Chelsea Miller Self-titled After a surprise sold-out show at Anderson Fair this past weekend, Missouri City’s, Chelsea Miller should start garnering serious attention around the Texas folk/ singer-songwriter scene. Chelsea Miller’s new, self-titled album is a little under 20 minutes of something Houston is not used to in it’s musicians- singing PRECISELY in key… ON ALL THE SONGS, lush harmonies, and string layers to give it that rich, hyper-produced, 96.5 feel. Produced by John Glover, this album will give girls plenty of moments to picture themselves on the cover of a Danielle Steele novel. For fans of Sarah Mclachlan, Fiona ... Read More »

Jana HunterThere’s no Home Ok. This album has gotten WAY too much press. Whenever someone becomes the media darling for little reason they need to get called out. This sordid amalgamation of poorly written melodies and redundant robot lyrics sat in my car for months until it slowly grew on me. I soon loved it. Then I hated it again. Shelby calls this “music indie chicks like to get fucked by.” That may be true. But that still does not explain the churning in my lower intestine. Pooh-pooh? Perhaps. Read More »

Riff TiffsAfflictinnitus Seen the Riff Tiffs live? You should. This band is masters of slowly building a crescendo without prematurely ejaculation. (Sorry for the lewd comparison but it was the most fitting thing I could come up with.) Riff Tiffs find a cleaner sound and a more concise direction on this album than ever before. This is strong exemplified on what is my favorite track of the album, ‘Cornman’. They take a break for the school year to pursue higher education but should grace us with an appearance at the October Westheimer Block Party. Read More »

By Him and Shelby Generic TribeThe Dressmaker, The Drone, and the Yellow This 26 track album makes 7 for the Generic Tribe. The band is known for genre-bouncing and does so with utter fluidity on the album. Vocalist Mojo Jamima-hand finds a perfect balance of grit and beauty on the Lennon-sounding ‘Strange Look’. His carefully panned guitar faintly resembles a cello on the track without sounding ‘plug-in-esque’. . G-Tribe is also masterful at any exercise in hip-hop. Bassist Tyler finds bright spots and slick rhymes on Keys to the Kingdom. All the damn way around, this is an album to ... Read More »

Arthur Yoria Handshake Smiles Review by Jeremy Hart I’ve never met a musician, from Houston or anywhere else, who can reinvent themselves as effortlessly from album to album as Arthur Yoria seems to. Just when I think I’ve got him pegged, he slips out the side and does something totally off the map from what he’s done in the past, whether it’s shifting from a smooth seducer to a freaked-out, amps-on-eleven rocker or from a rocker to a playful Spanish-speaking troubadour. With Handshake Smiles, then, Yoria’s shifted, chameleon-like, from all of those things into, well, himself. He’s gotten a little ... Read More »