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  Anti-Religion, Anti-Society, Anti-Conformity: The Saga of Agnostic Front singer Roger Miret

  May 21 at 5 a.m.

  Since the mid-1980s, controversial hardcore punk band Agnostic Front has seared audiences with their aggressive brand of music that attacks normal society, religion, and anything that causes conformity. Brandishing brash old school manic tendencies with metal-leaning hooks, the band is a boiling burst of total energy that speaks to the male identity in a time of crisis.

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  Houston Punk and Skate Communities On Tap to Help Young Heart Patients And Their Families This Weekend

  May 20 at 4 a.m.

  Cory Worden and his family - wife Jessalyn and daughter Quinn – have regularly made a point of honoring Jonah, the son and brother they lost to Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome two years ago this month. Twice a year, the family has marked Jonah’s 18 months of life with some...

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  X, the Original West Coast Heroes of Punk "Year Zero," Make Punk-Lit with a Wallop

  May 2 at 5 a.m.

  Punk was the hurricane that helped turn the tide of American music in the 1970s-1980s, a decade that followed the end of the Vietnam War and encompassed both the moribund, mostly forgotten Carter presidency and the controversial Ronald Reagan era. The bands differed far and wide, but what drew both...

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  No Tricks, Just Treats in Skating Polly's Goodie Bag

  April 23 at 5 a.m.

  Skating Polly, whose self-dubbed “ugly pop” blend of indie pop and riot grrrl punk has attracted some heavy hitters in those genres, began its musical quest as the house band for a Halloween party. Its co-front women and step-sisters Peyton Bighorse and Kelli Mayo were 14 and nine years-old, respectively,...

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  PUP Shoots and Scores with New Album Morbid Stuff

  April 3 at 4 a.m.

  PUP, the punk pride of Toronto, Ontario, is unveiling its newest album this week. Critics who’ve heard Morbid Stuff in advance of its April 5 release are hailing it as the band’s best work. Houston fans will get to hear songs from it live when PUP returns to the city...

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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...