Ghost Town Electric was a Houston rock project active around the late 2000s and early 2010s. Its 2012 release Midway documents a sound identified by the group with desert rock, psychedelia, and punk. The recording was made and mixed on analog tape, then cut to a polycarbonate disc using a 1940s Presto lathe, making the production process a distinctive part of the surviving release. Midway preserves Ghost Town Electric’s place within Houston’s independent rock community and its engagement with older recording technologies as tools for contemporary music.
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Held artifact from Westheimer Block Party, fall 2009, an edition the act played. General poster for the November 14–15, 2009 Westheimer Block Party, printing Dead Prez and Japanther and 250+ local and regional bands. Artwork by Shelby Hohl. Free Press Houston Archive holding.
One appearance documented on a Free Press Houston bill. Records are kept to the lineup sources the archive holds; nothing beyond them is stated.
Lineup row held for Westheimer Block Party, fall 2009, source wbp-2009-lineup-page.
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Archive articles that name Ghost Town Electric. A mention is a sighting in the paper’s own pages, not a statement that the piece is about this performer.
