Simple Plan

Full Collapse: The Best Pop-Punk & Emo Albums Of 2002

​Monday, Taking Back Sunday will be at House of Blues with Thursday, making that evening an orgasm of 2002 nostalgia for a few hundred older indie folks here in Houston who were weaned on TBS' Tell All Your Friends and Thursday's Full Collapse. We were a part of the latter group, but we got in ... More >>

Saturday: Vans Warped Tour At Sam Houston Race Park

Photos by Matthew KeeverSimple Plan​Vans Warped Tour The Showgrounds at Sam Houston Race Park June 25, 2011 As we made our way into the barren, asphalt-covered desert that was Warped Tour 2011, Aftermath was stopped by a young woman standing just outside the gates. "If I give you my number, ... More >>

Out Today: Bon Iver's Bandwagon Bait, Weird Al Goes Gaga

Greetings From Bon Iver Land! Now, grab a rifle. It's almost dinner time.​In the next few weeks, you may be reading about the new Robert Ellis album, Photographs, so we are just giving you fair warning. It's a stunner through and through, and goes nicely with early morning traffic. Have you ev ... More >>

Danny Elfman's Ten Greatest Soundtracks

​Last Tuesday, Warner Bros. music released a 25th anniversary box set commemorating the orchestral soundtrack work Danny Elfman has done for Tim Burton. Elfman, the former front man for the wonderfully weird art-pop band Oingo Boingo, was first recruited by Burton to score his film Pee Wee's B ... More >>

Island Of Misfit Christmas Albums: Teen Pop Meltdown

​It happens like this: You are in charge of a major teen-pop act who can sell anything with their face or voice on it, be it training bras, shaving cream, or caskets. You have a week off in the summer from touring. Do you let the talent go home and sleep in their own beds or do you shove the ... More >>

Theme Songs for the Most Annoying Characters In the Star Wars Universe, Including Whiny Emo Bitch Anakin Skywalker

www.flickr.com/photos/fuzzcat/And you thought your office was annoying.​ Jar Jar Binks, Pratfalling Mongoloid Looking like some kind of unholy cross-breed between a frog and a duck, Jar Jar was the earliest indication that The Phantom Menace was not going to be up to snuff. The Gungan's antics wer ... More >>

Heaven Can Wait

Hell is much more fun. Sam Raimi is back with Drag Me to Hell.

Letters to the Editor

Cold Cuts: Bun B vs. Byron Crawford

Our new recurring feature raids the deli tray of H-town-related rap beefs

That '70s Band

Want big, sweeping songs? Take a visit to Spain

Rockin' Renewal

The imminent launch of new venue Warehouse Live makes it official: Downtown is now Houston's live music hot spot

Fountain of Youth

The kids in Shulton's Youth have talent, ambition and a record deal. But is that enough?

Hot Shows

Summertime concerts that will leave you sweating

Playbill

Sister, Sister

If you're young and female, New York Minute is your movie

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

The Lord's Work?

Bill Paxton's Frailty is too twisted for its own good

Wonderfully Wicked

A Simple Plan spins gold from stark greed

Eight for '98

Very Bad It Is

Berg's sour script kills off suspense as well as a stripper