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Andy Huggins Is Ready to Chronicle His Comedy Legacy

By Jesse Sendejas Jr.

Apr 13, 2022

Andy Huggins has been thinking about his legacy lately, so much so that the veteran Houston stand-up comedian — a member of the legendary Texas Outlaw Comics — asked fellow comics how he might film his first-ever comedy special. Huggins, 72, has had bits and pieces of his act filmed...

Art Car Parade Revs Up For Its 35 Year Anniversary

By Sam Byrd

Apr 5, 2022

Art cars are back. The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art will host the long-awaited 35th Annual Houston Art Car Parade Weekend, presented by Team Gillman, running Wednesday through Sunday following a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19.

Director Charlie Minn interviews a survivor of the 2021 Astroworld concert.

New Documentary Gives Horrifying Grounds-Eye View of Astroworld Concert

By Jef Rouner

Apr 5, 2022

Charlie Minn’s documentary on the tragic 2021 Astroworld concert is about 85 minutes long At a guess, about 5 percent of the runtime contains the sights and sounds of injured people screaming for help. Concert Crush takes viewers into a minute-by-minute account of the Travis Scott concert that topped off...

Brad Paisley pulls the crowd in every time.

At RodeoHouston, Brad Paisley is the Same Brad Paisley as Always, Thank God

By Cory Garcia

Mar 20, 2022

Brad Paisley NRG Stadium March 19, 2K22 If you had handed me a blank sheet of paper ahead of his 2022 RodeoHouston performance and asked me to guess 10 songs that would show up on his setlist, I would have scored an easy 90 percent. The only place where it...

Houston Rodeo Gold Buckle Foodie Awards 2022

By Lorretta Ruggiero

Mar 2, 2022

Houstonians are thrilled by the return of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. This year marks its 90th anniversary and celebrations have been in full force with the Rodeo Uncorked Best Bites, the Bar-B-Cue Contest and Tuesday, the Gold Buckle Foodie Awards. We had the opportunity to sit with a...

Brothers Produce wows again with its booth display.

Rodeo Uncorked Best Bites 2022: It's On Again

By Lorretta Ruggiero

Feb 21, 2022

Houston, we have a rodeo. Last night, NRG Center was packed with cowboy hats, leather boots, turquoise jewelry and the people sporting them. The Rodeo Uncorked! Best Bites event was cancelled for 2021 due to the COVID pandemic. This year, Rodeo Houston has returned and even though we are warned...

This could be you, but older and with more back pain.

Debunking The Many When We Were Young Conspiracies

By Cory Garcia

Jan 21, 2022

There’s a lot of money to be made selling you your past. Long before culture critics were wringing their hands over the lack of new ideas on the big screen and the endless parade of reboots on the small screen, the music industry was reselling the masses their teen years...

Gov't Mule is Jorgen Carlsson, Matt Abts, Danny Louis, and Warren Haynes.

Warren Haynes and Gov't Mule Get Heavy into the Blues

By Bob Ruggiero

Nov 23, 2021

Even those who have followed the multi-faceted career of Warren Haynes—whether with the Allman Brothers Band, Gov’t Mule, his solo output or other collaborations—might be surprised to hear that he’s never done an all-blues album. Until now. The singer/songwriter/guitarist, along with the rest of the Mule (Matt Abts on drums,...

Postino offers a convivial space and plenty of snacks for hanging out with friends.

Openings and Closings: Postino Town & Country Opens, Divino Closes

By Lorretta Ruggiero

Aug 6, 2021

Postino Wine Cafe, 791 Town and Country Boulevard, will open August 9. This is the third Houston location for the brand, based in Phoenix, Arizona. The first opened in the Heights Mercantile in 2017, followed by the Montrose location a little over a year later. The all-day wine bar and...

Ahoy, Matey! The Lone Star Pirate Festival Sets Sail Again

By Jesse Sendejas Jr.

Jul 21, 2021

Whether the recent TikTok craze stirred your interest in sea shanties or you’ve been blowin’ th’ man down since you were a wee buccaneer, you’ll find riches galore in the rich tradition of seafaring music at the Lone Star Pirate Festival. The Jolly Roger sails over Warehouse Live Saturday, July...

Everclear today: Dave French, Art Alexakis, and Freddy Herrera.

Everclear Revisits a '90s "Summerland" on Festival Tour

By Bob Ruggiero

Jul 6, 2021

He's most associated with cities on the far west coast like Portland, L.A., and "Santa Monica." But if Art Alexakis says from the stage that “It’s great to be back in Houston,” he wants you to know it’s not just rote stage banter; he means it. Beginning in the spring...

Comedian/SiriusXM DJ Jim Florentine is Your Man in Heavy Metal (even though he's got a Nirvana T-shirt here...)

Spinning Records and Banging Heads With Metal Midgets Host Jim Florentine

By Bob Ruggiero

May 18, 2021

It’s the day after the announcement of Performer inductees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Class of 2021. And per usual, social media is lit up with fans’ very, very strong opinions of who got in that should have, or got in that shouldn’t have, or who didn’t...

Artists grateful to show off their work met fans happy to view their offerings at the Art Car Experince by Day

The Art Car Experience Welcomes Houstonians back to an Eclectic World

By DeVaughn Douglas

May 16, 2021

“Houston! You got to give us some time because we are fucking rusty,” says a laughing Felipe Galvan as he stands, beer in hand, center stage in front of the crowd. People scream as he leads his band, Los Skarnales, into the next song of the night. The music starts...

Travis Scott's Astroworld Festival Makes Its Return This Fall

By DeVaughn Douglas

Apr 30, 2021

Travis Scott's wildly popular Astroworld Festival is returning this fall November 5th and 6th to NRG Park. The festival returns this year with an expanded two-day format, taking place November 5 and 6, at NRG park. The theme for the show is the appropriately titled be "Open Your Eyes to...

Split between Kikagaku Moyo's two appearances at Austin's Levitation Fest, in 2014 and 2019, Live at Levitation presents listeners with a rare opportunity to hear the band's evolution over the span of 45 minutes.

Album Review: Kikagaku Moyo Evolve in Live at Levitation

By Connor Fields

Feb 11, 2021

In treading through the annals of rock music, it’s hard to argue that any approach to the genre has been more persistent than psychedelic-rock. From the jangling opening riff of 13th Floor Elevators’ “You’re Gonna Miss Me,” to the outpouring of groups that flocked to Haight-Ashbury in the late-60s (therein forging a widespread counterculture), to the shoegaze sounds that swept the U.K. throughout the 90s, rock artists have continuously found new ways to interpret the ever-malleable, wide-ranging sound of psychedelic music. Aside from modern pop’s incorporation (*cough* appropriation) of the genre’s aesthetic, the national craze around this music and its culture is clearly not as prevalent as it once was, when thousands of young Americans blew off their middle-class expectations for the Learyology of “dropping out and tuning in”. Since the start of the decade, however, a more subtle independent scene has been brewing...

With the true return of live music at a standstill, we can only look back to events like Satellite's Castle Christmas—an all-encompassing melting pot of both music and community (Divino Niño pictured here).

Castle Christmas: Best Pre-COVID Show

By Connor Fields

Jan 14, 2021

For many of us, this pandemic has entirely redefined the process of yearning. Where we once yearned for often unrealistic things that we hoped we would one day have, we now find ourselves yearning for everyday simplicities that were at our fingertips just months ago—a pre-pandemic life, where we could visit whoever we please, where we could walk unfazed into Whataburger, where we could happen onto a random bar and catch live music, where we could experience that music in the way it’s meant to be seen and heard, not through our screens. As someone who has been fortunate in avoiding the far more serious repercussions of COVID-19, much of my yearning process has revolved around this last question. When will we get to see live music again?

Apparently not everyone was happy working at the Texas Renaissance Festival.

New Reports of Questionable Behavior By Ren Fest Owner George Coulam

By Jef Rouner

Dec 15, 2020

Recently, Texas Renaissance Festival owner George Coulam has been mentioned in a lawsuit filed in the Houston division of the Southern District of Texas, in which former employee Toni Ewton alleges he required her to peruse sugar daddy websites on his behalf. Though Coulam is not named as a defendant,...

Jimi Hendrix on the isle of Maui, maybe thinking "What have I gotten myself into with this 'Rainbow Bridge' thing?"

Jimi Hendrix's Hawaiian "Adventure" Finally Explained

By Bob Ruggiero

Dec 9, 2020

The music of Jimi Hendrix is often described as “fiery.” And one of his biggest hits was “Fire.” But the singer/guitarist probably never imagined that on July 30, 1970 he—along with drummer Mitch Mitchell and bassist Billy Cox—would be standing on an outdoor stage, on a cattle ranch, near the...

Next year's rodeo will be pushed back a couple months from March to May, as long as the pandemic is under control by then.

Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Moved To May 2021 [UPDATED]

By Schaefer Edwards

Dec 8, 2020

The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo announced on Tuesday that the 2021 rodeo will be held in May, two months later than usual, as long as the pandemic is in a manageable state at that point. Originally scheduled for March 2 - 21, next year’s slate of concerts, carnival amusements...

Freddie Salem of the Outlaws in full flight on August 19, 1981 in Germany for the "Rockpalast" show.

The Outlaws Stage a German Showdown with Guitars Blazing

By Bob Ruggiero

Dec 4, 2020

It was June 2, 1979 at Carter-Finley Stadium on the campus of North Carolina State University in Raleigh. Two young guitar slingers, Freddie (Salem, of the Outlaws) and Edward (Van Halen of, well, Van Halen) were having a beer backstage. Their respective groups were sharing a bill with Poco and...

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