Fantasy is the kind of album you listen to intently and without skipping a track. It feels at odds with today’s hurried, Tiktok-ready music economy. And yet, songs on the album are already sound bites, perfectly capable of existing par eux-mêmes, each a soundtrack for the adventure-starved and nostalgic. TheContinue Reading
Rauw Alejandro took us out of this world with his SATURNO World Tour at Toyota Center this weekend in Houston. Saturno, the latest project by Puerto Rican artist Rauw Alejandro, brings his artistry into a whole new realm. The experimental sounds coupled with 80s disco funk, perreo dance tunes andContinue Reading
Tuesday night Houston metalheads received one heck of a lineup with Cradle Of Filth, Devil Driver, Black Satellite, and ONI. Popular downtown venue Warehouse Live hosted the shenanigans and prepared us all for an interesting night to come. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to be there in time for the firstContinue Reading
Fans of two queer pop icons were faced with a great dilemma Saturday night: To go to Jake Wesley Rogers’ sold out Peace, Love & Pluto show at the Bronze Peacock, or, right across the hallway, to Betty Who’s BIG! Houston stop in the House of Blues main room. LuckyContinue Reading
August Burns Red returned to Houston for their 20-year Anniversary Tour! The Band played at the legendary downtown spot, The House of Blues on Thursday, February 23rd. Featured acts for the tour included The Devils Wears Prada, and Bleed from Within. A crowd was building outside as they waited forContinue Reading
By no means was I born in a small town. I’ve grown up in the comfort of the suburbs my whole life, with rare national media depictions and Texas horse grazing acting as my only proper foundations to understand the rural farm boy life. Thus, nothing stood out when IContinue Reading
In the 7-minute chronicle “2007” that concludes his most recent album The Forever Story, JID presents a fascinating, chronological narration of the come-up with guest vocals from 3 different mentors – Dreamville president Ibrahim Hamad, his father Carl Route Jr., and fellow rapper J. Cole. The aforementioned album focused onContinue Reading
There is a small window of time when, among those special bands that are destined to capture the zeitgeist of a genre and advance to large venues and chart toping records, fans can simply walk into a small studio and experience their music with out the pageantry and, yes, theContinue Reading
When I looked up “Trap music” on Wikipedia, the article listed three pioneer rappers: Gucci Mane, T.I., and Young Jeezy. While the 45-year-old Jeezy may not be so young anymore, he certainly performed as if he was an up-and-coming artist in the Atlanta hip-hop scene, just trying to make itContinue Reading
All Photographs by Stephanie Tacy How do you say goodbye to the King of Reggaetón? To the man who made Reggaetón a worldwide genre? To the man who taught us how to shake our hips to the legendary song “Gasolina”? I decided that the best way to show two decade’sContinue Reading