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Grammy Snubbed: Should We Really Feel Bad for Justin Bieber and Grizzly Bear?

You may have heard that the Grammy nominations were released this past week. It has some great choices from the committee, surprisingly enough. You've got nominations for extremely deserving artists such as Fiona Apple, Frank Ocean, Bjork, and Tom Waits. Even the Album of the Year award is a competi ... More >>

10 Surprising Things About This Year's Grammy Nominations

This year music has been dominated by viral pop like "Call Me Maybe" and "Gangnam Style," songs that initially became "hits" from outside the music business' traditional delivery system, usually YouTube. Thursday, the Grammys recognized that by nominating "Maybe," by 17-year-old Justin Bieber proteg ... More >>

CMA Nominations Don't Forget Texans Miranda Lambert, Eli Young Band

Nothing says country music like Times Square. Or is that the other way around? Regardless, the 2012 nominees for the Country Music Association were announced by stars (and nominees) Luke Bryan and Jason Aldean earlier this morning. It helps that Times Square is the home of Good Morning America's st ... More >>

Americana Music Association Nominates Robert Ellis As Emerging Artist Of The Year

Houston's own globe-trekking Robert Ellis received an Emerging Artist of the Year nomination from the Americana Music Association Thursday afternoon. The ceremony was officiated by actor and musician John C. Reilly, and featured performances by Ellis and a few other big names like Lucinda Williams a ... More >>

Who The Eff Is The Ron River?: A Journey Into The Heart Of The Two Americas Of Bon Iver

"Who the fuck is Bon Iver" went the story last night on Twitter as indie musician and soft-spoken beardo Justin Vernon's Bon Iver project won a Best New Artist Grammy. Never mind that the man has been on the scene since 2008's For Emma, Forever Ago, but it still seemed to be deserved. Last year's se ... More >>

Texans Have Down Year In Grammy Nominations

​Texas artists, or artists with Texas roots, scored fewer nominations than usual when the Recording Academy announced its choices for the 53rd annual Grammy Awards Wednesday night. Perpetual nominees Beyonce and George Strait were nominated for residual tracks from I Am... Sasha Fierce and Twa ... More >>

Alex Cuba

Lonesome Onry and Mean: Vince Gill Confirms for Conroe's Crighton Theater

Lise Liddell​ Lonesome Onry and Mean has been holding his breath for a few days, keeping a secret. We've been waiting on one last signature on the contracts before announcing one of the biggest shows ever at Conroe's Sounds of Texas music series. But Wednesday night we got an email from Mark Germi ... More >>

Kristine Mills

Inquiring Minds: AC Pianist Jim Brickman, More Than Just "Jingle Bells"

​Rocks Off spoke with songwriter/pianist Jim Brickman recently. True, the AC piano king isn't the type of musician we usually focus on, but talent is talent and oh, yeah, a Grammy Award nomination for Best New Age Album for his CD Faith doesn't hurt.   Rocks Off: First, congratulations o ... More >>

Beyonce Leads 2010 Grammy Field With 10 Nominations

Beyonce leads all nominees for the 52nd annual Grammy Awards, reaping the benefits of her smash double album I Am... Sasha Fierce and her prominent role on the soundtrack to last year's Chess Records docudrama Cadillac Records, in which she appeared as an R&B diva from an earlier age, Etta Jame ... More >>

For Your Entertainment? Nice Try, Adam Lambert, But These Music-Awards Moments Were Even Creepier

​The best news that Jennifer Lopez could possibly have heard this morning was that America is still more interested in clucking about public displays of gayness than in pointing and laughing when a diva falls on her ass. We imagine there's already one of those jumbo-sized Harry & David fruit b ... More >>

Lonesome Onry and Mean: Dear Local Musicians, Grammy Consideration Is Not the Same Thing As Grammy Nominations

Ah, here we go again with local artists trumpeting "Grammy nominations." The latest is Atascocita-grown country singer Susan Hickman, who seems to fancy herself as a Miranda Lambert/Martina McBride type. We stumbled across Hickman accidentally through MySpace's "Status Updates," and our eye was imm ... More >>

Defending the Polka

Bill Cosby and the Houston Symphony

Don’t expect Dr. Huxtable – today it’s all about his storytelling stand-up

Estelle

Moments the Grammy Awards Would Rather Forget

Soy Bombed

Texans Score 30 Grammy Nominations

Allison Krauss, Robert Plant and T-Bone Burnett (far right) Texas artists landed 30 nominations in 20 categories when the contenders for the 51st annual Grammy Awards were announced today, including all five nominees for Best Tejano Album and four of the five Best Norteno Album contenders. All of ... More >>

Houston Goes International with the Latin Grammys

Local Visual Artist Snags Latin Grammy Title

Patti LaBelle

She has a once-in-a-generation voice and she's coming to Houston - again

Megafest 2008

Marc Anthony, Enrique Iglesias and Alejandro Fernandez lead an all-star blow-out

Itzhak Perlman

The award-winning violinist performs works by Bach, Strauss and Schumann

Manuel Barrueco and Cuarteto Latinoamericano

American composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s Inca Dances gets its Houston premiere

Bone Thugs-n-Harmony

‘90s hip-hoppers return to tha stage

Chris Brown

The fleet-footed teen idol's latest

Diane Schuur

A jazz diva swings with the University of Houston Jazz Orchestra

This Just In: Hard Rock Hosting Melissa Etheridge Listening Party

Miss Pop Rocks: Britney Spears VMA Redux

Gian Marco

Peruvian singer makes Houston stop

Jim Dale Reading

The voice of Harry Potter stops off in Houston

That's a Lot of Levi's

Country Music Awards

Critic's Dictionary

The A's

Texas Nominees for the Blues Music Awards

Larry Harlow and Noche Caliente

Concert preview

Chamillionaire? Aight, BET!

Bonnie Raitt

Bonnie Raitt appears Saturday, October 7, at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, 2005 Lake Robbins Dr., The Woodlands. Call 281-363-3300 for more info.

Ozomatli

Ozomatli appears Friday, October 6, at Warehouse Live, 813 St. Emanuel Street. Call 713-225-5483 for more info.

Pat Green

Cannonball

The Orange Show

Spain Colored Orange takes home four Press Music Awards

Marc Anthony, Marco Antonio Solis and Laura Pausini

Sunday, July 23, at the Toyota Center, 1510 Polk, 866-466-8849

Last Night at the Alamo

A Grammy party at a local theater turns into quiz night down at the local pub

Grammy Shammy

Sugar Bayou's bad review spotlights a shady Houston trend

Big John and Little Joe

Space City's tallest and shortest musicians rule the 2002 Houston Press Music Awards

Alicia Keys

Tuesday, February 19

Natalie MacMaster

Wednesday, January 30

1998 Houston Press Music Awards Nominees

Come to Her Window

From the closet to the charts, Melissa Etheridge is out and rising

Blues Kudos & Burb Buzz

Handy Houston bluespeople, and the next great wave from -- Katy