Photo by Nicole Kibert By: Ramon Medina FPH asked folks in the music community for their highlights or thoughts on 2025.  Here’s what they told us: B.E. Godfrey (listenlisten) Houston in 2025 was paused, anxiously awaiting its impending doom. Like a nervous child awaiting the inevitable punishment from misdeeds, frantically still, imagining every possible scenario. In such a close proximity to the center of Mayan rule, our fate is sensed in the bones of every emotionally-tuned Houstonian. Deeply aware that we’ll surely receive the first wave of apocalyptic destruction. Bob Weber (Anarchitex) There is a migration of bent genius into ... Read More »

by Will Guess Remember when bands in the late 80s and early 90s had a limitless budget and were able to create elaborate, ridiculous music videos?  With a budget of $4 million and Axl Rose’s genius mind, it is the indisputable truth that “Estranged” by Guns N’ Roses is the greatest music video of all time.  Before your inner dialogue starts and tells you why you’re right and I’m wrong, allow me to present to you a series of exhibits that includes a walkthrough and screenshots to prove it. Exhibit A: The video opens with an enormous amount of police, ... Read More »

 This Week’s Featured Show Black Leather Jesus Continuum Sandy Ewen @ Fresh Arts ARC (2101 Winter St.; 8PM) This week Christmas comes early for Noize fans (courtesy of Sandy Ewen) as Black Leather Jesus performs this weekend at Fresh Arts ARC.  Noisemaker Richard Ramirez has been behind BLJ since 1989 and despite being what many would consider a fringe subset of music (and some would even argue against it even being music) he has managed to receive quite a bit of notice and acclaim among music freaks.  Thurston Moore (you may have heard of him from a band by the ... Read More »

STOKED!!! continues this week with Zahira Gutierrez of Wild Moccasins who will be opening for the Elephant Six, indie poppers of Montreal. Read More »

Enter Alex Minoff: guitarist in bands such as Golden, Extra Golden, The Make Up, Weird War, etc., basketball enthusiast, person of 6 feet or more Read More »

By: Erin Dyer CO Big or CO Home! COHouston– a community-driven initiative to support, promote, and celebrate our city’s local creativity– presents its first-ever Pop-Up Festival at Fitzgerald’s (2706 White Oak) this Sunday, Dec 2. Come out for a benefit featuring live music, food, arts and craft shopping, friends, and guaranteed fun. Admission for the all-day event– from 11am to 630pm– is FREE; however, a $10 suggested donation would benefit the bands and C2Creative, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to supporting Houston’s creative community. Artists, crafters, and makers include: Abbie Drue Designs, Artist Andy, All That Dangles + Knots&Leather, BeerSox by ... Read More »

This Week’s Featured Show(s) Metal, Metal, Metal!!!! Friday, November 30 Dying Fetus Cattle Decapitation Cerebral Bore @ Warehouse Live (Studio) Saxon King Project Armageddon Black Hole Caravan @ Rudyard’s Saturday, December 01 Helstar Sanctus Bellum Metavenge Apocalyptic Axis in Collapse @ Warehouse Live (Studio) Saxon King Tailgunner Deathrazor We The Enemy @ White Swan Live Sunday December 2 Dethklok Machine Head All That Remains The Black Dahlia Murder @ House of Blues Tuesday December 4 Gaza Code Orange Kids Full of Hell Omotai @ Walter’s It’s a pretty amazing week here for Metal fans who will have to choose between some ... Read More »

John Zambrano of Muhammad Ali is really, really stoked about having helped book Canada's Freak Heat Waves this Sunday NOTSUOH. How stoked? John Zambrano - FUCKING STOKED!! Read More »

Love and loss, broken heart, moving butt. Read More »

This Week’s Featured Show Axiom 25th Anniversary Reunion Show Friday, November 23 Upstairs: Painteens (12:30am) Poor Dumb Bastards (11:45pm) Hickoids (11:00pm) Toho Ehio (10:15pm) Anarchitex ( 9:30pm) Bliss Blood  (9:00pm) Downstairs: Krullur (12:30am) Insecticide (11:30) Basilisk (10:30) HRA (Dark Reign) (9:30) Bad Samaritans (8:30) Saturday, November 24 Upstairs: Verbal Abuse (12:30am) Dresden 45 (11:45pm) Bark Hard ( 11:00pm) Sik Mentality (10:15pm) The Hates (9:30pm) Backyard Epics (9:00pm) Downstairs: The Awful Truth (12:30am) Wake (11:30pm) Contortion Session (10:30pm) Allied Aggression (9:30pm) Bad Samaritans (8:30pm) Seriously, this is one of those “I’m exhausted just looking at the line-up” kind of shows.  If ... Read More »