John Amar - HoustonNewMedia.org https://houstonnewmedia.org/author/john-amar/ Building "Bridges" Across the Bayou City! Mon, 28 Jun 2021 09:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://i0.wp.com/houstonnewmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/cropped-cropped-Houston.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 John Amar - HoustonNewMedia.org https://houstonnewmedia.org/author/john-amar/ 32 32 103504436 Free Britney, B*tch! https://houstonnewmedia.org/free-britney-btch/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=free-britney-btch Mon, 28 Jun 2021 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.houstonpress.com/music/britney-spears-breaks-silence-in-heartbreaking-courtroom-testimony-11591383 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...

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]]> 137544 TINA: HBO Tells the Story of an Icon, One Last Time https://houstonnewmedia.org/tina-hbo-tells-the-story-of-an-icon-one-last-time/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tina-hbo-tells-the-story-of-an-icon-one-last-time Fri, 23 Apr 2021 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.houstonpress.com/music/hbos-tina-tells-life-story-of-rock-legend-11556147 Who’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...

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]]> 123782 One Year Later: Looking Back on Five Albums from Lockdown https://houstonnewmedia.org/one-year-later-looking-back-on-five-albums-from-lockdown/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=one-year-later-looking-back-on-five-albums-from-lockdown Mon, 15 Mar 2021 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.houstonpress.com/music/five-albums-on-repeat-during-coronavirus-11542813 When 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...

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]]> 115671 How to Make It in the Music Business: Trakksounds Edition https://houstonnewmedia.org/how-to-make-it-in-the-music-business-trakksounds-edition/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-make-it-in-the-music-business-trakksounds-edition Thu, 28 Jan 2021 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.houstonpress.com/music/trakksounds-offers-insights-on-making-it-in-the-music-business-11530608 “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...

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]]> 105826 John Allen Stephens Shines on New Album Return to Form https://houstonnewmedia.org/john-allen-stephens-shines-on-new-album-return-to-form/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=john-allen-stephens-shines-on-new-album-return-to-form Tue, 05 Jan 2021 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.houstonpress.com/music/john-allen-stephens-reaches-other-side-on-new-album-return-to-form-11523896 Reading 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...

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]]> 100250 Houston Music Roundup: Summer 2020 Edition https://houstonnewmedia.org/houston-music-roundup-summer-2020-edition/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=houston-music-roundup-summer-2020-edition Thu, 06 Aug 2020 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.houstonpress.com/music/houston-summer-music-roundup-4-artists-that-turned-up-the-heat-this-season-11484998 Summer 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, ...

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]]> 64947 Inside the Identities and Intersectionalities of Houston’s LGBTQ Music Scene https://houstonnewmedia.org/inside-the-identities-and-intersectionalities-of-houstons-lgbtq-music-scene/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=inside-the-identities-and-intersectionalities-of-houstons-lgbtq-music-scene Mon, 29 Jun 2020 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.houstonpress.com/music/inside-houstons-lgbtq-music-scene-11478815 Pride 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...

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]]> 55921 Beethoven to Beyoncé: Switched on Pop Authors and Podcast Hosts Reveal the Powers of Popular Music https://houstonnewmedia.org/beethoven-to-beyonce-switched-on-pop-authors-and-podcast-hosts-reveal-the-powers-of-popular-music/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=beethoven-to-beyonce-switched-on-pop-authors-and-podcast-hosts-reveal-the-powers-of-popular-music Fri, 15 May 2020 09:30:00 +0000 https://www.houstonpress.com/music/sloan-and-harding-explore-popular-music-in-podcast-and-book-switched-on-pop-11470539 Switched 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...

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]]> 44466 Houston Music Roundup: Pandemic Can’t Stop Houston Artists from Releasing New Music https://houstonnewmedia.org/houston-music-roundup-pandemic-cant-stop-houston-artists-from-releasing-new-music/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=houston-music-roundup-pandemic-cant-stop-houston-artists-from-releasing-new-music Fri, 01 May 2020 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.houstonpress.com/music/houston-artists-release-new-music-in-april-11468023 It'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...

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]]> 40838 Houston Artists’ Silver Linings Songbook: A Pause for Grief and Searching For What’s Next https://houstonnewmedia.org/houston-artists-silver-linings-songbook-a-pause-for-grief-and-searching-for-whats-next/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=houston-artists-silver-linings-songbook-a-pause-for-grief-and-searching-for-whats-next Mon, 30 Mar 2020 09:30:00 +0000 https://www.houstonpress.com/arts/the-disruptive-force-of-the-coronavirus-in-houstons-arts-and-lives-11461552 Before 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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]]> 30887 Beach Bunny Leaps Into Secret Group with Honeymoon Tour https://houstonnewmedia.org/beach-bunny-leaps-into-secret-group-with-honeymoon-tour/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=beach-bunny-leaps-into-secret-group-with-honeymoon-tour Sun, 01 Mar 2020 13:42:00 +0000 https://www.houstonpress.com/music/last-night-beach-bunny-at-secret-group-11452399 In between songs is the ideal time for a front-woman to hydrate onstage. With the heat of the lights, the stench of sweat from the crowd, and hollering into the mike about relationships that you wish would just work themselves out, a girl's gotta drink...

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]]> 22287 Beach Bunny to Bring Honeymoon to Secret Group https://houstonnewmedia.org/beach-bunny-to-bring-honeymoon-to-secret-group/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=beach-bunny-to-bring-honeymoon-to-secret-group Wed, 26 Feb 2020 11:00:00 +0000 https://www.houstonpress.com/music/beach-bunny-to-play-secret-group-11448967 When Lili Trifilio studied journalism at DePaul University, she probably didn’t anticipate her then-solo project Beach Bunny would blossom into a fully formed pop-punk outfit playing festival sets or headlining a near sold out national tour in support ...

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]]> 21223 Kat Edmonson Dreams Big Ahead of Heights Theater Concert https://houstonnewmedia.org/kat-edmonson-dreams-big-ahead-of-heights-theater-concert/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kat-edmonson-dreams-big-ahead-of-heights-theater-concert Mon, 17 Feb 2020 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.houstonpress.com/music/kat-edmonson-to-play-heights-theater-11443071 As they are in Edgar Allen Poe’s “Dream Within a Dream,” or Christopher Nolan’s Inception, dreams are a point of fascination for Houston-native jazz singer Kat Edmonson on her newest album Dreamers Do. The concept album embarks on a nocturnal journey, ...

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]]> 18793 UH Welcomes International Guest Performers and Scholars for Beethoven 250 UH 2020 Festival https://houstonnewmedia.org/uh-welcomes-international-guest-performers-and-scholars-for-beethoven-250-uh-2020-festival/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=uh-welcomes-international-guest-performers-and-scholars-for-beethoven-250-uh-2020-festival Mon, 10 Feb 2020 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.houstonpress.com/arts/uh-to-honor-beethoven-with-two-week-music-festival-11437787 Beethoven’s music has a knack for embedding itself in our DNA. If the human brain came hardwired with a pre-set music library, his greatest hits likely loom atop that short list. With a limitless legacy and a persona bolstered by melodic achievements o...

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