Subject: Herb Alpert

• Tea at the di Portanovas'

  October 20, 1994

• Same Old Waylon

  June 20, 1996

• Broadcast Power

  April 17, 1997

• Heavy on the Lite

  June 12, 1997

• Rotation

  October 16, 1997

• Baby, It's Him

  January 8, 1998

• Best of Burt

  May 6, 1999

• Racket

  German culture has been a part of Houston for well over a century

  October 11, 2001

• Never Go to a Party in Friendswood

  Where does your town rank in the Houston-area good-taste stakes?

  February 2, 2006

• Nortec Collective

  Tijuana Sessions Vol. 3

  September 1, 2005

• Downtown H-town Throwdown

  Tearing it up at the Music Awards Showcase

  July 28, 2005

• Short Stuff

  Seize your three minutes of fame

  April 17, 2003

• Pop Goes the Bastard

  Unlike the UK, Houston resists the urge to commit plagiarhythm

  May 2, 2002

• Masked Avengers

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

  December 28, 2000

• World Jazz

  Highlights from the Houston International Jazz Festival

  August 3, 2000

• Party On

  Bad breaks haven't slowed Vallejo's funky ascent

  January 27, 2000

• He's Ba-ack

  Burt Bacharach's swanky pop stylings return to hipness

  May 6, 1999

• Aftermath: Cake at Verizon Wireless Theater

  Photos by Craig HlavatyCake has never sounded like anyone else, and no one that came after has ever come close to sounding like the Sacramento band either. It's not like Nirvana or Green Day, with 1,000 copycat bands immediately coming out of the proverbial woodwork to shove out their own shingle. Even if you think all Cake songs sound the same (and most, in fact, do), one must admit that their greatest achievement is being utterly and completely unique. With our recent piece on 94.5 The Buzz an

  April 30, 2009

• Aftermath: Brave Combo at Discovery Green

  Photos by Allen Hill It would be interesting to find out how many weddings have taken place at Discovery Green since it opened last year, but it's hard to imagine that any of them could have been any livelier than Brave Combo's free concert there Thursday evening. In its second season, DG's free concert series seems to be catching on; the khaki and flip-flop crowd, flecked here and there with tousle-headed hipsters and people of color, took up most of the lawn. And whether tykes in diapers, brou

  May 22, 2009