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Weekend Music: Ka-Nives Out

Last Night: Mike Ness and Jesse Dayton at Meridian

Tomorrow Night: Tim Hagans at DiverseWorks

Listen In

Houston Press Music Awards 2000

Your guide to the Music Awards Showcase

In His Own Write

Jesse Dayton knows a great many words - and how to sell them

Fork in the Road

Jesse Dayton knows a great many words - and how to sell them

Live Shots

Jesse Dayton knows a great many words - and how to sell them

Aftermath Extra: The Best Concerts of the Year, Part 3

Sean Reefer & the Resin Valley Boys, Boondocks, April 28: "Reefer and friends can be a benign ensemble whose greatest sin (and virtue) is defibrillating the shade of Hank Williams Sr. for an audience whose appetite for debauchery is more in line with grandson Hank III." Mike Ness and Jesse D ... More >>

Ecstatic Static

Guided By Voices' low-fi revelations

Rockefeller's Return

The venerable bank-turned-club is spiffed-up and awaiting your presence

Pop Moment

The venerable bank-turned-club is spiffed-up and awaiting your presence

Ready to Rise

Raisin' Cain may give Jesse Dayton his long anticipated push into prominence

1995 Houston Press Music Awards

Raisin' Cain may give Jesse Dayton his long anticipated push into prominence

Critic's Choice

Good Guy

Bite This!

Sink your teeth into the 1997 Houston Press Music Awards

Static

Sink your teeth into the 1997 Houston Press Music Awards

Best Local Song About Drivin'

"Supercop," by the Road Kings

Mike Stinson

"Supercop," by the Road Kings

Stolen Thunder

Quick fixes for thieves, and long suffering for victims: When guitarists lose their vintage axes

Enon

Quick fixes for thieves, and long suffering for victims: When guitarists lose their vintage axes

Tons o' Tonk

Quick fixes for thieves, and long suffering for victims: When guitarists lose their vintage axes

Needling the Haystack

A 1,683-mile drive taught us that educators don't always entertain an open-door policy when it comes to public records

Jesse Dayton

Banjo & Sullivan -- The Ultimate Collection 1972-1978

Two Hoots and a Holler, with Jesse Dayton and Guy Forsyth

Friday, June 24, at the Continental Club, 3700 Main, 713-529-9899.

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Americana Pie

Grab a slice of 2004's best roots music while it's still hot

Americana Pie

Grab a slice of 2004's best roots music while it's still hot

A Pair of Aces

John Evans and Jesse Dayton drop career-defining records two weeks apart

Do You Know the Way to Balmorhea?

Jesse Dayton and Lew Temple do. And now so does Hollywood.

Jesse Dayton

Hey Nashvegas! (Stag)

Music Awards 2001

A preview of this year's show

Buying Time

Investors can fill the void left by papier-mâché labels

Off the Road Again

Jesse Dayton sans Road Kings

Local Rotation

Local Music Reviewed

Aftermath: Archgoat, Blaspherian and Thorn Spawn at Walter's on Washington

Photos by Craig Hlavaty This week has been one of many firsts for Aftermath. Sunday night, we attended our first drunken Tejano show at an icehouse in Pearland while visiting the parents. It was an eye-opening experience, full of balls-out accordion breakdowns and Freddy Fender covers that reminded ... More >>

Hotel Time Again

Whiskey Boat looks up from two years of live rehersals and realizes it's a band.

Jesse Dayton - Sorry, "Captain Clegg" - on Rob Zombie and His Role In Halloween II

Jesse Dayton's star just keeps rising. You have to give the former Beaumont lad credit, he works at it steadily, and these days has his finger in writing, performing, producing, and acting as well as operating a label. As anyone who checks Facebook knows, Dayton posts something about every twenty m ... More >>

Monnalisa Smile

Upscale suburban bars used to be a nightlife myth. Not anymore.

Inherit the Wind

There's a little monkey business going on at Playhouse 1960

Upcoming: Ozzy! Ozzy! Ozzy! Slash! And Robert Earl Keen

​Alien Ant Farm: Wed., Nov. 17. Scout Bar Clear Lake. "Be A Lot Cooler If You Did: Halloween At The Moon Tower" With Black Congress, Roky Moon & BOLT, LIMB, Venomous Maximus: Sun., Oct. 31. Moon Tower Inn. Brian McKnight: Sat., Dec. 11. Arena Theatre. Cowboy Mouth, Silverleaf: Fri., Dec. 3 ... More >>

GOP Is the New Black, Billboard Wrongly Claims

How much more hip can the GOP get?​Raging Elephants, the cutting-edge black Republican group that gets invited to all the best Tea Party events, and will no doubt be shown on camera often during speech cutaways at the 2012 GOP Convention, is proudly proclaiming conservative hipness on a South Loop ... More >>

Jesse Dayton Lands Kinky Friedman Role In New Play

Houston socialite Carolyn Farb co-producing dramatization of eccentric Texan's life ​Former Houstonian Jesse Dayton has been tapped to play the lead role of Kinky Friedman in Becoming Kinky: The World According to Kinky Friedman, Dayton told Rocks Off this afternoon. Written by New York aut ... More >>

Jesse Dayton's "Fans": Singer Is "Faggy," "Douchebag"

​Jesse Dayton is learning the joys of Facebook. The ex-Houston honky-tonker and Rob Zombie rockabilly muse, who plays the Armadillo Palace February 26 and Conroe's Texas Independence Day Festival March 5, took to YouTube Tuesday to explain why he had to start a new fan page. Not only had his ... More >>

Comment of the Day: More Space Shuttle Blues

​We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it's time we paid some damn attention to them. So we'll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day's work. Maybe two comments, even. This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involv ... More >>

Jesse Dayton & Friends Silence Old Quarter Cafe

Photos by Roger Reed/FacebookL-R: Brennen Leigh, Jesse Dayton and Mike Stinson before a hushed Old Quarter crowd.​Aftermath is so busy in the city, we don't get down to Wrecks Bell's Old Quarter Acoustic Café in Galveston enough. But we caught a free ride down Saturday and rectified that situ ... More >>

Bedbugs in Houston: Hey, We Ain't Too Bad

Probably from Dallas.​Anytime there's a list involving annoying bugs or pests, you expect Houston to be making a bold bid for the title. But exterminator giant Terminix has just released its list of the worst bedbug-infested cities in America, and Houston isn't on it. We don't make the top 1 ... More >>

Tasting Notes: This Week in Wine Blogs

Photo by Jeremy Parzen.We just love it when Amy Corron Power, left with husband Joe, does "un-Amy-like" things!​Another Wine Blog: Love born in the blogosphere. It's a beautiful thing. A few weeks ago, when I shared a glass of stinky, delicious Cortese (from Piedmont) with tandem wine blogger ... More >>

Carolyn Farb, Jesse Dayton Go Undercover with Kinky Friedman

Photo by Jason WolterDayton performing as Friedman at the Mucky Duck last year.​Over the weekend we learned of at least one high profile 2012 recording project that involves Houston at least peripherally: local arts patron and charity fundraiser Carolyn Farb will be the executive producer of a ... More >>

Kinky Songs Get the Dayton Treatment

photo by Jason WolterJesse Dayton onstage in Becoming Kinky: The World According To Kinky Friedman​In our recent interview with Kinky Friedman, performing tonight at Dosey Doe in the Woodlands, we mulled over Jesse Dayton's on-going project of an album of Friedman's songs. Friedman was very en ... More >>