R.L. Burnside

The Best Concerts In Houston This Weekend

North Mississippi Allstars Last Concert Cafe, February 1 Sons of the late Jim Dickinson, the legendary Memphis producer and sometime Rolling Stones sideman, Luther and Cody Dickinson grew up on punk but couldn't help absorbing the abundant rootsy sounds around them. Logically, their band North Miss ... More >>

Top 5 Mullet-Rock Bands You Might Not Expect

Last Sunday, HBO aired the Season 3 finale of Eastbound & Down, the series about down-on-his-luck minor-league relief pitcher and morally bankrupt human being Kenny Powers. Besides a certain unvarnished wisdom ("death is for pussies") and a peculiar way with the ladies, Powers has one of the most sp ... More >>

A God-Fearing Boogie Man

Reverend K.M. Williams says the blues aren't the devil's music.

Dirty Shirts

The '90s' sweatiest band, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, cleans out the vaults and gets back on the road.

Hit the Road, Jack: 10 More Notable Musical Deaths From the Past Decade

​ Looking back, this past decade wasn't too kind to rock and roll as a whole. We lost plenty of people who weren't exactly disgustingly huge as Michael Jackson or as monolithic as Johnny Cash. This decade took its share of people who were massively influential and iconic, but not on the grand worl ... More >>

Five Hour Energy

The 2009 Houston Press Music Awards Showcase in 300 minutes or less.

HPMA Aftermath: Ozeal & the Eulypians, Nosaprise, Benjamin Wesley, Tha Fucking Transmissions, Kristine Mills, Peekaboo Theory, Versecity and Spain Colored Orange

Chris Gray​Five hours is not a long time. It is if you're driving from Houston to Texarkana or Uvalde, maybe. But when hopscotching all over downtown trying to take in as much of the Houston Press Music Awards showcase as you can until your feet and your ears cry uncle, those 300 minutes go by in ... More >>

Hill Country Hoodoo

No record deal, no recordings — no problem for the South Memphis String Band.

Album of the Week: Bruce Springsteen's Working on a Dream

Bruce Springsteen is one prolific motherfucker. After all, he's produced one entire 4 CD box set (Tracks) of songs that he thought weren't good enough to be included on a regular album, and much of it still blew away anything in comparison. In that vein, we have Working on a Dream, coming littl ... More >>

Tonight: Cedric Burnside & Lightnin' Malcolm at House of Blues

Colin McAuliffe When you first hear the first few songs on Lighnin' Malcolm & Cedric Burnside's 2 Man Wrecking Crew, you just can't believe it's just two guys playing live in the studio. But working with legendary producer David Z (Jonny Lang, Etta James, Prince), Malcolm and Burnsid ... More >>

Cedric Burnside & Lightnin' Malcolm

Tonight: Heartless Bastards at Last Concert Cafe

Juke Joint Duo Cedric Burnside and Lightnin' Malcolm

Living Blues

Juneteenth Revisited

Two arts organizations attempt a new spin on an old event

Dax Riggs

Boogie Chillun

Blue Mountain

Lucinda Williams

West Lost Highway

Magic iPod

Everlasting Sounds

Ten of the year's most timeless records

Mr. Renfrow Risin'

A fresh coffeehouse and some familiar radio voices shine new light on the Houston scene

Burnside Exploration

The Record

Stairway to Heaven

Gauging 2005's rock deaths with the Greil Marcus Death Meter

Breakdown Lane

Chevy's unlikely new pitchman

Playin' Possum

An elderly gang of seedy Mississippi bluesmen anchors Fat Possum Records and the label's documentary

Rust Belt Blues

The Black Keys bounce their Rubber Factory out of Akron, Ohio

Letters

The Real Deal

Who is the more "authentic" bluesman -- Bobby Bland or T-Model Ford?

Midtown Honky-tonkin'

Trains and the vintage sounds of the Swank Countrypolitans bring a time warp to the Continental Club

Roll Over, Eric Clapton. And Tell Stevie Ray the News.

The blues is back -- rawer and louder (and punker) than ever

The Black Keys

thickfreakness (Fat Possum)

Endless Boogie

Former Squirrel Nut Zipper Jimbo Mathus gets back to basics

Little Joe Washington

Every Wednesday

The Boob Scotch Tour

Staying abreast of modern trends in blues with Bob Log III

Pine Bluffing

Texan Joe Cripps is finally coaxing a new record out of Delta blues legend CeDell Davis

The Gift Of Music

2001’s top ten picks

Blues Power

Now matter how slickly you package him, R.L. Burnside still exudes raw intensity

Local Rotation

Harlem Slim: Delta Thug

Blues Brothers

When not exploding with Jon Spencer, Judah Bauer testifies with kin as 20 Miles

Oxford Punks

Out of Mississippi comes the rowdy Neckbones

Black Blues, White Label

Rotation

Digging the Delta

Rotation