Nathan Smith
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Karbach Brewery Hosts the Weekend's Other Music Fest at Foamhenge
A strange mishmash of metal styles and eras made for a fun, sudsy festival at Karbach Brewery on Sunday. → Read More
Last Night: Necrofier at the Secret Group
Necrofier, Black Vice, Baptized by Fire and Primordial Hollow The Secret Group August 2, 2019 “Hell on Earth” has long been a pretty fair assessment of Houston in August, and the description was especially apt on Friday night. If the temperatures on the streets of EaDo gave after-work revelers a... → Read More
New-look Oceans of Slumber Headlines White Oak Music Hall on Saturday
Houston's Oceans of Slumber travel to Europe next month, but before they do, the band will debut its new lineup in a hometown that has never quite known what to do with them. → Read More
Hell's Heroes Delivers 9 Hours of Headbanging Metal To Houston
Houston's premier, traditional heavy metal festival took over White Oak Music Hall on Saturday. → Read More
Houston Headbangers Hold Benefit for Family of Late Texas Metal Icon Bruce Corbitt
A benefit Saturday for the famly of the late Bruce Corbitt, headlined by James Rivera’s Metal Asylum, will offer a diverse bill of some of Houston’s best heavy acts—half of whom are only rarely seen onstage here. → Read More
Last Night: Deafheaven and Baroness Rattle White Oak Music Hall
Last night White Oak Music Hall hosted a double-headliner bill with Baroness and Deafheaven, a couple of modern, heavy acts dripping with distorted, melodic textures. → Read More
New Houston Metal Supergroup Necrofier Descends to Eradicate the False
New Texas black metal supergroup Necrofier, featuring members of Venomous Maximus and Oceans of Slumber, comes howling out of hell on debut EP. → Read More
Heavy-Music Overlords Omotai's New Album, A Ruined Oak, Available Now
A lot has changed since Omotai's last album came out in 2014, but they're still the loudest band in town. → Read More
Kyle Hubbard's Long Drives Pay Off With All Good Things Must Come
The popular rapper's new album bridges the sizable gap between Houston and Little Rock. → Read More
Houston Doom-Metal Titans Venomous Maximus Offer No Warning On New Album
The acclaimed H-Town doom-metal unit open up about their surprising soft spot for...Def Leppard? → Read More
Blues Funeral Releases Awakenings at White Oak Music Hall
The headbanging band of locals has some organ riffs you'll want to hear. → Read More
Double Cups and Taco Trucks Puts T2 the Ghetto Hippie at a New Creative High
No Houston rapper sounds like they're having more fun than T2 the Ghetto Hippie, and he'd like you to join him in a twisted reality dominated by Double Cups and Taco Trucks. → Read More
Review: South Park Coalition 30th Anniversary Show July 29 2017 at Warehouse Live
Houston's original rap clique celebrated the togetherness that has kept them going for three decades at Warehouse Live on Saturday night. → Read More
Review: Vans Warped Tour at NRG Park Houston July 30 2017
This was one music festival where shade was more precious than drugs. → Read More
An Old Person's Guide to Surviving the 2017 Vans Warped Tour
If you've known a world before the release of Green Day's Dookie, here's how to get through what will be a very long, hot Sunday. → Read More
Metallica Just Came to Houston, So Obviously Megadeth Had to Come
Megadeth still takes a backseat to no one in the talent department—not Metallica, nor their own tourmates. → Read More
Metallica Carries the Torch for Stadium Rock at NRG
Anyone who appreciates a first-rate rock and roll spectacle has to root for Metallica at least a little. → Read More
B L A C K I E Remains Record Release at Civic TV Laboratories May 13 2017
Houston's preeminent/only noise rap savant delivered his new record like a shovel to the face. → Read More
Over the Weeknd, the Starboy Splashed Down in Space City
Canada's other pop superstar-boy made himself at home in Toyota Center Saturday night. → Read More
Jandek at Rice University Hamman Hall 4/21/2017
An artsy crowd showed up Friday to see the homegrown enigma, and of course had no idea what to expect. → Read More