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So-Cal Punk Pioneers, Face to Face, Brought the Love to White Oak on Valentine's Day

By Lisa Strain
Feb 15, 2019

On an evening where most Houston couples spent absurdly long amounts of time merely waiting to be seated at the swankiest restaurants and hippest bars, you could have taken a romantic risk and treated your sweetie to a night of music at White Oak Music Hall. This would only go...
Metal Around the World. Travel Abroad and Turn it Up to These Seven Metal Bands from Across the Globe.

By Lisa Strain
Jan 29, 2019

The roots of heavy metal were established in the ‘60s and '70s mainly by British bands Led Zepplin, Deep Purple, and Black Sabbath. The metal genre has gone on to include many sub-genres such as glam, speed, doom, progressive, death, black, stoner, even Christian. Characterized by a generally masculine sound,...
Guit With It and See Junior Brown at McGonigel's Mucky Duck

By Lisa Strain
Jan 18, 2019

Junior Brown is a country western workhorse. Consistently touring for decades, he began as a back up musician for such acts as The Last Mile Ramblers and Asleep at the Wheel. “I had no other skills in life than playing music,” Brown has said. “I played more nights in honkytonks...
Washed Out Rode a Chillwave into White Oak Music Hall Sunday Night

By Lisa Strain
Dec 31, 2018

Georgia based singer, songwriter, and record producer Ernest Weatherly Greene Jr., known professionally as Washed Out, returned to Houston to play an evening of beautiful, dreamy music Sunday night at White Oak Music Hall.
Go Global: Five World Music Artists to Soothe Your Soul

By Lisa Strain
Dec 27, 2018

What is world music? According to Dictionary.com it is, “ traditional music from the developing world.” In a much broader sense, it is any and all music incorporating different styles from around the globe. It has been popularized in Western culture through pop stars such as Sting, Peter Gabriel, Paul Simon, and George Harrison.

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