I’ve heard rumblings for the past several months about a band called Weird Party, which so far has existed only in bar/internet rumor and a series of business cards people keep leaving in drinking establishments both reputable and less than such. Tonight the group takes to KTRU (91.7 FM; still the only Houston radio station I’ve heard play John Zorn and Bis back-to-back) to premiere their first recordings on the venerable Mutant Hardcore Flower Hour (10 p.m.-1 a.m.; still the only Houston radio show I’ve heard play the Replacements and Anal Cunt back-to-back*).

Why the fuss about a band yet to play a show debuting songs on a college radio show? For one, Weird Party’s pedigree is hard to fuck with: helmed by (former?) Fatal Flying Guilloteens frontman Shawn Adolph and featuring once-and-future members of Sugar Shack, Muhammadali and Welfare Mothers, they’ve earned the right to at least some of the hype they’ve been generating. And the hype’s working wonders (clearly, if I’m writing this story) – I saw several pictures like the one down below on Facebook and Hands Up Houston, and by the time I came across one of the real business cards I felt like I was being sucked into some sort of seedy Japanese murder mystery. THIS is good marketing, folks.

Weird Party flyer: The lady in the photo has most likely already been murdered

The card is a flyer in advance of their first actual show, Saturday March 5 at the Mink Backroom with Grandfather Child for Roky Moon and Bolt’s tour kickoff. Be sure to check them out before the backlash, or inevitable cocaine-encrusted breakup.

Unless they suck. As far as I know, they might completely suck.

* : I might have been dreaming this, but I'm pretty sure it happened.