Steve Selfridge has created what might be Houston's most underrated - and therefore perfect - dive bar way out west on Dunvale at Richmond. You can smoke cigars on the sprawling patio. You can order ten-pound buckets of crawfish in season. You can eat a whole lobster or a steak-and-baked-potato on the cheap during certain nightly specials. And you can usually see some excellent blues and and classic rock cover bands while you're chowing down. Better yet - even if you don't bring a friend, you'll likely have made a few by the time you leave.
Houston’s Rick Lee cites blues guitarist and singer Otis Rush as a major influence and the reason he started playing the blues. Lee heard a song called “All Your Love (I Miss Loving),” which Rush wrote back in the '50s and was later covered by John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers while Eric Clapton...
Weird Al Yankovic Revention Music Center, August 18 From Michael Jackson and Nirvana on down, Weird Al Yankovic’s signature combo of whimsy and total squareness has sucked the hot air out of plenty of music’s biggest egos, and the list of artists foolish enough to challenge his parodies of their...
Tuesday nights in Houston can seem a little dead, with some bars and clubs in our city not even bothering to open up; several places in town are rocking on Tuesday nights, however, which is why we present this list to you. Many of us have to get up early so...
Blonde Redhead Fitzgerald’s, June 30 After an early push by Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley, Blonde Redhead have become one of the most unpredictable and adventurous bands on the New York City art-rock scene, often radically changing elements of their sound from one album to the next while retaining a...
Houston was given the popular nickname H-Town some time ago, and the name has resonated within our city and beyond; the term seems to have originated in Houston's hip-hop and rap community, from what we can nail down. An R&B group known as H-Town that formed in 1991 is from...
DJ Sun The Flat, July 21 On last year's One Hundred -- amazingly, his first-ever full-length release -- DJ Sun pours his 20-plus-year career as one of Houston's most in-demand DJs into a seamless work that never lulls, never lags and maintains an unshakably mellow groove throughout. Its intricately laid-back...
John Egan The Big Easy, December 9 Solo bluesman John Egan sings in a tone that suggests someone is constantly walking over his grave, and his lyrics are loaded with bad mojo like nature gone haywire and apocalyptic visions. All he needs live is his National Resonator, one of those...
Phantogram House of Blues, Monday 28 A duo from upstate New York, Phantogram will scratch that same after-hours electro-pop itch as School of Seven Bells' enchanting 2012 LP Ghostory. On two albums for Barsuk Records and now a new eponymous EP on Republic Records, Josh Carter and Sarah Bechtel slide...
We got to partake in the pleasure that is the Hideaway on Dunvale for steak night one Tuesday, and it included the magical blues stylings of Rick Lee & The Night Owls. Lee and his band do ZZ Top, Bobby "Blue" Bland and B.B. King covers. The Hideaway is a...