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UGK Strongly Advise You Quit Hating the Southnew
While Underground Kingz doesn't move me the way Super Tight and Ridin' Dirty once did, it feels like a very promising kickoff for the second phase of UGK's career.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
08-21-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: UGK, Underground Kingz
'Avant Gershwin' is a Quiet Treasurenew
Austin captures the musicality of the Gershwins' tunes, making them seem timely without losing the timelessness of the songs.
Houston Press |
Olivia Flores Alvarez |
07-10-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Avant Gershwin, Patti Austin
Walking Ashland is Often Called Piano Rocknew
For the most part, that's an accurate description.
Houston Press |
Olivia Flores Alvarez |
04-23-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: The Well, Waking Ashland
It's All In Herenew
Gene and Dean Ween take another stab at the music world's fat underbelly.
Houston Press |
Olivia Flores Alvarez |
08-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Ween, Shinola, Volume 1
Meandering Toward Outlawismnew
It doesn't take a Billboard bachelor's to figure this isn't going to get much play on country radio stations still slingin' ass-kickin' anthems about colors that don't run produced by assholes who can't sing.
Houston Press |
Robert Wilonsky |
05-30-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Dixie Chicks, Taking the Long Way
Proceed With Cautionnew
There are moments on this record so unsettlingly weird that I hesitate to even describe them for fear of some sort of karmic retribution.
Houston Press |
Scott Faingold |
05-09-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Scott Walker, The Drift
Scarfacenew
Scarface's latest release features more of his homies than his self.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
04-10-2006 |
Reviews
Frustration Aboundsnew
Listening to this CD is kinda like watching tennis on 10x fast-forward.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
03-21-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Three Fantastic
An Expanded Scopenew
Pollard's new album can get a bit exhausting in its almost macho, chip-on-the-shoulder ambitiousness, but he sounds anything but tired.
Houston Press |
Scott Faingold |
02-21-2006 |
Reviews
Eccentric and Dynamicnew
This disc is an apparent gene-splice of Tom Waits with Lou Reed, as backed up by members of the Band and Lambchop.
Houston Press |
Scott Faingold |
02-14-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Sam Winch, The Lullabadeer
Revisiting a Legendnew
Snooks Eaglin somehow fits an entire jazz band into his guitar.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
02-14-2006 |
Reviews
Slick Dancehall Monotonynew
Former water polo star Sean Henriques reinvented himself as Sean Paul and became dancehall's urban-crossover poster child, but success may have gone to his head.
Houston Press |
Eric K. Arnold |
01-10-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Sean Paul, The Trinity
Skewering Musical Absurditiesnew
This Los Angeles duo serves up super-geeky and utterly engaging musical parodies of soft rock ballads, cheesy Latin pop and patriotic mainstream country.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
01-03-2006 |
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Slanted Enchantmentnew
A jazz quartet's tribute to Pavement is, inexplicably, a roaring success.
Houston Press |
Rob Harvilla |
01-03-2006 |
Reviews
Boxing the Rocknew
A music reviewer names six of the year’s best multi-disc sets, and one of the worst.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
11-30-2004 |
Reviews
