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Go to Paisley Park While It's Still in Your Heart

By Jesse Sendejas Jr.

Nov 1, 2019

Matt’s, a 1950s era bar and grill in midtown Minneapolis, invented the culinary delight known as the “Jucy Lucy.” It’s a grilled all-beef patty stuffed at the center with gooey and delicious cheese. They serve ‘em simply as they did when they first concocted 'em. The Chatterbox Pub is right...

John Mayer Rocks Toyota Center - Summer Tour 2019

By Marco Torres

Sep 9, 2019

John Mayer Toyota Center September 8, 2019 There's something supremely genuine about a John Mayer concert. You won't be bombarded with lasers or sexy back-up dancers or mosh pits during his show. Everything surrounding the performance hits the sweet spot, from the overall volume to the on-stage banter, the set...

Peter Noone's Busy Schedule is Hardly Hermit-Like

By Bob Ruggiero

Jun 10, 2019

Peter Noone has heard it for years: “You should write a book!” After all, the lead singer of British Invasion band Herman’s Hermits certainly has a lot of stories he could tell. About hanging out with members of the Beatles and the Stones in swinging London clubs like the Ad...

Emily King Floats to the Top of Music Fans' Playlists With Scenery

By Jesse Sendejas Jr.

Apr 22, 2019

Emily King is a New Yorker, through and through. She grew up in Manhattan’s East Village and when she decided her life and the music informed by it needed a change, she packed up and moved upstate, where she pieced together Scenery, arguably the best work of her career. The...

Why Don't We Are The Champions At Smart Financial Centre

By Pete Vonder Haar

Mar 30, 2019

It was kind of fun to note exactly what was eliciting the screams in question. Going by my own hazy recollection, the loudest were in response to references to Houston, prom, and Corbyn saying his pants were falling down.

Pop Punkers Big Eyes Take it to the Streets on New Record

By Bob Ruggiero

Mar 19, 2019

Kait Eldridge probably doesn’t have anything against Tim Burton personally. But the singer/guitarist also probably wishes that director/writer named his 2014 biopic about the artist couple Margaret and Walter Keane something besides the same moniker as her band. Because now when you Google “Big Eyes,” you get a lot of...

Justin Timberlake Hasn't Lost a Step, He Just Doesn't Take as Many to Entertain

By Cory Garcia

Jan 23, 2019

Justin Timberlake Toyota Center January 22, 2K19 Most shows that take place in the Toyota Center feature a certain level of intensity. It might be quiet or wild, but it’s there in the performance of anyone big enough to play basketball arenas. Most artists understand that achievement, and by and...

Who Knew the '80s Pop Scene is Thriving in Houston?

By John Amar

Oct 25, 2018

It’s a Thursday night in 2014. Downstairs at Fitzgerald’s, electro-pop trio BLSHS removes all vowels from their name and replaces them with an electrifying set filled with 808 drums, dark synthesizers, and keytar-playing, hair-flipping lead singer Michelle Miears. A short year later at Day for Night’s 2015 inaugural outing, Children...

Maroon 5 is a Perfectly Fine, Trusty, Mundane Half Time Show Pick

By Cory Garcia

Sep 24, 2018

The Super Bowl Halftime Show does not exist for music fans. While it’s almost certainly the most watched music performance of the year, and thus an important piece of American pop culture, it’s not produced with music lovers in mind. It’s really not even produced for people who just sort...

Ball and Chain: The Best Houston Music of The Week

By David Garrick

Sep 12, 2018

This week Houston has options from Social Distortion, Rise Against, Fat Tony, The Crystal Method, First Aid Kit, Owen, The Daphne Blue, and The Hates. Tonight you could catch the punk sounds of Chicago's Rise Against over at Revention Music Center. These guys have been going hard for a good...

Tainted: The Best Houston Music of The Week

By David Garrick

Sep 5, 2018

This week Houston has plenty of choices from Alina Baraz, Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite, Miguel, Ruiners, Birthday Club and Moth Wings. On Wednesday you should find yourself downstairs at White Oak Music Hall for the bluesy twang of Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite. While from the outside these two...

The Tender Offerings of First Aid Kit

By David Garrick

Sep 3, 2018

"We had no aspirations when we started," remarks Klara Soderberg, one half of Swedish duo First Aid Kit. The two piece started young, and after more than a decade of performing, they've grown beyond their folk leanings creating a sound that's as harmonious as it is infectious. Beginning in 2007,...

Without You: The Best Houston Music of The Week

By David Garrick

Aug 29, 2018

This week there's a holiday but there's plenty of music on tap from the likes of Journey, Def Leppard, GGOOLLDD, Bad Bunny, Yelawolf alongside locals like Bun B, texture:yellow, MIEARS and HAHA! Tonight you can get down with ohGr upstairs at White Oak Music Hall. The industrial act formed by...

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

By David Garrick

Aug 28, 2018

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...

River Revival Is Ready To Flex

By David Garrick

Aug 24, 2018

No matter what you think a music festival should be, it is after all a gathering of like minded individuals. The River Revival Festival organized by Houston's Splice Records,is now in its fourth year, stretched from two days to three, and from a handful of bands to more than double...

Chart Battle: Is Nicki Minaj Right About Travis Scott's Number One Success?

By Cory Garcia

Aug 23, 2018

It’s a tale of two modern music stars, both with new albums out, battling it out on the charts, one riding the highest of highs and the other having a less than ideal album rollout. Sitting at the top of the charts is Travis Scott, whose new album Astroworld is...

Cut Worms Coming to Houston In a Great Old Style

By David Garrick

Aug 23, 2018

Max Clarke of Cut Worms has been writing songs since the age of 12, and it's obvious that his music has grown leaps and bounds since then. "I don't know what those songs were about, I was just trying to write pop songs. Discovering different styles and imitating what those...

Hard Piano: The Best Houston Music of The Week

By David Garrick

Aug 22, 2018

This week there's performances on tap from the likes of Pusha T, Wiz Khalifa, Tony Bennett, Two Tons of Steel, Carolyn Wonderland, and sets from locals like Velveteen Echo, Flower Graves, Vodi, and The Hates. Tonight you can begin at Dosey Doe for the country tunes of Doug Supernaw. The...

Interpol Come In Hot On Marauder

By David Garrick

Aug 20, 2018

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...

Something Else Are Ready To Make A Splash

By David Garrick

Aug 17, 2018

Houston's Something Else is a band that really doesn't fit into a genre, though they're not off-beat sounding either. On the new single "Don't Want It," from the band's upcoming album An Entire Album About My Ex-Girlfriend, they take notes from bands like The Strokes and Franz Ferdinand without really becoming a...

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