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The Lumineers
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May 30, 2012
Fitzgerald's presents The Lumineers. With TBA.
“Wesley Schultz, 9, who wants to be an artist, said, ‘I spend a lot of time on my drawings and it turns out good ’cause I’ve been practicing a lot.’” -The New York Times, 3/15/92
Twenty years ago, Wesley Schultz saw the future. Back then, growing up in the New York City suburb of Ramsey, New Jersey, Wesley spent his days...
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| 05/30/12 |
Unknown Hinson (upstairs)
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May 30, 2012
Fitzgerald's presents Unknown Hinson.
Stuart Daniel Baker, better known by his stage name, Unknown Hinson, is a comedic country musician, songwriter, and voice actor on the Adult Swim cartoon Squidbillies. He’s the King of Country Western Troubadours. He’s “every womern’s dream and every jealous husband’s nightmare.” He’s Unknown Hinson. Named after his father,...
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| 05/31/12 |
Saint Vitus (upstairs)
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May 31, 2012
Fitzgerald's presents Saint Vitus. With Dixie Witch, Venomous Maximus, Texxxas, Fron Beyond, Sanctus Bellum.
Saint Vitus is an American doom metal band from Los Angeles, formed in 1978. They consist of founding members Dave Chandler (guitarist) and Mark Adams (bass), alongside sporadic singer Scott Weinrich and recently added drummer Henry Vasquez. The band has been regarded and credited] as one of the first bands of the genre, starting...
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| 06/08/12 |
Joe Pug
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June 8, 2012
Fitzgerald's presents Joe Pug. With David Wax Museum.
The day before his senior year as a playwright student at the University of North Carolina, Joe Pug sat down for a cup of coffee and had the clearest thought of his life: I am profoundly unhappy here. Then came the second clearest. Pug packed up his belongings and drove the longest route possible to Chicago. Working as a carpenter by day, the 23...
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| 06/08/12 |
The Head And The Heart (upstairs)
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June 8, 2012
Fitzgerald's presents The Head And The Heart. With The Moondoggies, Husky (AU).
The Head and the Heart formed in the summer of 2009 by Josiah Johnson (vocals, guitar, percussion) and Jonathan Russell (vocals, guitar, percussion), the band also includes Charity Rose Thielen (violin, vocals), Chris Zasche (bass), Kenny Hensley (piano), and Tyler Williams (drums). The band signed to Sub Pop...
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| 06/09/12 |
Yacht: SHANGRI-LA TOUR 2012
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June 9, 2012
Fitzgerald's presents Yacht: SHANGRI-LA TOUR 2012.
YACHT is a Band, Belief System, and Business conducted by Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans of Los Angeles, California, Marfa, Texas and Portland, Oregon, USA. All people are welcome to become members of YACHT. Accordingly, YACHT is what YACHT is when YACHT is standing before you.
YACHT was born in...
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| 06/09/12 |
The Suffers Birthday Party (upstairs)
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June 9, 2012
Fitzgerald's presents The Suffers Birthday Party. With Khurangbin, Equals, Third World, Allen Garland.
A soulful concoction of Reggae, Jazz,and traditional Jamaican Ska, The Suffers are an experience.
Comprised of current and former members of Houston's best bands including Los Skarnales, Heptic Skeptic, The Handsomes, and others, The Suffers are just a few guys (and girl) having a...
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| 06/16/12 |
Free Radicals CD Release Party (upstairs)
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June 16, 2012
Fitzgerald's presents Free Radicals CD Release Party. With Samba Soul. Plus Soular Grooves Collective.Also featuring: members of Havikoro and members of H.I.S.D. Celebrate the release of the 4th Free Radicals CD The Freedom Fence.
Free Radicals is an American jazz, funk, hip-hop, avant-garde, ska, reggae, African...
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| 06/22/12 |
Beat Connection
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June 22, 2012
Fitzgerald's presents Beat Connection. With White Arrows.
In summer of 2008 - during that first flush of youthful "holy shit I don't live with my parents anymore.." Jordan Koplowitz met Reed Juenger and they began making some next level beats in Garageband. Reed - born in Massachusetts - had moved to Seattle with the half-baked notion of escaping...
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| 06/23/12 |
The Bouncing Souls (upstairs)
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June 23, 2012
Fitzgerald's presents The Bouncing Souls. With The Menzingers, Luther.
You can count the number of bands who've stayed together for 20 years on two hands, and you can use just one to count those who've consistently released quality material for two decades. This year, The Bouncing Souls enter that esteemed category, and in keeping with their D.I.Y. roots, they've done it without major labels,...
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| 06/23/12 |
Ashbury Keys
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June 23, 2012
Fitzgerald's presents Ashbury Keys.
Ashbury Keys is a Texas-based alternative rock band centered around brothers David Keys, the band’s principal songwriter, lead vocalist, and guitarist, and Darwin Keys, drummer and vocalist. Bassist and vocalist Bill Walter rounds out the band’s core lineup. With a premium placed on strong melodies, Ashbury Keys has assimilated the sounds of such influences as the...
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| 06/28/12 |
Broncho
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June 28, 2012
Fitzgerald's presents Broncho. With TBA.
Harkening back to punk rock’s glory days of the 70s, Oklahoma outfit Broncho captures the aggression, DIY authenticity and youthful exhilaration of a bygone era and then drags it by the hair into the Here and Now, creating a fresh sound that’s unlike anything being played today. With echoes of The Replacements, Iggy and the Stooges and The...
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| 06/29/12 |
The Escatones
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June 29, 2012
Fitzgerald's presents The Escatones. With Poor Pilate, Snake Island, and Rivers.
The Escatones are a 3 piece rock and roll band. Formed in the summer of 2010 in Galveston, TX, they play a blend of psychedelic surf garage punk country folk rock and roll. Connor Purcell (Lead Vocals/Guitar/Bass/Keys) meet JT Popiel...
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| 06/30/12 |
Jody Seabody & The Whirls
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June 30, 2012
Fitzgerald's presents Jody Seabody & The Whirls. With Art Institute, Kyle Hubbard, Jon Black.
Jody Seabody and the Whirls is a psychadellic punk-pop-rock band from Houston, Texas. They are not indie-pop, they do not wear skinny jeans, and they do not have mustaches. They also do not apologize for any of these current fashion faux-pas'. They have encountered several queries about their name...
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| 06/30/12 |
Nada Surf (upstairs)
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June 30, 2012
Fitzgerald's presents Nada Surf. With Waters.
Nada Surf was formed in the early nineties by Matthew Caws and Daniel Lorca.
Concerning the band's name, Matthew said, "it's actually referring to something much more existential, it's just surfing on nothing. Being lost in your head or in your imagination but you know, whenever I listen to music I always...
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| 07/12/12 |
Bass Drum Of Death
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July 12, 2012
Fitzgerald's presents Bass Drum Of Death. With Dz Deathrays.
Bass Drum of Death is based in Oxford, Mississippi.
Originally known as John Barrett's Bass Drum of Death they released their first EP ‘'Stain Stick Skin" in 2008.
The band is now John and Colin. The band released "High School Roaches" in 2010 and GB City in...
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| 07/15/12 |
Blind Pilot (upstairs)
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July 15, 2012
Fitzgerald's presents Blind Pilot.
We Are The Tide, the sophomore album from Portland-based band Blind Pilot, follows the band's grassroots break-out debut, 3 Rounds and a Sound, which has sold over 50,000 units to date and was featured in NPR's "Best Music of 2008" roundup. Recorded at Type Foundry in Portland, OR during the spring of 2011, the new album was produced by the band and...
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| 07/20/12 |
Chris Hardwick - Nerdist Podcast Live (upstairs)
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July 20, 2012
Fitzgerald's presents Chris Hardwick. With Jonah Ray and Matt Mira.
Did you listen to the Nerdist Podcast Live from Austin? Did you hear Chris mention in response to a Quemment that there might just be a return visit to Texas in order, this time to Houston and Dallas?
Here’s the deal: Chris, Jonah, and Matt will be bringing the majesty of the...
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| 08/10/12 |
Latch Key Kids: Democracy - The Art Of Maintaining Fear
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August 10, 2012
Fitzgerald's presents Latch Key Kids: Democracy - The Art Of Maintaining Fear. With Broken Gold, American Heist, Spastic Fit.
Rocketing out of Houston, Texas, the time-tested Latch Key Kids are a band of unbridled punk rock energy. Founded in 1993 and still led by singer Tim Guerinot and guitarist "Rhino" Neumann, Latch Key Kids have been powering through positive...
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| 09/29/12 |
Building Temples From Death Fest 2012 (upstairs)
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September 29, 2012
Fitzgerald's presents Building Temples From Death Fest 2012. BUILDING TEMPLES FROM DEATH FEST bringing an onslaught of brutal metal from all over to reign metal down in Texas.
SACRIFICIAL SLAUGHTER Will be playing this yrs Building Temples from Death Fest 2012 this will be there 1st time to play Houston so yall come on out and check out the Brutality.Plus...
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