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The 100 Best Music Videos of 2021 You Probably Missed Part 5: 20-1

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The 100 Best Music Videos of 2021 You Probably Missed Part 4: 40-21

The 100 Best Music Videos of 2021 You Probably Missed Part 4: 40-21

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The 100 Best Music Videos of 2021 You Probably Missed Part 3: 60-41

By Jef Rouner
Dec 22, 2021

We're halfway through the best music videos from underground, indie, and lesser-known artists in 2021. This time, the subjects range from Mothra to river cults to pancake parties. Be on the look out for some local talent this time around! 60. White Cliffs, “Just Like You” Normally, lyric videos are...
The 100 Best Music Videos of 2021 You Probably Missed Part 2: 80-61

By Jef Rouner
Dec 21, 2021

Our week-long look at the 100 best indie and underground music videos of 2021 continues. Today we have some new takes on old holiday favorites, a couple of apocalypses, and the best pop star Canada has to offer. Clear some space and enjoy. 80. The Great Kat, “Barber of Seville”...
The 100 Best Music Videos of 2021 You Probably Missed, Part 1: 100-81

By Jef Rouner
Dec 20, 2021

Every year, the Houston Press combs through the best indie and lesser-known artists out there to find the best music videos around. You can keep your Taylor Swifts, Lil Nas Xs, and even your Ghosts. This week, we go deep into the underground to close our the 2021. 100. Split...
Phil Lynott and Thin Lizzy Finally Get Their Documentary Due

By Bob Ruggiero
Nov 9, 2021

On many a Classic Rock fan’s shortlist of groups who have thus far been denied by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Thin Lizzy is usually high on the ranking. And though mainstream U.S. audiences only know “The Boys Are Back in Town” or (perhaps) “Whiskey in the Jar”...
Video Premiere: Maggie Belle Releases "Hold Me"

By Gladys Fuentes
Oct 22, 2021

Splice Records has been contributing to the Houston music scene and repping diverse and quality music acts since 2016. Their latest project is an upcoming album from Maggie Belle, Starting Anew, due out next spring. Starting Anew was recorded during 2019 and 2020 while Belle worked as an ICU nurse...
Mind-Bending Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience Adapts the Troubled Artist for the Digital Age

By Bob Ruggiero
Sep 18, 2021

Of all the Impressionist painters, Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) is likely the genre’s Biggest Rock Star. An artist whose name and work is recognizable even among the general non-art loving public, and whose rudimentary life sketch only burnishes his image (the madness, the poverty, the suicide and that auditory appendage...
Memory Builds The Monument: Documentary Celebrates Fifth Ward's Club Matinee

By Gladys Fuentes
Aug 25, 2021

Last September the State of Texas officially honored Houston’s Fifth Ward by designating it as a Cultural Arts District, making Houston the city with the most Cultural Arts districts with a total of seven neighborhoods. “This area down Lyons that is just known for its history and heritage,” says Harrison...
There's Harmony and Humor with the BROS Currie on Side Project

By Bob Ruggiero
Jul 2, 2021

It’s a well-worn trope—albeit one that seems to be true—that rock and roll brothers in the same band will battle and break up. Ask the Everlys, Gibbs, Wilsons, Fogertys, Davies, Robinsons, or Gallaghers. Hell, even the Dorsey brothers had a bitter feud with competing big bands back in the day...
The Jenny Thing: Uniting an '80s Sound and '90s History with Today's Worldview

By Bob Ruggiero
Jul 1, 2021

The plot line of middle aged men “trying to get the band back together” from their youth has been mined—usually for comedic purposes—by plenty of novels and movies. But the reunited four members of The Jenny Thing are plenty serious about reestablishing themselves in 2021. To that end, the ‘90s-born...
Miles Copeland Remembers the Police, Go-Go's, Bangles, and Timbuk 3 in New Memoir

By Bob Ruggiero
Jun 11, 2021

Miles Copeland II was a longtime CIA operative in the Middle East and involved in all sorts of secretive spy missions from the 1940s through the ‘60s. And his son—Miles A. Copeland III—often had to use similarly delicate skills and negotiating tactics, only in the world of rock and roll...
AstroWorld Fan Shuts Down Homophobe in Awesome Way

By Jef Rouner
Jun 3, 2021

Happy Pride Month. Would you like to see a ridiculous homophobe get absolutely owned by a woman in an AstroWorld hoodie? Me too! The person screaming in this Tik Tok uploaded by boilyourbottoms is known as Sister Cindy Smock. She and her husband, Brother Jed, travel around to various college campuses...
How Soon is "Too Soon" for TV Comedy to Address Tragedy and Trauma?

By Bob Ruggiero
May 17, 2021

Tragedy Plus Time: National Trauma and Television Comedy By Philip Scepanski 280 pp. $50 University of Texas Press On September 29, 2001, just a little over two weeks after the terrorist attack on 9/11, the New York Friars Club and Comedy Central went ahead with a planned “roast” of Hugh...
Former Grand Funker Mark Farner Offers Up His Chile Recipe

By Bob Ruggiero
Apr 2, 2021

As the former lead singer/guitarist for Grand Funk Railroad, Mark Farner’s voice and playing have been classic rock staples on stereo systems and radio for more than 50 years. Tracks he wrote or covered include “Some Kind of Wonderful,” “Bad Time,” “The Loco-Motion,” “Rock and Roll Soul,” “Footstompin’ Music” and...
Music And A Message: Dende Releases Film In Case You Forgot I'm Black

By Gladys Fuentes
Mar 23, 2021

With jury selection in the trial against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd in the news, it can almost feel unreal that it hasn’t even been a year since Floyd died. With all that has happened since that tragic day in May of 2020...
Long-Lost "Happening" 1965 Music Special Resurfaces on PBS

By Bob Ruggiero
Mar 2, 2021

Though he was a child of the ‘80s, TJ Lubinsky has old ears. He grew up loving the music of the 1950s and 60s, be it of the doo wop, Motown, R&B, British Invasion, pop, or rock variety. At the age of 14, he came across a grainy clip on...
Nature Boys Hockney and Van Gogh Star in Centuries-Spanning Dual Exhibit

By Bob Ruggiero
Feb 16, 2021

Though he was born nearly a half century after Vincent Van Gogh died, and has achieved a level of fame and acclaim in his lifetime that The Starry Night painter only did posthumously, multimedia artist David Hockney (b. 1937) has always had an affinity for the works of Van Gogh...
Loverboy Remembers Their First Kiss with Debut Reissue

By Bob Ruggiero
Dec 22, 2020

When Loverboy’s self-titled debut came in in October 1980, the prevailing media format for music was the vinyl LP. But given what he saw shortly thereafter, guitarist Paul Dean probably didn’t expect that the Canadian rockers would be releasing Loverboy in a 40th anniversary edition on vinyl as well! The...
Todd Rundgren Plots Nationwide Clearly Human Tour...Virtually!

By Bob Ruggiero
Dec 18, 2020

During the Age of Coronavirus, musicians have struggled to find the best way to get live music to fans across the world. Audiences have seen everything from blurry solo iPhone videos in living rooms to professional, multi-camera shot, full band concerts in empty theaters. But leave it to multimedia genius...
The 50 Best Music Videos of 2020 You Probably Missed Part 5: 10 - 1

By Jef Rouner
Dec 18, 2020

And now for the 10 best music videos of indie and underground acts we saw in 2020. 10. Nobody’s Girl, “Rescued” Austin’s own Nobody’s Girl shows how you can take a very simple idea and turn it into something amazing. Rather than lamenting the fact we’re all trapped in our houses,...
The 50 Best Music Videos of 2020 You Probably Missed Part 4: 20 - 11

By Jef Rouner
Dec 17, 2020

Finding the best music videos of indie and underground acts is no easy task. We look at hundreds, and we only accept the ones that transcend the medium in some way. Let's look at what we have. 20. body / negative feat. Void of Course, “The Big Sleep” Directed by...