The Ten Best Music Videos Banned by MTV

MTV has gotten some flack for censorship over the course of its 30 years on the air. The station, in addition to helping proliferate the music video concept, is equally known, it seems, for bleeping words, playing only censored versions of certain videos, relegating racy videos to late-night play only…

Last Night: Katy Perry and Robyn at the Verizon Theater

Katy Perry, Robyn Verizon Theater in Grand Praire July 28, 2011 Better than: the petroleum aftertaste of cherry chapstick. A lingering cotton candy scent filled the Verizon Theater last night as four displays beamed the beginning of the Wizard of Oz-inspired story that would thematically tie together Katy Perry’s California Dreams Tour…

Poster of the Week: Fortune Field at Dada on Saturday, July 30

Fortune Field’s a pretty new band on the scene, one that combines some rootsy elements with a little bit of a rock influence — and well enough, we’d say, where you should pretty much immediately elevate these dudes to “Local Band to Watch” status in your little black book. Because,…

MP3 Premiere: Madison King — “Nazarene”

On Saturday night at City Tavern, singer-songwriter Madison King will celebrate the release of her pretty highly anticipated debut full-length, Darlin, Here’s to You, which counts among its backing performers such area mainstays as Ryan Thomas Becker, as well as members of The King Bucks, Homespun Remedies and Here in…

Watch: Air Review — “My Automatic”

The last time we formally checked in with Air Review was back in April, when the band, in the wake of a similar announcement from Good Records Recordings, passed along the word that they too would be (for the most part) dropping the album concept from their release plans moving…

Last Night: Moonface, Flow Child, Nervous Curtains at Dada

Moonface, Flow Child, Nervous Curtains Dada Wednesday, July 27, 2011 Better than: the Rangers’ performance that night, by a moonshot. Moonface is essentially Spencer Krug’s solo project, the purest distillation of the twisted melodies and lyrical longing we’re likely to hear any time soon from the yelpier of Wolf Parade’s…

Chingo Bling

Chingo Bling, also known as “The Versace Mariachi” or “El Real Tex Mex,” is one of Houston’s most prominent representatives of the Southern Latino hip-hop community, a character that’s about as down-South Tex-Mex as taco trucks and cowboy hats. And he seamlessly stitches the two into his rap repartee. Chingo,…