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Pete Best

Pete Best performs Friday, June 29, at Dan Electro's Guitar Bar, 1031 E. 24th St., 713-862-8707. Kozmic Pearl opens.

By Andrew Marcus
Jun 28, 2007

When I picked up The Pete Best Band's Live at the Adelphi, the hipster at the cash register smirked behind his foggy glasses. Having once been a record clerk myself, I knew what the clerk was thinking: "This sad sack must be one of those Beatlesheads, actually buying a record...
Unknown Legend

Roots renegade Joe Ely never achieved pop stardom, but that's all right by him...sorta

By Andrew Marcus
Jan 25, 2007

Joe Ely was born along the Rock Island line in Amarillo, Texas, three blocks from Route 66. At age six, he witnessed Jerry Lee Lewis pounding a piano on the back of a flatbed truck; at 12, his family moved two hours south to Lubbock, the hometown of Buddy Holly...
Steve Forbert

Thursday, August 24, at McGonigel's Mucky Duck, 2425 Norfolk, 713-528-5999

By Andrew Marcus
Aug 24, 2006

Like Popeye and Jonathan Richman, Steve Forbert is what he is. In 28 years of playing sun-dappled heartland rock with the occasional sidelong glance of cynicism, he's only gotten to sound more like his own earnest self. But then, you don't expect a lot of shape-shifting from a Mississippi kid...
New York Dolls

One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This

By Andrew Marcus
Aug 17, 2006

Inventing punk was a dirty job. You had to make up new rules for the guitar, cram your hairy appendages into ladies' pumps and lingerie, get hooked on hard drugs and squeeze Howlin' Wolf and the Shangri-Las into the same three-minute songs. That routine shortened the lives of two New...
Stephin Merritt

Showtunes

By Andrew Marcus
Apr 6, 2006

Stephin Merritt has come out of the closet: Of course! You're a theatrical composer! It must have been so hard passing as a pop singer all those years. The leader of Magnetic Fields and sundry other indie broods slides into musical theater so easily, you have to wonder how he...

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