Duane Eddy

Sole of Houston: This One's for Rory Miggins

HPMA Aftermath: Small Sounds, Yoko Mono, Katie Stuckey and the Swagger, Espantapajaros, Buxton, Los Skarnales and Thee Armada

Tonight: Thunderado and the Handsomes at the Continental Club

After packaging delays and the usual record-business snafus, we finally got our hands on a copy of the new Thunderado, a project of Paul Beebe and Hunter Perrin. Like Thunderado's live shows, the album features a stripped-down, three-piece power trio; for the purposes of this recording, the third ... More >>

Missing Link

After packaging delays and the usual record-business snafus, we finally got our hands on a copy of the new Thunderado, a project of Paul Beebe and Hunter Perrin. Like Thunderado's live shows, the album features a stripped-down, three-piece power trio; for the purposes of this recording, the third ... More >>

Spanish Rocks

After packaging delays and the usual record-business snafus, we finally got our hands on a copy of the new Thunderado, a project of Paul Beebe and Hunter Perrin. Like Thunderado's live shows, the album features a stripped-down, three-piece power trio; for the purposes of this recording, the third ... More >>

Geezer Alert!

Secrets of talk radio revealed

Lee Hazlewood: Stranger in This Land

The renaissance cowboy cut a wide swath through the West, and inspired a generation of songwriters

Houston Mixtape Volume III

More local anthems

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

More local anthems

Legendary Shack Shakers

Cockadoodledon't (Bloodshot Records)

The El Orbits

Live in Houston, Texas (Freedom Records)

He Scores

Ennio Morricone has written great music for good, bad and ugly films

Masked Avengers

Forget the headgear. Los Straitjackets are having a seriously good time deconstructing instrumental pop.

Shut Your Mouth

Where is instrumental rock? Los Straitjackets and John Paul Jones might know.

Les Paul Is Shredding Axes With Jesus and GG Allin Now (Wait, That Can't Be Right...)

Thanks to Mr. Jesse Dayton for showing us this clip Les Paul, the musician who literally created the definitive sound of rock 'n roll with his slew of equipment inventions, has passed away at the rockin' age of 94. Seriously if you make it that far after spending your life in smoky halls and reco ... More >>

Dive Bars

A handcrafted tour of the best, most obscure places to lean on a stool in Houston.

Last Night: Deer Tick At The Bronze Peacock

Photos by Jason Wolter​Deer Tick House of Blues (Bronze Peacock Room) October 13, 2010 What makes a Deer Tick? Equal parts The Band, Nirvana, Ritchie Valens, Duane Eddy and a heap of firewater. It's hard to describe Deer Tick to people who haven't heard them, but those are the best terms we c ... More >>

The Best Songs From 1958

​This Saturday is Craig's Hlist's father's birthday, and the man turns 53. Sorry to out your age, Dad, but it's for science. This week while doing other research, we found that most people whose art we enjoy were actually born in 1958. People like Alec Baldwin, Prince, Jello Biafra, Jools Holl ... More >>

Last Night: Steve Earle At House Of Blues

Photos by Jason Wolter​Steve Earle & the Dukes and Duchesses House of Blues July 6, 2011 During her sublime set at Verizon a couple of weeks ago, Emmylou Harris mentioned how she thought Barack Obama was pretty okay, and how she hoped his election meant our society had evolved beyond the even ... More >>

New Orleans' Ponderosa Stomp: A Photo Diary

Photos by Brett KoshkinNew Orleans' Ponderosa Festival thrives on 45s.​Maybe it's age or my ever-increasing tailspin of stagnating taste, but I just don't find music festivals palatable in the slightest these days. Multi-day romps to summertime smorgasboards is for the birds. No matter if it t ... More >>