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Gen Why received a lot of acclaim this year when singer and guitarist James McDowell II broke up a white supremacist invasion at a White Oak Music Hall punk show. Though McDowell was certainly not the first in the Houston music scene to make a stand against the rather obnoxious...
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About ten years ago, when I was in The Black Math Experiment, I made a prediction As a band we used to dress in shirts, slacks and ties. When we handed out flyers, we did it as mock moral majority protesters with menacing nonsense slogans on our signs. I remember...
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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...
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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...
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The members of Pittsburgh's Anti-Flag have always been unapologetic about being a political punk band. "I'm entertained when people say we're cashing in on being political, but if I were cashing in I'd write pop songs," says founding member and lead singer Justin Sane. The band, going strong since the...
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Last year at this time, Miriam Hakim was set to attend the inaugural YallaPunk Festival and Conference in Philadelphia. As a co-organizer of the event, which spotlights creatives from Middle Eastern, North African and Southwest Asian descent, she developed and coordinated the conference’s panels, which touched on everything from religion...
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