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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2012 Stories by Craig Hlavaty

• Red Hot Chili Peppers Reschedule Houston Date Due To Anthony Kiedis Injury

  published Jan 11, 2012

  And just like that, to anyone who was fretting about missing the Red Hot Chili Peppers at the Toyota Center to see ZZ Top on March 8 at RodeoHouston, your problems have been solved. And mine too, sinc... More >>

• Ray Price

  published January 12, 2012

  Ray Price began his musical career in 1949, years upon years before some of the titans of the mainstream country charts you hear today were even... More >>

• Cass McCombs

  published January 12, 2012

  "Love thine enemy / But hate their lack of sincerity." So begins Cass McCombs's Humor Risk, the second album he released in 2011, following... More >>

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  Hayes Carll Added To Chris Gray Day Schedule

  published Jan 10, 2012

  Today we have added boss hoss country artist Hayes Carll to the Chris Gray Day festivities, coming this Saturday at the Continental Club. Carll was last in Houston on December 30 for a whip-crack set,... More >>

• Distant Early Warning: Delta Spirit, Cursive, George Clinton, Hot Chelle Rae, Orgy, Youth Lagoon

  published Jan 10, 2012

  American Sharks: Sat., Feb. 25. Fitzgerald's, 2706 White Oak, Houston. The Black Belles, Black Tabs: Sun., March 18. Warehouse Live, 813 St. Emanuel, Houston. Bobby Bare Jr.: Wed., Feb. 1. Continent... More >>

• Happy 99th Birthday, Richard Nixon: Great Pop Culture Nixons

  published Jan 09, 2012

  Today Richard Nixon would have turned 99 years old, though he passed on to the big country club in the sky back in April 1994, at the age of 81. His wife Pat passed on the year previous, and Nixon was... More >>

• This Station Is Now Operational: At The Drive-In Is Reuniting. Finally.

  published Jan 09, 2012

  With the beginning of a Twitter account and an official website, heavily influential El Paso-based rock act At The Drive-In has announced their reformation today. What the future will hold for the gro... More >>

• 2012 RodeoHouston Lineup Features ZZ Top, Train, Kid Rock, John Legend, Enrique Iglesias

  published Jan 09, 2012

  The Houston Livestock And Rodeo continues it's march it's non-country waters with today's musical announcement, with Houston's own ZZ Top (March 8), Train (March 16), Kid Rock (February 29), John Lege... More >>

• Gigantour Hitting Houston March 2 With Motorhead And Megadeth

  published Jan 06, 2012

  And just like that, my normally non-soiled jeans were not. Yes, March 2 the traveling metal bonanza Gigantour is hitting Houston's Verizon Wireless Theater, with Megadeth, Motorhead, Lacuna Coil, and ... More >>

• Elvis Presley's Graceland: A Peek Inside With My Crappy Cell Phone Camera

  published Jan 06, 2012

  A few weeks back I went on a Mid-South trip through Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and sadly, Arkansas. Along the way I followed the Mississippi Blues Trail as much as I could, before hitting Memp... More >>

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  Five Other Reality Shows We Wish Clay Aiken Would Guest On

  published Jan 06, 2012

  ClayMates, start your engines! Your hero and American Idol runner-up Clay Aiken just joined the cast of the next cycle of Donald Trump's Celebrity Apprentice set to premiere on February 12 on NBC. T... More >>

• Van Halen Set To Hit Houston's Toyota Center June 24

  published Jan 05, 2012

  Just minutes after pictures from Van Halen's Cafe Whar club show in New York City hit rock blog Blabbermouth, industry site Pollstar added a June 24 date at the Toyota Center for the band. Kool & ... More >>

• Man That You Fear: The Best Marilyn Manson Myths Ever

  published Jan 05, 2012

  One of the last true rock stars roaming the land - in my stilted opinion - is Marilyn Manson, who happens to turn 43 years young today. With a new album coming this year, and another book, 2012 should... More >>

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  Tori, Tool, TLC And The Other Musical Debuts Of 1992

  published Jan 05, 2012

  1992 was a pretty heady year for music in general, with the masses gobbling up all the gangsta rap, grunge, and pop-country they could. That year would see the release of not only R.E.M.'s Automatic F... More >>

• Is Dave Grohl Rebooting Probot With Hair Metal Kings Rattr Maybe So...

  published Jan 04, 2012

  When Dave Grohl released his Probot project in February 2004, it opened a whole new world of metal to a new legion of kids whose only exposure to the hard stuff may have been whatever was on MTV or VH... More >>

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  Happy Birthday Bernard Sumner: Our Favorite New Order Songs

  published Jan 04, 2012

  For about the past month I have been in a New Order phase, which started in earnest the day that I picked up their 1993 documentary, New Order Story, in it's expanded form with a separate disc of all ... More >>

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  The 2nd Annual Main Street Block Party Announces Lineup

  published Jan 04, 2012

  The Main Street Block Party is returning on January 28 to the The Continental Club, The Big Top, and The Mink's front and backrooms, armed with another great lineup, this time featuring Austin's What ... More >>

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  Sweaty Spandex: The Hottest Fitness Celebrity Babes of All Time

  published Jan 04, 2012

  Just in time to make you feel awful about yourself and your soon-to-be-failed New Year's fitness resolutions comes this collection of the hottest fitness babes of all time. Don't worry, I'm a dude and... More >>

• Rick Lee & The Night Owls

  published January 5, 2012

  We got to partake in the pleasure that is the Hideaway on Dunvale for steak night one Tuesday, and it included the magical blues stylings of Rick... More >>

• Peter Cetera & Richard Marx

  published January 5, 2012

  Two of the titans of pop-radio in the '80s and '90s, Peter Cetera and Richard Marx, team up for this Friday-night gig at the Arena Theatre, which... More >>

• Distant Early Warning: Kenny Rogers, Ting Tings, Helstar, Styx, Yann Tierson

  published Jan 03, 2012

  The Bad Plus: Sat., May 5. Da Camera, 1427 Branard St., Houston. Colin Hay: Wed., March 21. Dosey Doe Coffee Company, 25911 I-45 N., Spring. D.R.I., Carry The Storm, Fallacy: Sat., March 10. Scout B... More >>

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  The 2012 Katy Perry Fantasy Relationship Draft: Which Rappers & Rockers Should She Date Nextr

  published Jan 03, 2012

  The pop and tabloid world was rocked last Friday as we got word that Russell Brand was divorcing his wife of 14 months, Katy Perry, smack in the middle of the holiday season. The pair spent Christmas ... More >>

• Friday Night: Hayes Carll, Robert Ellis, and Shovels & Rope At House Of Blues

  published Jan 02, 2012

  This Friday night set effectively set the tone for my New Year's weekend. It was raucous, relaxing, and poignant, shoving us into the new year with a bit of twang and grit - as if I didn't already car... More >>