How did I not know this was written by Bobbie Gentry?
Each Thursday for the Houston Press Music Blog, Craigers and I do a joint column called He Said She Said where we pick our ten favorite songs on a certain subject. We’ve written about first dates, New Year’s resolutions and music from the Oughts*. This week the Houston Rodeo comes to town, probably the biggest [...]
Saw their first two songs at Walter’s tonight after the Kinky Friedman show at Mucky Duck. Had to come home to do school work and work work. But they were awesome. I’m sold.
So I was mistaken in my last post. The photog did take a lot of pics of English Beat, and you can see them in a slideshow on the Houston Press website. Sorry Marco.
I’ve read fellow music writers (including some of my colleagues) write about the feeling of hearing a musical legend or infatuation play a certain favorite song, and feeling so content with the experience that they knew if they died on the way home they’d die happy. I’ve never really had that feeling before, either in [...]
I also want to play the drums.
If you look too long it will completely hypnotize you.
This is freaking me out this morning:
There’s been a lot of lament lately for Houston’s concert-goers and their extremely bad manners. Of particular offense is a crowd’s collective tendency to TALK AT FULL VOLUME during a show. This is especially annoying when the talkers are right in front of the stage, taking up space that someone who is there to actually [...]