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		<title>Muse &#038; Silversun Pickups, Toyota Arena, Houston</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not the biggest Muse fan (only owning Absolution), but I&#8217;ve heard they do a good live show, so when they came through Houston last summer I was going to go and give them the benefit. However, I then found out that they were supporting U2 and I&#8217;d rather have my ears piped with fresh dogturd than sit through a U2 gig, so I didn&#8217;t go. I guess I could have just left after Muse, but TicketMaster wouldn&#8217;t agree to my stipulation that none of my ticket price would go to U2 if I didn&#8217;t stay for their set, so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Decemberists, Riviera Theater, Chicago</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given that I had to back out of the last two gigs in Houston that I had tickets for (Gomez, and Green Day) because I was sent to Chicago on gig-day, I was super-bummed to learn that my current loves, The Decemberists, were playing Houston when I was, yet again, in Chicago. But as I was scheduled to be up here for five weeks, I decided I may as well see if there was anyone interesting playing in Chi-Town (correctly pronounced shit-town, Colin Meloy was pleased to inform us) whilst I was here.  And joy of joys, I discovered that The Decemberists&#8217; tour [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cure, Toyota Center Houston</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I used to be a pretty big fan of The Cure back in the day, but I kind of gave up on them when they went all cheerful, and I haven&#8217;t bought an album of theirs since 1987&#8217;s Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me.  So when I heard they were coming to Houston, I was in two minds about going.  I&#8217;d more-or-less decided not to, when I bumped into a buddy, who I hadn&#8217;t seen in two years (last seen at Pukkelpop) and didn&#8217;t even know was in the country, who said he was thinking of going.  So for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Built To Spill, Warehouse Houston</title>
		<link>http://www.planetmanuel.com/dirk/?p=103</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Built To Spill are another band I can&#8217;t believe are playing venues the size of the Warehouse in Houston (albeit in the &#8216;Ballroom&#8217; which is reasonably larger than the room I saw The Black Angels in).  They should be huge, and playing to an audience of thousands, not the four- or five-hundred college students who barely filled the Ballroom.
Support band was the Meat Puppets, who I knew nothing about save some notion of a tenuous link between them and Nirvana (which is itself not necessarily a good thing - Nirvana are horribly overrated).  Like Nirvana, there&#8217;s three of them (guitar/vocals, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Black Angels - The Warehouse, Houston</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 05:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite having heard only a four-track EP by The Black Angels, I thought they’d probably be worth seeing live, so jumped at the chance when they came through Houston.  This was again at the Warehouse, but in a different/smaller room than the one I saw The Black Keys in - either that or they have remodeled and significantly downsized.  This time the &#8217;stage&#8217; (a wooden platform that stood at most a foot off the ground) was squashed in a corner of the room, and there were sofas in the ‘audience area’, which I didn’t take as a good sign.
The evening started [...]]]></description>
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