DUSTY CRATES

Houston Fixed Gear, a Montrose-area custom fixed gear bike shop and parts retailer is celebrating its anniversary on Friday, January 27, 2012. HFG has teamed up with local pop-up gallery MegaHost Gallery to kick off ALWAYS ON MY MIND at the bike boutique located on 2309 Dunlavy Street.

The event features bicycle-themed work from a number of Houston-based painters, printers, and photographers. New works included are by: ACK!, BRIKS, Chris Henry, DUAL, Eric Castorena, EYESORE, Jessica Reiswig, Michael Rodriguez, Naomi Song Bear, Nicky Davis, Pam Cantu, RED, Shannon Reiswig, Shelby Hohl, Shreddi, and Wiley Robertson. Thanks to Black Swan Studio for the prints, limited edition T-shirts from DUAL and The Bamm Collective will be available for the event.

Music is provided by some of Houston’s best DJs Dayta and Elroy Boogie. Plus, delicious bites courtesy of NABI and Goldsprint racing by Black Gold Cycling. CHROME is also sponsoring cycling gear for the event.

RSVP on FB here!

As some of you know, Chris and I have already been affected by this invasive sound ordinance. And it seems that the trend is more pervasive than originally thought.

A couple of the bar/club establishments on Washington have become an easy target for police enforcing the new ordinance. Over the weekend some of the working DJs on this strip have gotten slapped with $1000 tickets for loud noise without warning. This isn’t some one-off festival or event. These are DJs that work weekly for their livelihood. These bars/clubs are local establishments that open their doors to our community to run a business. And this kind of subjective enforcement does not make quantifiable sense.

If you are in the local music industry, own a venue or play music, please join us on Tuesday at Fitzgeralds to formalize a coalition to take actionable next-steps to change this sound ordinance. With the holidays (and festivities) only a week away, it is important that we plan for the year to come while perhaps neutralize or prevent more tickets being issued.

Click thru this FB link to find out more about the Coalition and how we can make a change. http://www.facebook.com/events/338256122856529/

photo by Gracie Chavez

 
While I’m off DJing soft openings for newer watering holes, Houston’s ultimate tropical crew is ready to warm it up at the next installment of DUSTY CRATES with sultry ritmos Americanos.

And staying true to the night’s concept, these guys are not only bringing their extensive  digital music collection to play on Serato, but they’re also dusting off their record crates to bring you more eclectic downtempo and world beats on vinyl.

FRI JULY 15th

DUSTY CRATES

with Guest DJs CASHLESS [www.BuhbOmp.com]

NAVO & OG BOBBY TRILL [www.bombonhouston.tumblr.c​om]

Hosted monthly by GRACIE CHAVEZ [DIRB! | Bombon | Dusty Crates]

The Fairview [315 Fairview @ Taft, 77006]
$2 Lone Stars; $3 Jello or Test Tube Shots
No Cover | 21+

After a few dance floor test runs (as seen in this video at The Lot on Washington), “El Dougie” is finally an official DIRB! release.

Check out Squincy Jones & Gracie Chavez’s cumbia crunk edit on SoundCloud. It got a  proper debut last week on KPFT’s airwaves during Tuesdays’ Son Pacifica Radio show, and has been making its way onto a few blogs and mixes.

In case you missed it, grab your El Dougie copy (main, inst, art) here now! Color in the artwork for a prize. Enter submissions to dirbtx [at] gmail.

CSD – El Dougie (Squincy Jones & Gracie Chavez DIRB! Edit) by graciechavez
CSD – El Dougie (Squincy Jones & Gracie Chavez DIRB! Edit) Instrumental by graciechavez

A couple of weeks ago, the We Get Famous blog team stepped into The Lot and did it real big with us.

Check out their review of our DIRB! Saturday nights at The Lot on Washington (4212 Washington, 77007)!

This Saturday night (05/14), DJs Dayta and Gracie Chavez will be on deck. And next month, we’ve got very special guest DJ Mel returning to DIRB! with us, too!

Check for updates and RSVP here: DIRB! Saturdays

El G of ZZK Records

Last night, the Bombón crew dropped in at KPFT‘s studios for the Son Pacifica show. We were surprised that this mostly Spanish-speaking community radio show somehow found out about our special Bombón for the  Rio Arriba Tour; and were also happy that the radio hosts invited us in, eager to hear about this new Latin movement. After the hour-long show, we all walked away with a mission to share more of these ritmos Americanos–regardless of any language barriers.

Bombón Especial
With a  clear step in that direction, this Saturday night, April 16, Bombón is bringing you an evento muy especial with South American DJ/producer Chancha via Circuito and head honcho El G (see video/documentary above) of ZZK Records! They deliver debut performances in town at The Green Room (813 St.Emmanuel, next to Warehouse Live).  And we, Bombón DJs (Gracie Chavez, Navó, OG Bobby Trill and Cashless), are sharing the stage/decks as additional musical acts for the night. Doors open at 9pm for 18 and up, and tickets are $4/$7 at the door.

Be sure to RSVP on FB for more details and music.

Flyer by Sober

Las Conexiónes
You can also catch Tuesday night’s podcast with Chancha and Bombón DJs on SonPacifica.com. Or tune in to KPFT 90.1 FM on Tuesdays from 10-11pm (CST) as they will regularly host Bombón’s guest artists in the months to come.

And happy to add that Tipping Point is also on board with Bombón Houston, so we’ll be seeing a lot of support from them on special events, too! They’re co-sponsoring our first Cinco/Seis de Mayo festivities in a couple of weeks. We may even start free dance lessons!

And special thanks to We Get Famous for the post this week, DJ Sober for this fly-ass flyer, Fahrenheit-Media‘s Chris Cardenas (aka the Hub) for sound, Mariana for letting us run it at Avant Garden every month, and Tonio for video, creative direction and holding down Bombón/DIRB! on the West Coast. Don’t be hatin’!

Dunno, but it feels like somethin’s heatin’ up!

Chancha Via Circuito – Rio Arriba 2010 by zzkrecords