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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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  The Krayolas Color a New (But Classic) Tex-Mex Sound

  March 4 at 4 a.m.

  Fans of Little Steven’s Underground Garage channel on SiriusXM radio know that the station’s eclectic playlist embraces both classic and contemporary Garage Rock bands and performers. So listeners across North America got to experience a little bit of both when DJ The Mighty Manfred welcomed Hector Saldana – lead singer/guitarist...

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  With The Interrupters, Tour is a Family Affair

  March 1 at 7:20 a.m.

  Even though he’s making the journey with his brothers, Kevin Bivona – guitarist for the popular ska-punk outfit The Interrupters – assured us that a 40-date tour isn’t much like a family vacation. It’s hard to catch the attractions in any particular city when you’re there to be that night’s...

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  So-Cal Punk Pioneers, Face to Face, Brought the Love to White Oak on Valentine's Day

  February 15 at 6:47 a.m.

  On an evening where most Houston couples spent absurdly long amounts of time merely waiting to be seated at the swankiest restaurants and hippest bars, you could have taken a romantic risk and treated your sweetie to a night of music at White Oak Music Hall. This would only go...

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  New Book Coming from Christian Kidd of The Hates

  Monday, December 31, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  Christian Kidd, the legendary singer and guitarist from Houston’s oldest and most celebrated punk band The Hates, has announced that he has completed his second memoir. If you read only one book about life in the Houston music scene then it should be Kidd’s first book Just a Houston Punk...

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  Ramones Drummer Gabba Gabbas About His Time in the Band

  Thursday, December 20, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  I Know Better Now: My Life Before, During, and After the Ramones By Richie Ramone with Peter Aaron 324 pp. $29.99 Backbeat Books Part of the deal of being in the Ramones was that you could only appear onstage in the band’s uniform: leather jacket, T-shirt, torn blue jeans, and...