Rock fans out in Clear Lake don't have venture past I-45 to get their live fix. Scout Bar is the go-to place for mid-level modern rock acts and a few scattered local showcases by hopeful young bands. The sound here is brutally crisp, brought to you by a member of local faves The Hunger, who should know a little about putting on a rock show. The bar is elevated a few feet from the main stage, allowing you to sip a beer at the bar while still getting to see all the action. This place does fill up pretty damn quick on Fridays and Saturdays, so make sure you head down south a bit early to stake a decent parking spot.
If you spend any time around Houston music, you'll come across people who give their time, efforts and energy back to the scene with little or no reward. Bayou City music circles are crowded with people whose day job may pay the bills but spend their nights promoting what they...
On warm spring day a few months back, I found myself navigating the wide grid of roads of farmland and homesteads that sit just west of highway 288. I’d been given the opportunity to attend Houston’s metalcore band Blood of an Outlaw’s weekly scheduled practice session, and met the invitation...
If you're looking for something to do in Houston this weekend, why not step into a time machine? What's that, you say? Time machines don't exist? Lies. Two, in fact, have pulled up to Houston's beloved music venues Scout Bar and Walters, and are operating exclusively tonight and Sunday night...
SANTIGOLD House of Blues, March 21 Santigold’s contemporary sound tends to mask what a veteran she is. By the time of her 2007 breakout single, “L.E.S. Artistes,” the 39-year-old Philadelphia native (nee Santi White) had already worked in Epic Records’ A&R department, sang lead for the Philly punk band Stiffed,...
On Sunday, Houston’s heavy-metal community will mourn the passing and celebrate the life of one of the scene’s biggest champions. Scout Bar will host an all-day memorial concert to help raise funds for the family of Bill “The Master” Bates, one of the city’s longest-running and best-loved DJs. Bates was a...
Original KISS members Ace Frehley and Paul Stanley have not been on the best of terms in recent years. The two have trashed each other through the press, with Stanley, who is Jewish (as is Gene Simmons) going so far as to claim that Frehley is anti-Semitic in his autobiography,...
Karl Sanders is a hidden gem in the world of metal, but only because his band, Nile, misses the mainstream by a long shot. Which is unfortunate for a band who features not only Sanders on guitar but drumming marvel George Kollias. Yet Nile as a whole remains unique both...
JAREKUS SINGLETON Dosey Doe Music Cafe, Thursday, January 28 If the blues hasn’t completely gone the way of the dodo the way many people once expected, it’s largely because of performers like Jarekus Singleton. Born into a family of church singers, the 31-year-old Mississippi native worked his way up from...
Despite the turmoil that has followed Queensyrche in recent years with former front man Geoff Tate's dramatic departure in 2012 and the heated legal battle that followed, Queensyrche are eagerly looking to start a new chapter on last fall's Condition Human. Like a progressive-metal phoenix, the band has remarkably risen...