{"id":1286,"date":"2025-11-08T19:31:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T19:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/texasace.org\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2025-11-17T16:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T16:59:11","slug":"murder-by-death-heights-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/texasace.org\/?p=1286","title":{"rendered":"Murder by Death @ Heights Theater"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hated to hear <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Murder_by_Death_(band)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MBD<\/a> were going to stop touring, but thankful Houston was a stop. We got seats early (balcony) and enjoyed the send-off: tremendous night, super-tight playing and singing. I&#8217;ve liked this band a long time, and have most of their releases, it was so great to see them live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251109_023922643.MP_.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"769\" src=\"https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251109_023922643.MP_-1024x769.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251109_023922643.MP_-1024x769.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251109_023922643.MP_-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251109_023922643.MP_-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251109_023922643.MP_-1536x1153.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251109_023922643.MP_.jpg 1981w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251109_035640615.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251109_035640615-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251109_035640615-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251109_035640615-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251109_035640615-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251109_035640615-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251109_035640615.jpg 2030w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/AJJ\/+wiki\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AJJ<\/a> opened, and they were great as well. I somehow had not listened to them (even though I was familiar with the name) prior to buying tickets and seeing that they were on the bill. I&#8217;ve been catching up, and picked up their latest CD at the show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251109_010735147.NIGHT_.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" src=\"https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251109_010735147.NIGHT_-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251109_010735147.NIGHT_-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251109_010735147.NIGHT_-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251109_010735147.NIGHT_-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251109_010735147.NIGHT_-1536x1151.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251109_010735147.NIGHT_-2048x1534.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Cheat Day: Tacos and Ice Cream before the show<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251108_235425106.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"770\" data-id=\"1299\" src=\"https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251108_235425106-1024x770.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251108_235425106-1024x770.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251108_235425106-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251108_235425106-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251108_235425106-1536x1155.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251108_235425106-2048x1540.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251109_002247671.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"771\" data-id=\"1298\" src=\"https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251109_002247671-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251109_002247671-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251109_002247671-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251109_002247671-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251109_002247671-1536x1156.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251109_002247671.jpg 1677w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Email from the band: Thank you so much for the incredible send off this year for our goodbye to touring. 25 years on the road has been an extraordinary life experience and I&#8217;m so grateful that I got to do this for a quarter century.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We felt a lot of love this year and I&#8217;m so pleased that our music has touched so many of you. Thank you for the thousands and thousands of supportive emails, letters, notes, messages and comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251108_235412038-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251108_235412038-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251108_235412038-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251108_235412038-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251108_235412038-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251108_235412038-1535x2048.jpg 1535w, https:\/\/texasace.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251108_235412038-scaled.jpg 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Fun Date Night. Tacos, Ice Cream, Beer, Live Music, and Jana &#8211; Life is Good!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hated to hear MBD were going to stop touring, but thankful Houston was a stop. We got seats early (balcony) and enjoyed the send-off: tremendous night, super-tight playing and singing. I&#8217;ve liked this band a long time, and have most of their releases, it was so great to see them live. AJJ opened, and they were great as well. I&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/texasace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1306,"href":"https:\/\/texasace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions\/1306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/texasace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/texasace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}