Email Author Craig Hlavaty

Awards

• 2012 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published February 10, 2011

  "Getting Past the Bouncer"

• 2009 - Lone Star Awards

  "Metallica at Toyota"

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2007 Stories by Craig Hlavaty

• Creepshow: Halloween Party Music

  published October 25, 2007

  It's that time again, guys: Halloween. Suburban yards across the Houston area are full of huge inflatable pumpkins, which were so much fun to... More >>

• Local Motion

  published October 11, 2007

  Sig's Lagoon 3710 Main, 713-533-9525 1.  Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, 100 Days, 100... More >>

• Local Motion

  published September 27, 2007

  Vinal Edge Records 13171 Veterans Memorial Blvd., 281-537-2575 1. Animal Collective, Strawberry... More >>

• Local Motion

  published September 13, 2007

  Sound Exchange 1846 Richmond, 713-666-5555 1. Obituary, Xecutioner's Return 2. New Pornographers,... More >>

• Local Motion

  published September 6, 2007

  Sig's Lagoon 3710 Main, 713-533-9525 1.  Big Robert Smith w/ the El Orbits and Friends, Live at the... More >>

• Local Motion

  published August 30, 2007

  Sound Exchange 1846 Richmond, 713-666-5555 1. Okkervil River, The Stage Names 2. Betty Davis, They... More >>

• Local Motion

  published August 23, 2007

  Vinal Edge Records 13171 Veterans Memorial Drive, 281-537-2575 1. Sunn O))), Oracle (LP) 2.... More >>

• Local Motion

  published August 16, 2007

  Sig's Lagoon 3710 Main, 713-533-9525 1. Budos Band, Budos Band II 2. Spoon, Ga Ga Ga Ga... More >>

• For What It's Worth

  published August 16, 2007

  This summer marks the 40th anniversary of an imaginary feeling that supposedly swept the nation, for one great time, in the collective mind of... More >>

• Local Motion

  published August 9, 2007

  Black Dog Records 3804 S. Shepherd, 713-522-6001 1. Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon 2. Rolling Stones,... More >>

• Local Motion

  published August 2, 2007

  Sound Revolution Records and Tapes 1312 FM 1960 West, 281-444-5454 1. Evans Blue, The Pursuit Begins When This Portrayal of Life... More >>

• Local Motion

  published July 19, 2007

  AllRecords, 1955 W. Gray, 713-524-4900 1. The Traveling Wilburys, Collection 2. Various artists, La Vie... More >>

• Flipping the Script

  published July 19, 2007

  While the white suburban wastelands became partly gloomy with a chance of screaming, someone else took the reins on this stallion we call rock.... More >>

• Lost Albums

  published June 14, 2007

  For every watershed album that helps plow a whole new field of boundless musical crops, there's one that has been aborted by corporate wrangling... More >>

• Marilyn Manson and Justin Timberlake

  published June 7, 2007

  A few weeks ago, on his promotional tour for his new album Eat Me Drink Me, Marilyn Manson decided to tell the world a secret. No, he's not... More >>

• Rock and Roll Autobiographies

  published May 31, 2007

  You know you've made it into the rock and roll pantheon when Neil Strauss or Kurt Loder comes around lugging a laptop and tape recorder, desperate... More >>

• Protest Songs for George W.

  published May 17, 2007

  On the closing night of the Coachella Festival back in April, in the middle of the California desert, Rage Against the Machine reunited to play a... More >>

• Summer Concert Survival Guide

  published May 17, 2007

  Excrement-festooned porta-potties, sun-torched skin touched by the very hand of Lucifer, prices right out of Cold War-era Yugoslavia for bottled... More >>

• Priestbird

  published May 10, 2007

  Until this past year, Priestbird was known as Tarantula A.D., but due to a legal battle with a Portuguese power-metal group, they were forced to... More >>

• Confessions of a Hilary Duff fan

  published May 10, 2007

  We don't look like Hilary Duff fans. I'm a twentysomething tattooed white guy and my girlfriend Elizabeth, also twenty-something, is an art... More >>

• Gwen Stefani and Lady Sovereign

  published May 3, 2007

  Gwen Stefani's on the road behind her new album, The Sweet Escape. Coming along with her is rapper Lady Sovereign, the sass-tastic British... More >>

• Stupid Baby Names

  published April 26, 2007

  In the Swedish harbor town of Gothenburg, a couple is creating a scandal over the naming of their new baby girl. You see, in Sweden you cannot... More >>

• What's in Your Favorite Singer's Backseat?

  published March 29, 2007

  About a month ago, John Popper, vocalist and harmonica player for jam band Blues Traveler, was driving his black Mercedes SUV when he was pulled... More >>

• Vanilla Ice

  published March 22, 2007

  Vanilla Ice. The patron saint of the would-be Federline dynasty. The thorn in Marshall Mathers's side. The scourge of aspiring white rappers all... More >>

• A Look at SXSW Band Names

  published March 15, 2007

  As you read this, Austin is inundated with hundreds of bands looking for that magic carpet ride to stardom. They will play in greasy dives on... More >>