{"id":951584,"date":"2026-07-22T10:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T10:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/951584\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T10:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T10:09:14","slug":"houston-concert-watch-7-22-black-keys-the-fixx-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/951584\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Concert Watch 7\/22: Black Keys, The Fixx and More"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those who have never darkened its doorway, Dan Electro\u2019s is a club in the Heights that has been around since 1988, hosting local and regional talent.\u00a0 However, on Thursday, August 6, Mattel \u2013 the company that gave the world Barbie and Hot Wheels \u2013 will bring its travelling UNO Social Club to Houston and Dan Electro\u2019s<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The card game was initially marketed in 1971 by an entrepreneur from Ohio who flogged the first version of UNO out of his barber shop.\u00a0 Later, the company was sold to a funeral home director, who located the corporate offices behind his planting parlor.\u00a0 Mattel purchased UNO in 1992, and in 2018, the game was inducted into the Toy Hall of Fame, joined that year by the pinball machine and the Magic 8 Ball.<\/p>\n

The idea of booking an UNO evening at a rock and roll club might seem odd to some, but when the game\u2019s cross-cultural appeal is considered, it starts to make sense.\u00a0 UNO is an easy game to master, even for children.\u00a0 But that doesn\u2019t mean that the competition is not fierce.\u00a0 I recall my grandmother explaining to one of my uncles, following a family round of UNO, that the purpose of the game was not to make your opponent cry, particularly when said opponent was a nine-year-old girl.<\/p>\n

More information on Houston\u2019s UNO extravaganza is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ticket Alert<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t accuse Stephen Wilson, Jr. of getting stuck in a rut.\u00a0 In his 47 years, Wilson has been a Golden Gloves boxer, a microbiologist who developed the Dentastix Fresh canine teeth-cleaning chews, and (these days) a top 40 country artist.\u00a0 Tickets are on sale now for his concert on Saturday, October 3, at the 713 Music Hall<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Singer-songwriter Paula Cole appears to be following the dictum of Houston Oilers head coach Bum Phillips, who famously said, \u201cDance with the one that brung ya.\u201d\u00a0 Cole\u2019s pinnacle of commercial success occurred during the late \u201890s, when two of her songs, \u201cWhere Have All the Cowboys Gone?\u201d and \u201cI Don\u2019t Want to Wait,\u201d plopped her right in the middle of the zeitgeist.\u00a0 Cole will celebrate the 30th anniversary of This Fire, the album that introduced those tunes, by performing record in its entirety on Thursday, November 5, at the Heights Theater<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Vocalist and bassist Thundercat has traveled all over the musical map since starting his career with the punk band Suicidal Tendencies.\u00a0 Since then, he has worked with Erykah Badu, Raphael Saadiq, Snoop Dogg, Flying Lotus and Kendrick Lamar. \u00a0Catch Thundercat (and yes, his name comes from the animated television series \u201cThundercats\u201d) on Saturday, November 7, at the White Oak Music Hall<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Concerts This Week<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Several bands came out of the Deep Ellum scene that flourished in Dallas during the latter part of the \u201880s, most notably (at least in commercial terms) Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians.\u00a0 But while most of those Deep Ellum bands are vague memories now, one artist from the bunch is still out there raising hell.\u00a0 I\u2019m talking here about Reverend Horton Heat, both the band of that name and its guitarist \/ vocalist Jim Heath, who has created an onstage persona with the same handle.\u00a0 If you are in the mood for some cranked up psychobilly, look no further than the Rev\u2019s show on Thursday at Main Street Crossing<\/a> in Tomball.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

It has been said of psychedelic rock that much of the genre\u2019s music has aged about as well as a banana.\u00a0 The same could be said of many offerings from the New Wave era (Ebn Ozn\u2019s \u201cAEIOU Sometimes Y,\u201d Men Without Hats\u2019 \u201cThe Safety Dance\u201d).\u00a0 But, as is the case with most musical movements, care must be taken so as not to throw the baby out with the New Wave bath water. \u00a0Case in point:\u00a0 The Fixx, which will play the House of Blues<\/a> on Thursday. \u00a0Led by Bowie-esque lead singer Cy Curnin and guitarist Jamie West-Oram, The Fixx achieved success in both the pop and rock realms with classics like \u201cOne Thing Leads to Another\u201d and \u201cSaved by Zero,\u201d appealing to MTV viewers while retaining credibility as a serious and innovative band.\u00a0 With this upcoming visit to Houston, we can see if they\u2019ve still got it.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Neo-garage rockers the Black Keys (guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney) have dusted themselves off after a scuttled national tour in 2024 (following a pissing match with Live Nation) and released two albums in two years: No Rain, No Flowers (2025) and Peaches! (2026).\u00a0 Catch the reinvigorated Black Keys on Friday at the White Oak Music Hall<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

I suppose it takes more than the death of a band\u2019s namesake to derail a classic rock cash cow.\u00a0 This certainly seems to be the case with the Coral Reefer Band, the outfit that backed the late Jimmy Buffet for several decades.\u00a0 Though the Reefers can no longer put \u201cJimmy Buffett and\u2026\u201d before the band\u2019s name, they are still on the road, with a concert scheduled for Friday at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion<\/a>.\u00a0 The tour has been dubbed \u201cKeep the Party Going.\u201d\u00a0 A cynic might say that a more accurate name could be \u201cKeep the Money Flowing,\u201d but certainly not me.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

If you aren\u2019t sure that you can sell out a venue, one approach to ameliorate the situation is to stack the deck.\u00a0 That is to say, book several opening acts with their own fan bases who can be counted on to supplement the overall marketing effort.\u00a0 This would seem to be the strategy employed by creepy metalcore dudes Motionless in White, who will play the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion<\/a> on Saturday, accompanied by Lorna Shore, Fit for a King and Static Dress.\u00a0 Now, with all that music on stage, things will be starting early, so as to avoid violating the Pavilion\u2019s curfew of 11 p.m.\u00a0 Accordingly, Static Dress will crank things up at 6:30 p.m., with Motionless in White\u2019s headlining set beginning at 9:15 p.m.<\/p>\n

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