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Kill Rock Stars has continued its 30th-anniversary celebration by releasing Mike Watt's cover of Bikini Kill's "Rebel Girl."

Eric D. Johnson's Fruit Bats have returned with plans for a new album titled The Pet Parade, which is set to arrive through Merge Records on...

If anyone turned 2020's many lemons into sparkling lemonade, it was Sam Means. The musician and head of local merch company Hello Merch went from a planned reunion with The Format to releasing an excellent five-song EP, I'm Sorry. The project clearly owes something to Means' main band, and there's a kind of earnestness and heart-on-sleeve mentality linking both sounds. But from there, Means spins in '70s-style folk-rock (a la Stephen Stills) and '90s alternative (think Teenage Fanclub) for energetic jams on American politics and doomed love. If there are any downsides, the EP feels too brief...

The silver lining for 2020 is that we had more time than ever to consume the arts. We finally got to the stack of books that had been sitting on the nightstand for months. We were secretly glad to replace weekend plans with a nice, healthy Netflix binge. Once we discovered the joys of listening to podcasts instead of actually, you know, talking to people on our daily pandemic walks, there was no looking back.  Considering the pandemic is very much with us, and social distancing is still the way of the near future, as we close out 2020, the Houstonia staff has rounded up our favorite thing...

photo by Jora Frantzis   This year has been a monumental mountain of shit, but we cannot deny that it has been unforgettable in terms of great album releases. You can see my Top 10 Latin Albums of 2020 here. Generally, I like to talk about specific songs that I have been listening to with love and fanaticism, like one who clings to a lifeboat in the middle of the neverending ocean known as 2020. This time, however, the lifeboat was transformed into a cruise ship with wings, stunning colors, and Kali Uchis as captain. An absolute dream! It is the latest album by the singer and songwriter who...