Hello and welcome back to another edition of Duane’s Pit Stop. This week I had received a ton of Punk News so I’m not going to be able to answer any questions at this time. But I will make it a point to respond to everyone by no later than this weekend. Also, keep the info coming to my email and I will post them as quick as I get them. And with that final note let’s get to the Punk News.
Lars Frederiksen And The Bastards MP3 - Lars Frederiksen and The Bastards have just launched an official website www.lfatb.com. We have just put up an mp3 for the song Skins, Punx, And Drunx from their new record Viking out July 13th on Hellcat Records. Make sure to check out The Bastards headlining the Punks vs Psychos tour from June 2nd.
"Viking" Title Page
Israeli punk band Useless ID - Israeli punk band Useless ID is reporting that their new record Redemption is nearing completion. The album was recorded at The Blasting Room with Bill Stevenson and Jason Livermore. It's been mixed and mastered and is expected this summer on Kung Fu Records. The band has a song to to be included on the upcoming Rock Against Bush Vol. 2 titled "State Of
Fear
."
From Ashes Rise To Tour
Europe
- Break out Jade Tree bad asses From Ashes Rise are still hot on the heels of their nasty and insistent, Nightmares. After breaking limbs and hearts on the Jade Tree United Tour, the boys have decided to take their act on the road yet again! This time they are crossing the ocean to couch surf from
France
thru
Finland
and back round to
Germany
, so bring extra earplugs and gauze as it’s going to be totally vicious.
FROM ASHES RISE DATES
Please consult the Jade Tree tour page for updates.
EUROPEAN TOUR
June
1: St. Etienne, France @ Maison De Vie Josipe
2: Dijon, France @ Espace Autogere Des Tanneries
3: Liege, Belgium @ La Zone
4: Giessen, Germany @ AK 44
5: Berlin, Germany @ Kulturshock Open Air
6: Potsdam, Germany @ Archiv
7: Malmo, Sweden @ Club Latino
8: Linkoping, Sweden @ Skylten
9: Uppsala, Sweden @ Ungdomens Hus
11: Helsinki, Finland
12: Turku, Finland
13: Tampere, Finland
14: Jyvaskyla, Finland
15: Rovaniemi, Finland
16: Lulea, Sweden @ Lillan
17: Umea, Sweden @ Stallet
18: Trondheim, Norway @ Uffa
19: Oslo, Norway @ Blitz
20: Goteborg, Sweden
21: Leipzig, Germany @ Zorro
22: Hamburg, Germany @ Rote Flora
23: Bielefeld, Germany @ AJZ
24: Flensburg, Germany @ Senffabrik
25: Kopenhagen, Denmark @ K-Town Fest
26: Berlin, Germany @ Kopi Kopi
27: Praha, Czech Republic @ Club 007
28: Wroclaw, Poland
29: Lodz, Poland
30: Warszawa, Poland
July
1: Roznov, Czech Rebuplic @ Vrath
2: Brno, Czech Republic @ Club Yacht
3: Wien, Austria @ EKH
4: Hohenems, Austra @ Konkret
5: Bremgarten, Switzerland @ Kleiderfabrik (KuZeB)
6: Mannheim, Germany @ JUZ Piranha
7: Bremen, Germany @ Schlachthof
8: Groningen, Netherlands @ Platform Theater
concreteandsteel@hotmail.com
Division Of Laura Lee To Tour UK With Sugarcult - Their second album “Das Not Compute” was released just a couple of weeks ago getting the very best feedback from all corners of the world.
DOLL spent April and May touring all over the States, spreading their dark punk rock to the American people. Now these Swedes are back in Europe and ready to head over to Britain for 5 shows together with Epitaph friends Sugarcult and also to play a couple of Swedish and German festivals.
Check out the dates here.
European fans that won’t be able to see the band this summer, be patient, a tour is in the planning for fall!
Don’t forget to check out the new video for “Does
La Bestiography - With previous members of
East L.A.
's Media Blitz, Kkleq Muzzil, Thee Undertakers, The Brat, & The Thrusters a band named La Bestia was formed. Not only does La Bestia carry the old school punk rawk roots that its members bring to this band, but they have also included some bluesy, psychosilly elements with a hint of wacked out Motorhead meets Revenge of the Nerds elements.
Vocalist Beast, previously from Media Blitz, has been described by onlookers as a combination of Alice from The Bags, Wendy O'Williams from The Plasmatics, Peter Brady on speed, & a Mexican Judy Tunuta who cruises down
Whittier Blvd
with loud and explosive punk rawk & roll tumultuous overdrive. Her exceeded unlimited attitude dishes out the lyrical portion with authority and tenacity and has shared bills with the likes of Naked Aggression, D.R.I., Dr. Know, Total Chaos, GreenJello & among others.
Guitar player Rudy Rudeness, previously from the old school East L.A. punk band The Brat, has also had his share of the late 70's to early 80's punk rock craze in sharing the stage with bands like X, The Blasters, Plugz, GoGos (when they were punk rock), Cramps, Adam Ant, Dead Kennedys, Flock of Seagulls, The Damned & others. His sound shattering guitar playing has that old school punk rawk force with unique influences that'll make anybody jump, dance, & ignite with excitement.
Furious George, drummer, has also teamed up with La Bestia to bring some of that intense tone that goes beyond any number of fearless early
Boston
&
New York
hardcore groups; previously from Media Blitz, Kkleq Muzzil, Thee Undertakers & The Thrusters (just to name a few), Furious George has brought that piercing drumming to La Bestia. He has toured the states and was last seen playing a show at the Warped Tour.
El Grifo, bass player, previously from an
East L.A.
band entitled Figure Head & previous to that, one of the original guitar players from The Thrusters, will leave anyone with mouths wide open. His dominant performance transcends an assaultive & angry passion to let all feel how he manipulates the stage with no holds bar.
La Bestia lashes it out live with dead serious intensity with its wacky four piece band members that bring that smutty & funny, yet crude magnitude of delirious & razor tight old school punk sound with added elements enough to raise eyebrows and scream "F##ckk".
La Bestia has realized that most people come to their shows to have a good time & not to put their audience through the agony of sitting them down through a bullshit show to watch some stupid cheezebag band that never even liked punk a month ago for the sake of trying to sell you his label's fake band concoction as "original" or "old school".
Take it from someone who was really there & has experienced the true "old-school" punk rock genealogy-............Not only does La Bestia add a new elemental approach to their music, but they have kept that special spark of furor & desperation that made the early
L.A.
punk groups so reviled.
CLAIR DE LUNE tour dates - Deep Elm's latest "beyond awesome" signings, CLAIR DE LUNE is hitting the road in support of their debut full-length, "Marionettes." Word has it that these guys are absolutely incredible live, and having sweating through the band's music for the past month, I can believe it. Check them out when they roll through your town and tell us how it went!
JUN 09 - Minneapolis, MN @ Uptown Bar, 3018 Hennepin Avenue South (612) 823-4719, 21+, 9pm w/ Formerly Level
JUN 18 - Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry, 701 First Ave North (612) 338-8388, 21+, 8pm w/ DESERT CITY SNDTRK
JUL 15 - Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge, 3206 North Wilton Street (773) 975-0505, 21+, 8pm
JUL 16 - Grand Rapids, MI @ The Avenue, 740 Michigan Street (616) 451-2767, 18+, 9pm
JUL 17 - Lansing, MI @ Mac's Bar, 2700 East Michigan Avenue (517) 484-6795, 21+, 9pm
JUL 18 - Detroit, MI @ Small's Bar, 10339 Conant Street (313) 873-1117, 21+, 8pm
JUL 19 - Cleveland, OH @ Pirate's Cove, 2083 1/2 East 21st Street (216) 664-0867 w/ Friendship For Style
JUL 22 - New York, NY @ CBGB's, 313 Bowery (212) 677-0455, 21+
JUL 24 - Baltimore, MD @ Talking Head, 203 East Davis St (410) 962-5588 AA w/ Morning For The Masses, Perfect Kiss
JUL 25 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Khyber, 56 South 2nd Street (215) 238-5888, 21+, 9pm
JUL 26 - Washington, DC @ The Black Cat, 811 14th Street Northwest (202) 667-7960, 21+, 9pm
JUL 28 - Columbus, OH @ Bernie's Distillery, 1896 North High Street (614) 291-3448, 21+, 10pm
JUL 30 - Iowa City, IA @ Gabe's Oasis, 330 East Washington Street (319) 354-4788, 21+, 9pm w/ The Slats
AUG 15 - Columbia, SC @ New Brookland Tavern, 122 State Street (803) 791-4413, AA, 9pm
AUG 17 - Nashville, TN @ The Muse, 835 4th Avenue South (615) 251-0910, AA, 9pm
AUG 20 - Kansas City, MO @ The Brick, 1727 McGee (816) 421-1634, 21+, 10pm
HIT THE DECK - Straight from Strike First Records, Hit The Deck has finished recording "Look Alive" and it is on the way to West West Side Music to be mastered. Be prepared to be transported back to the days of the early 80's DC and NY Sunday matinees! Hit The Deck would be the perfect addition to any show that Minor Threat, Negative Approach, Gorilla Biscuits and Bold played back in the day! While they are not trying to re-live the "glory days" of hardcore, Hit The Deck vocalist Jordan Darby states "It would just be wrong for us to not take our musical cues from those amazing bands."
Here is a pre-production song for you to check out...
mp3: HIT THE DECK - Lockdown
Another BAD RELIGION song hits the net - French website, x818.com has streaming the title track of the upcoming BAD RELIGION album, "The Empire Strikes First." Check it out below.
stream: BAD RELIGION - The Empire Strikes First
The Only Constant Is Change’ Out July 13th On Volcom Entertainment - Two-Disc, 46-Song Set Features 36 Rare, Unreleased, Live & B-Side Tracks From Acts Such As Pennywise, Rise Against, Death By Stereo, Piebald, Brazil And More
The Only Constant Is Change, the first Volcom Entertainment commercial compilation in over five years, is set for release on July 13th.
An epic two-disc set featuring 46 tracks (36 of which are either unreleased, live, out-of-print or B-sides) The Only Constant… serves as a diverse and up-to-the-minute sampling of the thriving independent music scene.
Represented here are such longstanding favorites as Pennywise, Death By Stereo, BigWig, Guttermouth, Turbonegro, Strung Out, Slightly Stoopid, Rise Against and theLINE, as well as emerging artists such as Vaux, Piebald, A Faith Called Chaos, Brazil, Maxeen, Single Frame, Scatter The Ashes and many more.
Officially founded in 1995 in Orange County California as an offshoot of the wildly-popular Volcom Clothing company, The Volcom Entertainment record label has always shared the same ideology as it’s parent company. During the company’s inception, the spirit was one of an enlightened state to support young creative thinking. A movement the company backed as "youth against establishment". Volcom was a family of people not willing to accept the suppression of the established ways.
Today, this Volcom thinking continues to flows through its art, music, films, athletes and clothing. "Youth against establishment” once again has come full circle and is a marked theme for the new generation. The Only Constant Is Change encompasses this spirit.
The packaging of The Only Constant Is Change also reflects this transformation and thought. It’s comprised of Volcom featured artist Scottie Daniels’ paintings that chronicle the progression of music recording technology and its ongoing effect in shaping the access and delivery of music over the last decade.
For the sixth year in a row, Volcom will host their very own stage on this summer’s Vans Warped Tour. This year’s stage will showcase several of the label’s latest signings, such as A Faith Called Chaos (whose new CD “Forgive Nothing” was released this week), Single Frame, Guttermouth, Arkham, Another Damn Disappointment and ASG, as well as a rotating lineup of acts such as Juliette and the Licks, Go Betty Go, The God Awfuls, Autopilot Off, Letter Kills, The F#ck-Ups, Fall Out Boy, Pulley, Don’t Look Down, Motion City Soundtrack, The Kinison, Fear Before The March of Flames and others.
The Only Constant Is Change Track Listing (* unreleased, out-of-print, live, B-side):
Disc 1:
*Rise Against “Obstructed View”
*Authority Zero “Broken Dreams”
*Pennywise “My Own Country” (live)
*theLINE “Buck Shot”
Guttermouth “New Wave Haircut”
*ASG “Destination Motel Mind Decay”
*Bigwig “Six-Eight”
*Swindle “Twist of Fate”
*Death By Stereo “Favorite Thing” (live)
A Faith Called Chaos “Forgive Nothing”
*Intoxicated “Get Real”
*Vaux “Switched On” (radio edit)
*Western Waste “We’re Dying”
Break The Silence “At War With Instinct”
Strung Out “Velvet Alley” (live)
Trophy Scars “Designed By Dice”
*
Brazil
“
Paradise
and Iron”
*Scatter The Ashes “Acumen Nation”
*Dorothy Sanchez “Drop The Bomb”
Bleed The Dream “Villain”
*Another Damn Disappointment “Hooked”
C.AARME “Who Pissed Off Mussolini”
Turbonegro “Ride With Us”
*Consumers “Registered Trademark”
Disc 2:
*Single Frame “Burn Radio Airtest”
*Piebald “There and Back Again”
*Codeseven “Suggestive”
*Beehive & The Barracuda’s “Surfing With Dick”
*Arkham “Pierto”
*The Q “Insecure”
*Auditory Aphasia “This One’s for Osker”
*Quitter “General for Jannisia”
*Arraya “Lamp Shade”
*Lonely Kings “Buried Alive”
*Pepper “The Arena”
Salt The Earth “Lyra”
*Pistolero “Locker Room”
Maxeen “Take The Weight Off”
*Supermodel Suicide “Electric Fix”
*The Angoras “Veronica’s Stress”
Places to Park “Part of It”
Madison
“How Can I Run”
*Shadow Agency “Eat Your Words”
*MTG “Whisper At Your Boy”
*Brain Squeegee “I’m Iraqi Bitch”
*Slightly Stoopid “Closer to the Sun”
For more information:
Mike Cubillos
Earshot Media
Ph: 310-318-8995
Fx: 310-318-5121
earshotmedia@earthlink.net
www.volcoment.com
www.earshotmedia.com
MOMENTS IN GRACE Update - Moments In Grace will be shooting a video for their new single "Stratus" on June 17th in
Los Angeles
,
CA
with director Laurent Briet (Radiohead, Aphex Twin, Red Hot Chili Peppers). Moments In Grace will release their debut album, Moonlight Survived, on August 17th via Salad Days/Atlantic.
Also, Muse will be taking part in the Curiosa Festival, which will feature The Cure, Thursday, Head Automatica, and others. The routing for the tour is as follows:
July 24: West Palm Beach, Fla. (Sound Advice Amphitheater)
July 25: Tampa, Fla. (Tampa Amphitheater)
July 28: Nashville (Starwood Amphitheater)
July 29: Atlanta (HiFi Buys Amphitheater)
July 31: New York (Randall's Island)
Aug. 1: Camden, N.J. (Tweeter Center)
Aug. 3: Cincinnati (Riverbend Music Center)
Aug. 4: Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio (Blossom Music Center)
Aug. 6: Columbia, Md. (Merriweather Post Pavilion)
Aug. 7: Mansfield, Mass. (Tweeter Center)
Aug. 9: Toronto (Molson Amphitheater)
Aug. 11: Clarkston, Mich. (DTE Energy Music Theater)
Aug. 12: Tinley Park, Ill. (Tweeter Center)
Aug. 14: Dallas (Smirnoff Music Center)
Aug. 15: Spring, Texas (Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion)
Aug. 17: Denver (Coors Amphitheater)
Aug. 18: West Valley City, Utah (USANA Amphitheater)
Aug. 21: Seattle (venue TBA)
Aug. 24: San Diego (Coors Amphitheater)
Aug. 25: Phoenix (Cricket Amphitheater)
Aug. 27: Carson, Calif. (Home Depot Center)
Aug. 28: San Francisco (venue TBA)
Aug. 29: Sacramento, Calif. (venue TBA)
Story of the Year in fight with Godsmack's crew - The following story was posted at the Story of the Year website regarding something that happened at a radio show they performed. Orginally posted under the news section you can read it Here
Soviettes - video for "#1 Is Number Two" can be viewed at Launch.com. The Soviettes latest release, "LPII" will be in stores next Tuesday, June 8th on Adeline Records.
Tour dates for The F-Ups –
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DATE
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VENUE
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LOCATION
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INFO
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6/3
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Ascott Room
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Minneapolis
,
MN
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w/Letter Kills. Buy tickets.
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6/4
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Rave Bar
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Milwaukee
,
WI
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w/Letter Kills
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6/5
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Schubas
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Chicago
,
IL
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w/Letter Kills. Buy Tickets.
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6/7
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Radiodown
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Cincinnati
,
OH
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w/Letter Kills
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6/8
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Magic Stick
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Detroit
,
MI
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w/Letter Kills. Buy tickets.
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6/10
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Odeon
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Cleveland
,
OH
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w/Letter Kills. Buy tickets.
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6/11
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Steel
Music Hall
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Rochester
,
NY
|
w/Letter Kills, Enter
Eden
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6/12
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Webster Small Room
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Hartford
,
CT
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w/Letter Kills, Fallout Boy. Buy tickets.
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6/13
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The Fire
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Philadelphia
,
PA
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w/Letter Kills
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6/14
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Krome
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South Amboy, NJ
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w/Letter Kills. Buy tickets.
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6/16
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Hi-Pointe
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St. Louis
,
MO
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w/Letter Kills. Buy tickets.
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6/17
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Mojo's
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Columbia
,
MO
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w/Letter Kills. Buy tickets.
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6/18
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Bottleneck
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Lawrence
,
KS
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w/Letter Kills. Buy tickets.
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6/19
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Knickerbocker's
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Lincoln
,
NE
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w/ Letter Kills
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6/20
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Larimer Lounge
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Denver
,
CO
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w/ Letter Kills
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6/22
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Classic Rock Cafe
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Oklahoma City
,
OK
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w/ Letter Kills
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6/23
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The Parish
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Austin
,
TX
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w/ the Red West
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6/25
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Reliant Center
|
Houston
,
TX
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