TODAY IN NEWS: FEOW GETS PITCHED! GANGSTA ZYDECO DRIVEBYS! A FESTIVAL FOR THE REST-A-Y’LL!

Well HAPPY MONDAY HOUSTON. You’re gonna a need a dedicated dancer/ecstasy dealer to keep up with all the news and goings on this fair day. Let’s ROUND UP the best of who and what from the blogs, the message boards and the papers.

FEOW RECORDS KICKS OUT PR MACHINE LIKE GANGBUSTERS
Feow - if you hadn’t seen mention of em online yet, you must not read many music sites. Yep, the lean mean record releasing machine that is the join love child of Bring Back the Guns' Matt Brownlie, Wicked Poseur’s Arthur Bates and Jana Hunter started to get mad press this weeks. Raddage. First up, go check out the dating advice and sneak peek tracks that I Guess I’m Floating has for the label’s upcoming first releaser, Deer Tick.

Then, mosey on over to an article on Pitchfork, which totally scoops us with such badass news as an impending Jana Hunter/Indian Jewelry split plus full lengths by Wicked Poseur, Sharks and Sailors and Woozyhelmet. Woah! Score! You read it here second!

TRIFILIN HATERS BE SHOOTIN UP KPFT!
We were more than a little stupdefied this AM to read on houstonsoreal that someone had fired shots at KPFT’s studios last night. A story in the chronicle has more detail. No doubt, KPFT has had some violence pointed its way in the past, and let’s face it – their programming choices sometimes makes our piss boil – but we’re totally at a loss as to what would make someone do a drive-by during the zydeco show of all things? Maybe the genre is a lot more gangster than we previously estimated.

HE SAID SHE SAID PRODUCTIONS REVEALS DECEMBER FESTIVAL LINEUP
Over on hands_up, Travis from He Said She Said dropped the bomb that not only is a WICKED ACES festival in the works, but that its confirmed lineup contains the legendary The Mike Gunn. INTO IT. Peep the lineup for this slammer, and set December 14th-16th at Rudz on your calendar: The Ugly Beats, Amplified Heat, Alright Tonight, Wayward, Born Liars, The Bad Rackets, The Monocles, Something Fierce, The Pumpers, The Hex Dispensers, The Ape Shits, The High Beams, The Wax Museums, The Takes, Linus Pauling Quartet, The Mike Gunn and Hearts of Animals. More ‘surprise guests’ are to be announced. We’ll definitely be talking about this more as the date draws neigh.