Joni Mitchell

The Rocks Off 100: Jack Saunders, Dealer of Grit & Jangle

Welcome to the Rocks Off 100, our portrait gallery of the most compelling profiles and personalities in the far-flung Houston music community -- a lot more than just musicians, but of course they're in there too. See the entire Rocks Off 100 at this link. Who? Jack Saunders is one of Houston's most ... More >>

Charles Mingus: A Beginner's Guide to the Late Jazz Great

True story: once, we were entertaining some people at home and my rat terrier, Mingus, got loose and began mingling with the guests. Because he's an insufferable attention-seeker and since people are nice and tend not to be threatened by terriers, a woman petted him and asked what his name was. I t ... More >>

The New Crusaders

TSU restarts its jazz program, tapping into the talents of the fabled Joe Sample and kids looking for a place to play.

Shemekia Copeland: Never Count Out the Blues

She's never lived here, but Shemekia Copeland is Houston blues royalty all the same. Her late father Johnny Clyde Copeland was one of the guitar princes of the Third Ward scene from the '50s to the mid-'70s, lighting up clubs like Shady's Playhouse alongside Albert Collins, Joe "Guitar" Hughes, John ... More >>

Upcoming: Glen Campbell, Toadies, Norah Jones, Crystal Method, Etc.

13 Black Coffins, Ese, Zipperneck, The Failed Attempt: Fri., June 1, 7 p.m., $10. Mango's, 403 Westheimer Road, Houston. 23 Shades, The Solidier Thread: Fri., June 1, 8 p.m., $10/$12. The Bronze Peacock Room @ House Of Blues, 1204 Caroline, Houston. Aesop Rock: Fri., Aug. 10, 8 p.m., $18/$22. Fitz ... More >>

RIP Levon Helm: The Band Drummer And Americana Icon Dies At 71

Levon Helm doing what he loved in Woodstock, N.Y., in 2004Levon Helm, the Arkansas-born icon of Americana music, passed away Thursday afternoon after a long battle with throat cancer, his family said on Helm's Web site. "He has loved nothing more than to play, to fill up the room with music, lay do ... More >>

Vive La France: 14 French Lessons From English Pop Songs

Shutterstock/faqs.org​Happy Bastille Day, everybody. Today France celebrates the day in 1789 when an angry mob stormed the eponymous (our new favorite word) prison in central Paris, freed all seven prisoners - they were really after the guns and ammunition, Clash-style - and touched off the Fr ... More >>

Soul City: The Amazing Jazz Crusaders

Black History Month is always a great time to recall some of Houston's greatest musical innovators and leaders. Rocks Off will highlight some of them during the remainder of February. "Hey, let's get back to that down-and-dirty old-school chicken-shack sound" mosaicrecords.com​While Houston ... More >>

Lost Tuneage: Nazareth

Who Dat? Formed at the end of 1968 out of the ashes of a group called the Shadettes, Nazareth - taking its name from the first line of the Band's "The Weight" - included Dan McCafferty (vocals), Manny Charlton (guitar), Pete Agnew (bass) and Darrell Sweet (drums). As the group was from provincial D ... More >>

Classic Rock Corner: Graham Nash Interviewed

Joel BernsteinThere isn't much mystery to Graham Nash. Not that that's a bad thing at all. In fact, if you want to know how the British expat with the distinctive tenor vocals feels about anything - political and social issues, fellow musicians, his wife and children even religion - it's all ... More >>

Tonight: Broken Social Scene at Numbers

Poster by Mr. CastilloSince 1999, Canadian indie rockers Broken Social Scene have made consistently brilliant and always original experimental baroque-pop music, enlisting the help of a myriad of artists along the way: Metric's Emily Haines, Leslie "1,2,3,4" Feist, Jason Collett, Am ... More >>

L.A.'s Dengue Fever Unites Cambodian Pop and American Rock

Both Sides Now

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Q&A with Daniel Barrett

Not Like Monk

Chris Botti on selling -- and not selling -- jazz

Karachi Rock

Haven't heard of Junoon? They've sold 20 million albums, and they're at the Meridian this week.

Messed Around

As Ray Charles, Jamie Foxx turns an ordinary bio into an extraordinary one

Classics Rock

Which Greek god is your favorite musician?

Quiet Riot Grrl

Thea Gilmore plots a folk-rock revolution on the cheap with great songs and $60 videos

Big Wet Kiss

Richard Curtis is in Love with love, so what's new?

Thea Gilmore

Avalanche (Compass Records)

Toni Sicola

In the Sun (White Cat Productions)

Reverse Fairy Tale

From Beverly Hills to Omaha with Rilo Kiley's Jenny Lewis

Do Look Back

The Band dances The Last Waltz, but can time heal old wounds?

Eyes Half Open

Cameron Crowe takes Jerry Maguire on a dizzy trip through dreamland

The Naked Truth

Lucinda lays bare her Essence

Ransom Notes

Can one man convince millions of people to pay for their "free" music?

Betty Buckley

Mrs. Jefferson shares some memories

People Try to Put Us Down...

Almost Famous talks about its g-g-generation -- of misguided rock and roll fans

Righteous Babe

Ani DiFranco, poetess, goddess, funky folker, comes to town

The World Made Visible

Amy Blakemore pays attention. It's high time she got some.

Jazz Alchemists

Acoustic Alchemy was soft jazz before soft jazz was soft?

Jazz for the Masses

Herbie Hancock Times Six

Rotation

Tutoned and Ready

1998 Houston Press Music Awards Nominees

Press Picks

Static

Rotation

Jazzed

After years of groundbreaking music, Pat Metheny is looking for more barriers to shatter

Is the Mac Truly Back?

Rumours of Fleetwood Mac's demise are exaggerated -- for the time being

Rotation

Rotation

Mining the Mainstream

Stir is out to whip Hootieat their own game

Let It Rock

The Nields turn up the volume on their folk-tinged sound

Sound Check

Rock and Roll Royalty

Gina Haley carries the name of a rock founder, but she'd rather make it on her own

The Preacher Returns

Pure Heart, Pure Voice

Iris DeMent keeps it simple

Nut Case

Sanity goes on trial in Nuts at Actors Theatre