Locals on American Songwriter’s Top 50 Albums Of 2011
American Songwriter announced their selections for this year’s top 50 albums. Making the list are Hayes Carll’s Kmag Yoyo at number 6 and Photographs by Robert Ellis at the 31 slot.
Congratulations, gentlemen! Keep up the good work.
BestFest Coverage Recap
The Houston Press certainly didn’t lack coverage of their inaugural Best Of Houston BestFest. As I spent half of both days wandering back and forth from stage to stage, enjoying myself, I snapped a great many photos for Rocks Off. See them, along with photos from Marco Torres and Jason Wolter, in the slideshows and blogs below.
Saturday Coverage
BestFest Is Officially Off The Ground
The Last Place You Look Rolls In The Deep, And All That Jazz
Chamillionaire, Starmaker; The Tontons, New Stars
Slim Thug’s Sweet Tooth, Against Me! Destroys, Bun B Trills
Bun B, Rap God; Toadies Close Out With A Shred
Sunday Coverage
Umbrella Man, Texans On
Wild Moccasins Made In The Shade, Little Joe Rips
Honky Tonk Brothers Draw Blood, Carolyn Wonderland Laps The Field
Buxton Incites Swoons, Deer Tick Get A Little Goofy
Hayes Carll Strikes Up The Band, Cake Shuts It Down
Last Night: Cake At BestFest (Cake set review by John Seaborn Gray)
Slideshows
Saturday’s Bands
Sunday’s Bands
The BestFest Crowd
Bites of BestFest
Phew! That’s all I’ve got. I’ll leave you with one last photo, a favorite of mine from the weekend.
BestFest Adds Four Artists - Rocks Off
Today the Houston Press announced four more artists for the September 24 and 25 BestFest: Hayes Carll, Carolyn Wonderland, Slim Thug, and Against Me!
They’ve also posted who’s playing which days, among the ten artists that have been announced thus far.
Saturday, September 24: Against Me!, Chamillionaire, Bun B, Slim Thug, The Tontons
Sunday, September 25: Cake, Deer Tick, Buxton, Hayes Carll, Carolyn Wonderland
Tickets are available at bestfesthouston.com, and weekend passes are just $25 until prices go up on September 1.
