Nick Cooper

The Best Concerts In Houston This Week: Smashing Pumpkins, Taylor Swift, etc.

Free Radicals Avant Garden, May 13 Free Radicals is both Nick Cooper's revolving-door ensemble that at any given moment could be playing free jazz or Latin funk, and also Cooper's ongoing testimonial to how much he digs being a member of the Houston music community. He has so much experience at thi ... More >>

The Best Concerts In Houston This Week: Free Radicals, Scott Weiland, Elton John, etc.

Free Radicals AvantGarden, March 25 Free Radicals is both Nick Cooper's revolving-door ensemble that at any given moment could be playing free jazz or Latin funk, and also Cooper's ongoing testimonial to how much he digs being a member of the Houston music community. He has so much experience at th ... More >>

The Biggest Houston Bands of 1992

Researching what the Houston music scene was like 20 years ago has been an eye-opening experience, to put it mildly. In that benighted era, the world was very analog. Musicians could design a gig flyer or type up some lyrics on their computers, maybe fiddle around with some primitive MIDI-type softw ... More >>

"Miss Sassy Jazz," Other Locals Lend Library Tunes at Noon

The Houston Public Library would like to give you a little music while you read this month. Friday morning the library announced Tunes at Noon, a new free concert series starting the Tuesday at the main library's Julia Ideson Building (550 McKinney). The first performer, Cassandra Tyson, is an alum ... More >>

Free Radicals Examine Both Sides of The Freedom Fence

Free Radicals are, strangely enough, one of Houston's most stable ensembles. Their music may vary wildly from song to song, from jazz and klezmer to ska and rap, but the band drummer Nick Cooper started in 1996 has had a steady core of members for most of those years. Baritone saxophonist Pete Sulli ... More >>

Free Radicals: "If There's No Money Involved, That's Fine"

Free Radicals have won an amazing nine Houston Press Music Awards for Best Jazz, but jazz really doesn't even begin to cover the 16-year-old Houston group's sound. It's so all over the place that the only category that really fits is the oft-misunderstood "world music," especially on the Radicals' n ... More >>

It's Now Illegal to Feed [More Than Five] Homeless People [at Once] on Public Property

After a protracted debate and opposition from nearly every political and religious group in the city, Houston's City Council passed an ordinance last week that bans serving charitable meals on properties -- public or private -- where the property owner hadn't granted express permission for you to do ... More >>

City of Houston to Vote on Charitable Feeding Ordinance

Every Sunday morning at 8:30 a.m., volunteers for Noah's Kitchen gather at Jenni's Noodle House in the Heights and begin prepping for their day ahead. Since 2010, the charity's mission has been to feed Houston's homeless one meal at a time. In their first year, Noah's Kitchen volunteers fed 5,000 p ... More >>

2011 Music Awards Showcase

Your guide to the bands and venues.

Free Radicals Blend Break-Dancing, Capoeira Into Fitz's Show

​The Free Radicals remain an institution of incredible sound here in H-town, having amassed 13 Houston Press Music Awards in the realms of jazz and funk since their inception in 1996, as well as making a name for themselves as one of the city's most prolific protest bands. So when founder Nick ... More >>

KTRU Meeting Confronts Long Odds Of Blocking Frequency's Sale

Photos by Marc BrubakerFormer KTRU station manager Tag Borland​"Your frequency is gone." It was a statement that certainly didn't make Rice alum and former KTRU Station Manager Tag Borland any friends on Thursday evening. But his pragmatic outlook is probably the most important point of view ... More >>

HPMA: We Have Some Winners: Fat Tony, Cactus Music, Swishahouse, Nick Cooper, Kristine Mills

Chris Gray​ Born Liars injected some scuzzy rawk n' roll to the festivities after we were dressed for not repping the zydeco scene. It's really amazing how fast yet how together the Borns really are live. Equal parts MC5 and The Clash.Here come some more awards, kids....Best Underground Hip-Hop- F ... More >>

After Three Tries, Homeless Advocate Gets His Day In Court -- And Loses

It was the trial of the century! Well, err, maybe not ... but to Nick Cooper it felt like it took that long to finally get the right to fight a traffic ticket in Houston's municipal court.In early May 2007, Cooper was handing out apples to a group of homeless people in an alley near the 2000 block o ... More >>

HPMA Aftermath: L.L. Cooper, Miss Leslie, Scattered Pages, Free Radicals and Hearts of Animals

The Wayback Machine: 15, 10, and five years ago in Houston music

2006 Houston Press Music Awards Supplement

Houston Band Cartography

The launch of our blog brings forth a quixotic attempt toward a local music atlas

Get Soma Kicks

Letters to the Editor

Christmas in July

Six dozen of Houston's finest bands for a mere $7

Free Lunch

Freegans prove there is such a thing as they Dumpster-dive for food for themselves and the homeless

Best CD by Local Musicians

Playbill

Music Awards Survey

A rundown of every act on this year's bill

Songs of Freedom

Can music free your mind from mental slavery? Depends which Free Radical you ask

Hothouse Flowers

Groceries spoil in the heat, while the rest of Houston's music community blossoms

Big John and Little Joe

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

Hot Tunes, Summer in the City

Houston Press Music Awards Showcase 2002

Living in Harmony

Global Groove's Wednesday-night jam puts the hump back in hump day

Free Radicals

Our Lady of Eternal Sunny Delights (Rastaman Work Ethic)

1999 Houston Press Music Award Winners

Letters

Letters

1998 Houston Press Music Awards Winners

1998 Houston Press Music Awards Nominees

Static

Free-for-All

Press Picks

Got On the Bus

Zocalo Theater takes its act on the long and winding road

Sprawling Toward Spunk

Weeping at the Metropolis, hiding in the Abyss