It's safe to say that the Crystal Method's Scott Kirkland isn't losing a wink of sleep over electronica's soggy commercial performance in 1997.... More >>
No gong required... A contestant's name is called midway through Scott Gertner's weekly Talent Search night at Cody's, and most in the crowd crane... More >>
Jinkies' last stand... Leave it to the Jinkies to turn in what was possibly their finest performance ever on the eve of their unraveling. And... More >>
The most interesting time in a band's career is often when they're on the edge of mainstream success. Marcy Playground are at that point now,... More >>
Latin twist... At first glance, Calvin Owens and Norma Zenteno might seem an unlikely musical match. But they use their world of differences to... More >>
Quick, count the number of bassists you know who have led memorable jazz bands; if you have to use more than one hand to keep track, you're ahead... More >>
Post-Teens trauma... Though Scott Ayers has been spending a lot of time holed up in his southwest Houston house since his band the Pain Teens... More >>
At times, Consolidated seem less like a band than a cause-waving freak show. The quasi-militant San Francisco Bay-area trio is, quite literally,... More >>
Uncomfy niche... Over the last few years, Clandestine has become such a reliable part of Houston's Celtic folk landscape that it's been tempting... More >>
The year in lists... The word that best sums up popular music in 1997 is "potential" -- not because there was so much of it, but because there... More >>
There's only one really bad thing about the anti-clotting pill Pradaxa. You can't fall or get cut while taking it because once you start bleeding, there's almost no way to stop it. There's no reversal agent, no antidote.
There's no gloves or batting helmets when Larry Joe Miggins and the rest of the Houston Babies regularly travel back in time to play the game by its 1860 rules.
