Portishead

Stageside Blogging: Bun B, Black Math and More

Tonight: Maroon 5 and Counting Crows, Little Brother Project, Jack Ingram and Shooter Jennings, Ne Plus Ultra and More

Jennifer Lopez/Vitamin C

J. Lo (Epic)/More (Elektra)

Annual Pazz & Jop Results Released

Congrats, TV on the Radio! This morning our sister paper in Manhattan's Cooper Square, the Village Voice, released the results of its annual Pazz & Jop poll, where hundreds of music writers and editors rank their favorite albums of the past year in what has to be an absolute nightmare for th ... More >>

Shiny Happy People?

Sweden's Cardigans aren't as warm and fuzzy as they let on

Rotation

Sweden's Cardigans aren't as warm and fuzzy as they let on

Rotation

Sweden's Cardigans aren't as warm and fuzzy as they let on

Rotation

Sweden's Cardigans aren't as warm and fuzzy as they let on

Rotation

Sweden's Cardigans aren't as warm and fuzzy as they let on

Past Imperfect

Sweden's Cardigans aren't as warm and fuzzy as they let on

The Faint: Fasciinatiion

Sweden's Cardigans aren't as warm and fuzzy as they let on

The 2008 Houston Press Music Awards Ceremony

UGK for Life

Not on Your Nelly!

Nelly Furtado refused to forget her roots or dress like a tramp. She won a Grammy anyway.

DJ Harry

Collision (Sci Fidelity)

Siouxsie, Mantaray

CD Review

No Sleep for Brooklyn

Indie-rap fireplug El-P returns...bombastically bleak as ever

Sitar Star

Anoushka Shankar may soon be as famous as her dad -- but don't tell her that

Christmas in July

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

Best Jukebox

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

Playbill

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

Days of Future Passed

Sky Captain zooms back to a tomorrow that never was

Medley Fool

DJ Jester mixes and mashes up Willie Nelson, Ice-T, the Carpenters and LL Cool J

Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man

Out of Season (Sanctuary)

He Scores

Ennio Morricone has written great music for good, bad and ugly films

Rotation

Ennio Morricone has written great music for good, bad and ugly films

Rotation

Ennio Morricone has written great music for good, bad and ugly films

Dear Sy~3nc3

Ennio Morricone has written great music for good, bad and ugly films

The Horrors

Ennio Morricone has written great music for good, bad and ugly films

Aftermath: An Analog Synth Lover's Paradise With Roomies!, Weird Weeds, J.D. Emmanuel and Stellar Om Source

Photos by Adam P. NewtonTools of the trade, at rest​ We regularly stand in awe of just how involved Lance Higdon is in the general Houston music scene. His industriousness might not be as well-recognized as that of Robert Ellis or Geoffrey Mueller, but Higdon simply doesn't know how to sit still w ... More >>

So Alive: Rocks Off Goes To Pole-Dancing Class

​The things we at Rocks Off won't do for work. Craig Hlavaty has gone undercover as a guido for a look into the Washington Avenue scene. Chris Gray trolls Craiglist for the most... interesting... entries. And we, as the token Rocks Off lady, are the one who gets to go to the pole-dan ... More >>

5 Songs That Are No Day At The Beach

This past weekend, Craig's Hlist spent a good solid two days at the beach playing in the surf down off Mustang Island just south of Corpus Christi. It was one of those mental-health weekends that if we hadn't have taken, we would have ended up throwing beer bottles against the wall at an old folks' ... More >>

Butterflies

Fierce R&B creature Marsha Ambrosius loses herself on debut Late Nights & Early Mornings...but only a little.

Your Favorite Bands: How To Correctly Pronounce Their Names

​Back in December 1998, when Eminem was just hitting MTV and rap radio, we remember people pronouncing his name as "Eee-mine-im," and not the candy-inflected way it actually was. We even made the mistake during our first viewing of "My Name Is" late at night on the video channel and calling a ... More >>

10 Songs For Pissed-Off Travelers

This spring, Austin honky-tonker and Pasadena native Dale Watson had some dates in Australia and made the mistake of booking a flight from Sydney to Melbourne on Singapore-based budget carrier Tiger Airways. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, not only did the airline charge Watson a $500 exce ... More >>

Mall Mixologists

There's a bar in the Galleria. It is excellent. Is your mind blown?