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Older Houstonians' first taste of B.J. Thomas came with his cover of Hank Williams Sr.'s "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" in his original band, the Triumphs. The Lamar...
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If you have been missing Dallas's Polyphonic Spree, then 2012 could be your year. With new music in the offing — including a Christmas record due in the fall — the...
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No doubt you have already heard Estelle's British coo on this side of the Atlantic, attached to the dulcet voices of Kanye West or Rick Ross. West and Estelle's "American Boy,"...
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Houston's own Buxton gets their moment in the sun in the next few weeks as their debut album for New West Records, Nothing Here Seems Strange, gets wide release. The album and...
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Since their first few tracks began leaking out last fall, we've been heavily interested in Bang Bangz, a new electro-pop project from Mario Alberto Rodriguez of prog-rock...
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Along with the usual food, art and beautiful people carousing at Houston Press's Artopia, we always manage to rustle up a great musical lineup. This year we have Folk Family...
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Along with the usual food, art and beautiful people carousing at Houston Press's Artopia, we always manage to rustle up a great musical lineup. This year we have Folk Family...
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No doubt if you have been following the Houston music scene for the past two years, you know the sound of Finnegan, a loud, folky six-piece with roots in the Heights and...
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The Main Street Block Party is returning for seconds this afternoon and evening at The Continental Club, The Big Top, and The Mink's front and back rooms. Armed with another...
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Jimbo Mathus's latest work, Confederate Buddha, was easily one of the most overlooked roots albums of 2011. Don't worry, we sort of slept through it too,
but that just means...
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If the departed White Stripes made music for indie-rock couples to listen to while they went antiquing, then the Kills make music for those same couples to break up to, loudly,...
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"Love thine enemy / But hate their lack of sincerity." So begins Cass McCombs's Humor Risk, the second album he released in 2011, following April's Wit's End. Risk is a woozy,...
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Ray Price began his musical career in 1949, years upon years before some of the titans of the mainstream country charts you hear today were even glints in their parents' eyes....
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Two of the titans of pop-radio in the '80s and '90s, Peter Cetera and Richard Marx, team up for this Friday-night gig at the Arena Theatre, which — along with Nutty...
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We got to partake in the pleasure that is the Hideaway on Dunvale for steak night one Tuesday, and it included the magical blues stylings of Rick Lee & The Night Owls. Lee and...
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If it seems Hayes Carll has been gigging in the Houston area almost every other month during 2011, then we agree, and damn sure aren't complaining. This has been a great year...
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Celebrate the coming pain of 2012 — possibly the planet's last year of existence — this weekend at Fitzgerald's, which is throwing a two-day party to ring in the...
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New Orleans rock-trio Better Than Ezra is one of the few '90s alt-rock bands that have stuck around, through music industry ups and downs, coming out the other end as a group...
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The road-dogging, Austin-based Band of Heathens combines twangy, sandpaper vocals with hard-bought harmonies. The core trio in BOH — Colin Brooks, Ed Jurdi and Gordy...
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"I've got soul, my mama says so," sings Stephen Kellogg on the first track off Gift Horse, the newest album from Kellogg & The Sixers, and by the time the album closes, you...
