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2003 Stories by John Nova Lomax

• Benefit for the Children of Danny Armantrout, Featuring Simpleton and Dinosaur Salad

  published July 3, 2003

  On June 10, Danny Armantrout and Justine "Buttafly" Maxwell were murdered in their home by Robert Saulter, Maxwell’s ex-boyfriend, who kille... More >>

• Static on the Dial

  published July 3, 2003

  A little less than four months after getting fired by Clear Channel Broadcasting, June Garcia Sherman, formerly the director of nontraditional... More >>

• The Filthy Skanks

  published June 26, 2003

  Dallas metal act the Filthy Skanks have something for everybody -- something for everybody with an IQ under 65, that is. If you think... More >>

• Faux Strummer, Bogus Buzzcocks and Phony Ramones

  published June 26, 2003

  It's an incongruous sight -- a jittery, clean-shaven twentysomething guy with a conservative haircut is on the Rudyard's stage with a punk quartet... More >>

• The Cruel and Unusual, with Poor Dumb Bastards, Hobble, Dick Delicious and Southern Riot

  published June 19, 2003

  Just when it seems punk has gone completely corporate (think Good Charlotte) or has become a nostalgia circuit (Cramps, Buzzcocks), here comes a... More >>

• Lucky Dube

  published June 19, 2003

  About 20 years ago, South African mbaqanga singer Lucky Dube heard a Peter Tosh record and realized that reggae was a better vehicle for... More >>

• A Prickly Pair of Problems

  published June 19, 2003

  It's been a bad couple of weeks for Cactus Music and Video. First, Weingarten Realty Investors, the company that owns the Alabama-Shepherd... More >>

• Infernal Bridegroom Productions

  published June 12, 2003

  Songs from the Meat/BAR (Infernal Bridegroom Productions) More >>

• Washington Avenue Rocks

  published June 12, 2003

  The trouble with far too many local music festivals is that they're full of bands that are, in a word, bad. Most promoters think that quantity... More >>

• Houston Music Map

  published June 5, 2003

  What do you do when you go in an acquaintance's house for the first time? If you're a music fan, chances are you inspect the CD collection and... More >>

• Another Man Done Gone

  published May 29, 2003

  Some musicians transcend their field and become something more. Joe "Guitar" Hughes, who passed away on May 21, was one such. Hughes was a Houston... More >>

• Fitz's Flick

  published May 22, 2003

  The young man is seated on a wooden deck in a lawn chair in broad daylight. He is unshaven, bleary-eyed and wearing a grease-stained wife-beater.... More >>

• East Is East and West Is West

  published May 22, 2003

  Indian-American DJ Navdeep's CD Yaathra (Punjabi for "journey") is like fine travel literature set to music, Paul Theroux with a... More >>

• Opie Hendrix & The Texas Tallboys

  published May 15, 2003

  F. Scott Fitzgerald was dead wrong. There are second acts in American lives. Dubya went from drunk to president. Willie Nelson went from Nashville... More >>

• The Power of 12

  published May 15, 2003

  As Pantera would put it, both Arthur Yoria and Matt Maloney are far beyond driven. Maloney parlayed his relatively small size and average talent... More >>

• The Velvet Viking

  published May 15, 2003

  They say opposites attract, and that's definitely true in the case of Norwegian singer-songwriter Sondre Lerche. Lerche comes from Bergen, Norway,... More >>

• Dark Riders

  published May 8, 2003

  Nothing screams "superstar" like a performance contract fat with pages and pages of demanding hospitality riders. For the uninitiated, riders are... More >>

• AbNORML Behavior

  published May 1, 2003

  According to just about everyone involved, Alex Lozano's Washington Avenue 420 Music Fest went pretty well, from a musical standpoint. About 300... More >>

• New-World Diva

  published May 1, 2003

  It's fitting that Lila (pronounced "LEE-la") Downs called her 2001 album La Linea. While the title translates literally as "the line," it... More >>

• ¡Viva México!

  published April 24, 2003

  As with Mexican cooking, many non-Hispanic Texans have entirely the wrong idea about what Mexican music is. The same Anglos who think Mexican food... More >>

• The End of the World As We Know It

  published April 24, 2003

  "Turn out the lights, the party's over. They say that all good things must end." So sang Willie Nelson a long time ago, and while Earthwire... More >>

• Wesley Willis

  published April 17, 2003

  When he's not suggesting that you suck a caribou's bootyhole or some such, schizophrenic Chicago singer-songwriter Wesley Willis is usually right.... More >>

• Fests of Fury

  published April 17, 2003

  With a second 420 festival planned for the weekend of April 19 and 20, Houston is rapidly earning itself a new nickname. With the old "Baghdad on... More >>

• Dreaming the Impossible Dream

  published April 10, 2003

  They say that the most segregated hour in America is noon on Sunday, and that old saw holds as true in Houston as it does elsewhere, but here,... More >>

• SMOM-my Dearest

  published April 3, 2003

  With the hipster set being priced farther and farther north out of the Heights and Montrose (today Garden Oaks… tomorrow Acres Homes?... More >>