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Oops!…she transcended the media again. Not with record breaking album sales or a titillating MTV VMA performance, but with a terrifying courtroom testimony in a watershed moment that exposed her grim reality under the inhumane treatment of her conser…
Read MoreWho’s going to tell the makers of TINA that as its legendary subject recounts a harrowing experience of fleeing her abusive ex-husband by running across a Dallas freeway, the film’s accompanying stock footage shows Downtown Houston – not our little sis…
Read MoreWhen South by Southwest pulled the plug on its international festival last year, RodeoHouston’s decision to do the same was inevitable. This writer was gearing up for Gwen Stefani’s pending date when the rotating stage galloped back to its storage unit…
Read More“I’ll be fully transparent: I honestly, I spend way too much time on social media.” Over the course of an hour-long, mile-a-minute Zoom call with the Houston Press, Garrett Brown, known to Houston and beyond as hip hop producer Trakksounds, drops the n…
Read MoreReading the track list of John Allen Stephens’ Return to Form is to read a novel’s table of contents, glimpsing into the coming pages’ journey. Chapter Song titles like “Molotov,” “Motorcycle” and “Addiction,” point to autobiographical accounts of star…
Read MoreSummer 2020 may not have panned out the way we envisioned it. Scratch that. Most of 2020 hasn’t gone according to plan. A running tab of offenses would include, but certainly wouldn’t be limited to, scorching temperatures, social and political unrest, …
Read MorePride month looks quite different from years past without its annual traditions of parades and festivities in the midst of a pandemic and ongoing social unrest. But cancelled celebrations and concerts haven’t yielded lower visibility of Houston’s LGBTQ…
Read MoreSwitched on Pop: How Popular Music Works, and Why it Matters By Nate Sloan & Charlie Harding 224 pp. $24.95 Oxford University Press Think back to Summer 2012. Gotye ached and crooned about somebody he used to know; LMFAO wiggled and party-rocked ti…
Read MoreIt’s hard to know exactly what to listen to in a time like this. Do you numb the chaos with mindless lyrics (thank God the “Baby Shark” curve flattened some time ago), or do you embrace it with more challenging fare (Looking at you, Fiona Apple)? Do yo…
Read MoreBefore COVID-19 halted arts and music industries around the world, Garfield Elementary general music educator Abby Veliz was in the process of booking a performance for her students with the Houston Dash. Veliz, an HSPVA and UH graduate, was also prepp…
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