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2006 Stories by John Nova Lomax

• Cold Cuts: Bun B vs. Byron Crawford

  published April 20, 2006

  Participants: Port Arthur-bred Texas rap legend Bun B, who, with recently paroled rapper Pimp C, formed the hugely influential duo UGK,... More >>

• Irie iFest

  published April 20, 2006

  Well, the Houston International Festival is again upon us, and this year the spotlight nation is Jamaica, so expect downtown to be infused with... More >>

• Merengue Mosh

  published April 20, 2006

  "Coupling a Brooklyn-bred garage rock with a sassy southwestern styling might seem as unfitting a marriage as beer and tequila, but with their... More >>

• Kinky's Got His Mojo Workin'

  published April 13, 2006

  Here's a conundrum: Kinky Friedman and Mojo Nixon are both one of a kind, and yet they are very much alike. Both are rootsy musicians with an... More >>

• Burnside Exploration

  published April 6, 2006

  Ever since I was a baby critic, I've been hearing about how the blues was dying. Allegedly, it died when Wolf passed away, and then again when... More >>

• Scarface

  published April 6, 2006

  Shades of Monty Python's cheese shop: There really isn't that much Scarface on this Scarface album. Sure, among a couple of other humdrum 'Face... More >>

• Number of the Beeyotch

  published April 6, 2006

  Ladies and gentlemen, we give you...the world's premier all-female Iron Maiden tribute band! Okay, so there's not much competition for the mantle,... More >>

• Turn Out the Lights, the Party's Over

  published April 6, 2006

  It was around midnight on Saturday, and the Cactus Music & Video farewell party was nearing the bitter end. Cactus employee bands the Program and... More >>

• Pandora's Boss

  published April 6, 2006

  Most casual music fans have that one person in their life they turn to before they buy new music, a guru who keeps up with the trends, reads the... More >>

• KACC Mentality

  published March 30, 2006

  Nowhere does the truism that your college years are the happiest ones in your life seem truer than at KACC/89.7 FM, Alvin Community College's... More >>

• South By So Huge

  published March 23, 2006

  "Is It Too Big?" ran the headline on Friday's Austin American-Statesman, the 'it' in question of course being South By Southwest. And I... More >>

• Andre Williams

  published March 16, 2006

  A bluesier, raunchier one-man version of the entire Brat Pack, the suave and debonair Andre Williams returns to the Continental Club after last... More >>

• Three Fantastic

  published March 16, 2006

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• Oscar Pimpin'

  published March 16, 2006

  So last week, Three Six Mafia's "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" won the 2005 Oscar for Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original... More >>

• The Hype of March

  published March 16, 2006

  Ah, March, the time of year when the music business heats up, the world's hot bands descend on Texas and the hipsters get their marching orders on... More >>

• Fat Beats

  published March 9, 2006

  Friends, Houstonians, fellow fatsoes –- lend me your ears. A travesty has been visited upon us. After the annual Men's Fitness poll rightl... More >>

• Van Gogh with a Resonator

  published March 2, 2006

  "Willie Dixon once told me, and I know this sounds like a cliché, but he told me, 'Son, you've got to live the blues if you want to play the b... More >>

• Enter Pissman

  published February 23, 2006

  The day Bill Fool entered into rock and roll history was, for him, a typical Sunday. It started off at happy hour at Miyako's, where he and his... More >>

• Into the Frey

  published February 16, 2006

  James Frey lied. We know that now. He's admitted as much. Frey took it on the teeth in front of millions a few weeks back on Oprah, the... More >>

• Told You So

  published February 16, 2006

  As longtime readers will know by now, we don't like to gloat in this column. Frankly, it's beneath us -- it's unseemly, rude, uncouth,... More >>

• Band Suicide

  published February 16, 2006

  For most who heard it, Michael Haaga's solo debut, The Plus and Minus Show, was the kind of magical record you fall in love with on first... More >>

• Snooks Eaglin

  published February 9, 2006

  There's a sticker on the front of my copy of these reissued 1959 sessions that informs us that Mojo has called this effort from the... More >>

• A Crying Shame

  published February 9, 2006

  Well, aging owners and Netflix have finally finished off what was started by CD downloading, file sharing, Tropical Storm Allison, Hurricanes... More >>

• Never Go to a Party in Friendswood

  published February 2, 2006

  A couple of years ago, we used Amazon.com sales data to examine the musical tastes of Houston and the suburbs.... More >>

• Gutbucket Blues, Chopped and Screwed

  published January 26, 2006

  Few American cities are as musically intertwined as Houston and Memphis. Think back to Duke-Peacock Records -- a label founded in Memphis and... More >>