From Lola’s Juke to First Friday
Every year in our Best Of issue, we have a category for best jukebox. Let’s just say that from 2011 on, the...
Stone Machine Electric Doom LuVa
Somewhere between the hair-metaldom emanating from joints such as The Rail and Tomcats West and the proto-punk and hardcore from 1919 Hemphill...
Shows of the Week
Tim Burt was a sweetheart of a man, and he worked his ass off behind the scenes at Lola’s to make it the institution that it...
Valhalla’s ‘Beautiful’ Nudity
HearSay's never claimed to be ahead of the curve. Just about every time I go out, someone says to me, "Dude! Have you heard...
The Pearl and the Bird
Every year since she passed away in 2002, blues giant Lady Pearl has been honored by the blues community in the form of a...
The Facebook Experiment
As we prepare to turn the calendar on yet another, horrible year, I’d like to take a moment to tell you all how much...
Shhh-Show
Now that dancing days are here again, the good ol' Eastside speakeasy is opening its doors back up to some BYOB-partying. A little background:...
Ramblin’ Bones
Tyler Rougeux has seen the good, the bad, and the ugly of the music industry. Boasting a Texas drawl tailor-made for rambunctious country rock,...
Caliche Burnout: Hurts so Good
So you’re expecting another ho-hum New Year’s Eve. As usual, right? There’s always so much pressure to have big fun on the last night...
Early Man
Last week, fellow Weekly columnist Last Call wrote a valentine to a relatively new sports bar, Rock Star, out on South I-35 in the...