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  New Zealand's Miss June Coming to House of Blues

  October 17 at 4 a.m.

  "We will never be easy to categorize musically." Annabel Liddell, front-woman of the New Zealand punk outfit Miss June, is no stranger to challenging both labels and expectations. In 2013, the same year she began medical school, she recruited the other three members of her raucous and increasingly popular band...

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  The Distillers Brings a Vampire Circus to Houston

  October 16 at 6:48 a.m.

  I’m no Van Helsing, but I’m pretty sure Brody Dalle and The Distillers are vampires. My hunch comes from some of the titles of the band’s biggest hits, “Coral Fang,” “I Am a Revenant” or “Drain the Blood,” for example. While the veteran California punk band didn’t literally drain the...

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  Bad Religion Remains a Band for the Ages in the Age of Unreason

  September 26 at 5 a.m.

  In May 2019, there were several mass shootings in the United States. Politicians allowed wildfires to burn uncontrollably in the Amazonian rain forest. Wars raged in the world’s typical hot spots. Donald Trump was still the American president. And, the seminal punk band Bad Religion released its 17th studio album,...

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  From Downey To Lubbock: The Long And Shared Journey Of Dave Alvin And Jimmie Dale Gilmore

  September 23 at 5 a.m.

  Every Houstonian knows the sounds of a heavy storm, especially after last week's visit from Imelda. Elements in nature feed off of each other to create perfect storms. Last years, From Downey To Lubbock, a collaboration between Texas Flatlander, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and California Blaster, Dave Alvin, melted natural elements...

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  Now He's Ready: Hardcore Punk Singer John Anderson's Last Growls

  September 20 at 10:30 a.m.

  Punk in Houston was a curious Southern aberration, an explosion of personalities and styles that ran the gamut from carefully crafted renegade soundwaves to jittery art-core and manic rock’n’roll. Bands tumbled quickly through the zeitgeist – Legionaires Disease, the Hates, Really Red, Bevatron, Plastic Idols, Mydolls, and many more, each...

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  Finding Grace at the End of the Rock’n’Roll Road: Julie DeGidio’s Life Fight

  September 20 at 10:23 a.m.

  Underground music in Houston has often been powerfully shaped by women, and mothers too, who defy expectations, free themselves from the gnawing reins of sexism, and forge music that stretches boundaries. Just think of Mydolls, Stinkerbell, Pain Teens, Manhole, Magnetic Four, Zipperneck, and Merkava. Julie ("Jewels") DeGidio, who has been...