X White Oak Music Hall October 21, 2024 What more can you say about X? As venerable an institution as exists in punk rock music — or hell, punk rock … or hell, *music*. The celebrated Los Angeles punk outfit returned to Houston with their original lineup — John Doe,...
What more can you say about X? As venerable an institution as exists in punk rock music — or hell, punk rock … or hell, *music*. The celebrated Los Angeles punk outfit returned to Houston with their original lineup — John Doe , Exene Cervenka , Billy Zoom , and D.J. Bonebrake — and their fiercely independent aesthetic for the third time in five years.
Seen live, they're a band of few words, ripping through opening numbers that pulled from all over their catalog with no chit chat. The first words I recall were offered when Cervenka introduced"Ruby Church."Those new songs, like"Church" and"Sweet Til the Bitter End," are classic X: hard-driving guitars, thundering drums, and Cervenka and Doe wailing with their distinctive harmonies.
But the high point for me was Exene and Doe coming out to perform "See How We Are." The title track of a 1987 album that — frankly — didn't get a lot of love, thanks to its emphasis on American over aggro. It's poignant, direct, and has always meant a lot to me. If this does turn out to be X's last pass through Houston, they've done all right by us. Recent years have demonstrated pretty brutally that there's no permanence in anything, and those things we cling to — music, art, friends and family — fall away in time. We're lucky to have as many memories of Mme. CervenkaYour Phone's Off the Hook, But You're Not, it has been defined as the free, independent voice of Houston, and we'd like to keep it that way.
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