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  So, What Was 2018’s Song of the Summer?

  August 21 at 6 a.m.

  Sometimes, declaring the “song of the summer” for any given year is a fairly easy call. See last summer, when “Despacito” lapped the field, and deservedly so. The song is slickly produced, catchy as hell and, simply put, sounds like summer. As for 2018, it wasn’t quite that simple, mostly...

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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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  Tobe Nwigwe Puts On a Spectacle at White Oak

  August 20 at 12:17 p.m.

  Something special happened last night at White Oak. Tobe Nwigwe has been on a seemingly unstoppable upward trajectory for just over a year. Beginning sometime in the summer of 2017, the ex-football star and amateur rapper from Alief with a trademark baritone flow began generating mild interest online with a...

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  Interpol Come In Hot On Marauder

  August 20 at 4 a.m.

  Four years between albums isn't the norm, though for New York's Interpol, it seems to be right on their schedule. "I dunno if hiatus is the term, we put our last album out in 2014, toured it in 2015, and we needed time to tour properly, catching the entire globe...

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  Marilyn Manson & Rob Zombie Are Twins of Evil Separated at Birth [UPDATE]

  August 19 at 7:35 a.m.

  Twins of Evil, The Second Coming Marilyn Manson & Rob Zombie Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion The Woodlands Pavilion was hot and muggy Saturday on a night when the two of the world’s biggest shock rockers brought Twins of Evil, The Second Coming to perform for a nearly sold out venue...

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  Remembering The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin

  August 17 at 7:09 a.m.

  For any artist fortunate to have had a career as long as or touching as many genres as Aretha Franklin’s did, music nerds will forever debate their career as to when their “best” work was. Early on the scene? Mid-life maturation? Surprise latter days revival? But make no mistake. In...