Steve Miller

The Houston 100: From Charles Brown to Sippie Wallace

Another Time, Another Country

World of Film

Smaller, and with shorts, WorldFest/Houston cranks up its projectors

Beat the Heat!

1996 Summer Guide

Weird Without Choice

Eccentricity is an inescapable reality for Thinking Fellers

Static

Eccentricity is an inescapable reality for Thinking Fellers

Man Over Machine

Stabbing Westward masters the art of human noise

Classic Touch

Stabbing Westward masters the art of human noise

Rotation

Stabbing Westward masters the art of human noise

Big Talker

From the Geto Boys to his new nationally syndicated radio show, Willie D has kept his mouth moving. But where his rap was once down and dirty, not it's--gasp!--respectable. Has the gangsta of love sold out, or just grown up?

A Last Bite of '97

From the Geto Boys to his new nationally syndicated radio show, Willie D has kept his mouth moving. But where his rap was once down and dirty, not it's--gasp!--respectable. Has the gangsta of love sold out, or just grown up?

Mind's Ear

Jimmie Vaughan is two albums into a solo career he didn't necessarily want

Rotation

Jimmie Vaughan is two albums into a solo career he didn't necessarily want

Various Artists: Disco Not Disco: Post Punk, Electro & Leftfield Disco Classics 1974-1986

Jimmie Vaughan is two albums into a solo career he didn't necessarily want

Seal

Jimmie Vaughan is two albums into a solo career he didn't necessarily want

Houston Radio Still Sucks

David Sadof shares his dream station with Racket

Rogue Waves

A new report cuts through the static on the radio industry

Mama Mia

Our blushing Nightfly takes his Catholic mom to see R. Kelly

The O.G. of Love

Johnny "Guitar" Watson gets his due with a terrific two disc set

Keeping Score

How many Metro crashes? Depends who's counting.

Playbill

How many Metro crashes? Depends who's counting.

Todymania!

Houston's scene sees the release of its second great pop-rock CD in six months; also: March Music Madness hits town on the touring front

Insanely Guilty

A mother sets out to save her children, by killing them. Texas usually jails such women, but that may be changing.

A Thin Line...

Introducing the most hated men in rock (besides Sting)

The Dirty Thirty

The worst songs of all time from Texas

The Great Gatekeeper

Wasi Townsend hopes to open the door to your heart with his new band, Snowshoe 'n' Lewis

Fallon Fast

Saturday Night Live's prime player is rapidly outgrowing television's small screen

Playbill

John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers

I Hate Hamlet

Drew wasn't the first Barrymore, you know

Inquiring Minds: Batting Practice With George Thorogood, Bad As He Ever Was

​ George Thorogood is a funny, talkative fellow. In this week's print edition, he told us how the Rolling Stones turned him onto the blues, how playing in a strip club helped his band the Delaware Destroyers "claw our way to the middle" and his amusement at how often the familiar riff from 198 ... More >>

Last Night: Jack Johnson At The Woodlands

Photos by Liana Lopez​Jack Johnson Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion August 18, 2010 Check out a slideshow from last night's concert. The dirty secret about Jack Johnson is that he may be the closest thing this generation has to the iconic singer-songwriters our parents grew up with in the lat ... More >>

Vanilla Ice And 11 Other Artists Dallas Can Keep

​Tomorrow night at 2016 Mainstage, Houston gets to relive its (our?) dark white-rap past when Dallas native Vanilla Ice hits the stage at the venue formerly known Sammy's On Main. Yes, that Vanilla Ice, from our haughty neighbors to the north who can do no wrong in the eyes of Texas Monthly. ... More >>

Texas Watchdog Unearths More KTRU Sale Documents

Brittanie Shey​We're all still waiting to see if the Federal Communications Commission will approve the proposed sale of Rice University's student-staffed station KTRU to the University of Houston, which (among other things) would more or less be the death knell for local music on Houston's ai ... More >>

Idol Beat: Mona Lisas And Mad Haleys

​Hans Gruber: You are most troublesome, for a security guard. John McClane: Eeeh! Sorry Hans, wrong guess. Would you like to go for Double Jeopardy where the scores can really change? It's double jeopardy of a sort for the remaining 11 Idol hopefuls, because thanks to the judges' save of Cas ... More >>

Weezer: The Good, The Bad & The Downright Ugly

​This Sunday night, Weezer headlines Free Press Summer Fest III, and the influential pop-rockers have been a part of indie lore for the past 17 years. With 1994's self-titled "Blue Album" and 1996's Pinkerton, the band created a cult following whom they would promptly weird the fuck out with s ... More >>

Boz Scaggs & Michael McDonald: Smoothest Of The Smooth

Boz Scaggs photo by Joyce Goldstein​For fans of '70s classic rock, it was the equivalent of three comic book heroes coming together in one Super Smooth Team when Boz Scaggs, ex-Doobie Brother Michael McDonald, and Steely Dan's Donald Fagen announced last year that they would do a short tour as ... More >>

The 15 Best Bill Graham Presents Posters And Artwork

Photo By Tony MorelliBill Graham in 1974​Twenty years ago this week, legendary concert promoter Bill Graham went to the big backstage party in the sky after the helicopter he was riding in flew into a high-voltage tower in Vallejo, Calif. Also killed in the crash was Graham's girlfriend, Melis ... More >>

No Surprises: Rock Hall Set To Induct Guns N' Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beastie Boys

Photo By Marco TorresGuns N' Roses are Rock Hall bound, but which version of GNR will show up? ​This morning (well, it leaked last night) the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in Cleveland announced their 2012 class of inductees. Included on the list are Guns N' Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beastie Bo ... More >>

Ten Musicians Who Played Other People on TV

Sebastian Bach on Gilmore Girls​Fictional television shows are full of gimmickry. Some of it is good and some of falls flat. Others are subtle in-jokes. However, it can be interesting when a popular artist appears on a television show because it gives the audience a glimpse into another side o ... More >>