Allen Hill (Executive)

Lonesome Onry And Mean's Top 11 Shows Of 2010

Jason WolterToots & the Maytals at House of Blues, May 2​Along with the season of shopping madness and suicidal depression comes the season for Best-ofs. Live show-wise, 2010 was very benevolent to Lonesome Onry and Mean. Some of our favorites from 2010: 11. Jon Cleary, The Big Easy: Cleary ... More >>

Los Skarnales Play Rare Family-Friendly Set At Discovery Green

Photos by Allen HillThe sun seldom sets on Los Skarnales.​The first time Lonesome, Onry and Mean took our Significant Other to see Los Skarnales, a huge fight broke out and she ended up sliding across the floor on her behind until the back wall of the Continental Club stopped her progress. T ... More >>

6 Ideas: How to Dress Like A Rock Star

​This Saturday we'll be Partying Like A Rock Star with Allen Hill and DJ Psychedlic Sex Panther... and maybe Tina Turner, Pink, Zombie Michael Jackson, and probably a few Elvii... or at least some people in attire inspired by famous singers. The event at House of Dereon is a fundraiser benefit ... More >>

Little Joe Washington's Comeback Thrills Continental Anniversary Party

Photos by Jay Lee​Less than a week after finally going home from the rehabilitation facility where he had been recuperating from a pair of surgeries to clear an obstructed bowel, beloved Houston bluesman Little Joe Washington put on a spellbinding - if brief - performance at the Continental Cl ... More >>

Pat Green Or Monkeys Riding Dogs? A July 4 Dilemma Solved

​Sunday, the City of Houston will celebrate our fine country's independence from the Redcoats in the same way it does every single other year, with the self-proclaimed "Largest Land-Based Fireworks Show in the Nation," Freedom Over Texas. This year, the festival's blander-than-white-bread head ... More >>

Bros Before Hos: Tales From The Wedding-Band Front Lines

Courtesy Allen Hill EntertainmentAllen Hill (left) would rather not play "Take a Letter, Maria" at weddings, but he will.​ Sting once stated in an interview about The Police's trademark song "Every Breath You Take" that he was bewildered by the tune's popularity at weddings. It is, after all, a so ... More >>

Beyonce Baby Rumors Freeze Internet; Allen Oldies Band Wows New York Times; Justin Bieber, Future Bull Rider

​ This ROCK SOLID SOURCE claims Beyoncé is preggo. Uh huh. However, it's being re-reported by publications like the New York Post and The Daily Swarm... so maybe it's legit? Speaking of rock solid sources, the Allen Oldies Band got a nice little write-up in this New York Times SXSW recap: "L ... More >>

SXSW Aftermath: Just Your Average, Garden-Variety Mayhem At The Continental Club

Photos by Chris GrayThe Stone River Boys​SXSW moves at such a frenetic clip that when you're finally able to catch your breath and collect your thoughts, it's almost over. That moment finally arrived for Aftermath at rockabilly troublemaker and Sirius/XM Outlaw Country DJ Mojo Nixon's annual "Mojo ... More >>

Music Cities

Texas has its own brand of March Madness

Aftermath: Annise Parker's Freezing Inaugural Concert at Discovery Green

Photos by GroovehouseRoy Head (center) and the Allen Oldies Band's Allen Hill (left) and Jim Henkel​ Annise Parker​The best-laid plans of mice, men and even mayors sometimes go awry. Annise Parker declined a big-ticket inaugural celebration in favor of a free concert on Discovery Green, a genuin ... More >>

Congratulations to Our Live Nation Club Passport Winners, and More Background on That John Entwistle Photo

​ We finally have a winner in Rocks Off's photo contest for those Live Nation Club Passports we started giving away back when George W. was president. Not really, but it seems like it. Congratulations to Houston's Mitsy Parsons, whose shot of her with NYC up-and-comer Ryan Star at September's Coll ... More >>

Listology: Chase Hamblin Chooses His Favorite One-Hit Wonders

Chase Hamblin performs with Robert Ellis and the Small Sounds, 8 p.m. tonight at Walter's on Washington, 4215 Washington, 713-862-2513 or www.4215washington.com. Easybeats, "Friday on My Mind" Anxious changes, solid backbeat and sweet harmonies, this is a killer track. Amazing Australian '60s hit w ... More >>

Aftermath: Susan Cowsill at Discovery Green

Photos by Chris Gray A sloping hillside full of people on blankets, kids running around, dogs lolling, and a fine band playing "Yellow Submarine" - this truly was what the whole Discovery Green concert series is about.Susan Cowsill and her band powered through a short set of their own material - as ... More >>

Aftermath: Brave Combo at Discovery Green

Photos by Allen Hill It would be interesting to find out how many weddings have taken place at Discovery Green since it opened last year, but it's hard to imagine that any of them could have been any livelier than Brave Combo's free concert there Thursday evening. In its second season, DG's free con ... More >>

Happy Birthday, "Louie Louie"

Forty-six years ago today, a group of teenagers gathered in a Portland, Oregon, studio to record a ridiculously simple anthem that would go on to become one of the most influential - and most misunderstood - songs in rock history. The group was the Kingsmen - none of whom was over age 17 - and the ... More >>

Spring Concert Series at Discovery Green Announced

Susan Cowsill, "Just Believe It" Cut from the same cloth as Party on the Plaza comes this year's concert series at Discovery Green. If you haven't visited the downtown park since it opened last April, you're missing one the greenest and absolutely most beautiful facets of our town. In the spirit ... More >>

Spring Concert Series at Discovery Green Announced

Susan Cowsill, "Just Believe It" Cut from the same cloth as Party on the Plaza comes this year's concert series at Discovery Green. If you haven't visited the downtown park since it opened last April, you're missing one the greenest and absolutely most beautiful facets of our town. In the spirit ... More >>

Life by the Drop: A Dispatch from Houston's Bars

Who Stole the Roll?

The Allen Oldies Band: Ride the Wild Surf

Raiding the Houston Press's Photo Archives

Spazmatics = Revenge of the Replicants

Did you know that '80s cover band the Spazmatics has clones from coast to coast?

Gamers Become Stars with Rock Band or Guitar Hero

Meet the newest kind of bar band

Save Our Houston Songs

A plea for monuments and musical preservation

Exile on Main Street

Racket and the new guy take the annual Houston Press Music Awards Showcase plunge

The Head of the Class

Allen Hill leads the cheers for Houston's only American Idol contestant

He Wouldn't Want to Be Part of Any Club That Would Accept Him

The High Priest Speaketh

The High Priest Speaketh

Fight the Power

Could there be a fun, pro-music political action committee in Houston? Why the hell not?

More Fun than a Barrel of Monkeys

Dispatches from the 17th annual Houston Press Music Awards

2006 Houston Press Music Awards Supplement

The Allen Oldies Band

Live and Delirious!

South By So Huge

Austin's little music festival is all grown up

South By Southwest

Standing Behind the Man

Playing in Chuck Berry's pickup band can be a trial by rock and roll fire

A Crying Shame

RIP, Cactus Music and Video

Adieu, Monsieur Mojo

...And other SXSW adventures

Letters

Hothouse Flowers

Groceries spoil in the heat, while the rest of Houston's music community blossoms

Racket

Great moments at the Press's Music Awards Showcase

Endless Boogie

Former Squirrel Nut Zipper Jimbo Mathus gets back to basics

Battle Cries

SXSW finds itself covered in thoughts of war

Nightmare Before Christmas

The Voodoo Organist brings his Beelzebub blues to town

The El Orbits

Live in Houston, Texas (Freedom Records)

Cultural Clash

SXSW turns a cold shoulder to the Houston music scene

The Good Ol' Days

The Allen Oldies Band is taking a different route to fame

Music Awards 2001

A preview of this year's show

A Band's Dissolve

Banana Blender Surprise calls it quits or do they?