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Shacking Up

A brief oral history of legendary Houston garage-punks Sugar Shack.

By Lance Walker
Jun 24, 2009

It's been 20 years since Sugar Shack released "You're a Freak," a bona fide local anthem that perseveres to this day. The legendary Houston band's complex, 20-plus-year history is full of numerous lineup changes, multiple record labels and wholesale shifts in sound. On the eve of their appearance at Sweatbox...
Houston Punks Legionaire's Disease Band, Gone But Hardly Forgotten

Coffin Corner

By Lance Walker
Mar 18, 2009

"I've got a bum arm here," a gruff but cheerful-sounding Jerry Anomie says from the other end of the phone. "I've had two cervical operations, so my right arm ain't workin' good. "I'm gonna have to hold the phone up with one hand and roll a joint with another," he...
Doll Parts: Mydolls

Amid Noise and Smoke, legendary Houston post-punks reunite

By Lance Walker
Nov 12, 2008

In the late 1980s, on the Galveston Bay side of the island, my radio receiver just barely picked up KPFT's Montrose-generated signal. Monday nights at 10 p.m., armed with two 90-minute tapes, I would hit "record" as soon as Dayglo Abortions kicked off Funhouse. That show was easily Houston radio's...
The New Year

By Lance Walker
Sep 17, 2008

A band taking four years between recordings is cause for both anticipation and dread, and on The New Year's The New Year, the results bring equal parts frustration and relief. Kadane brothers Matt and Bubba continue to anchor the Dallas-based band, with a supporting cast plucked from Saturnine, Macha and...
SPC Weekend Plumbs the Roots of Houston Rap

South Side Symphony

By Lance Walker
Sep 10, 2008

To pinpoint the birth of rap music in Houston is to place a number of pins along a scattered timeline of the late '70s and early '80s. You could trace it back to when the legendary Houston DJ Darryl Scott was first mixing rap into his funk and soul sets...

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