Jesse Sendejas Jr.

“La vida es un gran baile y el mundo es un salón, y hay muchas parejas bailando a nuestro alrededor/Y ahora que estamos en la pista tú y yo, no quiero que dejemos de bailar así.” Those are lines from the Café Tacvba hit, “El Baile y El Salón,” the...

Chris Nine, Bill McShane and a bunch of their friends are successful business professionals these days. Company owners, architects, ad agency and real estate professionals. Some of them have kids. But there was a time when they all seemed destined for rock and roll superstardom as members of their respective bands,

Air Supply Smart Financial Centre July 7, 2024 A scan of the audience at Sunday’s Air Supply show proved something most of us already know, which is that romantic love never goes out of style. The crowd had its share of gray hairs but was remarkably diverse and decidedly young...

The Marías 713 Music Hall July 24, 2024 Memo to Houston area employers: if some of your staff is late to work today or perhaps not coming at all, please excuse them. The Marías were in town last night. For nearly two hours, the Los Angeles indie pop band shared...

When we chatted with “y’allternative” rocking honky-tonker Opie Hendrix about his latest single “Surfside,” and its accompanying video, we pondered its “song of the summer” possibilities. After all, an ode to a cozy beach town where one can escape the rigors of big city life sounds pleasant as a toes-in-the-sand,...

It’s probably not great form to be interviewing one artist and thinking about another. And, it may be even poorer form to actually suggest to the artist being interviewed – in this case, the Mexican singer and songwriter Caloncho – that their music and their vibe reminds you of another...

The lawn at White Oak Music Hall is no MacArthur Park, so none of us there for last night’s show were very concerned about our Cake being left out in the rain. Sure, there was a half-hour light shower just before the concert and all evening clouds hung over the...

Milk Bar’s Christina Tosi said she cranks up the reggae music. That way, when she’s baking the delectable treats she’s known for, the warm kitchen feels more like a tropical paradise than a workplace. Tosi, the renowned New York-based cookbook author, chef and one time MasterChef judge, was one of...

Recently, over cocktails with friends, I mentioned I was training to run the Chevron Houston Marathon. “The whole thing?” asked a dear friend. Yes, I assured her, all 26.2 miles. At least that’s the plan. Her reaction didn’t exactly reflect my wife’s when I unveiled this latest pursuit. She wasn’t...

The Judas Priest concert I was assigned to cover for the Houston Press on Tuesday, October 22, was cancelled “due to unforeseen circumstances.” I was ready to rock but, as the band has famously sung over 40 years, I “had another thing coming.” Turns out that other thing was a...