Gospel Music

Jazz 101

Aftermath: Shinyribs at Under the Volcano

Chocolate Bayou Festival

Saturday, March 1, and Sunday, March 2

Texans Score 30 Grammy Nominations

Allison Krauss, Robert Plant and T-Bone Burnett (far right) Texas artists landed 30 nominations in 20 categories when the contenders for the 51st annual Grammy Awards were announced today, including all five nominees for Best Tejano Album and four of the five Best Norteno Album contenders. All of ... More >>

The 12 Greatest Christmas Songs of All Time, Part 1

Mahalia Jackson The 12 days of Christmas begin Thursday and run until Epiphany, January 5. Here is a song for half those days. See what's in the other half tomorrow morning. 12. "Silent Night," Mahalia Jackson. The supreme Christmas melody requires the supreme voice, and if anybody's ever sung i ... More >>

Aftermath: The Jones Family Singers at the Rothko Chapel

Barnett Newman's "Broken Obelisk," dedicated to Martin Luther King Jr., outside the Rothko Chapel/ Image by A D Forman Note: Because Monday's performance was a religious service, no photography was allowed. Thanks to Monday's MLK Day and Tuesday's inauguration, among other reasons, Afterma ... More >>

Glory Be

Yolanda Adams sings gospel to soothe the soul, and convert the heathen

Really Super

Yolanda Adams sings gospel to soothe the soul, and convert the heathen

Get It While You Can

Jerry Ragavoy and the ghost of Janis Joplin

Children of Eden

Web exclusive!

Jonny Lang

The artist behind Lie to Me and Turn Around brings his special brand of blues to Houston

Don't Stop Believin'

The artist behind Lie to Me and Turn Around brings his special brand of blues to Houston

Christmas Revels

Celebrate the season with music from early America

This Charming Man

The ballad, and ballads, of Billy Joe Shaver

Crazy ´Bout Alan

The ballad, and ballads, of Billy Joe Shaver

One More for Freedom

The ballad, and ballads, of Billy Joe Shaver

Jones Family Singers

9 p.m. Saturday, April 22, at the Continental Club, 3700 Main, 713-529-9899

The Retribution Gospel Choir

Wednesday, September 14, at the Proletariat, 903 Richmond, 713-523-1199.

Hallelujah, I Just Loved Him So

RIP, Brother Ray

Best Brunch

Brennan's

Yolanda Adams

Saturday, July 6

The Ballad of the Singing Shuttle Bus Driver

Ellen Trevathan finds her own brand of salvation driving people to and from the city economy lot at the airport

A Newer, Hipper Gospel

Yolanda Adams gives us gospel with R&B grooves

Gospel According to Matthew

The Good Lord Willing, Songwriter Matthew Levine Plans to Spread the word of Baha'i

Vamplification: Dirty Fuzz, Von Iva and Boris

Screw those pink sparkly Daisy Rock guitars. Chicks can stroke the neck of a Fender Strat right alongside the guys. The best girl rockers also deliver some of the wickedest vocals out there and, as an added bonus, usually look damn sexy doing it. Rocks Off thinks it's high time to give these sirens ... More >>

Complete List of Texas' 2010 Grammy Nominees

​Rocks Off was pretty sure we missed a few Texas (or Texas-connected) artists in Thursday's writeup of the 2010 Grammy nominees, and it turns out we were right. We don't even remember scrolling past some of these categories over at Grammy.com, to be honest, but thanks to the Texas Music Office's C ... More >>

Harlem Gospel Choir

Get up and dance!

Soweto Gospel Choir

Let the spirit move you

The Oak Ridge Boys

Let the spirit move you

Big Freedia

Let the spirit move you

Swimming Upstream

Let the spirit move you

Evening Shadows

Carolyn Wonderland dusts her broom on new album Peace Meal.

Blind Boys of Alabama

Carolyn Wonderland dusts her broom on new album Peace Meal.

Aretha Franklin

Carolyn Wonderland dusts her broom on new album Peace Meal.