Colin Meloy

Decemberists: The Hazards of Love

Aftermath: SXSW

Houston Has a Bad Reputation with Touring Indie Bands

They'd just as soon give us a miss.

Sitting Down with La Porte's Buxton

They'd just as soon give us a miss.

The Bards of Baytown

Scattered Pages' urban art-country music is as pretty as its hometown is ugly

A Pack of Mutts

The lone wolves of 2005

Hidden Treasures

Introducing some of the best discs you've never heard

Guitar-Shredding on the High Seas

Built to Spill and the Decemberists offer alternate takes on alt-rock

Elf Rock

The Decemberists bring their magic-realist, Picaresque new album to town

The Decemberists

Her Majesty (Kill Rock Stars)

ACL 2009 Day Two: Aftermath

Photo by Mark C. Austin​Was it something we said or did? Aftermath openly gushed about how great the weather was on Friday and how it seemed that maybe, just maybe, we were going to finally attend an Austin City Limits (ACL) that didn't consist of heat and dust. Well, it seems that the powers ... More >>

Sam Cooke, Still Bringing It On Home

death2ur.com​Tomorrow, January 22, would have been R&B singer Sam Cooke's 80th birthday. No doubt he would be celebrating with a massive, star-drenched party with plenty of music and fanfare, and Beyonce Knowles sitting on his lap if he was lucky and Jay-Z was cool with it. Cooke died on Dec ... More >>

Conroe Native Courtney Smith Crashes Rock-Lit Boys Club

​Introducing music journalism's latest female-penned release, Courtney E. Smith's Record Collecting for Girls. Following suit with like-minded veteran writers like Sara Marcus and Jessica Hopper, Smith's first book boldly tackles the music memoir, a literary genre historically saturated with ... More >>

Stunt-Casting A More Modern Disney Soundtrack

Photo by Katie Rommel-Esham​The other night I watched Beauty and the Beast for the first time in roughly forever. I was shocked by two things: How much of the plot I had forgotten, and how many of the songs I remembered. It's like that for most Disney classics: I can't tell you what happened but I ... More >>