At Rudyard’s, 2010 Waugh. Saturday March 6.

So as you may have noticed (*snort* I’m sure) the Jonx have not been playing much recently. We did a couple of shows back in September and October, and then in November. . . well to tell you the truth I don’t really remember much from November right now, but long story short, we got caught up trying to get Vocabularian Herds out, I had some family stuff going on, Trey moved to a new apartment, Stu had to redo his bathroom. You know: LIFE.

BUT! With Vocabularian Herds FINALLY being out, we’re ready to start playing some shows, and Joel from Fired For Walking was nice enough to invite us to play with them at Rudyard’s for our GRAND COMEBACK, in preparation for our TOTALLY AWESOME CD release show which I’m TOTALLY NOT GOING TO TELL YOU ABOUT YET because THIS POST IS ABOUT THE MARCH GIG.

FOCUS PEOPLE! FOCUS!!!

ANYWAY. This whole Grand Comeback thing is a bit crap because in recent years it seems that we’ve had to do this pretty much every spring as we slowly gear up from being caught with other stuff during the holidays. Basically we only play shows during baseball season now. Hey, we’ve been a band for seven freaking years. We don’t load gear in cold weather anymore. It’s in our rider.

Where was I? RIGHT WE ARE PLAYING A SHOW. Fired For Walking are a local quartet who play cranked-up indie rock. They sound kind of like Swervedriver. One of them even has dreadlocks like Adam Franklin used to, weirdly enough. I dig their EP and I’m really looking forward to seeing them live. I definitely recommend checking out their music on the Tunes page on their website, because not only do they have a smooth built-in player, the player allows you to play all six tracks at the same time, which sounds, as you might expect, COMPLETELY FREAKING AWESOME. Memo to Jonx webmaster (aka Stu): make this happen!

Opening up the show will be the Bottom Four. I don’t know a ton about this band, and they haven’t been around all that long, but they’re friends of Fired For Walking, so they’re probably good guys. You can hear their songs on Myspace- (kind of a cheery, quirky indie-rock thing, very appealing)- and they have a couple of music videos and their own YouTube channel, which is more than I can say for the Jonx. Man these bands are both kicking our butts in the web department. Also, I like their song titles.

OK, to recap: Jonx, Fired For Walking, the Bottom Four. Rudyard’s, March 6. And have I mentioned it’s FREE? Well now I have, anyway.

Also: Flyer. Because nothing says “March 6″ like two hands making a heart shape and a naked woman’s torso painted like a flag!

(Buy Vocabularian Herds!)

Danny

See us with three great little-known rock bands this weekend:

Novox and Bald Eagle Burger on Saturday in Houston;

Honey and Salt on Sunday in Austin!

And don’t forget, Monday is Labor Day, so you can go out and have fun on Sunday even if it’s normally a school night.

More exciting news tomorrow. Ish.
Flyer for the Sunday show:

A last-minute show to fill a slot at the Mink. Side Arms is the new band from Al Hendrix and Mike Rollin from Sharks and Sailors. Mike’s on drums here and I have to say he is pretty good- kickin’ it tall-guy style. Oh by the way this already happened.

Next week, Friday, July 17, we are playing with 500 Megatons of Boogie and 10-4 Eleanor at the Mink. Click on the show at right for details.

Dear Austin friends,  

I just wanted to let you know that the Jonx are playing in Austin this Saturday evening. So if you’re not doing anything, y’know. . .

Details:

Sach x Sachwest!
Saturday, February 28
United States Art Authority (29th and Guadalupe, conveniently located next door to Spider House)
Doors at 6 PM, bands at 7
This is a benefit show, in that it benefits everyone attending by not charging them admission. In other words: FREE

We’ll be playing some songs from the new record (working title- “Do I dare to eat The Jonx?*”) that we are THIS CLOSE to being done mixing. I will give you a completely objective opinion: they are good.

Also playing, in this order:

Butcher Bear
The Corndawg
The Jonx (that would be us)
Strong Silent Type
Woodgrain
Fingaar Bangaar
Chili Cold Blood

Chili Cold Blood is headlining. So that would mean we’re playing third, which I guess would put us on around. . . I’m gonna say somewhere between 8:30 and 10.

Playing right before us is The Corndawg, aka Jonny Corndawg. The Corndawg is from Nashville, and boy is he something else. I highly recommend that you check him out. Click on his name above.

Many of these, including Strong Silent Type and Woodgrain, are excellent and very new local bands, and they have myspaces and whatnot, in case you would like a preview.

Perhaps you are still undecided. Let me break it down for you:

PRO:
- Free
- Cheap beer
- Good location (i.e. lots of stuff to do if you get bored)
- The Jonx
- The Corndawg
- Other good bands

CON (potential):
- Loud
- Conflicts with preexisting plans
- Forbidden by post-surgery medical instructions
- You hate fun

There you have it- the decision is yours.

Danny
* We respectfully decline to part our hair behind. We are not sure how that is supposed to work anyway.

SUMMARY:
Woozyhelmet, The Jonx and the Wild Moccasins
Saturday, November 15
ArtStorm gallery space
SHOW STARTS EARLY! 6:30 PM
FREE

Mitch Mitchell died today (Well, yesterday at this point). Much respect, Mitch. I don’t want to belabor the point, except to note that he died on tour. We should all be so lucky.Less widely reported, Buddy Miles died back in February. So both of Hendrix’s drummers were born the same year (1947) and died the same year. Weird, huh?

ANYWAY, this post is not entirely about drummers that played with Hendrix. In fact it’s mainly about the show that the Jonx are playing this Saturday, November 15. It’s the Woozyhelmet CD release party! Yaaay!

Woozyhelmet is a band composed of Jay Crossley, Toto Miranda (who also plays in the Octopus Project) and Brandi DiPietro (who also plays in a Houston expatriate band called the Sour Notes, as well as some other bands in Austin), all of whom are old friends of the Jonx. They’re nominally an Austin band, but Jay and Toto are from Houston and they go way back with Stu and our old bass player Shawn Durrani. I think they used to be in the Invisible Robot Fish together?

Get Down is the second full-length Woozyhelmet CD. That is a much more remarkable achievement than it sounds like, considering the first Woozyhelmet album came out back when I was in college, making more than seven years between albums. These guys make the Guilloteens look like Ryan Adams. BONUS: Prior to their first CD release show in Austin last weekend, they hadn’t occupied the same room in four months. Great show.

Woozyhelmet have a genius for heartfelt, comical, quirky, yet still totally rocking pop music that few bands, and none in Texas, can match. Many bands can melt your face, but it takes a special one to melt your heart. Woozyhelmet are one of those.

The Wild Moccasins are also playing this show. They’re an accomplished and acclaimed young local band of whom I have not heard as much as I should and am rather unqualified to sing the praises. They were the Houston Press’s “Band of the Week” a couple of weeks ago, though, so you can read about them there. Here’s a review from the Skyline Network, in case your tastes run to the bloggier.

The show is at ArtStorm, an alternative gallery space in the Third Midtown Museum Ward District Area of downtownish Houston, aka “4828 Caroline St. Houston, TX 77004.” See their website down at the bottom for more information about the space, as well as information on how you can volunteer for the campaign to re-elect the Jonx to the crucial municipal office of conscounciltrollerman officer of the Fifth Punk Precinct of the Scene.

SCHEDULE!
7 PM Wild Moccasins
8 PM The Jonx
9 PM Woozyhelmet

SUMMARY AGAIN!
Woozyhelmet, The Jonx and the Wild Moccasins
Saturday, November 15
ArtStorm gallery space
SHOW STARTS EARLY! 6:30 PM
FREE

Oh my god I spent 45 minutes on this, what is wrong with me
Danny