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2007 Stories by John Nova Lomax

• Ryan Scroggins and the Trenchtown Texans

  published September 20, 2007

  Ryan Scroggins was Los Skarnales's keyboardist, and from the sound of the Trenchtown Texans' debut, also their resident ska fiend. Aside from... More >>

• The East End Trek

  published Sep 13, 2007

  Last week John Nova Lomax and David Beebe took off on another cross-Houston adventure. Click here for a map. You can read about Lomax's previous urban hikes here and here and here. David Beebe a... More >>

• Mouth of the South

  published September 13, 2007

  To some, 2007 is the year hip-hop kicked the bucket. Nas famously declared the music dead last December, and last month Time published... More >>

• Big Robert Smith

  published September 13, 2007

  The late Big Robert Smith, Third Ward-bred vocalist for everyone from Grady Gaines to Albert Collins during his 50-plus-year career, was a... More >>

• Carnal Knowledge

  published September 6, 2007

  For a good six or seven years, you could put Los Skarnales up against any bar band in America. The ska-punk-rockabilly-Tejano boogie... More >>

• Lil' Brian and the Zydeco Travelers

  published September 6, 2007

  "We don't wanna be traditional, we just wanna jam." So runs the refrain of Lil' Brian's "Jam Y'all," and it could serve as this album's title.... More >>

• I'm Just a Juggalo

  published August 30, 2007

  One way to try to find out which of your buddies are true friends is to ask them to come to Battle of the Wicked 2, a gathering of the Juggalos... More >>

• Looks Like Big Daddy Kane Was Right

  published Aug 23, 2007

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• Jelly Roll Morton in Houston

  published August 16, 2007

  In ancient cities like Jerusalem, you can literally see layers of ­history. In the old quarter, Israeli construction lies atop Ottoman atop... More >>

• Underground Kingz

  published August 16, 2007

  Finally it's here in all its two-disc, 29-track, guest-star-studded, double-album glory: Underground Kingz, the most anticipated album... More >>

• Farewell T-99

  published August 9, 2007

  "I'll miss the one-night stands / travelin' from town to town / the friendly faces / and the hecklin' clowns / racin' down the road to make the... More >>

• Exile on Main Street

  published August 2, 2007

  Screw the haters — Million Year Dance is awesome. A stripped-down, acoustic version of the mystical Montrosian rocker band closed out Music... More >>

• 2007 Houston Press Music Awards Showcase

  published July 26, 2007

  "Show, don't tell." Writers don't need to know much more than that to become masters of their craft. Let the story tell itself through dialogue... More >>

• Ten Years After — the 1997 Houston Press Music Awards

  published July 26, 2007

  With all the coverage of what's going on right now elsewhere in these pages, we thought it would be fun to look back at the Press Music... More >>

• Worst and Weirdest

  published July 19, 2007

  The Music Awards showcase is right around the corner — July 29, in fact. Every year, we ask dozens of the city's top bands to tell us what... More >>

• Hunter Ward, R.I.P.

  published July 12, 2007

  About five years ago, after the death of legendary Houston partyer Bruce Henry Davis, a letter writer penned some words to the Press that I... More >>

• Another Bump

  published July 5, 2007

  Since this week's Racket is about the comeback of cocaine, we thought we'd dedicate this week's Wack to the same subject. After all, coke is the... More >>

• Bayou Blow

  published July 5, 2007

  It's official, cocaine is back. Both The New York Times and The Atlantic Monthly have recently exposed the drug's easy availability... More >>

• Merle the Pearl

  published June 28, 2007

  Who is the greatest three-tool talent in country music history? Who best combines singing, songwriting and playing, ev-var, in the annals of... More >>

• Hot Sounds, Summer in the City

  published June 21, 2007

  Oh shit, summer's here. And you thought the highs were going to stay in the '80s? Hah. Welcome to the jungle, baby. Now you're gonna die.... More >>

• The Soul Rebels Brass Band Find a Houston Home

  published June 14, 2007

  The sun sets, and finally the sizzling sidewalks and streets start to cool after another hot and humid Monday in the port city. The shadows fade... More >>

• Medicine Show No Mo

  published June 7, 2007

  Not many CD release parties begin with pagan processions. But then again, the Sideshow Tramps (who were, until this gig, called Medicine Show) are... More >>

• Aaron Loesch Vies to Become the Guitar Center King of the Blues

  published May 31, 2007

  True story: I have dreamed I have played only three pieces of music. Each time, the experience was as exhilarating and as much a dream I'll never... More >>

• I am a Pedestrian Report: Bellaire

  published May 25, 2007

  Another month, another long-ass Houston street to conquer. This month, David Beebe joined me again, and the river of concrete we decided to take on was Bellaire Boulevard. We would commence at the Mis... More >>

• New Orleans Legend Al "Carnival Time" Johnson and a Guilloteen's Swan Song

  published May 24, 2007

  If you have ever been to New Orleans during Mardi Gras, your benders have been sound-tracked in no small part by temporary Houstonian Al Johnson's... More >>