The Austin Lounge Lizards have gotten a lot of attention lately for their song "Why Couldn't We Blow Up Saddam?" It's just the latest in a long line of quirky lyrics the group has set to a ...

There has always been a strong element of theater in singer David Johansen`s many pop and rock personalities. And his most recent incarnation, as the lounge lizard Buster Poindexter, seems a logical ...

Last month, crews completed demolition on the Steak and Ale restaurant on Coliseum Drive in Hampton. Why is this worth some ink in a column about music? Because this was precisely the place where ...

Country music, by it’s very nature, has never been a refuge for progressive thinking. When Merle Haggard sang, “I’m proud to be an Okie from Muskogee,” he basically summed up the reactionary, ...