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  Felix Cavaliere is Still ''Groovin'"

  August 23 at 4 a.m.

  It’s exactly 50 years to the day of the opening of the Woodstock festival when Felix Cavaliere picks up the phone. He remembers that, while his NY-based group the Rascals were both from and in the region during those three days of “peace, love, and music,” his band would not...

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  The Houston Press Guide to Seeing Every Act at Your Favorite Music Festival

  August 14 at 6:45 a.m.

  Recently, the world celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing. It was a universal reminder that when humans set their minds to monumental tasks, we find ways to make milestones from the improbable. If we are looking for the next Neil Armstrong in 2019, might we suggest a...

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  Frankie and the Witch Fingers Has the Magick Touch

  August 9 at 5 a.m.

  Dylan Sizemore, guitarist and vocalist for garage-psych rockers Frankie and the Witch Fingers, likes to play a music game. It requires a little explanation, but once you understand the game you might decide you’re the sort of music listener who could appreciate what he and the surging L.A.-based band are...

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  On Second Thought: Why We Were Wrong About These Songs

  August 9 at 4 a.m.

  Five or six years ago, I made a pretty big mistake in a Houston Press music article, an assignment several writers teamed for titled “The 10 Lamest Bands of the ‘90s.” Never mind that such an article seems sort of mean-spirited, but my totally off-base choice was the one-hit wonder,...

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  Flogging Molly Say Life is Good on Land and on Sea

  August 8 at 4 a.m.

  In recent years, the marriage of live music and the high seas has been particularly thriving – not to mention fruitful and multiplying. It seems that cruises either centered around a specific band (KISS, Metallica, Yes,…even Rick Springfield) or genre (“Monsters of Rock,” “Rock and Romance,” “Outlaw Country Cruise,” “Ultimate...

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  Songs Help the Hines Center Tell Its Own Story

  August 6 at 4 a.m.

  Last Friday night’s concert starring rising songbird Frewuhn began with a few minutes of group meditation. Concert-goers were asked to close their eyes, focus their breathing and visualize themselves walking someone by the elbows out the room and into a world of endless possibilities. Much different from the routine hype...