Young Mammals is a Houston independent rock band associated with singer and guitarist Carlos Sanchez, bassist Jose Sanchez, guitarist Cley Miller, and drummer Justin Terrell. Its recordings combine melodic guitar pop with abrupt shifts in texture and rhythm, developed through a long collaboration with producer Steve Christensen. Carrots (2010), Alto Seco (2014), and Jaguar (2016) document successive stages of that approach. References to the Houston experimental group Culturcide in Jaguar’s artwork connect the band’s pop-oriented songwriting with the city’s older underground traditions, placing Young Mammals within a continuing local conversation about independent music.
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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.
5 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 2013, source fpsf-dev-2014-previous-lineups.
Documentary evidence
Portrait — not event-specific. Young Mammals performing at The Happy Dog, 2010. The Zender Agenda, 2010. CC BY 2.0. Flickr / The Zender Agenda. Creative Commons performance photograph; not a Westheimer Block Party photograph.
Free Press Summer Fest 2009Lineup row held for Free Press Summer Fest 2009, source fpsf-dev-2014-previous-lineups.
Westheimer Block Party, fall 2009Lineup row held for Westheimer Block Party, fall 2009, source wbp-2009-lineup-page.
Free Press Summer Fest 2010Lineup row held for Free Press Summer Fest 2010, source fpsf-dev-2014-previous-lineups.
Free Press Summer Fest 2011Lineup row held for Free Press Summer Fest 2011, source fpsf-dev-2014-previous-lineups.
Free Press Summer Fest 2013Lineup row held for Free Press Summer Fest 2013, source fpsf-dev-2014-previous-lineups.
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Related Free Press Houston coverage
Archive articles that name Young Mammals. A mention is a sighting in the paper’s own pages, not a statement that the piece is about this performer.
