Jay Farrar

Son Volt's Travel Guide to Five Bizarre Tour Stops

Son Volt is heading down the highway with a new album in tow, Honky Tonk, but instead of lamenting still waters and beatnik poets, Jay Farrar and company have gone strictly Bakersfield, even naming a track after the legendary country-music mecca. Yep, Farrar has gone back to his roots mixing steel ... More >>

The Best Shows In Houston This Week: Rihanna, Suzanna Choffel, Wavves, etc.

Rihanna Toyota Center, April 15 Rihanna has combined her athletic stature, formidable vocals, down-for-whatever attitude and some alarming life choices to become a flashpoint pop star, a lightning rod for controversy that even Lady Gaga would have trouble rivaling these days. Musically, the Barbado ... More >>

Surely Galveston Can Do Better Than "Galveston"

Notwithstanding the recent Galveston-based Carnival cruise liner whose faulty engines landed its passengers in a world of hurt (and national headlines), the island is again throwing its arms open for the upcoming summer season. Last week the Galveston Island Convention & Visitors Bureau announced th ... More >>

Live with Me

The best Houston concerts of 2009: U2, George Strait, Kid Cudi, Jandek, Peaches and even T-Pain.

American Central Dust: The Americana Class of 2009, Part 1

​We spent 2009 sorting through piles of folk and Americana releases, revising this list in our heads till the bitter end and failing repeatedly to understand the hype behind the Avett Brothers in the process. While a year of listening brought no shortage of pleasant surprises, our hands-down favor ... More >>

We've Been Had: The Enduring Wisdom of Uncle Tupelo's Anodyne

Anodyne: Noun. Anything that relieves distress or pain. (dictionary.com)​When Son Volt goes onstage tonight at the Continental Club (we've heard around 11 p.m.), there's an outside chance the band might pull out Doug Sahm's "Give Back the Key to My Heart" - we are in Texas, after all. Otherwise do ... More >>

Dust in the Wind

Son Volt's latest album is steeped in Midwestern musical history.

Aftermath: Son Volt at the Continental Club

Photos by Jay Lee"Now and then it keeps you runnin', never seems to die..." The opening line to Son Volt's soothing elegy "Windfall," which closed out Tuesday's main set at the Continental Club - just like almost every other SV set since the band's 1995 debut Trace - goes a long way to explain ... More >>

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2007 Music Year in Review

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Son Volt performs Sunday, May 6, at the Continental Club, 3700 Main, 713-529-9899.

Partners in Rime

People Under the Stairs fix the leak

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Okemah and the Melody of Riot

The Litmus Band

Is Wilco still trying to break your heart, or has it done so already?

Cry Uncle

For Uncle Tupelo fans, there's No Depression in reissue heaven

Letters

Sympathy for the Angel

Wilco's Jeff Tweedy and the scourge of great art

More Blues Than You Can Use

Rotation

Spit and Polish

Rotation

Keen Life

Still Flying

Roger McGuinn is happy to look at the past, but he's not ready to live in it

A Whole Lot Country

And quite a bit rock and roll add up to No Depression music

Rotation

Rotation

Critic's Choice

All Bottled Up

The Country of Rock and Roll

From the ashes of Uncle Tupelo springs Wilco, genreless and great

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