Joy Division

Saturday Night: The xx at House of Blues

The xx, Austra House of Blues February 9, 2013 For a band that revels in bringing icy silence to post-punk, it could be relatively easy for The xx to lose all of that so-called "negative space" when playing to a cavernous venue packed to the gills with Houston concertgoers who love to talk. The ve ... More >>

The Best Concerts In Houston This Weekend: Blues Control, Loretta Lynn, The xx, etc.

Blues Control Mango's, February 8 Blues Control's Lea Cho and Russ Waterhouse make a tremendous clatter with keyboards, guitars and synths. The Queens, N.Y., duo started grabbing cool-kid support way before last year's Drag City effort Valley Tangents, which built on their already kaleidoscopic bod ... More >>

The Cavern and the Top 10 Iconic Rock Clubs In History

Last week back in 1957, the most famous rock club in England opened in Liverpool. There was absolutely no rock and roll on the bill that night. The Cavern Club was originally opened to mimic the cellar jazz bars that owner Alan Synter visited in Paris. There was a strict jazz-only policy in place ... More >>

Study: Free Press Summer Fest Brought Houston $14 Million

Rock Arcade: 6 Musicians Featured In Video Games

Recently Green Day have been trying to promote their latest album by infiltrating all forms of mainstream media and somebody in the band must have realized that Angry Birds is a thing so why should it be left out? That is, presumably, how the world came to see Green Day members immortalized as gree ... More >>

Rest Of The Best: Houston's Top 8 Jukeboxes

Along with pickled pig's feet and a steady supply of Slim Jims, a good jukebox is a prime element for any great bar. But, like dinosaurs, jukeboxes are a vanishing breed. Unlike digital jukes, iPods or DJs, jukeboxes require love, care and maintenance, as well as -- among the truly great ones -- som ... More >>

Black Queen Speaks Uses CD Release For Firefighter Relief

​Black Queen Speaks is, on the surface, a band we should detest. Their sound resembles much of what killed rock and roll deader than all the drugs, plane crashes and vomit-clogged airways combined. At first listen, you can just chalk them up as another Buzzworthy act, in the end just one more ... More >>

Gothic Council Debates How To Rule Our New Planet

​After years of searching, scientists have finally discovered a planet that may be able to support human life. Gliese 581d, as it is known is 20 light years from Earth, and though it's just a bit on the cool side for comfortable human habitation, it looks like a pretty good bet that he planet ... More >>

Midnight Movers

San Antonio's Girl in a Coma may stumble onstage, but not on Adventures in Coverland.

To Live Is to Fly

Canada's Cowboy Junkies ­enter their 25th year louder and ­angrier than ever.

Taylor Swift: Goth Icon In The Making

​ As the summer and its hateful amount of sunlight begins to creep towards us like some kind of humid, rat-borne plague, Gothtopia has been a bit hard-pressed to find spooky news to bring Houston. But today we have an emerging Goth icon whose presence MUST be discussed before she blows through tow ... More >>

No Turkeys Allowed

Our annual holiday shopping guide to recent local releases

John Mayer Is Full of Crap

​Something about John Mayer just gets under Rocks Off's skin. We'll admit there was a time he made us believe our body was a wonderland, and yes, we've even wanted to "run through the halls of our high school and scream at the top of our lungs." But no more. The quiet little guitar player we once ... More >>

Aftermath: The Killers at Verizon Wireless Theater

Photos by Torey Mundkowsky Next year this decade will be over, and very few new bands have distinguished themselves either at the turnstiles or the cash register. Even one of the main ones that has, the Killers, chose to hit the theater circuit this winter after releasing its th ... More >>

The Top 10 Reissues of 2008

[Note: This is the first in a series of articles that constitute Village Voice Media's year-end music package. The others - pop, indie-rock, dance mixes, Latin, country, alt-country/Americana, metal, rap/hip-hop and special graphics breaking down the year in charts and 2008's worst lyrics - will be ... More >>

Peeking Inside the Shadowy Crypt of Houston's Goth Community

Music Deaths

The Greil Marcus Rock Death Meter returns

Vinyl Heads

They're turning to needles, looking for purity

“Thunderstruck” on I-45

Re: Explain Your Most Played

Paradise by the Dashboard Light/Houston Music

Racket again ventures downtown in search of musical serendipity

Jet Stream

Chris Cester on Jet's new CD, Shine On

Unholy Getdown

Stevie Wonder, Prince and Martin Sexton combine in the Mighty Orq's tasty blues-rock stew

Moshing in Montrose

It's '80s night at Numbers -- kinda

Screw October

Justin Furstenfeld orders us to hate him. We obey.

Holy Sh--!

The most-hyped hurricane season ever is upon us

Anti-Rock

LCD Soundsystem's brain trust happily loses his edge

Fookin'-A

Kasabian has its sights set on becoming the coolest -- and most stereotypical -- Brit-rock band around

Marrying the Mainstream

White men learned to dance, and the emoting was as thick as the eyeliner on the year's best pop-rock records

Marrying the Mainstream

White men learned to dance, and the emoting was as thick as the eyeliner on the year's best pop-rock records

Classics Rock

Which Greek god is your favorite musician?

They Are Too the Boss of You

They Might Be Giants enjoy life as a two-man industry

Feel This

Enema of the Mental State: Notes from the Battle on Irritable Blink-182 Syndrome

Hang the Airwaves

Danseparc, Substance and Stereo Bar reinvent the steel wheels

Embrace the Darkness

Forget the hype and the backlash -- listening to Permission to Land is the key

NYC Re-Nu-al

The Strokes started it, but now stellastarr* and other artsier bands are washing their own scum off the streets

Wisdom of Solomon

A street preacher helps crack the meaning of the Sleepy Jackson's Lovers

Alphabet Soup

The Colour Clear knows exactly where it should be filed in the record store. But what about in real life?

Strange Days

Alex Proyas's latest should become a cult hit, but it's not the slam-dunk it ought to be

Rotation

Reunion Rigor Mortis

Wry Fidelity