“One time when I was in a session, someone said that if you write a love song about beer or a candy bar, then it almost always sounds like a love song.” Turns out, Grammy nominated singer-songwriter Julia Michaels doesn’t drink beer or eat a lot o...

“I forgot how fuckin’ rowdy you guys were,” Kevin Parker told an elated sold-out White Oak Music Hall just three songs into a rare Tame Impala Houston set sandwiched between their headlining Austin City Limits Music Festival weekend slots. “Hey we...

“This is what a New York apartment looks like the week before a Broadway show.” HSPVA graduate Wiley DeWeese flips his FaceTime screen to reveal an organized mess that is his Upper West Side home. He purposefully paces toward a FedEx box filled wi...

When he was a toddler, Attxla’s mother used to drive him around Port Arthur listening to music to help him fall asleep. Saturated in the female R&B canon (Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Mary J. Blige, Anita Baker), those listening sessions formed a ...

“Nowadays, you know especially as independent musicians, I think it comes from all ages. People are making their own terms, you know?,” says local synth wave psych-pop artist Rex Hudson when asked on his age near the end of a phone interview with ...

“I would’ve been crazy so long ago if it wasn’t for music. That’s my escape right there,” says local R&B songstress Lilly Aviana in a mid-morning phone interview with the Houston Press. Early enough in the day for many-a-musician's standard, A...