8 PM. $11 or so. The Engine Room is located at 1515 Pease in downtown Houston.
This Friday, your favorite band (The Jonx) will be opening for your second-favorite band: Do Make Say Think. Started way way back in 1996, and named after four very good things to do, Do Make Say Think are one of the premier bands of the second (after Slint and Tortoise) era of post-rock.

Would that be post-post-rock? God I hope not.

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Check out some free live recordings. Do Make Say Think also share some members with Broken Social Scene. You remember, that band that has nineteen freaking people in it?
Anyway, If you’re unconvinced by my flimsy praise, here’s some from the New York Times:

‘”Goodbye Enemy Airship” is dotted with musical naivete: one of its two drummers has trouble keeping a groove and some relatively simple guitar and saxophone parts are played a little gracelessly. But the indie-rock amateurism isn’t grating; it’s just part of the band’s honesty and dedication. Tracks abruptly change tempos and moods. Bubbling, crackling noises from analogue synthesizers briefly hijack a song. A drum pattern comes in and saturates the recording; then the microphones seem to roll backward from the drums and bring them into focus. It’s a headphones album and, as with dub reggae, there’s so much tension-and-release and spatial effects in the music that it almost becomes a visual experience.’

Or, if the Old Grey Mare- uh, Lady is too stodgy for you (c’mon- they covered Dan Deacon this year! That’s got to count for something), here’s the Wire:

‘So honest it may conceal secret depths’

You were expecting more, right? Me too- I’d like to know if Winter Hymn does, in fact, conceal secret depths, and if the Wire isn’t sure, then why not, and what’s so secret about these depths anyway? The American people deserve answers. Well, too bad, because the Wire doesn’t put its archives online. Fuckers. Way to join the 21st century, you loony Brits! Gorm up the brindlebuss and Bob’s a doughnut, innit!

Here’s a nice live review:

‘The emotive instrumentals of Do Make Say Think are like contemporary classical music: without the lyrics that define pop songs, they describe rich journeys observant of daily triumphs and disappointments.’

That’s more like it. As a great man once said, can you get to that? I recommend that you do.

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Cheers,

Danny