Switched on Pop: How Popular Music Works, and Why it Matters By Nate Sloan & Charlie Harding 224 pp. $24.95 Oxford University Press Think back to Summer 2012. Gotye ached and crooned about somebody he used to know; LMFAO wiggled and party-rock...

It's hard to know exactly what to listen to in a time like this. Do you numb the chaos with mindless lyrics (thank God the "Baby Shark" curve flattened some time ago), or do you embrace it with more challenging fare (Looking at you, Fiona Apple)? ...

Before COVID-19 halted arts and music industries around the world, Garfield Elementary general music educator Abby Veliz was in the process of booking a performance for her students with the Houston Dash. Veliz, an HSPVA and UH graduate, was also ...

In between songs is the ideal time for a front-woman to hydrate onstage. With the heat of the lights, the stench of sweat from the crowd, and hollering into the mike about relationships that you wish would just work themselves out, a girl's gotta ...

When Lili Trifilio studied journalism at DePaul University, she probably didn’t anticipate her then-solo project Beach Bunny would blossom into a fully formed pop-punk outfit playing festival sets or headlining a near sold out national tour in sup...

As they are in Edgar Allen Poe’s “Dream Within a Dream,” or Christopher Nolan’s Inception, dreams are a point of fascination for Houston-native jazz singer Kat Edmonson on her newest album Dreamers Do. The concept album embarks on a nocturnal jour...