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Step Right Up: The favorite Tom Waits songs of tons of local and national music figures

Fri Jun 13, 1:34 PM

We’re just nine days away from Tom Waits’s appearance in Houston, and I’ve got to say I’ve been pretty much obsessed all this week. One manifestation: I asked about 100 a simple two-part question: What is your favorite Tom... More >>

The Wayback Machine: 15, Ten and Five Years Ago in Houston Music

Thu Jun 12, 3:36 PM

On the second week of June, 1993...At Fitz’s, Nothing in Return released their CD Another Day, which was heralded as “a palatable alternative to the metal histrionics and industrial assaults? then all-too-prevalent. Deep Blue... More >>

A Blast From Calexico's Past Blasts Into Space

Wed Jun 11, 11:21 AM

Space, the final frontier, will be transformed into Calexico's "Crystal Frontier" Friday morning. Astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle will be shaken from their slumber to the mariachi-rock of the Widescreen Remix of Calexico's classic cut from... More >>

Last Night: Adam Carroll & John Evans at McGonigel’s Mucky Duck

Wed Jun 11, 8:44 AM

Adam Carroll & John Evans McGonigel’s Mucky Duck June 10, 2008 Better than: Any Tuesday night at a bar in Waco with a bunch of Ball Cap Nation frat geeks singing along to “Wave on Wave? or “George’s Bar.?... More >>

Features

  • The Roots Will Not Apologize
    ?uestlove and company: Those who don't like our angriest album can step right off
    Thursday, June 12
    At all times, legendary hip-hop drummer Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson is a man pulled in many directions. The 37-year-old musician, producer,... More >>
  • Juneteenth Revisited
    Two arts organizations attempt a new spin on an old event
    Thursday, June 12
    From the 1970s to the early '90s, Juneteenth at Miller Outdoor Theatre was the largest free blues festival in the world and one of the city's... More >>
  • What Do Shepard Smith and Soulja Boy have in common?
    Wack's here to tell you: more than you might expect
    Thursday, June 12
    If there's one thing the self-satisfied, liberal, tofu-munching, cappuccino-sipping, in vitro fertilization-utilizing coastal elite hate, it's... More >>
  • Season in the Sun, Part II
    Sizing up the summer's classic-rock scorecard
    Thursday, June 12
    The summer classic rock invasion continues this week with the Doobie Brothers/Chicago show Saturday at the Woodlands Pavilion. As always, we're... More >>
  • Jason Ward's Matagorda Island Discs
    Thursday, June 12
    This week's installment comes from Jason "J-Thunder" Ward, current bassist for '80s cover act the Lost Boys. "I keep seeing this," he writes,... More >>
  • Precisely 88 mph at Etro Lounge
    Montrose Throwback
    Thursday, June 12
    People who listen to '80s music do not like to fight. It's weird. Like, when was the last time you were sitting around listening to Depeche Mode... More >>
  • T.H.E. FLY and Rooster: The Smoke CD
    Thursday, June 12
    As we all know, rappers do not lie. They're like the George Washingtons of the music industry. But when T.H.E. FLY and Rooster say they're... More >>
  • Silver Jews
    Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea www.silverjews.net
    Thursday, June 12
    Singer-songwriter David Berman is as much of an ironist in life as he is in art. Note that after landing in rehab following a Xanax overdose (an... More >>
  • Usher : Here I Stand
    Thursday, June 12
    You really can't fault entertainers who claim "playa for life" status. At least they're being honest; everyone from Rod Stewart to video... More >>
  • Spiritualized: Songs in A&E;
    Thursday, June 12
    It took a stop in Cincinnati and a brush with death (unrelated incidents in this case) to bring Jason Pierce's latest Spiritualized project into... More >>
  • The Last Shadow Puppets: The Age of the Understatement
    Thursday, June 12
    With their full-time bands, the Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner and the Rascals' Miles Kane make loud, blurry Britrock that celebrates Saturday-night... More >>
  • Tremoloco
    Thursday, June 12
    Even though they are from East Los Angeles and have close ties to Los Lobos, there are few repertoires that scream "Gulf Coast" like Tremoloco's.... More >>
  • Matthew Ryan
    Thursday, June 12
    Matthew Ryan's songs almost always deal with conflict — often without resolution. In his incisively detailed lyrics, people struggle with... More >>
  • Mates of State
    Thursday, June 12
    Mates of State's patented keys-and-drums pop gets something of a makeover on their aptly titled fifth album, last month's Re-Arrange Us. Spouses... More >>
  • Nosaprise
    Thursday, June 12
    Nosaprise, the trebly-voiced poet-­rapper born Nosa Ebedor, is the antithesis of Houston rap; at least, that's the skin-deep evaluation... More >>
  • An evening with perennial Houston street hustlers Big Body Click
    Square Business
    Thursday, May 15
    There's something strangely endearing about someone selling you a hand-­packaged, homemade CD. It may seem like just another ho-hum "artist"... More >>
  • Grand Theft Auto X: The Screwston Chronicles
    Thursday, May 15
    As many if not most of my literally dozens of longtime readers know, it's safe to say that I am not a fan of the vast bulk of Houston radio.... More >>
  • Smoke, Mirrors and Rainbows
    Overcoming chronic Radiohead fatigue
    Thursday, May 15
    Dear Radiohead, It pains me to say this, but I'm afraid that, unlike several thousand of my fellow Houstonians, as well as people from all over... More >>
  • Lelia Rodgers's Matagorda Island Discs
    Thursday, May 15
    This week's Matagorda Island Discs comes to us from Lelia Rodgers. Officially, she's the owner of Rudyard's Pub, but if America was a monarchy,... More >>
  • What's in a Name?
    Sammy's at 2016, now with less Sammie
    Thursday, May 15
    The size of a man's hands and feet is related to the size of his, er, penis, if you catch our drift. (Wink.) Or so claims singer Faye... More >>

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Music from Coast to Coast

Broward - Palm Beach

Shaken, Not Rocked

Rachel Goodrich shakes, rattles, and rolls on down her own road
It's hard to say which is more awesome: Rachel Goodrich's catchy song "The Black Hole" or its... More >>

Cleveland

Death Cab for Cutie pumps up the volume (relatively speaking) on new CD

The first song that fans heard from Death Cab for Cutie's latest CD, Narrow Stairs, was an... More >>

Dallas

Coming Together, Falling Apart

This past week was a big one for Booker T. Washington High School—and an abysmal one for local hip-hop
You know who went to my high school? Karl Ravech, host of ESPN's Baseball Tonight. Or so rumor... More >>

Denver

Show Business

Denver's music scene deserves to be heard.
Flobots were on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last week. And Last Call With Carson Daly before... More >>

Kansas City

Bandit Teeth bites back after a seven-year absence

“Porn it Up” by Bandit Teeth, from Demos (self-released): Brad Shanks has been home... More >>

Miami

Rachel Goodrich, Your New Favorite Singer

She shakes, rattles, and rolls on down her own road.
It's difficult to say which is more awesome: Rachel Goodrich's catchy song "The Black Hole" or... More >>

Phoenix

Will the Roots’ new album Rising Down help the masses rise up?

At all times, legendary hip-hop drummer Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson is a man pulled in many... More >>

San Francisco

Rapper Buckshot thinks, talks, and records for success

Few rappers give better interviews than Black Moon and Boot Camp Clik alum Buckshot. Naturally,... More >>

St. Louis

Forever Changes: Chick Corea's Return To Forever reunites and shows neo-jazz fusion groups how it's done

Anyone seeking a definition of "jazz fusion" needs to look no further than Return To Forever.... More >>

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