Sande Chen

Born and raised in Houston, Brady Brock played in the punk band the Grimple Twins before discovering his affinity for slow acoustic artists like Elliott Smith. Now Brock lives and plays in New York City's Lower East Side, just him and his acoustic guitar. I Will Live in You Where...

Just nominated for Best New Act in the Houston Press Music Awards, Arthur Yoria has generated quite a buzz around town with his frequent gigs. Yoria's self-produced, self-titled EP on his own label, K Oso Records, available at Cactus, is his first release under his own name. He's not a...

With connections to past and current Houston bands (most notably Jessica Six), singer/guitarist Lance Walker, bassist Bret Shirley and drummer John Adams, who constitute Port Vale, are veterans of the scene. The anglophile Walker recently completed a UK tour to promote his electronic project, the White Papers. Port Vale, which...

The jolly neon at Sliders is an antithesis to the people within -- at least on Monday nights. That's when a carnival of black is on bittersweet parade. A clutch of men and women with pale and drawn complexions, their ebony hair cascading in ponyfalls or romantically unkempt, gathers around...

"It's like punk rock never happened…," or so says the voice on "Spiteful Punk Rock Song #2." That's because the once UK-based Boyracer was never just another punk band, especially with the support of labels like the sickeningly twee Sarah Records. Never mind that NME once declared that the singer...