Subject: Freddy Fender

• Hey, Look Over There

  September 26, 2007

• SugarHill Studios Moves to Caroline Collective

  July 8, 2008

• Slip Inside This House: MP3s from Yesterday's Obsession, the Liberty Bell and the Lavender Hour

  July 30, 2008

• Wasted Days, Wasted Lives (Part II)

  Record producer Huey Meaux was a legend in the music business. Now he's an accused pedophile on the run.

  February 22, 1996

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: 2008's Heavy Rotation

  For the second (third?) year in a row, LOM didn't vote in either the Nashville Scene's best of country music poll or the Village Voice's Pazz & Jop best of American music poll. I'm just not a good list-maker. Detest that stuff. Just trying to compile a list of possibles makes my brain hate me. Anyway, I rarely get serviced by the major labels, and I don't listen to the radio stations that kowtow to the major labels, so I don't feel I have much context in which to wrestle with the important

  December 30, 2008

• Folk Hero

  July 14, 1994

• Hot Sounds in the City

  July 28, 1994

• Rotations

  November 17, 1994

• Five More Houstonians and Their Wacky Sexual Escapades

  U.S. District Judge Samuel Kent of Houston is faced with a slew of sexual misconduct charges, including aggravated sexual abuse, abusive sexual contact and obstruction of justice, for which he faces a possible sentence of life in prison and a $250,000 fine. Things look bleak for Judge Kent, but he should take some small comfort in knowing that he's not the only Houstonian to get in trouble for these kinds of shenanigans.1. Calvin Murphy -- Houston Rockets guard Murphy had almost as many illegiti

  January 8, 2009

• Sole of Houston: Airport Drive, The Finale (Including Unwanted Puke)

  And here is the final installment of David Beebe and John Lomax's 20-plus mile hike from Intercontinental Airport to Spanish Flowers restaurant. Part one is here and part two is here.David Beebe's accounts of the same hike are here and here.Airline's furthest reaches are lined by sprawling and run-down '70s apartment complexes. And yet there's a weirdly rural feel in patches. The 281 area code hangs on for a longer time than you would expect, and there are plenty of fireworks stands, as a swath

  January 15, 2009

• Touring Songs

  April 6, 1995

• Not the Sahm Old Thing

  April 27, 1995

• Tex-Mex Tunes

  July 20, 1995

• Wasted Days, Wasted Lives (Part I)

  February 22, 1996

• Static

  April 11, 1996

• Educated Sounds

  March 27, 1997

• Spanish Rocks

  January 8, 1998

• Best Archival Project No One Has Heard About

  September 21, 2000

• Tremoloco

  June 12, 2008

• Grand Theft Auto X: The Screwston Chronicles

  May 15, 2008

• Moby Pick

  Beaumont's Barbara Lynn lucks out with a song that almost died

  May 23, 2002

• Crawfish Cravings at Swampy's Cajun Shack

  April 3, 2008

• Freddy Fender is 'El Bebop Kid'

  January 31, 2008

• Houston's Very Best Songs Ever

  September 27, 2007

• Exile on Main Street

  Racket and the new guy take the annual Houston Press Music Awards Showcase plunge

  August 2, 2007

• Don't Fear the Reaper

  The annual return of the Greil Marcus Rock Death Meter

  December 21, 2006

• The Hacienda Brothers

  Saturday, September 9, at the Continental Club, 3700 Main, 713-529-9899

  September 7, 2006

• Letters to the Editor

  July 20, 2006

• James Hunter

  ames Hunter appears Friday, May 26, at the Continental Club, 3700 Main, 713-529-9899

  May 25, 2006

• Yule Fuel

  A discussion of non-Christmas Christmas music

  December 22, 2005

• Los Super 7

  Heard It on the X

  March 24, 2005

• Kenny G.'s Revenge

  Smooth-jazz fans blast Racket

  December 5, 2002

• Identity Crisis

  Mary Cutrufello's leaving makes us wonder: Is your band a Krogers, Randalls or a Fiesta?

  September 5, 2002

• Memo Re: Borders

  Memo Villarreal isn't afraid of the corporate bookstore or the Rio Grande

  March 21, 2002

• Age-Old Axiom

  The Axiom can't seem to shake its past

  March 14, 2002

• Remembering Doug Sahm

  The Texas Tornado is gone, but not forgotten

  December 16, 1999

• North and South

  Tranquil Canada flavors San Antonian Doug Sahm's rustic music

  July 22, 1999

• Rocks Off Checks Out Corpus Christi

  Photos by Craig Hlavaty This past weekend, Rocks Off took a respite from sweltering H-Town to visit family in our equallly sweltering, ball-sweat-inducing neighbor to the south. Corpus Christi is rather small compared the teeming ant farm we have here, topping just over a quarter of a million beachified and sunburned folks. Rocks Off has been coming to "The Sparkling City by the Sea" to visit his grandparents and burn layers off his skin since he was born. Over the past decade or so, Corpus has

  June 22, 2009

• 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 us of our Hispanic-American roots, even if we are only a quarter. Thursday night, we hit up Walter's On Washington for our first-ever black metal show. To outsiders, the genre is corny and ensconced i

  July 17, 2009

• A Musical Guide to Post-Secession Texas: "New Texas"

  In the third in our continuing series on the music of the five states of Texas, we examine the fictional state of New Texas, comprising Austin and the Hill Country. See Part 1 here and Part 2 here. New Texas Capital: Austin Patron Saint: Willie Nelson ​Lesser Icons: Roky Erickson/Thirteenth Floor Elevators, Stevie Ray and Jimmie Vaughan, Fabulous Thunderbirds, Alejandro Escovedo, Jon Dee Graham, True Believers, Freddy Fender, Nanci Griffith, Marcia Ball, Big Boys/Randall "Biscuit" Turner, Fas

  August 13, 2009

• "Day of the Dead Rock Stars"

  October 29, 2009

• He Said She Said: Songs That Remind Us of Our Grandfathers, Part 2

  He Said Grandpa Songs He Said was lucky to have spent twenty-five years on Earth with his Grandpa Hlavaty, who passed away in the summer of 2008 of a brain hemorrhage. The man was arguably one of the biggest musical influences in He Said's life. The intrepid and stealthy Grandpa Gonzalez is kicking the around the country somewhere on a sweet motorcycle or driving through the Midwest in his gigantic RV and his chihuahua with Grandma Ana watching a movie in the back. Seeing that He Said is one-hal

  November 5, 2009

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Remembering Doug Sahm - 10 Years Gone Already?

  "You just can't live in Texas if you don't have a lot of soul" - Doug Sahm, "At the Crossroads" ​If the Texas music scene ever had a soul, it belonged to Doug Sahm, the leader of the Sir Douglas Quintet who passed away ten years ago Wednesday. It didn't matter whether he was knee-deep in the blues, hammering on a three-chord rocker, or sawing on his fiddle, Doug Sahm was 100% Texan to his core. Sahm had a storybook career, from child prodigy who was asked to join the Grand Ole Opry and sat i

  November 19, 2009