Today is the birthday of Illinois Jacquet. He would be 104 today. Illinois Jacquet played one saxophone solo that basically invented rock and roll's attitude. His family moved to Houston, Texas when he was still an infant. Illinois Jacquet's Houston, Texas upbringing filled his ears with blues, church, and street parades. He learned tenor saxophone […]
Texas outlaw-country godfather Ray Wylie Hubbard returns to his old Dallas neighborhood for a show at the Granada Theater on Friday, Oct. 30, 2026. Tickets start at $81. Hubbard grew up in Oak Cliff, the South Dallas neighborhood his family moved to when he was eight, and he graduated from W.H. Adamson High School alongside […]
PJ Morton brings his “Saturday Night Sunday Morning Tour” to Bayou Music Center in Houston on October 30, with the show starting at 8 PM. The New Orleans-born singer, songwriter, and keyboardist has spent more than two decades building parallel careers as a solo R&B artist and as a longtime member of Maroon 5, a […]
East LA Chicano soul band Thee Sinseers play a Halloween night show at The Kessler Theater on October 31.
Today is the birthday of Sippie Wallace. She would be 128 today. Beulah Thomas was born in Houston, Texas on November 1, 1898. She grew up in the Third Ward singing in the Shiloh Baptist Church, the same gospel current that ran through the Texas blues tradition from the beginning. She moved to New Orleans, […]
Today is the birthday of Lyle Lovett. He is 69 today. Lyle Pearce Lovett was born in Klein, Texas on November 1, 1957 — a small community north of Houston that was settled by his ancestor Adam Klein in the 1840s. Lovett grew up on his family's land. He studied journalism at Texas A&M and […]
Disney's "Moana" comes to life with a full orchestral score performed live to picture at The Long Center for the Performing Arts in Austin on Sunday, November 1, 2026, at 6:00 PM. Tickets start at $178 for a family-friendly evening pairing the beloved animated film with a live symphony. "Moana," with music by Mark Mancina, […]
San Francisco garage-psych institution Osees, featuring former member Brigid Dawson, play the second of two Austin nights at Hotel Vegas on Sunday, November 1, 2026, with a 6:00 to 11:00 PM patio show. Tickets are $34, with Traps PS opening; the first night, October 31, is already sold out. Led by prolific songwriter and guitarist […]
String-band revivalists Old Crow Medicine Show play the Majestic Theatre in downtown Dallas on Sunday, November 1. Formed in the mid-1990s and eventually adopted by bluegrass legend Doc Watson, who discovered the band busking on a North Carolina street corner, Old Crow Medicine Show helped spark old-time string music's return to mainstream popularity in the […]
Morrissey brings his singular blend of wit and melancholy to 713 Music Hall in Houston on November 1, with the show starting at 8:20 PM. The Manchester-born singer first rose to fame as frontman of The Smiths in the 1980s, a band whose literate, mordantly funny lyrics and jangling guitar work made them one of […]
Today is the birthday of Delbert McClinton. He is 86 today. Delbert McClinton was born in Lubbock, Texas on November 4, 1940. He grew up in Fort Worth, playing harmonica in the clubs of the Jacksboro Highway strip in the 1950s — a stretch of honky-tonks and dance halls that ran along the city's north […]
Alt-rock forebears Dinosaur Jr. play Stubb's Bar-B-Q in Austin on Thursday, November 5, 2026, at 7:00 PM. Tickets start at $61, with Stef Chura opening. Formed in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1984, Dinosaur Jr. helped invent the template for a huge swath of alternative rock that followed, fusing hardcore punk's velocity with guitarist J Mascis's towering, […]
