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Can Boyfriend top her last big Houston performance?

Come rain or shine, Boyfriend will put on a show. The underwear-clad, New Orleans-based cabaret rapper proved as much four years ago, when she performed at the Legendary Art Car Ball, the wild fete and Orange Show Fundraiser that precedes the annual Art Car Parade in Houston.

That year, the last before COVID forced the whole event to go on hiatus, the ball took place downtown, in the shadow of City Hall at Hermann Square. Just before Boyfriend and her cadre of dancers were set to take the stage

Houston Folk Festival is back (and free) this weekend

The Houston Folk Festival returns to Pearland this weekend for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020. The music festival features Grammy-nominated gospel group Endurance, singer Anders Derrup (who competed on The Voice in 2020), blues guitarist Jeremiah Johnson, and more. The event takes place from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Independence Park. Admission is free.

The festival is a series of events organized by Outlaw Nation, an online streaming radio service that plays Southern rock

Megan Thee Stallion added to lineup of Houston Final Four performances

Surprise! The one and only H-Town Hottie, Megan Thee Stallion will perform in Houston on Friday, March 31 as part of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament March Madness Music Festival.

The concert, at Discovery Green, marks Megan's return to the stage after a tumultuous year that included the trial of Tory Lanez, the Canadian rapper who shot the Houston-born rapper (born Megan Pete) after a Hollywood house party in July 2020. Lanez was found guilty in December 2022. Megan, who was shot in the fo

One of Houston's most popular art installations is coming back

One of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston's most popular art installations in recent years is set to go back on display later this month.

Pixel Forest, by Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist, will reopen in the museum's Cullinan Hall on March 12. The installation, which consists of thousands of hanging orbs filled with LED lights, will be accompanied by a large-scale video installation called Worry Will Vanish. Both works were last shown at the museum in the summer of 2017, the year that they were acquire

Solange to honor Eldorado ballroom reopening with Brooklyn concert series

Songstress and Houston native Solange Knowles will honor the reopening of the legendary Third Ward nightclub Eldorado Ballroom with a series of musical performances in Brooklyn, New York beginning on March 30.

The event coincides with the reopening of the historically Black venue, which hosted blues and jazz musicians for more than three decades during a time when Jim Crow laws kept Black performers and audiences segregated from white crowds.

This weekend, 'Cambodian Rock Band' will rock Houston

In the 1960s and 1970s, a new kind of music emerged in Cambodia—a psychedelic garage sound that combined the country's traditional music with elements borrowed from rock and pop records imported from the West. But just as the genre was really taking off, it was cut short, as artists like Sinn Sisamouth and Ros Sereysothea were killed by the Khmer Rouge during the genocide of the late '70s. Just like that, a vibrant new chapter in rock history was brought to an abrupt end.

Yet Cambodian rock has

How Numbers became the epicenter of Houston's gay scene

Nearly everywhere film director Marcus Pontello goes, they run into someone familiar with Numbers, the long-standing Montrose nightclub best known for its popular '80s night, Classic Numbers. A man at a New Orleans cafe who'd grown up in Dickenson. A Houstonian now living in Toronto who'd been a regular at the club. A woman in Nashville who worked as a coat check girl for the venue in the early '90s.

Pontello has been crisscrossing the country the past few months, screening their documentary ab

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