Piano Vines, & The Eastern Sea", "@ Avant Garden (7PM; $10)", "It's like a pummeling of solid bands I mean 8 bands? That's a hella lotta music for a mere $10 and it's a good cause. Young Mammals are the reigning pop kings, The Mathletes return after a long hiatus, The Wild Moccasins will keep you smiling, News On The March will pair well with a Lone Star or a Shiner, The Holly Hall will finally peep their heads out after too long a time away from the stage, and Piano Vines, Eastern Sea and Earnie Banks will surely keep the good times rolling. So help out a good cause and have a blast at the same time.", "ALSO THIS WEEK", "Friday, June 27", "Super Happy Funland Benefit", "featuring John Muzak, Whitman, Treasure Mammal (Phoenix), and The Annoysters", "@NOTSUOH", "Wooo! Just got this from John Muzak! Sounds pretty awesome and it's to help SHFL!", "The Riff Tiffs, Lisa's Sons, The Ton Tons, Fat Tony", "@ Warehouse Live", "On again off again faves The Riff Tiffs headline but for me it's the Ton Ton's who are the band to see here. You know the score by now amazing vocalist and a monster guitarist. ROCK!", "Robert Earl Keen @ Sam Houston Race Park", "Texas singer songwriter extraordinaire and I have to admit, no matter how many times I see it, the cover to his album Picnic still cracks me up.", "Saturday, June 28", "Hollywood Black (CD release), The Goods, Tambersauro", "@ Walter's on Washington", "CD release woooo but also Tambersauro's prog-o-rama goodness!", "Get Busy!, featuring", "DJ Jester the Filipino Fist, Ernest Gonzales, & Bad Knives", "@ The Backr oom (The Mink; 9PM)", "Let the dancing begin!", "The Drunks", "@ Rudyard's", "OK, I mean, really, with a name like the drunks do you really need an explanation?", "Stone Temple Pilots, Black Francis", "@ Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion", "STP hasn't aged very well to my ears while the solo Black Francis always struck me as intermittently brilliant. So that with $8 Miller beer I'll skip this one but hey it's still worth a mention.", "Sunday, June 29", "Zaika (Tom Carter & Marcia Bassett), Future Blondes", "@ The Mink (Backroom)", "This was just added recently and what a treat! Zaika is Tom Carter (Charalambides, Mike Gunn) and Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards, Zaimph, Hototogisu, UN) Future Blondes opens. If you are a regular reader of Signal to Noise magazine this is required attendance.", "The Defenestration Unit", "@ Discovery Green Park", "Will TDU keep the rain away? 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