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  Facebook Should Tell People When and How You Were Banned

  November 20 at 5 a.m.

  I’m in a week-long timeout on Facebook for saying men are trash. I’m not here to whine about censorship like some alt-right dink crashing a White House press briefing to ask a legitimate presidential administration about what horrors will be unleashed if he loses his verified checkmark on Twitter. The...

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  Axl Rose, Like so Many, is On Twitter and Mad at Trump

  November 20 at 4 a.m.

  Do you remember that weird period of time a few years back when the “social media is killing the rock star mystique and that’s a bad thing” hot take was going around? The idea was that we were losing something by having people in bands become more relatable through the...

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  5 Big-Picture Issues Behind the AT&T, Dish Network and HBO/Cinemax Feud

  November 6 at 5 a.m.

  Last week, right around the time substantive news about the final season of Game of Thrones was hitting the web, Dish Network customers found that HBO and Cinemax had gone dark on their platforms. The reason? Well, as they sometimes say in relationships, it's complicated. In short, AT&T, which owns...

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  Houston Press Singles Club: Buxton, Grand Old Grizzly, The Daphne Blue

  August 28 at 4 a.m.

  This week in the club we'll see new tunes from Buxton, Mike Stinson, Grand Old Grizzly, Pecos Hank and The Daphne Blue. While we appreciate you listening to these tracks and subscribing to the playlist, we ask that you check these acts out at their shows and purchase their music...

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  From Beyond Adds Machines To Their Metal

  August 21 at 4 a.m.

  On their new album The Band From Beyond, Texas' From Beyond prove they're making more than metal music, coming up with sounds closer to heavy blues mixed with machines. Opening with gloomy and dark sounds on the instrumental track, "Invocation," they set the stage for what's to come. They follow it...

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  Alone On The Moon Riffs Hard On Spectra

  August 16 at 4 a.m.

  Houston's Alone On The Moon have always played heavy music without overclocking things, and the result is their latest release Spectra. The music is all instrumental which at times makes you want vocals. The songs all seem to take the principle of starting slow and building to epic levels. This...