Foo Fighters could quite possibly be the last of the greatest rock bands to ever exist. Dave Grohl and the boys are giving the world a run for their ear drums. The band just recently had their world premiere in Austin’s own SXSW with their first documentary “Foo Fighters: Back and Forth” along with playing a pop up show that surprised the city by playing a secret show at Stubb’s which holds an estimated 1,800 capacitation as well as small secret shows in Los Angeles clubs. Very special for a band that travels the world playing inside stadiums! As if ... Read More »

Something Fierce (l to r) Andrew Keith, Niki Sevven, and Steven Garcia (Photo uncredited)   The last album by Something Fierce, There Are No Answers, was a bulletproof 12-pack of pop-punk perfection.  Finally, after roughly two years, the band celebrates the release of their follow-up,  Don’t be So Cruel, this Friday at Mangos.  Most bands who have honed their sound as well as Something Fierce has, would be happy to simply give you more of the same with maybe a few tweaks or refinement to the sound but Steven Garcia, Niki Sevven, and Andrew Keith didn’t take that route with this record. Instead, the band chose to ... Read More »

By Alex Wukman Let’s go back to February 13, 2025. America was listening to Beyonce’s number one hit “Irreplacable” while waiting for Nicolas Cage to make a fool of himself in Ghost Rider. Just days erlier newly announced Presidential candidate Barrack Obama had made  his first gaffe and Asia watchers were excited by the announcement that the US and North Korea had reached a tenative agreement on the Hermit Kingdom’s nuclear disarmament. And on the local scene, progressives throughout Houston were pleased when the City announced that Earthlink had been selected as the provider for the soon to be built municipal wi-fi network, which was supposed to be operational by the ... Read More »

By Alex Wukman Unless you are a regular reader of right wing sites Pajamas Media and Big Government you wouldn’t have known that t Houston based ‘election integrity’ group True the Vote held its first annual summit Saturday, March 25, and Sunday, March 26.  For anyone not familiar with True the Vote; they, and their parent organization King Street Patriots, gained attention after allegations of voter intimidation and misinformation surfaced last fall. The allegations led to a voter intimidation lawsuit being filed against the group by the Texas Democratic Party and further allegations that former Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector Leo ... Read More »

The medieval horror thriller Black Death moves into the  River Oaks Three for a limited midnight run on April 1 and 2. Set in England in 1348 at the outbreak of the bubonic plague the story follows a group of religious zealots who are hunting down a necromancer. They believe that a society in a hidden village has the power to raise the dead and they want to raze said village to the ground. Led by Ulric (Sean Bean) and with Osmund (Eddie Redmayne) a young monk as their guide the group marches through the woods with their implements of ... Read More »

You’ve read the magazines before of all the zaney love letters and pictures they find right? Well FOUND! has a new trick up it’s sleeve or shall we say on the screen. This time they bring you found footage of anything that could possibly be thought of. The Found Footage Festival will be at Fitzgerald’s tonight!  Tuesday 29 March. Doors are at 8pm and only $10! Get there, drink beer, and find! – Jacob Read More »

By Alex Wukman For anyone who knows Texas, Brazoria County is an odd place. The northern part of the county is home to the affluent Houston suburb of Pearland while the southern part of the county is dominated by a massive Dow Chemical refinery and skyrocketing cancer rates, which have yet to be conclusively linked by science. The towns that dot coastal Brazoria County, like Freeport and Surfside, are known for local fishermen dragging portable generators and lights on to jetties at times many people are getting home from last call. Like many other small coastal towns they are also ... Read More »

By Jack Daniel Betz Although not nearly as well-attended as Austin’s SXSW festival, The Super Happy Fun Land SXSW Overflow series has been providing bands from all over the world gigs here in Houston for the past two weeks. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday night were especially lively, despite the disappointing turn out. MARCH 21 Monday night was packed with bands but I only made the second half of the show. The first band that went on was the moody, Swiss noise band Disco Doom. Thunderous guitar and mysteriously oblique vocals marked the performance. The guitar player succeeded gloriously at moments ... Read More »

It’s nothing if not ironic that a movie designed to create awareness of the fragility of the lion, whose numbers in the last 50 years have plummeted from 450,000 to 20,000, depicts some of the bloodiest and most intense animal confrontations ever filmed. The whole circle of life writ large. The Last Lions was made by the team of Beverly and Dereck Joubert, and as a documentary Lions stands on its own plateau. As a filmmaking team the Joubert’s catch images of unbelievable beauty and as often unrelenting violence by living and breathing the same air as their subjects. The ... Read More »

By Alex Wukman For once Dave Dove isn’t smiling. The affable founder of Nameless Sound, who grabbed audiences’ attention over two decades ago as part of the seminal ska/funk band Sprawl, rests his hand on his chin and listens in rapt attention as legendary jazz trombonist Roswell Rudd’s latest project the Trombone Tribe breathes new life into Fats Waller’s often overlooked classic “Blue Turning Gray Over You.” Rudd, reaching back to his days leading a Dixieland band at Yale, lets his trombone ooze sweaty Gulf Coast jazz mixed with fat-back bar blues all over the stage at Diverseworks. His familiarity ... Read More »