Email Author John Nova Lomax

2005 Stories by John Nova Lomax

• Hold Me Closer, Tony Danza

  published March 17, 2005

  Every one of us has done it: We've rocked out in front of our family and friends, sung our little hearts out, emoted with eyes closed. And then... More >>

• Apocalypse Pretty Soon!

  published March 17, 2005

  Clem Snide appears Saturday, March 19, at . More >>

• Todymania!

  published March 10, 2005

  Tody Castillo's self-titled new CD hits you with the stealth and power of a pot brownie. It takes a while to digest. You put it in and sit there... More >>

• White By Whitebread No More

  published March 3, 2005

  Just over two years ago in this space, we wrote a piece taking South By Southwest to task for two things -- the small number of Houston acts on... More >>

• The Black Godfather

  published February 24, 2005

  "Andre Williams makes Little Richard look like Pat Boone." -- Lux Interior of the Cramps "Andre Williams? If he's still around, he's probably... More >>

• Ultra Man

  published February 24, 2005

  They came, they spun, they all kicked ass, but in the end, there could be only one winner of the Houston Press/South Beach Ultra DJ... More >>

• Windows of the Seoul

  published February 17, 2005

  I don't know much about South Korea. I know the North far better -- that grotesque Stalinist nightmare, where the government is serious when it... More >>

• Rock Radio (and Rock Romano) Redux

  published February 10, 2005

  "Every time I think I'm out, they pull me right back in." So said The Sopranos' Silvio Dante, channeling Michael Corleone in... More >>

• Deep in The Throes

  published February 10, 2005

  So, just who are Two Gallants? Looking at their CD can throw you off. The cover art -- a hawk dead and bleeding on the snowy ground --... More >>

• Radio Daze

  published February 10, 2005

  "Houston radio sucks." You hear that truism everywhere you go. Google that unique phrase, and you get no fewer than 44 hits, and that doesn't... More >>

• En Fuego

  published February 3, 2005

  Though the Pedro the Lion/Earlimart matinee ended a full three hours before doors opened for the Arcade Fire's Sunday-evening show, a line of fans... More >>

• The Face of Rock and Roll

  published February 3, 2005

  In the foreword to the stunningly magnificent new coffee table book Art of Modern Rock: The Poster Explosion, Wayne Coyne waxed eloquent... More >>

• Jammin' on the Sabbath

  published January 27, 2005

  A few years ago, local club promoter, poster artist, part-time journalist and Deadhead Will Space burned out on the nightclub scene. It wasn't the... More >>

• Cope With This

  published January 27, 2005

  , at the More >>

• Souchin' into Bethlehem

  published January 20, 2005

  The adventures continue for Houston singer-songwriter Greg Wood. As summer faded into fall, the former Horseshoe front man rolled out of the... More >>

• Roadie Royalty

  published January 13, 2005

  Houstonian Karl Kuenning is a roadie for life. No, he may not run sound anymore, or go days on end without a shower, or grope groupies, or catch a... More >>

• Guilty Pleasures, Part II

  published January 6, 2005

  Well, folks, it's the moment you've all been waiting for: the second installment of my "guilty pleasures" project, in which I try to find out what... More >>