g. love & special sauce

The winner of the tickets for tomorrow night's G. Love & Special Sauce show is Erin Crowe. Your tickets will be waiting under your name at will call. Congrats!!

For the first time ever, we are excited to add a meet and greet to our list of giveaway's. Two bands are headed to Warehouse Live this week – New Found Glory on Thursday, February 4 and G. Love & Special Sauce on Saturday, February 6 – and we are excited about letting you have the chance to take in both performances for free. Also, we are looking forward to making some lucky fan's day by giving them the opportunity to meet New Found Glory before the show. All you have to do to win is leave a comment with what show you'd like to attend, as well as your full name and a way we can contact you if you get chosen (e-mail or telephone number). YOU CAN'T WIN IF YOU DON'T LEAVE A WAY FOR US TO CONTACT YOU! We will be announcing the winners on Thursday for New Found Glory, and on Friday for G. Love, so be available those days in order to not lose out.

We hope to incorporate several more of these meet and greets into our repertoire, and couldn't do it without the regular support from The Messina Group, AEG Live and Warehouse Live. If you are interested in going to these shows, but have a social phobia that disallows you to meet your favorite artists, feel free to purchase tickets at WL's ticketing pages for each show: New Found Glory and G. Love & Special Sauce.

Things were looking quite grim for the Wakarusa Music & Camping Festival after the disastrous finish to last year's events, but the decision to scale the festival back and move it to a new location seems to have given this yearly event a new lease on life. Today, several acts were added to the four-day northern Arkansas event, including the acoustic hip-hop blues of G. Love & Special Sauce, Hasidic-reggae superstar Matisyahu and all-around weirdo/bass genius Les Claypool. BOT favorites New Monsoon have also been added for what will be their fifth consecutive appearance at Wakarusa.

Check out who else will be ripping up Mulberry Mountain after the jump

Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against The Machine, The Raconteurs, Wilco and Kanye West are all set to headline the 2008 edition of Perry Farrell's brainchild, Lollapalooza. Also on the bill are Lolla-alumni Gnarls Barkley, the Black Keys, Broken Social Scene, G. Love & Special Sauce, Blues Traveler and Mates of State. Other acts set to appear are Bloc Party, Cat Power, Stephen Malkmus, Girl Talk, Kid Sister, Office, the Cool Kids, Battles, MGMT, Yeasayer, Jamie Lidell and Grizzly Bear (who will be opening up for Radiohead on the second half of their tour).

The full line-up after the jump!

When I was a youngster, just developing my roots in music discovery, I used to bike over to the local grocery store and browse the current magazine selections. I remember looking through the music section for just the right one. Rolling Stone didn't entice me, neither did Spin nor Modern Drummer (I'd just started hitting the skins). It finally led me to the back shelf which usually featured weeks and weeks worth of teen mags that my sister usually browsed. Instead of seeing Joey Lawrence (Whoa!), I saw the words
"Free CD" imprinted on the nice shiny plastic wrap that encased my first CMJ. I went home, immediately put the CD in the player, and gave it a listen. First track: crap. Second Track: crap. Third, fourth, fifth, sixth...ALL CRAP! Finally, I came upon the song "Cold Beverage" by a band called G. Love & Special Sauce. I was an instant fan. What could be better to a young teen than a funky-ass song about lemonade?

On Thursday, February 21st, more than ten years later, I found myself with that song in mind, sitting at Warehouse Live, waiting for said band to perform after tour support Tristan Prettyman warmed up the crowd.

Continue reading G. Love & Special Sauce/Tristan Prettyman @ Warehouse Live

Click a breakfast item, hear good music:

Eggs: Black Kids - I Wanna Be Your Limousine
Cereal: G. Love & Special Sauce - Milk & Cereal
Toast: EOTO - klutch

Upcoming shows in the Houston area:

Thu Feb 21

G. Love & Special Sauce with Tristan Prettyman at Warehouse Live
Even if you didn't win our ticket giveaway to this show, you should definitely join the party!
Show starts at 9; tickets are $20.

Fri Feb 22

Chris Duarte Group and Eric Sardinas at Meridian
Show starts at 9; tickets are $13 in advance/$15 day of show.

The Mighty Orq with Tody Castillo and James Reese Band at Meridian
Head over to the Meridian to celebrate the CD release of Houston-based Southern rock band The Mighty Orq.
Show starts at 10; tickets are $7 in advance/$10 day of show.

Sat Feb 23

Dertybird with skyblue72 and The Television Skies at Rudyard's
Show starts at 9:30; tickets are reportedly $6 or $10, depending on whose site you're looking at.

Sideshow Tramps (formerly known as Medicine Show), Tyagaraja from Million Year Dance, Piano Vines, and Studemont Project at Super Happy Fun Land
Celebrate the Free Press Houston's 5th anniversary!
Show starts at 8; tickets are $8.

Guy Forsyth at Dan Electro's
Show starts at 10:30; tickets are $10.

Mark Farina at Level Lounge
If you can survive the midtown club set, head to Level to check out Mark Farina's skills on the turntables. Cover is not listed, but, if this is your choice of the evening, you probably don't care.

Mon Feb 25

Brand Nubian, Connie Price & the Keystones, Soup (from Jurassic 5), and a DJ set by Cosmo Baker (of The Rub, BK)
Show starts at 9:30; admission is free, but you must RSVP at Scion Live Metro by 5pm the day of the show.

Joe Lally and Edie Sedgwick at Walter's On Washington
Former Fugazi frontman brings his solo gig to Houston. Doors at 8; Tickets are $8 in advance, $10 at the door.

Tue Feb 26

NOFX at Warehouse Live
With support from The Flatliners, No Use For A Name, and Latch Key Kids.
Local punk-rocker's The Hates are having an after show in the studio. Show starts at 8; tickets are $22.

This track was necessary for two reasons: (1) G. Love & Special Sauce played at Warehouse Live last Thursday, and (2) it's about cereal, dammit.

Carpe ientaculum.

--Cereal

Win one of two pairs of tickets to see G. Love & Special Sauce with Tristan Prettyman at Warehouse Live in Houston on Thursday, February 21st!

Click to learn more about the contest details and how you can enter!