Stephan Wyatt
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Ogden, UT, United States
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Past articles by Stephan:
-Us Finds Happiness on New EP Contact
The glam-pop singer-songwriter finds happiness on the other side of a bad break-up. → Read More
B L A C K I E Returns With Remains, His Most Sophisticated and Finest Effort to Date
B L A C K I E zooms in on tightened arrangements, silence, space, and hooks in his most accessible album yet. → Read More
Performance Art Gone Awry Raises a Big Stink at AvantGarden
An ill-conceived prank results in a disgusting night at the beloved Montrose arts venue. → Read More
Mark Drew Pens Epic Love Letter to Acres Homes
Swishahouse Studios needs a State Historical Marker. The music – and the magic – created inside of it during the ‘90s thrust "the 44" into the national spotlight. Paul Wall, Slim Thug, Chamillionaire grew up within the once-agrarian Northside neighborhoods abandoned throughout the White Flight of the ‘50s and ‘60s... → Read More
The Mystical Origins of The Red Krayola
Note: first in an occasional series. University of St. Thomas. 1966. Conversations with an angel commence outside the Chapel of St. Thomas Aquinas. “What did Aquinas know about God?” the Angel asked people passing him. Only those soaked from head to toe in lysergic acid diethylamide could hear the angel’s... → Read More
DJ Fredster's Home and Possessions Destroyed by Apartment Fire
Wednesday's massive three-alarm fire at the Courtyard Condos in the Galleria area tore through over 30 units, leaving many former residents without a place to live while destroying many fundamental necessities and personal items that will never be replaced. Local musician Hector Garcia, known within Houston's music scene as DJ... → Read More
Alan Vega Leaves Behind a Template for Causing a Riot
Alan Vega confronted rock music’s establishment by appealing to their own consciences. In turn, they greeted him and Martin Rev, the duo forever immortalized as Suicide, with bottles, boos and spit. No guitar, no bass, no drums. Two guys armed with first a Wurlitzer, and later a Farfisa organ with... → Read More
Premiere: MNYNMS's 'Rite of Passage' EP Plumbs Poignant Electropop Depths
Electropop’s tent revival may have moved on to other mutated microgenres, but MNYNMS (pronounced Many Names) have not lost their faith. Their new EP, Rite of Passage, reaches deep into the core of personal experiences to create a poignant and atmospheric homage to electropop’s sweetness and light in four deceptively... → Read More
Exclusive: George West's "Broken" Creates an Atlas of Sound
Traveling in Texas to anywhere causes weary-eyed travelers to re-live the scene from Children of the Corn where poor Burt and Vicky think they have escaped the child-occupied death-cult town of Gatlin, Nebraska only to wind up in the same exact place they started each time. But other travelers have... → Read More
Introducing Daed and His Adventures in Glitchcore
On Halloween in the Year of Our Lord 2013, Krewella nearly destroyed the entirety of electronic-music history in less than four minutes during an episode of Good Morning America. “We’re gonna go hard!” yelled one of the Yousaf sisters. They fist-pumped. Lights stabbed away at good taste. They pressed a... → Read More
Rapper Brian Is Zé’ Lends a Reasonable Voice in Unreasonable Times
The 19th-century U.S. poet Emily Dickinson famously penned that “People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.” But would she make the same statement in a time that pits two casuistry experts knee-deep in their own harvested fields of bullshit, a year when our violence-addicted country witnessed its... → Read More
A Place to Bury Strangers Find Satisfaction in Destruction
Heard about Led Zeppelin and the mud shark? Rock and roll continues to collect mythological tales that dances on the paper-thin line between logic and bullshit. Considering he did link the recent deaths of Merle Haggard and Prince to chemtrails, controversy-courting talk-show might entertain a theory like the 1966 car... → Read More
Black Kite Lends Their Dark Art-Pop to Tonight's 'Next Wave' Release Party
Aboriginal tribes in Australia often blame the black kite, a raptor-like bird of prey, for starting 1,000-acre fires in the country's Outback. The bird's secretive nature may not be trusted, yet its resourcefulness when scavenging in the remotest of areas allows it to survive despite the apparent lack of resources... → Read More
Houston's 10 Most Overlooked Local Records of 2015
These albums are not honorable mentions. They exist on equal footing with the "best" local albums released this year. Here are a few others you might have overlooked this year, yet require your undivided attention. FOX & CATS, Ampersand "Black Hole," the standout track from Ampersand, says, "There is only one thing that I... → Read More
Pfaff Pfaffenberg's Fantastic Techno Imaginarium
Unlike sausage, it is better to witness techno's creation in person. To casual listeners, the thundering bass rumbles and electronic bleeps happen because of the machine. The machine does all of the work; the user does nothing more than submits his or her will to machine's demands. When Kraftwerk first... → Read More
Future Sounds of Houston: 2015's Top 5 Electronic Singles
Houston's electronic scene is bursting at its seams, which means it is time for these technological savants to have their own column: Future Sounds of Houston. During my conversations with many of these musicians, a sense of community has emerged distinctly tied to this city's incredible diversity. Filled with brilliant... → Read More
Houston's Top Five Experimental/Noise Records of 2015
Houston's esteemed history of experimental artists continues to develop, gifting this city some of the most adventurous sounds to date. These five recordings best captured this adventurous and often transgressive spirit in 2015. 5. AK'CHAMEL, The Man Who Drank God The third-eyed, chain-smoking, bedeviled character peering menacingly into the listener’s soul... → Read More
Day for Night Local Spotlight: Indian Jewelry
I should recuse myself from this feature, but I won't. I have an unhealthy affection for Indian Jewelry, a band whose twisted Phil Spector wall of sound psychically seduces hearts and minds without consent. A healthy band for unhealthy minds. Like a good little capitalist, I consumed everything they created... → Read More
Day for Night Local Spotlight: Josiah Gabriel
Josiah Gabriel is the truth. Few artists possess the talent to converge technical expertise with mystical splendor. His music reaches into perilous depths where shadows lurk and light disappears. People dance around his makeshift altar, featuring a traditional set up that appears underwhelming. Yet, what he can do with so... → Read More
Mojave Red Dreams Up Brilliant Psychedelic Electronica
Mojave Red is the sounds of ghosts haunting the present. The 13th Floor Elevators meander within the hazy samples. Quieter moments hide within the murky psychedelic dreams originally born of bright minds like Syd Barrett and Robert Wyatt. In the same way acts such as How to Dress Well, with... → Read More