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Texas Magic: The Flatlanders Release Treasure Of Love

By Gladys Fuentes

Jul 5, 2021

If the past year has taught us anything at all it’s that we can always expect the unexpected to happen. For fans of the legendary Texas trio The Flatlanders, this year will bring a special treat in the form of a highly anticipated new album. Treasure of Love, due out...

The Dells' romantic slow jam "Oh What a Night"- with rich vocal harmonies - is a Lowrider love anthem.

Lowrider Love Celebrates the Sweet Sounds of Oldies But Goodies

By Bob Ruggiero

Jun 15, 2021

The music biz is certainly no stranger to spotlighting intense love affairs (we’re looking at you, Taylor and her Swifties). But there’s an especially hot one going on now between record collectors and reissue labels. Whether repping major artists and catalogs (Rhino, Sony Legacy, UMe) or more focused and esoteric...

The Third Eye Of Texas: Record Store Day Drop Celebrates Houston Psych Rock History

By Gladys Fuentes

Jun 10, 2021

Since COVID shifted the approach to Record Store Day with a new format of Record Store Day Drops, music lovers, record store owners and employees alike seem to be benefiting from the change. The new approach gives stores a better way to organize the rare and highly coveted releases while...

Houston's Say Girl Say will release their highly anticipated second album, Let My Hair Down on May 29 digitally and on vinyl.

Evolving Together: Say Girl Say Lets Their Hair Down

By Gladys Fuentes

May 25, 2021

One of the major takeaways from the collective experience of the past year is that change is hard. Evolution itself takes millions of years to present. Luckily for Houston duo Say Girl Say and their fans, the development of their second album took significantly less time. Let My Hair Down...

Finding Balance: Katie Rushing Sets Sparrow Free

By Gladys Fuentes

May 13, 2021

Who hasn’t stopped at some point to admire the petite and scrappy sparrows that hop around our lawns? Houston artist Katie Rushing has done just that and the little, common bird has inspired the title of her latest album Sparrow. Sparrow is available for streaming now and for pre-order on...

Yusef Lateef was an avid explorer of musics and philosophies from all over the world.

Yusef Lateef's Worldwide Jazz Journey Reissued on Vinyl

By Bob Ruggiero

May 7, 2021

As vinyl continues its unlikely resurgence for a music media format, audiophiles are drooling over their turntables (though likely quick to wipe it off) at the hundreds of albums — many out of print for decades — being reissued. And not just like they were originally. Many are coming out...

Houston's psych rock trio Cactus Flowers released their new EP Solace.

Cactus Flowers Bloom Again In Solace

By Gladys Fuentes

Mar 16, 2021

Cactus Flowers is making Houston proud once again with their latest EP, Solace featuring four new tracks which show off what the band does best: rock out. Cactus Flowers will perform as part of Wonky Power’s Live Sessions on March 18. The live sessions are open to a limited capacity...

Red Dwarf opened its doors in the middle of the pandemic..

Keeping The Star Shining: Red Dwarf Requests Help To Make It Through

By Gladys Fuentes

Feb 9, 2021

When Red Dwarf decided to go ahead and open last summer, owners Shan Pasha, his sister Sarina Pasha and James Koby Boren knew they would be facing major challenges that go beyond the normal challenges of operating a music venue, coffee shop, cafe and bar all rolled up into one...

Last year didn't stop Clint Broussard from bringing great entertainment to listeners with his podcast, A Day In The Life and his radio show, Blues in Hi-Fi.

A Day In The Life With Mr. Record Man Clint Broussard

By Gladys Fuentes

Jan 18, 2021

Clint Broussard is a walking encyclopedia of musical knowledge and the radio show and podcast hosts flexes his strengths every week hosting his Monday afternoon show on KPFT, Blues in Hi-Fi, and online with his podcast, A Day In The Life. Throughout 2020, a year where nothing was certain, Broussard’s...

Marv Won released his latest album Sooner Than Later in December 2020.

A Game Of Words: Marv Won Releases Sooner Than Later

By Gladys Fuentes

Jan 4, 2021

Chess is a strategic and competitive game where each move is not only time sensitive, but players must visualize multiple steps ahead to win. Detroit-based rapper Marv Won sees the similarities between the classic game and the world of battle rap where rappers outsmart their opponents in a game of...

George Thorogood today: Still Bad to the Bone.

George Thorogood Gets "Bad to the Bone" with Full Beantown Party

By Bob Ruggiero

Dec 28, 2020

The year 1982 was turning out pretty good for George Thorogood and the Destroyers. Nearly a decade into their existence, the blues ‘n boogie band had opened a string of European dates for the Rolling Stones (as they had done the previous year in the United States). They were musical...

Year-End List: Albums You Might Have Missed

By Connor Fields

Dec 16, 2020

It goes without saying that 2020 has been a year we’d rather forget—an endless feedback loop of disappointment and disaster. It’s even further obvious that few have had a more difficult path navigating this mess than the countless number of musicians whose financial and creative livelihoods have been put on an indefinite halt, given their increasing reliance on entertaining large (and preferably jam-packed) gatherings of people.Yet that isn’t to say these folks have merely gone dormant over the last nine months...

Record Store Day Black Friday is still on this year and will be on Friday, November 27.

Keeping The Music Alive: Record Store Day Black Friday Releases

By Gladys Fuentes

Nov 24, 2020

Despite a year that has been anything but normal, the holiday shopping season has arrived just as it has in years past. Black Friday may look different this year, but the desire and need to check our loved ones off our Christmas list remains the same. Record Store Day has...

Mick Box Celebrates 50 Years of Uriah Heep with a Big Box! [UPDATED]

By Bob Ruggiero

Nov 5, 2020

It’s not every person who can literally hold their life’s work in their hands. But that’s what exactly happened with Uriah Heep guitarist Mick Box when he recently unpacked the band’s massive, career-spanning box set 50 Years in Rock (BMG). “I was overjoyed, and it was an honest emotional reaction...

Charlie Parker: One of the architects of bebop jazz.

Bird Flies Again...But Hopes to Land in Some New Nests

By Bob Ruggiero

Oct 30, 2020

Today, their names are among the highest of jazz titans, familiar even generations after they laid down their most famous work: Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Max Roach, and Charlie Parker. But it’s easy to forget that when these jazz men first started playing the new strain of bebop...

Opie Hendrix release Unhappy People and is premiering the video for "I Still Sing".

Video Premiere: Opie Hendrix "I Still Sing"

By Gladys Fuentes

Oct 22, 2020

Even though finding an audience these days can be rough, Opie Hendrix is reminding us all that he still sings. The Houston based artist recently released Unhappy People, his fifth studio album, and has taken advantage of his “layoff” during the pandemic to focus on releasing videos from his latest...

Dave Mason Strives to Be Alone Together...Again!

By Bob Ruggiero

Oct 15, 2020

During the current pandemic, there probably aren’t a whole lot of new rock bands forming around the country—much less one whose lineup consists solely of current or about-to-be-inducted Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members. Unfortunately, for Dave Mason and the Quarantines, the scope of their entire career will probably...

Tejas Got Soul will spotlight Houston Chicano legend Marky Lee with an online performance by Lee with Nick Gaitan and Roberto Rodriguez III.

Keeping Houston's Chicano Music History Alive With Tejas Got Soul 2

By Gladys Fuentes

Aug 25, 2020

Last year, Tejas Got Soul hosted Early Chicano Sounds of Houston, an all day event which featured a panel discussion, storytelling booth and live performances culminating into a block party at the historic Morales Radio Hall in Houston’s East End. The event spotlighted some of Houston’s biggest names in Chicano...

The Texas Gentlemen will release their eclectic sophomore release Floor It!!! on July 17 on New West Records.

The Texas Gentlemen Cover Lots Of Ground With Their Latest Release Floor It!!!

By Gladys Fuentes

Jul 14, 2020

2020 is the year to expect the unexpected to say the least and The Texas Gentlemen are adding a sense of positivity to this trend with their upcoming album Floor It!!!, due out July 17 on New West Records. The Texas Gentlemen are made up of some of the Lone...

Houston record stores are all adapting to the new normal and pushing into the future.

Digging Into The Future: Record Stores Are Pushing Into The New Normal

By Gladys Fuentes

May 28, 2020

Record Store Day, like everything else, had to be canceled due to COVID-19. Originally set for April 18, organizers initially pushed back to June 20 but have since re-formatted the event as Record Store Day Drops, making it a three date event in August, September and October. Instead of a...

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