Forty musicians performed the entire Sgt. Peppers album by The Beatles at Discovery Green, downtown’s newest park. The park was packed and people filled the hill and sat all the way up to the stage! The show started with a few random Beatles tunes, including Across The Universe complete with tabla and sitar. The group then launched into the featured performance and it was a magical event. After they played the entire album, the......

Houstonist has an active and amazing Flickr photo group. We receive many, many photos of Houston and the surrounding areas every day and unless you are an active visitor to our photo pool many of these photos go unnoticed. So in a weekly effort to bring you more amazing photos from Houstonist readers and photographers, we are going to feature a block of photos submitted to our Flickr photo group. The images will be dug......

When you first hear Katie voice, you know that you've hit the goldmine. That's probably why she quickly won local music awards not long after moving back to her hometown, Houston. Katie Stuckey and the Straggler, her band, will be performing tomorrow night at Rudyard's. It'll be a great show, and a good chance to see her in a smaller venue: We know she'll quickly outgrow these small venues. We bounced some questions off......

A new radio station is born this morning. Houston will get its own “Jack” format, a format that has succeeded in other major markets for years. What is “Jack” you say? The idea behind the format is (as radio programmers say) your iPod on shuffle mode. That is, if you iPod only included popular mainstream songs from the 1960’s to present time. The switch will be happening on 103.7 FM at 10:37 a.m. this morning......

Folk Legend Bert Jansch, who has influenced artists from many genres, including Neil Young (who refers to him as the acoustical version of Jimi Hendrix), Devendra Banhart, Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), Johnny Marr (The Smiths), Nick Drake, Beth Orton, Noel Gallagher (Oasis) and Mike Oldfield, will make a rare live appearance at the Orange Show. Infused with American folk, blues and Traditional British Isles music, his style is singularly unique and his song-writing very affecting.......

So you're tired of the same-ole-same-ole in this town, so you're looking for something different to experience this weekend? Here's one for you: Future Clouds & Radar. The Austin-based band is coming to Walter's on Washington Saturday night for their first performance in Houston. The band is fronted by Robert Harrison, who used to front the indie band Cotton Mather. A lot has changed since those days. We spoke to Robert about his new band......

On Sundays, Houstonist runs opinion pieces relevant to life in Houston. The opinions expressed below are entirely those of the author. Need to know just a little bit about something? Ask a dilettante. Dear Dilettante - A “new” Beatles album, the soundtrack for the latest freak show Cirque du Soleil has created for the discriminating palates of people visiting Las Vegas, was released a couple of weeks ago. This Friday is the 26th anniversary of......

Some bars in Houston have gathered regular patrons by having cover bands playing for years now. While that trend is still present at bars like Sherlock’s and Baker St. Pub, we’ve noticed over the past few months the insurgence of “tribute bands,” cover bands that focus on one artist. A couple of months ago, we were treated to a U2 cover band called Vertigo at Sam’s Concert Pub on Richmond. Actually, we were impressed by......

The Beatles have finally agreed to start selling their music online and will shortly be joining the trend that is online music purchasing. According to Neil Aspinall the managing director of Apple Corps, who testified in the pending suit against Apple Computer, the company is in the process of digitally remastering the complete Beatles catalogue which would pave the way to sell the tracks online. Don't get too excited yet though, there is no......