AltWeeklies Wire
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
Song Lyrics Attest to Superman's Enduring Appealnew
Superman is mentioned in over 280 songs. The Man of Steel has become easy shorthand for the American dream or the Purveyor of Your Wildest Sexual Fantasies.
Houston Press |
Rob Harvilla |
11-16-2004 |
Music
Holly's Hobbynew
The elusive Brit who's become a garage-rock cult figure says she went about becoming a musician haphazardly, with no particular strategy. It just happened. She could have been a truck driver.
Houston Press |
Michael Roberts |
11-08-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Rockin' in the Free World: Soundtracks for Election Night Shindigsnew
Just as you can't have a Red State Mix Tape without Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA," neither can you have a Blue State tape without Springsteen's "Born in the USA."
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
11-02-2004 |
Music
Wigged Gigs: The Wildest Shows in Houston Historynew
One reason people go to live music shows is to see some real, live, good old-fashioned mayhem. Coupling music and egos with drugs and alcohol leads to creepy scenes, anarchy and violence.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
10-12-2004 |
Concerts
A Star Is Rebornnew
Mike Haaga may no longer be the metal merchant he was in dead horse, one of Houston's most beloved bands of the 1990s, but he's still every bit the genius he was then.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
09-14-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Rick James RIP, Bitch: DJs Pay Homage to the Funky Onenew
Rick James was a junkie who banged black (and white) models, as did the Rolling Stones. What's more, he was utterly unrepentant about it all from glorious beginning to sorry downfall to pitiful end.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
08-23-2004 |
Music
Blackbird Fly: Americana the Way It Ought to Benew
The Houston native's music manages to sound both Depression-era vintage and strikingly contemporary, while her songs are full of pleas for good old-fashioned morphine and desperate failed romances, not to mention the talking starfish and singing mermaids that gambol and frolic on the beaches of her adopted San Francisco home.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
08-23-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
