There are two things you can do when you realize that if you don't get away from your family, you will lose your mind: A) Leave. B) Buy some ''this is what I'm wearing to the insane asylum'' shoes. (We have several pairs, in a variety of pastel colors.) Jordan Vogt-Roberts's debut comedy film,... More >>

Life isn't so easy for Easy Rawlins. The private investigator was almost killed in his last outing (Blonde Faith), and now he's tasked with finding a missing man in the Sunset Strip. All he has to do is sort through the various hippies, shady characters and beautiful women who cruise the area.... More >>

With an upcoming album, Stampede, and a new single that just dropped featuring none other than Lil Wayne, Fred Durst and company are pulling out all the stops for their aim at resurgence. Seems that they might be defying the odds and pulling it off, too. Their Houston tour date at the House of... More >>

How big is Angry Birds, the addictive catapulting video game? Almost 2 billion copies have been downloaded and countless T-shirts, books and assorted paraphernalia sold. A feature film is set to join the recently launched video channel. And now the Finland-based company is moving into the... More >>

Lots of folks in Houston don't find anything funny about the Enron scandal; Tony Award® winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist David Henry Hwang, however, found a way to weave it into his comedy Chinglish. The Broadway hit follows Daniel Cavanaugh, an American businessman to China where he... More >>

Pat Jasper, a member of the Houston Arts Alliance's Folklife + Traditional Arts Program, plays down her role in putting together ''Anointed and Adorned: Indian Weddings in Houston.'' It wasn't rocket science to figure out that we could do a pretty spectacular exhibition once we got a good look... More >>

The band Pink Martini has a reputation for being wild, jazzy and hip. When it takes the stage with the Houston Symphony, the group will be joined by The Von Trapps. It seems The Von Trapps, made up of the great-grandchildren of Captain and Maria von Trapp (yes, from The Sound of Music), would... More >>

See the movie that François Truffaut claims paved the path for the French New Wave movement when the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston screens Little Fugitive (1953). Filmmakers used a concealed, custom-made 35mm camera to capture New York's Coney Island, the setting for the poetic story of a... More >>

Ta'Rea Campbell, appearing as Deloris in the musical Sister Act, says she and Deloris are both a little ''sassy,'' but while Deloris still pretty much says anything that's on her mind, Campbell says she learned awhile back that isn't always the best strategy. Sister Act, running for a week at... More >>

Out of a Third Ward blues guitar school that has now graduated to the great beyond Albert Collins, Johnny Clyde Copeland, Johnny Guitar Watson and Joe Guitar Hughes, Little Joe Washington is the last man standing. And he’s hardly standing still: He’s also pedaling his Schwinn from... More >>

Despite being best known for his solo R&B career, Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds has actually been a big player on the music scene since the late '70's and early '80's, contributing to the creation of new jack swing by writing and producing for big names like Bobby Brown, Paula Abdul, and Sheena... More >>

Whether Guns N' Roses' current tour across the nation's House of Blues venues is simply a naked cash grab – general-admission tickets start at $135 – or an up-close way for Axl Rose to connect with his more affluent fans, the fact remains plenty of GN'R lovers will pay that much... More >>

After coming to terms with their Christian-rock past on 2011’s We Are All Where We Belong, an album that was both gut-wrenching and exhilarating and swept the 2012 Austin Music Awards, Quiet Company seems resolved to lighten up a little on its brand-new album, A Dead Man on My Back. Gone... More >>

Believe it or not, MTV is partially to thank for the solidification of Blue Oyster Cult's spot in pop culture. It was the heavy rotation of "Burnin' for You" that contributed to the mainstream popularity of these guys, who also brought us freakin' awesome tracks like "(Don't Fear) The Reaper"... More >>

Ever heard of a little ditty known as "I Ran (So Far Away)?" You might remember it from the days that it ran across the screen of MTV literally every ten minutes, setting a record for number of video plays. And even if you don't remember the music from A Flock of Seagulls, who in their right... More >>

Wade Bowen, a regular on the Texas Country/Red Dirt music scene, has become one of the more popular singer-songwriters to emerge in recent years.The Waco native has progressed both personally and professionally over the years, leaving the band West 84 to step out on his own in 2001. He has... More >>

Formed thanks to the dissolution of Overcast and Aftershock in the late '90s, the metalcore gods known as Killswitch Engage have been growling, screaming, and (sometimes) singing their way into critical acclaim ever since. Known whidely as one of the founding bands of metalcore, Killswitch... More >>

Mobb Deep has put aside that whole feud thing they had goin' on in 2012, reuniting for not only for their new album, but also for a 20th anniversary tour. Yeah, it seems pretty crazy that they've been around that long, I know. As one of the most successful rap duos in hip-hop, Mobb Deep knows a... More >>

The White Ghost Shivers, a seven-piece act from Austin, are some ruckus-loving, kazoo and jug-harmonizing, skirt-lifting, naughty little things. From throwing whistles to causing blushed faces with their twinkling innuendo-laced lyrics, these musicians love to have a good time with the... More >>

Max Gomez is but a wee baby in terms of age -- clocking in at all of 23 years old -- but he's already got the poise and the chops to be a hard-hitter on the singer-songwriter scene, being compared to the likes of Townes Van Zandt in terms of his unassuming, wise demeanor. From the murky,... More >>

Not even out of their teens, Denmark’s Iceage caused quite a stir within the indie-punk world a couple of years ago with New Brigade, an album that was almost pure id. With one nihilistic fuzz-bomb after another, it caused some critics to suggest a latter-day Joy Division with an even... More >>

Imagine 40 million of anything. If it’s dollars, that’s a fortune; if people, a nation the size of Argentina. If album sales, that’s how many Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours has racked up since its February 1977 release, a number matched by few in music history apart from... More >>

Although you may not recognize his name, Cody Simpson is a mega-star in the eyes of teenage girls across the globe. The Australian singer, whose journey to fame began with the uploading of some videos of his covers of songs like Jason Mraz's “I'm Yours,” has skyrocketed well past... More >>

Fall Out Boy, the emo-pop band that took the airwaves by storm in the early '00s, is back and apparently ready to save rock and roll, according to the title of their new album, anyway. They've taken the past few years off to pursue other endeavors, but now that they've hit the touring scene on... More >>

There's a little known fact about the multi-Latin Grammy winning artist Juanes that perhaps you should know: he used to head the hell out of the heavy metal band Ekhymosis before turning to a life of pumped-up Latin rock hits. Does it give him more street cred? Probably not, but he doesn't need... More >>