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An improvised-music summit offers contrasting experiences of community and austerity

by Bill Meyer July 12, 2021August 18, 2021

The double album Houston 2012 captures a two-day encounter in October 2012 between English tabletop guitarist Keith Rowe and the experimental-music community of Houston, Texas. Rowe’s visit came about thanks […]

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Your Arms Are My Cocoon pulls off a strange combination of bedroom pop and screamo

by Leor Galil November 13, 2020August 18, 2021

Before Tyler Odom moved to Chicago this year, he had the wild idea to take bedroom pop’s fragile instrumentation and whispered vocals and mash them together with screamo’s bleating hollers […]

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Exhalants transplant the sounds of New York and Chicago into their muscular Austin noise-rock

by Luca Cimarusti September 28, 2020August 18, 2021

On their self-titled debut full-length in 2018, Austin’s Exhalants sounded oddly like a Chicago band. Austin noise-rock has a very specific feel: whether we’re talking about the unhinged no wave […]

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Willie Nelson offers end-of-the-road life lessons on First Rose of Spring

by Salem Collo-Julin August 20, 2020August 18, 2021

Melancholy shoots right out of the gate on Willie Nelson’s new full-length, First Rose of Spring. The album opens with its title track, a sweet but ultimately tragic love song […]

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Nicole Mitchell and Lisa E. Harris explore soulful Afrofuturist visions on EarthSeed

by Steve Krakow July 11, 2020August 18, 2021

A friend in Houston recently described multidisciplinary artist and space goddess Lisa E. Harris as a “force of nature” in the Texas scene and beyond. Upon investigation, I had to […]

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Khruangbin make sophisticated sounds from far-flung places on their dynamic third album

by Rob Levy June 29, 2020August 18, 2021

If you’ve ever wondered what Motown would sound like if it had been born not in Detroit but on the streets of Karachi or Kingston or in the surf dens […]

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Texan interdisciplinary artist and guitarist Sandy Ewen releases her first solo LP

by Bill Meyer April 24, 2020August 18, 2021

Sandy Ewen’s music is a constant series of negotiations. She’s constantly seeing what new sounds she can get out of her guitar, using found objects such as steel-wool scrubbing pads, […]

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Black Pumas create the music of true soul mates

by Catalina Maria Johnson March 13, 2020August 18, 2021

Update: To help slow the spread of COVID-19, these shows have been postponed until August 27 and 28. Tickets already purchased will be honored at that time. Contact point of […]

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Nonpareil improvising guitarist Sandy Ewen returns to Chicago

by Bill Meyer January 31, 2020August 18, 2021

Ever since guitarist Sandy Ewen moved from Texas to New York City in 2017, she’s been a prolific performer, both at conventional venues (Bushwick Public House, Downtown Music Gallery) and […]

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Houston rapper Maxo Kream excavates his past for one of 2019’s best hip-hop releases

by Leor Galil October 25, 2019August 18, 2021

Few rappers sound as comfortable with introspection as Houston’s Emekwanem Ogugua Biosah Jr., aka Maxo Kream. Even the title of his recent second album, Brandon Banks (RCA/Big Persona/88 Classic), references […]

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‘Women are the most powerful political force in America right now,’ Cecile Richards says

by Allison Duncan April 12, 2018August 18, 2021

The Planned Parenthood leader will be in town this weekend to talk with David Axelrod about her memoir Make Trouble.

Posted inBlogs

This week on FilmStruck: Deep in the heart of Texas

by Patrick Friel March 16, 2018August 18, 2021

FilmStruck finds more than western films deep in the heart of Texas.

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Up yours! A satanic Kermit takes over a good Lutheran kid in Victory Gardens’ Hand to God

by Tony Adler September 29, 2016August 18, 2021

Alex Weisman is masterfully schizoid in a dark comedy written by Robert Askins and directed by Gary Griffin.

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A brand-new ripper from OBN IIIs, who play a CIMMfest show on Saturday

by Luca Cimarusti April 15, 2016August 18, 2021

OBN IIIs wear their love of Thin Lizzy on their sleeves on the new “Rich Old White Men.”

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Texas abolishes (the history of) slavery

by Michael Miner October 7, 2015August 18, 2021

On Texas’s slave-free new geography book

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