Terry Allen

Alejandro Escovedo: "Getting Older Every Day, But I'm Digging It"

Alejandro Escovedo is one of Texas' most gifted and versatile singer-songwriters, with the soul and background of a punk rocker, the work ethic of a tradesman, and the undying faith in rock and roll of two of his closest contemporaries -- also men of uncommon emotional range and teeth-gritting tenac ... More >>

The Best Concerts In Houston This Weekend

Terry Allen McGonigel's Mucky Duck, January 19 It doesn't take long to notice that country-folk musicians from Lubbock are a little different. Whether it's all that flat surrounding them, the supposed UFO visits, or something else, they always seem a little more metaphysical than their peers. With ... More >>

Terry Allen

The First Alt-Country Record? Flatlanders Rediscover The Odessa Tapes

A lot of stellar music came out of that flat land known as West Texas. Bob Wills, Roy Orbison, Buddy Holly, Waylon Jennings, Terry Allen, Guy Clark, and the Sparkles are just a few artists who found something in the wind, the dust, the heat, the cactus, the mesquite, the sandstorms, the blizzards, t ... More >>

Bobby Keys: iFest Nabs Rolling Stones Sax Maniac

The Rolling StonesBobby Keys takes an Exile on Main Street breather, Nellcote, France, 1971​Born in Lubbock and raised just east in Slaton, Joe Ely's home town, saxophonist Bobby Keys left Lubbock in 1960 looking for kicks. At 14, he was playing with Bob Dylan influence, Bobby Vee, before movi ... More >>

Friday Night: Joe Ely Band At Rockefeller Hall

Photos by Jason Wolter​Joe Ely Band Rockefeller Hall February 11, 2011 Saturday night, almost exactly 24 hours after the Joe Ely Band's triumphant return to Rockefeller's Rockefeller Hall, Aftermath and a friend were chatting on Facebook about Houston's current bumper crop of up-and-coming in ... More >>

Capsule Art Reviews: "35 Years: Anniversary Exhibition," "Dante Marioni: Recent Glass Works," "Libby Black: If Nothing Else Matters," "Richard Misrach: After Katrina," "St. Boniface's Last Days"

Capsule Art Reviews: "35 Years: Anniversary Exhibition," "Harvey Bott: Paradigms in Paint and Wire," "Richard Misrach: After Katrina,"

Capsule Art Reviews: "35 Years: Anniversary Exhibition," "Dante Marioni: Recent Glass Works," "Joe Mancuso: Trace," "Richard Serra: Weight and Level"

Capsule Art Reviews: "35 Years: Anniversary Exhibition," "Kaneem Smith," "Math of the Afterward," "Richard Serra: Weight and Level" and "Houston, can you hear me?"

iFest Aftermath: Joe Ely Band Almost Pulls A Michael Jackson

Photos by Jason WolterMarcia Ball (left) and Joe Ely get their "Fingernails" dirty.​ Terry Allen once told Aftermath that Joe Ely was his favorite performer. Allen related that Ely would come over to his house in Lubbock and sit on his couch and try out new songs. According to Allen, it didn't mat ... More >>

Before the Flood

West Texan Ned Sublette reflects on pre-Katrina New Orleans in a new memoir.

Somewhere Trouble Don't Go

The best Texas albums of 2009...or what we could squeeze in.

A Musical Guide to Post-Secession Texas: "Palo Duro"

View Five States of Texas in a larger map As any proud Texan can tell you, the Lone Star State is entitled constitutionally to split into five states if it so wishes. The scenario has rarely been more in the news than it has relatively recently, when Gov. Rick Perry played to the wingnut gallery in ... More >>

Doug Sahm Tribute Album Due March 24

Vanguard Records (Billy Bob Thornton & the Boxmasters, Kim Richey, the Watson Twins) announced today it will release Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm, a 14-song disc honoring the late musican known as Sir Doug, March 24. Artists include Delbert McClinton, Los Lobos, Alejandro Escovedo, Da ... More >>

Aftermath: Robert Earl Keen at House of Blues; Dash Rip Rock at the Continental Club; Hayes Carll at Warehouse Live

Photos: Hayes Carll/ Craig Hlavaty; Dash Rip Rock, Robert Earl Keen/ Chris Gray On their 1996 self-titled debut LP, Hee Haw-loving Nashville ironists BR5-49 cut a song called "Little Ramona (Gone Hillbilly Nuts)." Anyone who has read either the paper or this site in the past few weeks wi ... More >>

Fred Eaglesmith: Tinderbox

The Wayback Machine: 15, Ten and Five Years Ago in Houston Music

Houston Music Festivals

The last three weeks of this month promise to be hard on your wallet, eardrums and liver

Joe Ely, Ryan Bingham

Thrift Store Cowboys

Lubbock sextet stays true to country, bluegrass and blues

Local Motion

Terry Allen

Mark Germino

Terry Allen

Terry Allen performs Friday, December 29, at McGonigel's Mucky Duck, 2425 Norfolk, 713-528-5999.

Cracker

Thursday, June 15, at the Meridian, 1503 Chartres, 713-225-1717

Joe Ely

Friday, June 9, at McGonigel's Mucky Duck, 2524 Norfolk, 713-528-5999

Terry Allen

The Silent Majority (Terry Allen's Greatest Missed Hits)

Allen's Alien

See the surreal side of the Texas Panhandle in Dugout III: Warboy (and the backyard blues)

Playbill

Terry Allen

Juarez (Sugar Hill Records)

Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez

Tuesday, October 28

Bangkok on Everything

Terry Allen's lost post-Vietnam-era soundtrack re-emerges decades later

Reckless Kelly

Saturday, July 12

Bot Love

Schoolkids go techno

Long Haul

As the rest of Americana crumbles around him, Guy Clark just keeps getting better

Night & Day

November 12 - 18, 1998

Hard Body Tex-Zen

In the Clear

1998 Houston Press Music Awards Winners

Night & Day

June 11 - 17, 1998

Night & Day

May 28 - June 3, 1998

Leaving the Country

Jimmie Dale Gilmore broadens his horizons -- and if he's lucky, his listeners'

Rotation

Squeezebox Serenade

Lounge Act

Thoughts in Motion

Two Lubbock boys examine living on the line in Texas

Pushing the Artistic Borders

Mexico, America and La Frontera find expression in "Poison Amor"

Press Picks

Ely, Allen and BBQ: The next best thing to Lubbock