Calling On A Restless Feeling: Steve Gunn
Steve Gunn. Photo by Constance Mensh Life moves. Transient in nature — physically,…
International Noise Conference at Notsuoh
Laundry Room Squelchers. Photo taken from the band’s website. Houston will get loud this…
The Good Life: The Best of The Week
I don’t think I’m speaking out of turn when I say that Weezer felt out of touch with their own sound until they dropped their latest release, (White Album). A true return to form, they’ll rock out those tunes alongside old favorites in front of their trademark winged W logo…
Local Love: Young Girls
When I always think of Houston’s Young Girls, I always think of their ferociously tight and terse sound that’s closer to a garage rock and bubblegum mixture of bands like Stiff Little Fingers and Television. Where their first release had hints of bands like The Replacements and The Cure, and their second release felt like an homage to three part harmonies, their new album Party Blood feels closer to Protomartyr than anything they’ve done in the past…
After FPSF: Things Have Definitely Changed
Every year, the one thing that I look forward to is covering the yearly Free Press Summer Fest. In fact, the festival itself was one of the deciding factors when applying to write for Free Press Houston three years ago. No matter what was happening at music festivals around the country, Houston had its own music festival with FPSF, and the beauty of it was that it felt like it was ours…
Number 69: An Interview with Melvins
Melvins. Photo provided by band. Metal, punk, rock, noise, or whatever…
Goodness Is Great: Five Questions With The Hotelier
There was a band who came through as a support act that I was really drawn to, and that was Massachusettes’ The Hotelier. These guys seem to have really gotten what emocore was really all about when it began, and their 2024 album Home, Like Noplace Is There, was one of my favorites from that year. Now the band is back with a more mature sound on their latest, Goodness…
Word Problems: The Best of The Week
Saturday you can get going at NRG Park (Yellow Lot, 1 NRG Park) for this year’s Free Press Summer Fest. For the second year in a row, mother nature has decided that the ground will be overly wet and the festival has had to relocate…
Everything But Music with Gio Chamba
For this week’s installment of Everything But Music — a series in which…
