Subject: Leonard Cohen

• Explain Your Most Played

  May 30, 2007

• Drenched in Blog: Hall of Fame Nominations a Big Cleveland Steamer

  October 1, 2007

• Drenched In Blog: Um… Hallelujah?

  December 13, 2007

• Phil Spector Sentenced To 19 Years In Prison

  Phil Spector, preeminent music producer and architect of the famed "Wall of Sound" made popular by such artists as The Ronettes, The Righteous Brothers and John Lennon, was sentenced to 19 years in a California jail this past Friday for his alleged part in the death of ladyfriend Lana Clarkson in early 2003. It's been a long and strange road to jail for Spector. Since his 2003 arrest for the murder, he has fired numerous high-profile defense attorneys, including former O.J. Simpson defender Ro

  June 2, 2009

• Q&A: Little Steven Van Zandt

  April 14, 2008

• Beck at ACL Fest

  September 28, 2008

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Darrell Scott's Modern Hymns

  October 2, 2008

• Press Picks

  September 1, 1994

• Press Picks

  June 16, 1994

• Kicking the Genre Habit

  April 13, 1995

• Rotation

  August 17, 1995

• Rotation

  April 11, 1996

• Tori's Story

  June 13, 1996

• Rotation

  January 23, 1997

• Rotation

  February 6, 1997

• Rotation

  June 19, 1997

• Static

  February 19, 1998

• Seattle's KEXP Loves Our Hungry Villagers

  Photo by Craig Hlavaty The fruits of Hungry Villagers' labors have seemingly paid off. Today, while perusing the concert industry website livedaily.com, we saw the Houston indie-pop group has today's free download of the day, new track "Tree Full Of Ghosts." Further investigation led us to the music blog for influential Seattle indie station KEXP 90.3 FM championing the band, describing them as a "burst of hope and fresh spring air." Hungry Villagers consists of three Houck brothers - David, J

  April 3, 2009

• Even Burt Reynolds In That Black Trans-Am, All Gonna Meet Down At The Lakewood Yacht Club

  Houston is once again proudly claiming its mantle for all things classy. For it is here -- not in Paris, not in Monaco or Palm Springs -- where Burt Reynold's legendary Bandit will be auctioned off next month.What is the Bandit, you ask, obviously putting down your dog-eared copy of Recherche du Temps Perdu to do so?It is the Trans-Am immortalized -- and one does not use that word lightly -- in the Reynolds epic Smokey and the Bandit.The car will be sold at the Houston Classic Auction May 2, at

  April 7, 2009

• Don't Ever Count Britney Out — Just Like These Others.

  March 26, 2009

• For Sale: the Remains of Burt Reynolds's Career, Plus: An Odd Couple of Entrepreneurs

  Highlights from the Blog at HOUSTONPRESS.COM

  April 16, 2009

• Merchant of Soul

  Spoon's musical tinker Britt Daniel avoids the cringe.

  April 16, 2009

• James McMurtry

  October 2, 2008

• Lee Hazlewood: Stranger in This Land

  The renaissance cowboy cut a wide swath through the West, and inspired a generation of songwriters

  October 25, 2007

• Droning On

  June 8, 2006

• Top DVDs

  Our picks for the week of April 26

  April 26, 2007

• Bill Callahan

  Bill Callahan will perform on Wednesday, April 18, at the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art, 2402 Munger, 713-926-6368.

  April 12, 2007

• Nick Cave

  CD Review

  April 5, 2007

• Our top DVD picks for the week of November 16

  November 16, 2006

• Slamburgers

  The care and feeding of reporters

  September 28, 2006

• The Hanukkah Songs

  Wherein we find the coining of our new favorite word: Jewpergroup

  December 22, 2005

• The Voodoo Chile's Slight Return

  Greg Ashley resurrects the Mirrors for a summer tour; also: beware of Zipperneck

  August 4, 2005

• Girls' Night Out

  Le Tigre and Electrelane bring an evening of transatlantic feminist mayhem to the Engine Room. Don't worry, boys -- you can come too.

  July 28, 2005

• Rotation

  December 2, 2004

• Back in the Saddle

  The Cowboy Junkies ride again

  August 5, 2004

• Quiet Riot Grrl

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

  March 11, 2004

• Letters

  December 4, 2003

• The French Conniption

  Nick Nolte pulls off a twitchy Gallic heist

  April 17, 2003

• Sondre Lerche

  Faces Down (Astralwerks)

  November 14, 2002

• Mouse Bait

  Shrek plunders the Magic Kingdom for empty laughs

  May 17, 2001

• Writer's Blah

  Wonder Boys, an insipid tale about a depressed author, could use a few more exclamation points

  February 24, 2000

• Rotation

  New Releases Reviewed

  October 7, 1999

• Rotation

  March 5, 1998

• The Heavenly Twins

  December 2, 1993

• Don't Forget Record Store Day is Saturday

  Well, it looks like the weather gods are laughing at Houston again, and have decided to ring in iFest with a good round of drenching rain. So if you'd prefer to remain indoors, don't forget Saturday is Record Store Day - there's even a Web site. Be a good consumer and help out your neighborhood music merchant, won't you? Here's what they've got going on: Cactus Music (2110 Portsmouth): The mood at Cactus is positively post-coital these days after it got the stamp of approval from none other

  April 17, 2009

• Got Live If You Want It

  Our Spring/Summer concert preview, part deux

  April 30, 2009

• Aftermath: Rod Stewart at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion

  Craig Hlavaty​Ageism has always pissed off Aftermath immensely. There's something awfully arrogant and defeating about shamming older cats for still wanting to rock out, even if they are edging dangerously close to seventy years of age, as Rod Stewart is. No one begrudges B.B. King or Leonard Cohen for still shilling their songs, each sitting at eighty-three and seventy-four respectively. True it is, that to most people "The Thrill Is Gone" and "Bird on the Wire" hold much more weight than s

  July 27, 2009

• He Said She Said: Breakup Songs to Help You Bawl, Part 2

  Ever since men and women set eyes upon each other at the beginning of time, there have been break-ups, and painful dissolutions of romantic escapades have made the best art in the world. Hell, somewhere in the world there is a probably a cave painting of a pretty young Neanderthal girl with devil horns and a tail drawn on her in disgust. The entire blues genre is based on the fact that men and women generally can't get along. That, and various demonic possessions of said females. Love lost is a

  August 11, 2009

• The Brunettes

  September 10, 2009

• Dancing With the Stars: The Light at the End of the Tunnel

  ​You guys! YOU GUYS! We're closer to the end of Dancing With the Stars than I'd thought! The grid at Futon Critic only had the show running through next week, the 24th. And then, like manna from sequined heaven, Tom Bergeron confirmed at the top of last night's competition ep that next week will indeed be the end of the season. Happy Thanksgiving, indeed. We're down to four: Donny, Kelly, Joanna, and Mya. Let's skip right past the part where we breathlessly look back at the week before an

  November 17, 2009