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3710 Main St. Houston, TX 77006

713-533-9525 

 

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  • 2009 | Best Novelty Store

    Besides being one of Houston's finest record stores -- and, with all due respect to Cactus Music, Sound Exchange, etc., the finest when it comes to hard-to-find and out-of-print Houston and Gulf Coast musical memorabilia -- Sig's Lagoon is the place to go when you're looking for a genuine tiki mug, skull-and-crossbones bath mat or Darth Vader bobblehead doll, part of the store's 30-foot-high bobblehead display. There's also clothing, jewelry, books and DVDs (mostly music- or... More »

  • 2008 | Best Novelty Store

    No, Sig's didn't win Best Novelty Store because it proudly sells vinyl -- the entire upstairs balcony is devoted to that processed plastic -- which is less and less a novelty every year in any case. It was more the book of illustrations that conveniently leaves a hole for the reader's penis where, for example, someone's head or a banana might be. (That book was sold, but they can always reorder.) The entire wall of bobblehead dolls -- Rat Fink, the Gruesomes, the Monkees' Davy... More »

  • 2007 | Best Place to Buy CDs by Local Musicians

    The perfect bricks-and-mortar store to buy local CDs does not exist. If you wanted to stock everything this city has come up with and continues to churn out -- folk, zydeco, hip-hop, blues, rock, jazz, punk, R&B and country -- you'd need a store as big as the Astrodome. (Hmm, now there's an idea...) In the absence of that H-Town music pleasure dome, Sig's will do nicely. Not only do owners Thomas and Jennifer Escalante stock a wide variety of historical Houston music in both LP... More »

  • 2006 | Best Record Store

    The demise of Cactus Music and Video this year left a huge void in Houston's music scene. Not because of the inventory, mind you, but because of the sense of community and the 100-percent-Houston-proud vibe Cactus had. Good thing Sig's Lagoon opened up shop. Though much smaller than Cactus, Sig's offers the same type of music and gifts and even the same in-stores by touring and local musicians. The store brims with music by local musicians past and present, and you can't get much more... More »

  • 2005 | Best New Record Store

    Looking for that long-out-of-print Loretta Lynn/Conway Twitty duet album The new Calexico DVD A painting of an albino with an Afro bowling Sig's Lagoon, the latest musical addition to the thriving Continental strip at the Ensemble/HCC Metro stop, has all that and more. The shop takes its name from a column by Sig Byrd, the long-deceased chronicler of mid-20th-century Houston's seamy underbelly and street-level nightlife. Houston music is given pride of place here, which is no surprise, as... More »

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  • 7 Cool & Cheap Things to Do This Weekend: 4/20, Record Store Day, iFest, Etc.

    7 Cool & Cheap Things to Do This Weekend: 4/20, Record Store Day, iFest, Etc.

    By Chris Gray | Fri, April 20, 2012

    Today is 4/20, and you know what that means. (Or do you? We always forget.) One thing it means is that Art Inst., Ese, Big Gerb & the Bearded Bandidos and Secret Society are playing a show tonight at ... More »

  • Sig's Lagoon Keeping Sundance, Beloved San Marcos Store, Alive

    Sig's Lagoon Keeping Sundance, Beloved San Marcos Store, Alive

    By Chris Gray | Fri, April 6, 2012

    A big part of Texas music history went dark this past weekend, when Sundance Records went out of buisness after 35 years. But thanks to the San Marcos record store's strong Houston connection, part of... More »

  • Record Store Day: If You Take A Dump, Don't Tell The Staff

    Record Store Day: If You Take A Dump, Don't Tell The Staff

    By Chris Gray | Fri, April 15, 2011

    Today is Tax Day (boo), but it's also payday for a lot of people, which comes in handy because tomorrow is Record Store Day. In a few short years, RSD has become one of the biggest red-letter days on ... More »

  • Local Motion at Sig's Lagoon

    Local Motion at Sig's Lagoon

    By Chris Gray | Thu, March 06, 2008

    Sig's Lagoon 3710 Main, 713-533-9525 1. Radiohead, In Rainbows 2. North Mississippi All-Stars, Hernando 3. Cat Power, Jukebox 4. The Dirtbombs,We Have You Surrounded 5. Mike Doughty, Golden Delicious 6. Various Artists, The Great Debaters: ... More »

  • Local Motion

    Local Motion

    By Chris Gray | Thu, January 10, 2008

    Sig's Lagoon 3710 Main, 713-533-9525 1. Jesse Dayton & Brennen Leigh, Holdin' Our Own 2. Grupo Fantasma, Comes Alive 3. Doyle Bramhall Sr., Is It News 4. John Fogerty, Revival 5. Jon Dee Graham, Swept Away 6. Daniel Johnston, The Late Great... More »

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    houstonpressbestof | Houston, TX | 132 Reviews

    | Wed, May 6, 2009

    No, Sig's didn't win Best Novelty Store because it proudly sells vinyl — the entire upstairs balcony is devoted to that processed plastic — which is less and less a novelty every year in any case. It was more the book of illustrations that conveniently leaves a hole for the reader's penis where, for example, someone's head or a banana might be. (That book was sold, but they can always reorder.) The entire wall of bobblehead dolls — Rat Fink, the Gruesomes, the Monkees' Davy Jones, Mr. T — is nice too. There's nothing novel, however, about owner Tomas Escalante's dedication to making Sig's the closest thing the city has to a Houston music museum, with the added bonus of offering exhibits you can actually buy. And if that means he has to sell a few Hillary Clinton nutcrackers — though he's probably not selling many of those anymore; maybe he should trade them for some Obama merch — to finance the purchase of some rare TSU Toronadoes LPs, that's just fine by us.

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    tdawg07 | Kenner, LA | 183 Reviews

    | Mon, June 7, 2010

    good bar, no cover, good drink specials great peeople

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    Chef Bridgette Coleman | Houston, TX | 7 Reviews

    | Sun, April 26, 2009

    i love this store, the owner has always found what i was looking for, i always go here to get my music,the beatles, donna summers,madness, you name it ,they got it, its time for me to go back again, lol love sigs

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