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    April 23, 2012

    Last Night: Marshall Crenshaw & The Bottle Rockets At The Continental Club

    Marshall Crenshaw, The Bottle Rockets Continental Club April 22, 2012 Sunday's Marshall Crenshaw/Bottle Rockets show again raised the question of whether Houston fans of intelligent, literate rock and roll should be disappointed that our city isn't more interested in this kind of music, or whether ... More >>

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    February 9, 2012

    Happy Birthday Joe Ely: The Lubbock Flash Turns 65

    Courtesy LC Media​I was living in Holland in 1977 when my younger brother, who had attended Wayland Baptist University on a track scholarship until booze and girls were discovered in his dorm room, came for a visit. While living in Plainview, his stomping grounds had been the gin joints of Lub ... More >>

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    October 21, 2011

    Buxton: "Not Everyone Is Going To Love You"

    Photos by Marc BrubakerBuxton at Rudz in August​Lonesome Onry and Mean has been spinning local sensation Buxton's upcoming release Nothing Here Seems Strange for almost two weeks now. And we're sorry, but we still don't get it. Maybe we are old and jaded and out of it, but to us it sounds l ... More >>

  • Music

    April 14, 2011

    Stout and High

    Austin alt-country progenitors the Wagoneers return for the first time in 20 years.

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    March 1, 2011

    Who Was The Best Female Artist Of The '90s?

    The album that started the whole thing.​Rocks Off Sr. was straightening up our office a few days ago, something that happens like clockwork every time Middle Eastern governments start toppling like dominos. In one of the piles and piles of al fresco CDs, we ran across two of our favorite album ... More >>

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    October 25, 2010

    Friday Night: Dawes At Fitzgerald's

    Photos by Neph Basedow​Dawes Fitzgerald's October 22, 2010 Dawes front man Taylor Goldsmith does not have a beard. In fact, no member of the Los Angeles-based quartet sports any scruff. Such a discovery surprised us as the band played Fitzgerald's Friday night, considering the undeniable folk ... More >>

  • Music

    August 5, 2010

    Died and Gone to Houston

    City is ready for another honky-tonk close-up.

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2010

    Aftermath: Keith Urban, Peculiar Superstar And Musician's Musician

    Photos by Dave Rosales​ Keith Urban is a peculiar superstar. Take away the rugged good looks, and you'd still be left with a talented guitarist who, Tuesday night, gave every impression he'd be just as content jamming in the studio as headlining the rodeo before almost 60,000 adoring, possibly hyp ... More >>

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    December 15, 2009

    2009 Concert Rewind, February: Killers Kill, Annuals Amuse, Hammered at Hank III, Spewing Slipknot and More

    Mark C. Austin​ The Killers, Verizon Wireless Theater, February 2: "The general knock on the Killers is that they've achieved their relatively lofty position by standing on the shoulders of giants, which may well be true. But Monday night they showed that in reaching for the stars, they have yet t ... More >>

  • Music

    November 5, 2009

    Dust in the Wind

    Son Volt's latest album is steeped in Midwestern musical history.

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2009

    HPMA Aftermath: MELOVINE, the Snake Charmers, LL Cooper, Peekaboo Theory and Buxton

    Mark C. AustinThe Snake Charmers take a breather after bluesing up Martell's.​ It was hot as hell when the Houston Press music staff met up at the Flying Saucer ordering different shades of exotic beers and several different kinds of cheese. Bands were divided up between writers, and pretty much e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2009

    Lost Tuneage: The Jayhawks

    Who 'Dat?The Jayhawks circa 1992Emerging from "The City of Lakes" in 1985, the Jayhawks showed that Minneapolis could produce a band at the forefront of another genre besides pioneering alt-rock (The Replacements, Hüsker Dü) and funk (the Purple One); namely, the nascent alt-country/"No Depressio ... More >>

  • Music

    April 2, 2009

    Playing Favorites

    Who 'Dat?The Jayhawks circa 1992Emerging from "The City of Lakes" in 1985, the Jayhawks showed that Minneapolis could produce a band at the forefront of another genre besides pioneering alt-rock (The Replacements, Hüsker Dü) and funk (the Purple One); namely, the nascent alt-country/"No Depressio ... More >>

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    April 21, 2008
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    January 31, 2008

    Blue Mountain

    Dead to Rights

  • Music

    January 3, 2008

    Texas Albums

    2007's best Texas albums, from Houston, Austin and beyond

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2007

    Rick Mitchell Pops His ACL Cherry

    2007's best Texas albums, from Houston, Austin and beyond

  • Music

    May 3, 2007

    Son Volt

    Son Volt performs Sunday, May 6, at the Continental Club, 3700 Main, 713-529-9899.

  • Music

    August 11, 2005

    Son Volt

    Okemah and the Melody of Riot

  • Music

    July 21, 2005

    Christmas in July

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

  • Music

    April 14, 2005
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    August 21, 2003

    Ratt Steaks

    Austin's Meat Purveyors beef up their songbook with unlikely grade-A covers

  • Music

    August 29, 2002

    Barnyard Boogie

    Former Houstonian Kev Russell talks about Snoop Dogg and Cow Fish Fowl or Pig

  • Music

    December 16, 1999

    Remembering Doug Sahm

    The Texas Tornado is gone, but not forgotten

  • News

    May 13, 1999

    Letters

    The Texas Tornado is gone, but not forgotten

  • Music

    September 10, 1998

    Sad-Eyed Sibs

    The Texas Tornado is gone, but not forgotten

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    August 7, 1997

    Rotation

    The Texas Tornado is gone, but not forgotten

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    May 1, 1997

    Austin's Fave

    The Texas Tornado is gone, but not forgotten

  • Music

    October 17, 1996

    Unpromised Land

    Jolene strives to make sense of life's punches -- and make a living

  • Music

    August 1, 1996

    Rotation

    Jolene strives to make sense of life's punches -- and make a living

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    September 14, 1995

    Critic's Choice

    All Bottled Up

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    August 24, 1995
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    April 20, 1995

    Heavenly Fire

    Jason and the Scorchers reunite, and get hot in the process

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    March 23, 1995

    Pop Moment

    Jason and the Scorchers reunite, and get hot in the process

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