George Clinton, Lucinda Williams, Tody Castillo, Arthur Yoria to Sing in Chinese

Well, it’s no Coachella, its no Bonnaroo, ACL, Pitchfork Music Fest, Reading or even Ozzfest, but The Houston International Festival is what we got, so we might as well report on it. The festival, whose nation of note is China, released their live music schedule yesterday, and, as in the past, not too many acts that fall in our scope will find themselves on the stage. But before all that, let us be the first to make the joke that George Clinton and the Parliament/Funkadelic are playing Saturday, because they are hopelessly occupied on Friday, 4/20.

Also of note on the main stage (April 29^th) will be Lucinda Williams, whose country is our kind of country and whose latest album West came out just last week.

Local acts will find themselves playing from the glory of the “Flamingo Gardens Houston Stage,” though you’ve likely only head of a handful of those on the roster (unless you’ve been hiding your southern rock or zydeco blues fetish from the rest of us). Included in that group are hard working pop kids Tody Castillo and Arthur Yoria. Also, REAL TALK: The Southern Backtones are playing – their sound has been going in a very different, non-Southern-roots direction lately and you may be surprised how, well, good some of their new material is. Also, there are always tons of very attractive people at their shows, and is about the best option out there for warming up before the roof gets torn off that suckah later that night. FUNK!