Appalachia

Lonesome Onry and Mean: Jon Byrd Tunes Up Country

Death of a Family

Lee Brewer started stepping out on her husband of 30 years. She told him it was over. But Pete Brewer had other endings in mind.

Shelf Life

Long after Britney Oops her way to obscurity, these releases will continue to sing

The Tony Furtado Band

It's not just a jam band

The Celtic Connection

After 18 years, Houston's Irish Session is as much about family as music

Revival Time

After 18 years, Houston's Irish Session is as much about family as music

Sound Check

After 18 years, Houston's Irish Session is as much about family as music

Houston Press 1996 Music Awards

After 18 years, Houston's Irish Session is as much about family as music

Houston Press 1997 Music Awards Preview

A guide to who's who in the Press Music Awards ballot. Plus, the where and when of the Press Music Awards Showcase!

Tough Customer

A guide to who's who in the Press Music Awards ballot. Plus, the where and when of the Press Music Awards Showcase!

Weird Ways

A guide to who's who in the Press Music Awards ballot. Plus, the where and when of the Press Music Awards Showcase!

Fine, Fine Fusion

The Fusion Cafe offers country cooking with urban panache

Gangsters in Bacliff

The unincorporated town is up to its elbows in youth gangs, poverty and crime

Christmas Revels

Celebrate the season with music from early America

Noise for Toys

Mucky Duck does it for Christmas

tempOdyssey

tempOdyssey is one wild and crazy ride

Rolling in the Aisles

tempOdyssey is one wild and crazy ride

Bring It On

Why Houston should want a nuclear power plant

A Pack of Mutts

The lone wolves of 2005

Make Mine a Guinness

The author discovers his genetic Irishness

Souchin' into Bethlehem

Greg Wood's latest health scare costs him a few pounds of flesh and almost takes his arm

Green Achers

Undertow relishes the pain and beauty of a reclusive Southern family

Playbill

Undertow relishes the pain and beauty of a reclusive Southern family

The Class of '03

Grab your gift certificates and trade in your white elephants -- here's what you really wanted for Christmas

Always Darkest Before the Dawn

Trotting out the clichés for a year-ender piece

Split Lip Rayfield, with the Meat Purveyors

Saturday, September 13

Pull Your Load

Get with Scott Miller right now

Reptomania

The Austin Lounge Lizards steal hearts and minds by feasting on sacred cows

Americana Psychos

Mixing Nashville craft with gothic content, David Olney is a songwriter's songwriter

Carlos Chaves, Mall Surgeon

Sure, an unlicensed doctor was performing liposuction at a hair salon. Stranger still: Clients kept showing up.

ACL 2009 Day One: Aftermath

Photo by Mark C. AustinSchool of Seven Bells​Before we start discussing the great music we heard yesterday, we would like to take time to thank the Gods Of Rock for blessing Day One of the Austin City Limits Festival (ACL) 2009 with an amazing afternoon and evening of weather. Anyone who has ... More >>

Game Time: Tennessee Whiskey -- Jack Daniel vs Willie Wonka

caption goes here​Having just returned from vacation literally about eight minutes ago, today's pearls of wisdom will not be sports-related (sports resumes in this space tomorrow). In my best efforts to derive some sort of synergy out of the 18-hour odyssey I just endured (Elkhart, IN to Houst ... More >>

Houston Texans -- Home For Wayward NFL Coaches?

Note: Google Images auto-fills a Wade Phillips search to "Wade Phillips confused"​When the final gun sounds on Sunday after the Texans game with the Jacksonville Jaguars, and the home team is either 5-11 or 6-10, change is coming for the Texans. At the very least, you'd have to think that Fra ... More >>

Super Bowl XLV -- At Least It Was A Good Game

This means sonething different when Ben Roethlisberger does it​Okay, so now we can put the whole Brett Favre/Aaron Rodgers thing to bed, right? While Aaron Rodgers still has a ton of work to do to build the overall resume of the Ol' Dongslinger, yesterday's win over the Steelers, and just as ... More >>

Friday Night: Elizabeth Cook At McGonigel's Mucky Duck

Photos by Jason Wolter​Elizabeth Cook (first set) McGonigel's Mucky Duck March 11, 2011 Rocks Off always appreciates a country artist who comes by their tales of low lives and high times honestly, and Elizabeth Cook certainly qualifies. The offspring of a mother who honed her musical skills i ... More >>

Pop Rocks: The Worst Part Of Parenting? The TV Shows.

Don't believe the hype.​Being a parent is tough, especially when the kids are toddler age or thereabouts. You're basically on 24-7 suicide watch while the little hobgoblins cram everything they find into their mouths and clamber to the top of the bookshelves, while at the same time you try to ... More >>

Texas Tweakers

James "Bull" Durham burned down his mother's house while cooking meth. In Angelina County, the jail is full of guys like him..

Hunger Games Filmed in Appalachia, Music Recorded in Europe

​For most musicians who aren't playing in orchestras or as session musicians, a musicians' union is about as useful a roadie who can't lift anything over 20 pounds on doctor's orders. But, for the thousands of musicians who do work in the film, television and recording studio industry, they re ... More >>