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Support Staff: 10 Of Pop History's Greatest Backing Bands

Being behind the scenes is what most musicians who don't write songs or sing expect of their lives once they start seriously playing. A career backing someone up can be extremely rewarding, particularly if you are part of a transcendent group of musicians that goes from simply backing up an artist i ... More >>

Black Keys Driving Their El Camino To Houston On April 24

Photos By Craig HlavatyThe Black Keys ​The Black Keys, who are currently riding a wave of adulation in the wake of this month's brand new release El Camino, are set to hit Houston on April 24. This Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion date will be the group's second at the venue, the first being an ... More >>

Happy Birthday Paul Shaffer: Here Are Five Reasons Why He is Cool

Back in the 1980's, there was a certain class of musician who considered a slot in the Late Show with David Letterman band as the ultimate gig. Of course, that lineup hasn't changed since 1983, but dare to dream. From the very beginning, there was Paul Shaffer. The quirky Canadian keyboardist and s ... More >>

14 Notable Female Rock Drummers

girlscantwhat.com​Last week, we rounded up a list of our favorite female rock bassists. We'd like to continue the trend of honoring rock's finest females, by next recognizing 14 notable female rock drummers. As usual, we will focus on the live-performing, touring drummers over time, rather tha ... More >>

Survival Skills

Jason Isbell sees a glimmer of hope in his true-to-life melancholy story-songs.

Garland Jeffreys: NYC Rock Hero Still Wild In The Streets

As vapid as television has become, if you're a fan of great live music you might want to check The Late Show With David Letterman Friday night, when Dave welcomes the incomparable Garland Jeffreys. Unless you're a serious music nerd, you've probably never heard of Jeffreys, although you most surel ... More >>

A Very Special Behind The Music: Zack Attack!

Zack Attack keyboardist Samuel "Screech" Powers before his cutting days.​Everyone remembers Zack Attack. A lighthearted, tween-oriented pop group from California, they shot to the top of the charts in November 1990 with their No. 1 hit, "Friends Forever." Teenagers and close friends themselv ... More >>

Oprah Vs. Bob Dylan: A Side-By-Side Showdown

Photo illustration by John Seaborn Gray​In case you've been under a complete self-imposed total media blackout - how do those work, by the way? - you no doubt know this week is a pretty important milestone in the lives of two of America's most important cultural figureheads. Maybe the two most ... More >>

A Musical History Of The Color Green

​It's St. Patrick's Day, and as many of you have discovered, it is the only day out of the year when our normally free and enlightened society requires you to wear a certain color lest sudden and shocking violence be inflicted upon you. Every year on March 17, pinch-related emergency room visi ... More >>

Patrice O'Neal

Women know exactly where they stand with this comedian

FAIL: Jeff Beck, Jonas Brothers, Lilith Fair, ACL Fest

If you're reading this, you're either on the Internet, or else you've mastered multi-dimensional thought-projection processes that would make Michio Kaku cry like a little girl. We'll assume the former, and just in case you don't already know, the Internet has decided that the word "failure" is too ... More >>

Bryan Callen

This former MadTV series regular just wants a few of life's finer things - like a pet monkey and a giant

Jim Gaffigan

We don't want to call him a food comic, but he does talk a lot about eating

Farewell, Conan: Don't Give Yourself Away

Fare thee well, Conando.​About two weeks before I graduated from college, my best friend got out of the poisonous relationship he'd been in for five years. He was ecstatic at the possibilities before him, and those final moments of school held for him a wonder and freedom he didn't even know h ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Give Elizabeth Lambert A Break

​Arguably more obnoxious than the actual on-field behavior of New Mexico soccer player Elizabeth Lambert -- immortalized for her rampage in a match against BYU -- has been the reaction to it.I'm not talking about the infantile sexual commentary accompanying the various clips posted online. They're ... More >>

Found Footage Festival

Discarded home movies get the attention they always wished they’d had

Sorry Dave, We Had To: Top Ten Songs to Listen to While Having Sex With Co-Workers

If The Late Show with David Letterman hasn't seemed very funny lately, it's probably because Dave has been spending more time apologizing for banging his subordinates than he has making fun of Paul Shaffer. Admittedly, it was a bold move: coming forward and confessing his past missteps in order to ... More >>

Hit Hermann

In time for summer, the park's had a facelift.

Embarassing Moments In TV Cooking History: Welcome to the List, Padma

Padma Lakshmi isn't technically a celebrity chef. Yes, she's published two cookbooks and hosted/starred in an array of food-related programming. But she's also known for plenty of other endeavors, chief among them being married to Salman Rushdie and her career as a highly successful Indian model/act ... More >>

The Nickel: A Musical History of the Fifth Ward, Part 2

[Note: Part 1 is here, and the Eating Our Words entry that inspired this series is here.] To tell the story of music in the Fifth Ward with anything like the sweep it deserves, we will have to go way back to the 19th century. On a November day in 1898, Beulah Thomas was born to Fanny Bradley an ... More >>

Mail Call: Heartless Bastards, Riverboat Gamblers, Steve Forbert, Thursday and More

Pick of the Litter Cambria HarkeyHeartless Bastards (Austin/Cincinnati), The Mountain (Fat Possum) PR Says: "The record delivers the swamped-up rock howl that fans have always loved - but also brings in this amazing expansion into their sound with pedal steel, mandolin, banjo and st ... More >>

Jake Johannsen

A Letterman favorite drops into The Improv

Richard Lewis

This comedian isn’t short on subject matter

Louis CK

Nothing is off-limits to this comic -- he pokes fun at his family, gays and white trash

Six Degrees of Charlie Wilson’s War

Bob Biggerstaff and Mike MacRae

These two top comedians share the stage

Fly Like an Eagle

Jesse Hughes proves too sexy for his band, too sexy for his band

Knitting Factory

Artist Tina Kotrla spins a yarn at Gallery 1724

A Glimpse of Stocking

Old-fashioned shocks abound in Fallen Angels

I Got You, Babe

Stan Killian puts his money where his mouth is

Pekar Head

A real comic book hero comes to life in American Splendor

Reconsider Him

At the end, Warren Zevon's past is finally unearthed

Cold Relief

Radio wild card Coldplay struts in from the UK with plenty of attitude

Fear Factor

But just think, no one hates TV more than Trent Lott

Change of Beat

Just like the rest of Houston, the local music scene saw plenty of ups and downs

Bayou Dreams

The Chronicle dares to dream -- again

Sacré Bleu Bayou!

France takes center stage at the Houston International Festival

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

A venomous troll and a poofy rhino fight for children's affection in Death to Smoochy

Quoth the Chron

The Chronicle runs out another inept marketing campaign

Blow Up the Box

TV managed to suck and blow in 2000, but still, we watched...and watched

Hot Wheels

Or: How Tony Hawk turned skateboarding into a multimillion-dollar international obsession

Union Joan

England's Joan Armatrading comes to town with her fanciful folk music

Dawn of the Dead

Sci Fi's brilliant good vs. evil is a corpse in search of a burial

What the Doctor Ordered

Rotation

New Releases Reviewed

Living Doll

Mary Chapin Carpenter's new tour will rekindle old flames

Last Man Standing

Kim Wilson is the sole T-Bird on the band's best release in years. But is anyone listening?

No Escape

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