Vince Staples brings his “Cry Baby Tour” to Bayou Music Center in Houston on October 21, with the show starting at 8 PM. The Long Beach rapper has spent more than a decade building a reputation as one of hip-hop’s sharpest, most deadpan storytellers, pairing vivid, unflinching depictions of his upbringing with a dry, self-aware […]
Nashville singer-songwriter Katie Pruitt brings her rock-tinged folk storytelling to The Kessler Theater on October 21.
Today is the birthday of Bobby Fuller. He would be 84 today. Baytown, Texas, along the Houston Ship Channel, gave the world Bobby Fuller. His family later moved to El Paso, where the real story begins. He built a home recording studio in his bedroom, obsessing over Buddy Holly's sound. He taught himself engineering by […]
Long Beach rapper Vince Staples brings his Cry Baby Tour to Stubb's Bar-B-Q in Austin on Thursday, October 22, 2026, at 7:00 PM. Tickets start at $48 for a night with one of hip-hop's sharpest, most consistently inventive lyricists. Staples emerged from Long Beach and North Long Beach's Compton-adjacent street culture with a voice that […]
The Ransom Brothers bring their Texas country sound to The Rustic in Dallas on October 23, with no cover charge for this Uptown patio show. The duo has built a regional following through steady touring across Texas dance halls, patios, and honky-tonks, leaning on tight vocal harmonies and classic country songwriting that draws comparisons to […]
Dallas guitarist Christopher Holt, of the Eagles touring band, plays a hometown show at The Kessler Theater on October 23.
Today is the birthday of The Big Bopper. He would be 96 today. J.P. Richardson grew up in Sabine Pass, Texas, near the Gulf Coast marshes. He worked as a radio DJ in Beaumont before he ever cut a record. There, he invented a booming, larger-than-life persona called "The Big Bopper." His voice rolled out […]
Ray Wylie Hubbard, the whiskey-soaked outlaw poet of Texas songcraft, is headed back to Central Texas at the Temple Cultural Activities Center.
Indie-rock singer-songwriter Pete Yorn plays The Kessler Theater in Oak Cliff on October 24.
Robert Ellis, the Texas-bred singer-songwriter known for his sharp, literate songwriting, plays Sons of Hermann Hall in Dallas on October 24. Raised in Lake Jackson, Texas and long based in Houston and Nashville, Ellis has built a career blending traditional country songwriting with wry, self-aware lyricism that draws comparisons to both classic Texas troubadours and […]
Stockholm-based indie folk singer-songwriter Hazlett plays The Kessler Theater in Oak Cliff on October 28.
Today is the birthday of Narciso Martínez. He would be 115 today. Narciso Martínez built the sound of modern conjunto from a farmhouse near San Benito, Texas. He crossed the border from Reynosa as a small child, and Texas raised him. The Rio Grande Valley, not his birthplace, shaped the music he made. In 1935, […]
