Music notes
www.renobands.com features information and interviews with several local bands … Slap Happy plans to begin recording Feb. 23 for a new seven-song EP, a follow-up to the band’s 2000 debut, Baby Boom. Front man Brian Stoudt promises that the lyrics on the new CD will be "a lot more intimate."
Sources say Unconquered will take off in April for a European tour … Aspiring local songwriters may want to attend the upcoming workshop of the Nashville Songwriters Association International, held at 6:30 p.m. March 1 in the Yellow Room at Maytan Music Center, 777 S. Center St. …