Subject: Burt Bacharach

• R.I.P. Isaac Hayes: See Ya Later, Chef...

  August 11, 2008

• Press Picks

  September 1, 1994

• Four Lost Neil Diamond Covers

  October 14, 2008

• Thom Bell and the Sound of Brotherly Love

  While the ubiquitous songs of Detroit's Motown get anthologized and commercialized ad infinitum, and the critics salivate over the gritty southern soul of Memphis' Stax, the third great movement/label of '60s and '70s soul has always gotten short shrift. Until now, that is, with the release of the box set Love Train: The Sound of Philadelphia (PIR/Legacy). Spearheaded by producers/songwriters (and recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees) Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff's Philadelphia Internation

  December 8, 2008

• Rotation

  June 20, 1996

• The Power of Pop

  September 12, 1996

• Shiny Happy People?

  February 13, 1997

• Heavy on the Lite

  June 12, 1997

• Petty Woman

  June 19, 1997

• Rotation

  September 4, 1997

• Static

  January 1, 1998

• Baby, It's Him

  January 8, 1998

• Letters

  January 29, 1998

• Rotation

  October 15, 1998

• Best of Burt

  May 6, 1999

• Shaggy Dog

  June 10, 1999

• B.J. Thomas

  January 15, 2009

• Cracker

  Sunday, April 14

  April 18, 2002

• Phony Folksy

  Linklater tries to break out of the slacker doldrums, but misfires

  March 26, 1998

• The Velvet Viking

  Norwegian phenom Sondre Lerche brings his precocious sunny-day pop straight outta the fjords

  May 15, 2003

• Dionne Warwick

  April 10, 2008

• Season's Greetings

  With summer almost over, the theater scene's heating up

  August 26, 2004

• The Postmarks

  The Postmarks

  February 1, 2007

• True Aim, Blue Flame

  How Elvis Costello turned his eclectic nature into career gold

  April 13, 2006

• Playbill

  March 10, 2005

• Capsule Reviews

  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  January 20, 2005

• Capsule Reviews

  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  January 13, 2005

• Keeping Promises

  Against all odds, Main Street Theater's new show manages to be likable

  January 6, 2005

• Flat Fee

  Employee relations get sticky in Promises, Promises

  December 30, 2004

• Playbill

  November 18, 2004

• Candy Caine

  Jude Law's Alfie puts a pretty face on what was an ugly story

  November 4, 2004

• Alpha

  Stargazing (Special Edition) (Nettwerk)

  April 8, 2004

• Highway Stars

  After 15 years of ups and downs, Swell is on the rise again

  February 5, 2004

• Bacharach Meets Isley

  Here I Am (DreamWorks)

  December 11, 2003

• Triggerfish

  Life on Dry Land (Self-released)

  October 16, 2003

• Dwight Yoakam

  Thursday, August 21

  August 21, 2003

• The Power of 12

  Arthur Yoria and Matt Maloney launch a new local label with a roster of one

  May 15, 2003

• Flush 'Em All

  2002 -- the year Houston nightlife cleaned its colon

  December 26, 2002

• Elvis Costello

  When I Was Cruel (Island Def Jam)

  May 2, 2002

• Bertrand Burgalat

  The Sssound of Mmmusic (Tricatel/Emperor Norton)

  January 3, 2002

• Bowing to Pop

  A Muslim by choice, Jawad couldn't deny the will of his music

  March 1, 2001

• Charity Case

  After the big split, HCC goes for the glamorous giving

  January 4, 2001

• [S]hit

  Behind current blaxploitation pulp literature is - surprise! - the music biz

  March 30, 2000

• Mousetrap

  Stuart Little's thick sugar coating is fine for kids. All others, beware.

  December 16, 1999

• What's So Funny 'Bout Burt Bacharach?

  September 30, 1999

• Playbill

  Ozomatli, dc Talk, The New Morty Show

  July 22, 1999

• He's Ba-ack

  Burt Bacharach's swanky pop stylings return to hipness

  May 6, 1999

• Rotation

  March 5, 1998

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Forever Changes Never Does

  Love's Forever Changes is a crucial element of the soundtrack of my coming of age. With its acoustic guitar base, smart orchestral arrangements (strings and mariachi horns), art-rock feel and poppy lyrics, it stands apart from the most of the music of the psychedelic era. The album is best known for the track "Alone Again Or," essentially the brainchild of writer Bryan MacLean, bandleader and vocalist Arthur Lee and producer Bruce Botkin. Written as "Alone Again" by former Byrds roadie MacLean,

  May 11, 2009

• Jimmy Webb

  July 30, 2009