The Linus Pauling Quartet are a long-running Houston rock band described in Free Press Houston as psych rockers and as heavy, guitar-based stoner and blues psych. The archive holds their appearances at Westheimer Block Party in 2009 and Free Press Summer Fest in 2011. Coverage in 2016 followed the release of the album Ampalanche with in-store performances at Vinal Edge and Cactus, and listings regularly placed them at Rudyard’s among the city’s established rock acts.
A musical affiliation, kept separate from Free Press Houston bylines and coverage.
Held artifact from Free Press Summer Fest 2011, an edition the act played. 2011 stage guide, published on the festival lineup page alongside a PDF. Free Press Houston Archive holding.
2 appearances documented on Free Press Houston bills. Records are kept to the lineup sources the archive holds; nothing beyond them is stated.
Lineup row held for Free Press Summer Fest 2011, source fpsf-dev-2014-previous-lineups.
Documentary evidence
Portrait — not event-specific. The Linus Pauling Quartet group portrait with drum kit and projected backdrop. The Linus Pauling Quartet (artist-supplied profile photograph; photographer not stated), 2014. All rights reserved / copyright retained by artist/source. The Linus Pauling Quartet Bandcamp. Artist-supplied Bandcamp group photograph; not a Westheimer Block Party photograph.
Westheimer Block Party, fall 2009Lineup row held for Westheimer Block Party, fall 2009, source wbp-2009-lineup-page.
Free Press Summer Fest 2011Lineup row held for Free Press Summer Fest 2011, source fpsf-dev-2014-previous-lineups.
Credits are recorded from each object’s own source. If a credit here is incomplete or wrong, see photo and video credits.
Related Free Press Houston coverage
Archive articles that name Linus Pauling Quartet. A mention is a sighting in the paper’s own pages, not a statement that the piece is about this performer.
