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

  April 22 at 5 a.m.

  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...

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

  March 30 at 6:58 a.m.

  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.

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

  March 19 at 4 a.m.

  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...

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

  January 23 at 6:48 a.m.

  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...

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

  Thursday, October 25, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  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...

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

  Monday, September 24, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  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...