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Calling All Dancing Queens: Houston Symphony Presents The Music Of ABBA [UPDATED]

By Sam Byrd
Jun 14, 2024

Take a chance on the Houston Symphony this weekend as it presents The Music of ABBA. Audiences will be able to dance, jive and have the time of their life as the orchestra plays all the favorites of the pop supergroup along with guest performers Rajaton. The concert takes place Saturday at the Hobby Center.
Poptimism: A Brighter Way to Talk About Music

By Eric Smith
Apr 12, 2016

“Rock is dead” is the prevailing sentiment these days for everyone from Gene Simmons to Tenacious D. Although such sweeping statements are annoying at best, there may be some truth to it in terms of music criticism. Rock-centric criticism, or rockism, has been our foremost paradigm almost as long as...
Life of the Party: Shawn Mendes Rocks RodeoHouston

By Marco Torres
Mar 7, 2016

Shawn Mendes Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo NRG Stadium March 6, 2016 Ten seconds after Shawn Mendes hopped onto the revolving RodeoHouston stage, I realized that I picked the wrong show to forget my hearing protection. Fresh off his opening run on Taylor Swift's 1989 World Tour, the baby-faced Canadian...
Five Better Producers for Michael Jackson's New Album

By Corey Deiterman
Apr 16, 2014

No one was more disappointed than I was with the fact that producers were deciding to capitalize on unreleased Michael Jackson material with the album Michael just one year after the King of Pop passed away. It was a crass, money-making maneuver, and the album showed it. They're doing it...
Levi Kreis' Imagine Paradise is Gloriously Rambunctious and Captivating

By David Clarke
Jul 11, 2013

Levi Kreis, a boy from East Tennessee, got his start in Nashville as a Christian artist, but he quickly become disenchanted. He was groomed for a major record label signing in New York City, but found an unlikely outlet for his music when his song "Just This Good" was featured...
Cheyenne Jackson's I'm Blue, Skies Is Fun and Entertaining

By David Clarke
Jun 17, 2013

Cheyenne Jackson is no stranger to a spotlight. His theater credits are extensive, including originating the roles of Chad in 2005's All Shook Up and Sonny Malone in 2007's Xanadu on Broadway. People may also recognize him from his stints as Danny (Jack) Baker on NBC's 30 Rock, Dustin Goolsby...
Bumbaklat Hits: Pop's 10 Most Unforgivable Reggae Misappropriations

By Nathan Smith
Mar 22, 2012

Can you feel it yet? Don't let all this rain fool you -- Summer is on its way. Sure, that means triple-digit temperatures, mutant mosquitos and Astros-fan apathy, but it also means live music outdoors. And where there's live music outdoors, there is always reggae. It's some kind of rule...
This Week in Music Videos: HPMA Nominee DeAndre Wright; Sydnee-Jane

By Rizoh
Nov 10, 2011

One is wearing face paint; the other is rocking a bright-red lipstick and a big smile. One is surrounded by people in ball masks; the other is standing on the world's skinniest red carpet. Sydnee-Jane and DeAndre Wright, two of Houston's rising pop stars, premiered their first videos this week...
Supercell and Hatsune Miku's and U.S. Debuts: Music Illustrators and Holograms

By Karen Rust
Jun 16, 2011

When we listen to a song and think about the performers that made it, we usually picture singers and instrumentalists performing on stage, not illustrators and a sexy hologram, oh yeah and a few musicians. But that's exactly what this concert has. That's right. We've officially entered the future. We...
Happy Birthday Stevie Wonder: The Cliff's Notes Version

By Craig Hlavaty
May 13, 2011

Today pop legend Stevie Wonder turns 61 years old, and to this day he continues to thrill audiences around the world with his pop prowess and ear for a hook. And damn, 61 is pretty young, but consider he's been in music since he was all of 12, back when...
Friday Night: Ke$ha At Verizon Wireless Theater

By Craig Hlavaty
May 2, 2011

Ke$ha Verizon Wireless Theater April 29, 2011 See more wild 'n' crazy pics of Ke$ha (and her fans) in our slideshow. Before Ke$ha even hit the stage for her sold-out show Friday night at Verizon Wireless Theater, we saw limos full of prom-ready teens pulling up to the venue, mounds...

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