Music-related things I'm doing!


I know, I know, it hasn't been a week yet. But like I said, posts will be extremely irregular. I'm extremely eager to announce everything I'm doing this summer, autumn, and part of winter. First off, the most recent things: My band is doing a split with the awesome stoner punk band, Police Code! I took the liberty of making a tentative cover for the split; here it is!



Pretty dope, eh? Yes, of course it is. Moving on, Some Kind of Planet is touring! In honor of Police Code doing a split with us, they'll be opening as well as the ever talented Jeremy Salazar. We'll be debuting all of our EP tracks as well! As to where we're going we're not sure, but we are going to tour parts of Canada! So far here's what we have lined up, this is still tentative so don't get too excited.

6/12/2014 Seattle, WA (Kickoff party included!)
6/13/2014 Eugene, OR Maybe Portland
6/15/2014 Fresno, CA
6/16/2014 San Luis Obisbo, CA (Jeremy Salazar meets up with us)
6/17/2014 Flagstaff, AZ
6/19/2014 Pueblo, CO
6/20/2014 Greeley, CO/Fort Collins
6/21/2014 Sioux Falls, SD
6/23/2014 Kalamazoo, MI/Flint
6/24/2014 London, ON
6/25/2014 Sudbury, ON
6/27/2014 Fly back home
6/29/2014 Vancouver, BC
6/30/2014 Kelowna, BC
7/1/2014 Bellingham, WA

This tour is going to be really fun, we wanted to play smaller towns that don't get a whole lot of good bands to play. I hope we knock these cities' socks off! It'll be dope, so come out, go to space, go back, and get your memory erased by the government!

The third and final thing I know for a fact I'm doing is I'm making a solo album called "A Great Pile of Rocks." It's going to be all acoustic, coffee shop shit, the lyrics are mostly about dying, losing your girl, losing your lighter, etc. It's gonna feature Jenny Hellinger from Police Code on upright bass on a few songs as well as vocals. I plan on self producing it, it'll probably be a horrible job but nevertheless, I'm gonna try. Also, I'm expecting the release date to be somewhere around October, I'd like to release it on Halloween for shits and giggles.

I hope everyone is excited for the things I'll be doing this year, this year has been a great one for music so far so I hope my stuff makes it better!- Noel Houston

Yoyoyoyoyoyo, it's me again. Some pretty crazy shit happened this weekend. It was called Cosmosfest, it was in Wenatchee National Forest which is just too beautiful. I camped out for all three days, I met some die hard fans, we drank, we smoked, we moshed, it was a bonding experience. My band played a killer show, I even filled in for Isaac Lovelock, that was fucking freaky what happened to him. I saw some wicked bands and artists, and I'm going to talk about those as well. So, let's go in chronological order first up: Police Code. They set the bar pretty high for the fest, I've seen them a couple times but that had to be the best. There were jackasses in the mosh pit, drunkards, it was just a fun pit to be in all around.

Next on my hitlist is Sabina, it was her first time playing a show in the US and she made us feel like she was used to shows in America, she seemed very comfortable towards the end, she had the crowd in the palm of her hand during Drunk Enough. I was singing along too, just so ya know. Another favorite of Saturday was definitely Hayden, I had no plans of actually buying Shit Happens until Saturday night, he put on an excellent show and Jennifer Armstrong made it better!

After that performance, I hung out with the artists, mostly Police Code and Hayden. Then I headed back to camp at around midnight, I was surprised that people were still awake, I sat by a fire with these two dudes named Matt and Brenton, we talked, sang, rapped, made s'mores for a couple hours and then we got tired and went to bed around 3:30. I woke up early on request of Bryan Kobayashi to help him set up, so I only got four hours of sleep so I had a couple cups of coffee and I was good. Turns out the asshole that Bryan is, he had me help with heavy lifting, I am not built for heavy lifting, let's just put it at that. Then, I returned to camp, met up with Jenny, we had breakfast with some dudes at camp and got ready for day two. I was lucky enough to obtain a spot right up the rail. Then, Mariko appeared. Before I knew it, I was moshing really fucking hard. I even dove off the rail which could have gotten me kicked out but no one noticed so it's all gucci.

I was lucky enough to be dead center of the pit when all that blood rained down, a lot of people up front got soaked in blood. Hahaha! Mariko ruled, I haven't seen an artist that punk in a long time. So it took them a really long time to clean all the blood off the stage which put the fest off about an hour. As I waited, I went to town to stock up on a fuck ton of snacks (Mostly peach rings at a gas station.) Then before I knew it, My Own Violence was up. That was really fucking fun. I've never moshed to EDM and I want to do it again. He put on an excellent show, he's pretty new to the music scene so I'm surprised how experienced he is at shows.

Then it was my turn to play, I'm not going to discuss it much because I just know I'm going to go on an ego trip and hard. But, we did very well, and I think we deserved the co headlining spot. We started a crazy pit, sent the reserved area of the forest to Mars and back. Then Chloe was up, she was pretty impressive, not Hayden good but still good. Then I did my hanging out routine until 2:30, I went to bed early. The next morning, I woke up to see my cooler was raided, they just took a couple six packs, no worries. So today is the last day of Cosmosfest, everyone is really hyped for the music to start so when Big Stacks comes on, it's just fucking wild. People are cheering loudly, singing along. It was just a party. Then Isaac Lovelock came on, his set was awesome up until he took his spill, I hope he came out alright, that was some freaky deaky shit. So I then filled in for him. Aqua Manhattan was next, every time I see them, they do something different. 50's Rape Victim set his fucking Gibson ES on fire, that was hard to watch! They're fucking expensive!

I then watched the Japanese Business Man walk off stage and literally sit and yell at himself in the middle of the crowd. I saw crazy harsh noise, crazy moshing, and crazy people. Then Evangeline Wolfe made her appearance shortly after Aqua Manhattan reluctantly walked off stage. She blew my mind, her music is great, her live performance is better. I feel bad for anyone who missed that. Bryan kept his word about the Popsicles too so that made it ten times better.

Overall, the first Cosmosfest was a huge success, and yes, we're doing it again next year. Thanks to everyone who attended! I had fun with all of you! Even the guy who jacked my liquid bread.

On another note, Some Kind of Planet is rescheduling the tour, here are the new and improved dates with venues as well!

6/20/2014 Seattle, WA Neumos
6/21/2014 Portland, OR Dante's
6/23/2014 Fresno, CA Strummer's
6/24/2014 San Diego, CA The Casbah
6/25/2014 Scottsdale, AZ Pub Rock
6/27/2014 Pueblo, CO Phil's Radiator
6/28/2014 Greeley, CO Moxi Theater
6/29/2014 Sioux Falls, SD
6/30/2014 Grand Rapis, MI Pyramid Scheme
7/2/2014 London, ON Sugar Shack
7/4/2014 Sudbury, ON Townehouse Tavern
7/5/2014 Fly back home
7/7/2014 Vancouver, BC The Electric Owl
7/8/2014 Kelowna, BC The Habitat
7/10/2014 Bellingham, WA The Shakedown

We will have merch for sale so bring some dollaz.