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Lance Walker

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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...
Faux Fox

Black Glove or White Glove (Quartz Inc.)

By Lance Walker
Sep 16, 2004

The sticker on this record reads, "Hey CMJ Reporters! Dig Gary Newman and Suicide? Meet Faux Fox. Make Out. Have Babies." I don't know what Gary Numan would think of that rampant abuse and misspelling of his name, but I'm guessing he and Suicide's Alan Vega would agree that these...
Hang the Airwaves

Danseparc, Substance and Stereo Bar reinvent the steel wheels

By Lance Walker
May 6, 2004

It's Saturday night at Numbers, and Shu Latif is frazzled. As one of the three members of the DJ collective Danseparc, she isn't accustomed to getting to the club at 11. Instead, she customarily arrives there hours early, pores over what she'll be playing that evening and makes sure everything...
Deep in the Bleeding Heart

Sonic Youth returns to the scene of one of its weirdest gigs ever

By Lance Walker
Mar 4, 2004

There are few artists who can really be called innovative. There are even fewer who really impact whatever unexplored corner of rock and roll they stumble into, and there's almost no one who has held up doing so for more than 20 years. Since its emergence from the New York...
Murderers in the Dark

The abrupt life and times of DJ Cuba Gooding Jr. come to an end this Saturday

By Lance Walker
Jan 29, 2004

Timelines don't seem to have been much of a factor in the brief but productive music careers of DJ Cuba Gooding Jr.'s Brandon Duhon and Travis Rice. The 27-year-olds, both of whom started playing music only four years ago, have known each other for about eight years and played together...
The Dishes

3 (File 13)

By Lance Walker
Dec 11, 2003

Although they don't appear to have any stories about drummers exploding on stage or snuffing it via any bizarre gardening accidents, the Dishes (the Chicago punks, not the late-'80s Houston party band) can still rank themselves with the likes of Spinal Tap in the category of rotating percussionists. In the...
Afro-punk: The Rock n Roll Nigger Experience

Sunday, December 14

By Lance Walker
Dec 11, 2003

This long-time-in-the-making documentary finally sees the light of day in our city this week with two screenings arranged by KPFT's Rad Richard. James Spooner's 75-minute film details the lives of four young black Americans currently involved in and contributing to rock music. Spooner, 27, drove across the country with a...
The Exies

Inertia (Melisma/Virgin)

By Lance Walker
Mar 20, 2003

While the Strokes were criticized by some for ripping off Television's Marquee Moon, at least that album was more than 20 years old. By contrast, the Exies -- this year's "it" band (which is to say this year's Strokes) -- can only lay claim to rehashing what has been on...
Bellini

Snowing Sun (Monitor)

By Lance Walker
Feb 13, 2003

What initially appears as an unwavering, genderless enigma tunneling through Bellini's scattered wall of noise is, in fact, the shrill voice of the most assuredly female Giovanna Cacciola, formerly of the Sicilian band Uzeda. Seemingly oblivious to the movements of the music behind her, Cacciola conveys an authoritative wail nearly,...

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