Latest Stories

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  Everything's Coming Up Roses for JJ Grey, the Constant Gardener

  January 15 at 5 a.m.

  JJ Grey’s passed a couple of career and personal milestones recently. He’s been crafting his distinguishable brand of soulful southern rock/rhythm and blues for better than 20 years now, for instance. He celebrated a 50th birthday not that long ago. But, he said, he’s not given to filling scrapbooks with...

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  Mockingbird Brother Rises on Crashes

  January 10 at 5:30 a.m.

  “Is emo still a thing?” is a pretty legitimate question in a time when Gerard Way is arguably better-known for amazing comic books than My Chemical Romance, but let’s assume for the sake of argument that it is and you want to listen to some from Houston. Crashes by Mockingbird...

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  10 Concerts We're Excited to See in Houston in 2019

  Friday, December 28, 2018 at 6:09 a.m.

  Sure, it's the end of the year and a review of the best concerts Houston hosted in 2018 might be in order and certainly would be easy to draw up; but, why not look ahead?  Here are ten shows we're excited to scribble onto  our calendars for 2019. Some are...

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  Sarah Grace Joins Her Mentor Hamilton Loomis for A Bluesy Homecoming This Weekend

  Thursday, December 20, 2018 at 6:13 a.m.

  Houston blues belter Sarah Grace completed her run on NBC’s singing competition The Voice this week. Her formidable talents as a singer and musician led her to the series’ semi-finals and showed music fans everywhere the talent hailing from Houston these days. To hear her tell it, she owes some...

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  Houston Artists on the EP vs LP Debate

  Monday, December 17, 2018 at 5 a.m.

  I go out of my way to review local music as often as I can because I feel it’s very important to get the progression of the Houston sound in releases down on the record. For all that people love to say not to listen to critics, regular reviews of...

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  Darwin's Finches Soar On Good Morning Creatures II

  Friday, December 14, 2018 at 6:07 a.m.

  Darwin’s Finches is a Galveston band with a strong Houston legacy. Since its inception in 2006, it’s existed in various iterations, but the one constant has been the far-out genius of its front man and songwriter, Justin Clay. Clay is inside the shadowy confines of Little Dipper a week ahead...