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...Houston Cassettes is a duo playing catchy, pop-rock, a la early Pavement and Guided by Voices. They create guitar pop with breezy melodies and humorous lyrics and remind us that songwriting can still be fun. A Wish for Fire, a trio of musicians with eclectic influences, creates what the band likes to call “romantic pop,” with tinges of blues, Motown, and of course, psychedelic rock. The band’s minimalist approach to music bares the songwriting underneath. International Pen Pal and The Casual Lean also perform. 9 p.m. Tickets...
...many blue laws that have slowly been repealed or tempered over the years due to their unsavory and restrictive nature—has remained on the books partially because of lobbying by liquor store owners who argue that allowing Sunday sales will hurt their mom-and-pop outfits. A past attempt to let liquor flow freely on Sundays failed in October, largely due to these concerns...
...bedroom, apparently to save on heating bills. (Burton grew up in Burbank, Calif.--not a notoriously difficult place to heat a home.) The second Burton myth is that his mind is still trapped in the eremitic universe of that darkened bedroom. Evidence includes his lavish re-creations of '60s pop trifles (Batman, Mars Attacks! and Planet of the Apes) as well as more personal films (Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood) that center on misunderstood emotional savants with a likeness to a certain director...
...Famer and songwriter known as the "sad poet"; in Nashville, Tenn. His compositions included I Can't Stop Loving You--which was recorded by more than 700 artists, most popularly by Ray Charles--Sweet Dreams and Oh Lonesome Me, which broadened country's appeal by infusing it with a pop sound...
...lecture for the students of this class, and I think it’s a pretty good lecture. I really do hope that they’ll be there,” he said. “And it would be a real shame for them to miss the pop quiz at the end of the lecture...